skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. As I told people in the bitcoin space years ago, the Roman Empire and Ghengis Khan and Imperial Britain all existed with decentralized, fungible, untraceable money called "gold and silver coins". That didn't prevent the State from existing or collecting taxes or imprisoning people or enforcing its sundry laws.

Bitcoin may change things, possibly a lot, and maybe for the better, but you have to be realistic about how much change is actually feasible.

The current governments exercise a lot of power through the banking system because it's convenient. If Bitcoin (or some more private successor like Zcash) makes the whole finance sector "go dark", like "Tor for money", those governments will still be there doing their thing, just using slightly less convenient methods.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tqFmkqznYJTzidBerHA8g

The video from yesterday (08 - CSS and static files) is still demonetized. If that gives you any context.
You're strongly implying some kind of targeting by Google. Whereas the parent comments above you indicate simply a lack of caring by ProtonMail to improve its ranking or a lack of free general support by Google to any website that happens, not just ProtonMail.

Asking Google to be responsive to any website demanding special treatment for higher search rankings is unreasonable. Best practices are published and tools are available. It's hard to see monopolistic abuse there.

The only difference is that Gmail (and other Google products) are listed when you, shockingly, go to google.com. Are you saying Google can't mention Google products on google.com? Do you think gmail is somehow not as popular as it is and wouldn't rate the #1 spot for searches for email?
> Even if you're a miner, your fake volume would be displacing real volume that would be paying real fees.

You'd be missing out on mining revenue. And given that the marginal cost of mining tends towards the marginal reward for mining, missing out on revenue is almost as bad as making a loss.

There would have to be a substantial incentive to fake transaction volume in order to make it worth it.

Additionally, given that blocks are full these days, there's not very much scope for increasing the apparent transaction volume anyway. The best you could do is replace large "real" transactions with a larger number of smaller "fake" transactions.

I just don't think it's likely to be happening.
An IPO would be the best scenario but it is far from certain.

Given the widespread unethical (and probably criminal) activity that was conducted at the highest levels of the company I would say there are even odds that there are some big skeletons in the closet that opening the books would reveal and that is why they have stayed private so long.

Why else would Benchmark and others be running for the exits now? If all the smart money that knows the company best is dumping at a discount it does not paint a pretty picture.
We might as well start posting suggestions for targets right away.
Did you use your neural network to calculate the probability of your blog being successful?
I was thinking about this, since the blockchain is public, there is a lot of data out there steadily accumulating. Are there any published studies exploiting this data already?
Powershell seems fitting. Advent is a penitential season after all.
I believe a vehicle akin to the one you're describing ("act exactly the same" is a bit unnecessarily specific, but "drive safely on a road under its own direction from a point A to a point B chosen by a human") is definitely what Waymo is prototyping, and such vehichles have already driven on public roads (with human occupants, but without human occupants operating the control surfaces).
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Some additions:

1) Use the bowls when you eat, not the plates. The plate is for putting your garbage (bones, etc)

2) Wash the plates/cups with the tea they give you first.

3) Expect to squat when using the restroom for some places. No seats.

4) Do not be offended if people stare at you, or if you see people spitting on the street.
Well, that's pretty much the point of the article, so I'm glad you agree.

Bitcoin, of course, actually introduces additional problems, which is why it sometimes gets particular attention.
Sign #4024209230 that we're in a bubble.
This doesn't help people posting time-sensitive content such as news or reviews. Those who used to fill this niche who have been targeted by the algorithms are seeing upwards of 90% loss in revenue despite having all videos re-monitized after manual review.
You have to mine in a pool. A typical person in a developing nation isn't going to be able to mine alone and have any reasonable chance of ever mining a block. For most people, you are looking at a big fat zero coins mined on local machines without working with some centralization.
I don't know how they'd prove you met someone specifically to avoid taxes. I mean, prior to coinbase there weren't any good/easy ways to get bitcoin... it all seemed a little bit sketchy on the surface -- you were either buying it from someone in person or using the red phone in the back of CVS.

Coinbase was a godsend when it came along. No more explaining to my wife why I was going to the sketchy part of town because that CVS has a red phone... finally a legit company that I can buy from! But, even with coinbase and gemini and any other legit exchanges, you may still want to buy bitcoin from someone in person if you've hit your weekly maximum on the exchange.

I know some local computer repair people who buy lots of bitcoin to pay off their client's cryptolocker incidents. They easily hit their weekly limits for business purposes.
1)The great firewall: None of the Google products would work. This means no access to important stuff like Google Docs, Gmail, etc.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand installs Shadowsocks, which seems to work quite well in China, provided you find a VPS with good peering in mainland China. I hear a lot of people have good results with Vultr via Japanese data centers, other VPS providers in Hong Kong get good results too.

One of the maintainers of the project does live in China; if you have a question open up an issue in the discussions repo (https://github.com/StreisandEffect/discussions), I'm sure you'll get answers to whatever question you may have.
Thanks for letting me know the airline labor regulations are covered by the Railway Labor Act and not the regular labor laws in the individual states that is interesting to know. So I guess I should have said that no matter which state they live in they don't have a choice but to pay their dues or quit/be fired since the Union contracts say that the airlines must fire anyone who does not pay union dues.
Aye, there is also a significant difference between hiding a many thousand ton, hundreds of meters long ship on the high seas, and a 1 meter tall human being in the forest.
> If you buy at price X and sell at price Y, guess what, you owe taxes on Y-X.

This is easy when you buy Bitcoin, hodl and then sell but what if you convert it to altcoins, trade altcoins for altcoins and ultimately sell some altcoin for USD? How do you even keep track of your profits?
What's regulated here is not bitcoin, is the standard currency you want to trade for bitcoin. If you just trade in bitcoins, there is no validation needed ;)
In the UK part of the sale process is agreeing which "fixtures and fittings" are part of the sale. There will generally be a form in the mountains of paperwork involved in a house purchase.

Most sellers will leave anything fixed to the building like lights, sinks, toilets, doors, door handles, sockets, fitted carpets, fitted kitchen appliances, plants that are buried in the garden, fires and fireplaces, television aerials, boilers and radiators, built-in cupboards, permanently installed mirrors, and so on.

Things that aren't fixed in quite the same way have different conventions. For example paintings, light shades, freestanding lamps, rugs, curtains, plants in freestanding tubs, and freestanding appliances are often taken by the seller.

It's always possible to negotiate, of course; if the buyer and seller agree on something different, that's perfectly legal. And there are horror stories of overly trusting buyers discovering the seller has removed the turf from the lawn, and things like that.
That's one of the reasons. A charge can build up on the cage, but that shouldn't be a problem with small cage around a cellphone.
Why does one painting sell for $10 and another for $100 million?

People can put value in whatever they want. I don't think there's a real objective way to say "oh yeah, it's mathematically proven that a diamond ring should cost $10,000...or a $1,000,000 if it's say Marilyn Monroe's ring, and that a single Bitcoin should have a value of no more than $10."
Are you sure that's possible? I've heard that a video needs to be averaging a certain number of videos (something like 1000/week) before they'll do the manual review.
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It makes your URLs shorter.

You could also use base64, but it has some non-URL-friendly characters so it would have to be escaped.
You're going off track. I'm just saying that phys settled allows the future to track the underlying better because you can take delivery. This is a completely seperate issue on if you actually want to hold the underlying (many people would prob love the idea of using cme to deal in btc directly since current exchanges are so terrible at it).
It's interesting to me that your employer isn't a privacy concern to you.

How much of the data about you in the Equifax breach do you think came from your employer? How much of your data that has been breached came from Wells Fargo--not because you bank there, but because your employer uses them to process direct deposits? And how many times has your employer themselves been breached to give out your name, date of birth, ssn, driver's licence #, passport, address, details about your dependants, etc.?

I'm curious why you assume that the data your employer has about you hasn't already made its way into the hand of "big companies that can make connections between data sets."
Same risk with a $10k diamond ring, right? Yet people buy those from Tiffany's.
> I've seen plenty of advertisements for government services.

>For basic things like roads?

Ever listen to the radio?? The government has a lot of advertisements. Everything from "Make sure you have the correct child safety seat in your vehicle" to the standard "think before you drink" or don't beat your wife as well as the advertising of services that one should use.. You occasionally see them on late night TV, but you can often see them at times when children watch tv.

> Will be replaced by the armed enforcement department.

>I'd love to know your reasoning behind this

i think is using historical references. However, govts have notoriously used force in some method or another. Imminent domain and civil assett forfeiture readily come to mind. Of course govt can use other methods including weaponizing it's agencies, e.g. the IRS and the FBI are historic examples, but one could imagine the FCC doing similar.. I understand that's difficult to grasp depending on your political persuasion.

> There is but it is outsourced to the IRS or other department

>Which cuts costs because they are already doing it and there is no increase in their workload

I'm not even sure, are you serious about this??. Surely not.

> Like it or not, access to the internet is a scarce resource

>Yes, but you only need to assess health and ensure QoS levels are maintained. It's completely understandable to be throttled in peak load times and enjoy more resources off-peak.

Again. This seems pretty short sighted. Tech changes, and it changes fast. The idea that we should enshrine some particular technology in place for the future is horrific in terms of future innovation.

But more than this, i think we now have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a "right" is. I tend to think the end goal of such articles is the marginalization of the word, as has been done with other words such as rape..
Your comments oftens say so much while saying very little. Please, kindly point out where in Titlte II or any other public accommodation law where accommodation could be loosely interpreted as including the selection of advertising categories we are actually discussing?
I've been using this as part of Fedora (25 - 27) for the past year on a Dell XPS 13 9360 (Developer Edition). It's been working flawlessly with BIOS updates from Dell.

The end user experience is better than anything I've experienced on Windows (and dare I say smoother than OSX).

Between this and the 22-hour battery life on Linux the XPS 13 is highly recommended!
Well, let's use the SNAP example which has been quoted above.

They went public earlier this year. With burgeoning balance sheet they have to fire people:

https://www.businessinsider.in/Snap-hit-with-more-layoffs-pl...
This does not surprise me at all. I have a 4k screen and just thinking about all the fiddly bits between HDMI, HDCP and Freesync/Gsync between the computer and the screen makes it quite difficult to build a switch. VGA was primitive, but simple to switch, those times are gone. My computers usually make a fuss if I just switch off the screen and back on, because both sides seem to have some active signaling going on and way too much logic.

Ps: USB switches for the KM parts are rather simple though and there is a healthy offering (+ you can build this yourself with some extension cords and a simple USB switch). Also, more and more of my devices move wireless (e.g. audio).
Is that also true for diamond ring wearers?
The DIY CRISPR kit was crowdfunded 333% two years ago, here's an article discussing it (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr...). You can still buy these $159 at Zayner's company, Odin (http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/). It comes with detailed instructions to do a project: modify E. coli so that it can grow on streptomycin, which normally kills bacteria!

This story is the textbook definition of "scientific innovation story that's creating mixed feelings": On the one hand, the whole thing sounds like a Hollywood adaptation of Bioshock, the heavily tattooed unconventional PhD experimenting on himself, biohacker stickers that say "Create Something Beautiful", etc. You know exactly where this will end from the first 10 minutes.

OTOH, part of me loves this! If you think about it, basic humanity has changed little over the past couple of thousand years, you can probably timejump the Egyptian pharaoh Narmer (c 3100 BC) to today and he will get most of our daily lives: we still sleep, eat meals, fall in love, have sex, get angry over petty stuffy, etc. We have covered tremendous ground with our tools, e.g. behold the iPhone X, but for all practical purposes our basic drives and bodies are the same. I think human society will attain the next level of sophistication only with biohacking.
> If you reject not only the politics of your opponents, but the value of fact itself, why should they listen to or accommodate you?

Because "you" (i.e. the right wing, in your analogy) can muster more votes from the political center than "they" can and can put into place governmental and economic policy that can disrupt or damage said "spaces dedicated dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge" greatly.

The ivory tower doesn't exist in a vacuum. Its gates can be besieged by the populace and it can fall to its besiegers.
Except that's absolutely the truth. When you're getting close to launch and crunching to meet the deadlines, you basically live in the office. Game dev is a total meat grinder, there's always two eager fresh newbies that want to make games for every dev seat available. This isn't even an industry secret, it's pretty well known and people still want to be game devs, it's insane to me.
Been living in China for 4-5 years. Back home these days.

1) I used ExpressVPN while I was there and never really had a big problem. We also used the GSuite for our company. Once in a while I had to change the protocol or a different country to connect through. Just make sure you configure your laptop and phone before you arrive in China - otherwise it will be a pain to download the clients for your VPN. In emergency you should be able to connect with data services on your foreign SIM, but that will cost you of course.

2) See my answer for 4

3) Google Translate was always useless for me to communicate , so I had to learn Chinese in the end.. Back in those days nobody spoke English, but I would probably download the Pleco app and use that. It will not translate complete sentences, but you can translate single words and then show that, if you get stuck in a conversations. These days, many people will probably be able to communicate with you in simple English and especially young people will be very good in English because they grew up with American TV shows and movies. They even sound like Americans some of them because they really pay attention to the pronunciation of words due to the Chinese language being a tonal language, I guess.

4) I would go to Shenzhen, if I had the time. It is 3 hour plane trip from Shanghai, I think. Go take a look at the electronics market at HuaQiangBei and go have lunch or dinner in Shekou. In Shenzhen there are a lot of maker communities, you can go check out, if you do a bit of research before hand.

5) Dont give a green hat, 4 bottles of wine or a clock as a gift. Otherwise you should be fine :D .. Also toilet paper. And if you plan to make any Chinese acquaintances you should probably install WeChat. You can use it to pay for stuff also - its a pretty good app.

I might be in Shenzhen soon for some business in fact. If it fits, we can go have a coffee and check things out together. Let me know :)
I can't help thinking that you should elaborate how you came to that conclusion.

Happy day!
It certainly allows recycling jokes from 2000. "They may be losing money on every sale, but they'll make it up on volume."
If you are willing to follow all the rules that a well defined container needs to fulfill all the promises, you might as well follow the rules your sysadmins had defined, and let them use the tools they had been using for ages.
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This is GOOD news for bitcoin/cryptos.

Pay your taxes on your gains. If the IRS can turn this into a revenue stream, it will solidify and legitimize it.
If you're a vim/tmux user. You might like base16-shell and base16-vim
I seriously don't understand the endgame here.

Apparently, it WOULD BE possible to completely kill off the legacy taxi industry given 10 years or so of artificially subsidized pricing. So I understand the concept of disrupting a previous oligarchy, replacing it with a new monopoly, and then profiting through rent seeking.

But where are the barriers to entry that would allow Uber to solidify as that new monopoly? There's already Lyft today... and once Uber starts to charge their true costs, then we'll likely see numerous other competitors emerge to compete on price. Ultimately, they're just a phone app! Most Uber drivers today are running the Uber app and Lyft app side by side anyway.

The usual playbook calls for the early leader to pay off politicians, and have them write new laws or regulations that raise the barrier to entry for future competitors. But Uber's playbook has been to take an antagonistic stance toward politicians, rather than buying them off. So what's to stop some newer competitor from beating them on price... or some huge company to swoop in after Uber establishes the market, and beat them by cross-promoting and leveraging their other lines of business?
I'm guessing the $300K-$400K is the entire package. The variability is too high and it depends on the company, public or not, competitors etc. I'd say a base pay of $180-$190k can be expected with your experience. The variable portion depends on the company and your negotiation skills.

Best of luck.
This was an incredibly satisfying format for this. Cool!
I know. There's been an organized project on the right to undermine universities since the 60's. Any accommodation made to them is a small victory.
This is aimed at non-technical users. If we're lucky, maybe like 1% of users will be able to figure out how to do that. Not to mention all of the other issues with it mentioned below.
Well, yeah.

They saw dollar signs and got bit by the ICO bug. Truth be told, I still like the idea of Filecoin as a method to get around the problem of Tragedy of the Commons.

But overvalued and overhyped indeed.
I don't see any contact info on your profile. I'm not in Seattle but I am available at peckn@amazon.com and I can connect you to someone in Seattle you can talk to, or we can chat remotely.
This has been my thought as well. Adding a "sub-par" video level between "any ads" and "no ads" to allow less strict brands to advertise anywhere seems like it would help both supply and demand of ads. Maybe Fischer Price doesn't want to advertise on profanity-laden "let's plays" of gory video games, but beer brands probably don't care as much.
There's nothing nitpicky in anything I wrote. FB is not a bank. And it can not be used as someone's financial institution.

>"Second, for a lot of people, their FB profile has a lot of confidential information, and is tied to their personal identity so they can't have the risk of it being compromised based on leaked passwords or whatever."

Who puts "confidential information" on FB?

FB is based on the premise of voluntarily sharing" information. If people are willing to share information on a social networking site it can't really be considered "confidential" or even "sensitive" to you can it?

Also FB is not one's identity, despite what FB would like you to believe that it is.
I didn't mean to use growing pains as an excuse for Mt. Gox. What should come about because of this is more focus on decentralized exchanges, seeing as this was a painful example of the problems we still face with centralized exchanges. We're now seeing more decentralized exchanges coming into existence for this very reason, there are a lot of drawbacks to centralization when it comes to wealth, and all of those are felt by the people/customers and not the institutions. And they are the ones who can afford to make the rules and pay off politicans to make sure it doesn't change. You say there's a tendency to blindly idealize decentralization, but are you sure you're not missing all the very real drawbacks to centralization by taking that position?

I'm just saying, before we leap to regulations that will take decades to roll back when we actually understand what this crypto space is all about, maybe we can improve on what we have and take a different route. Which is what bitcoin, ethereum, and now the third generation crypto projects are trying to do. Incremental improvements are the only way to explore this new frontier, not regulating the shit out of it from the very beginning.
I disagree on item 1. My basis for this occurred to me on a contract a few years ago, as I was being scolded for fixing things instead of letting them be because “we’re going to do a rewrite soon” (even though the boss that promised this got promoted out of the org).

The promise of a rewrite institutionalized accumulating technical debt. When it comes time to do the rewrite, everyone starts out on the wrong foot. The big rewrite is a lot like New Years resolutions. They don’t stick, they cost money and time, create negative reinforcement and sometimes people get hurt.

Refactoring institutionalizes continuous improvement, thinking about code quality, and yet discourages perfectionism because you can always fix it later when you have more info. My theory is that people good at refactoring can handle a rewrite well. Maybe are the only people that can handle a rewrite well. But if you can refactor like that you don’t need a rewrite (or rather, you’ve already done it and nobody noticed).