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Hey, ipfs dev here. The amount of work being done on ipfs has been increasing continually. Work on filecoin is not detracting from ipfs development, and we are bringing on more people for ipfs, libp2p and filecoin.
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I agree with everything you say, except the idea that it is zero-sum. It is very nonzero-sum insofar as the bulk of the purported value of the system derived from revaluation and windfall: much of the $158 billion market cap of bitcoin derives not from outright transactions at market value (and thus conversion of assets from one form to another with face-value liquidity) but from revaluation of coins purchased at lower prices or mined out of thin air (or rather electricity). This means that the market has ballooned in value (as do speculative bubbles... not stating outright that this is a bubble, but analogously) and has benefitted all asset-holders super-linearly, but it also puts them all at immense risk of devaluation (which would be sub-proportional). This nonlinearity in the risk profile is a direct result of its nonzero-sumness.

As for it being anti-fragile... meh... that’s to be ascertained. For sure so past it has benefited from volatility, but in the relatively short-term many things do. Only the long term will tell whether it will regress to the mean or not, and only a bunch of ’real’ crashes (massive liquidity events, as opposed to strong fluctuations in value with limited trade volumes) will tell us empirically what that ”long term” timeframe is.

(Yup, finance’s a pain for anybody trying to predict the future.)
> sophisticated private investors took bets on this with eyes wide open

Bullshit.
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"Aluminum is not a great conductor" Compared to what? Graphene?
I think any field having so many consumers will struggle to standardize notation, but for boldface I can offer this—it’s typically one more stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold
There's EtherDelta running on the live network, and others on the way.

You're pretty much stuck trading ETH and ERC20 tokens with those. Another technology coming is atomic swaps for transfers between chains.

For actual fiat the only decentralized option is stuff like localbitcoins. That's ok for small occasional trades but it's physically risky for large trades and legally risky for frequent trades.
So remember that it's not that they burned $1.5B this quarter; they burned $3.5B (net revenue of $2B, $1.5B loss).

If their average employee costs them $500,000 a year (surely a generous estimate), then that's $125k per quarter. A $2B spend on salaries would suggest then that they had 16,000 employees (not counting drivers, who aren't part of this equation -- they're the difference between the $9.7B "gross bookings" and the $2B net revenue).

Uber employs apparently "more than 12,000 people," which is shocking, but salary still can't plausibly be the entire story here.
Totally agree. It recently won the LA Chinese Film Festival. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Hack is Great, I hope PHP will also introduce async/await, generics, JIT compiler soon.
No, that’s not true at all. I consider myself to be an ethical and reasonable human being and have never observed a startup I’ve been a part of - in positions where I am aware of operations, finances, privacy, etc - do anything “bad” like what HN keeps apologizing for. Maybe that’s a SV or big city thing, but here some of us have ethics.
I would LOVE to develop an Uber clone and pitch it to Governments around the world. We could even link them up so you have one unified account for people who cross borders.

The government and taxpayer could then take any profit (or operate at a loss / break even if they want to subsidise costs for their citizens). The customer acquisition / marketing costs would be almost zero if the government mandates it as the only or preferred ride-hailing app.

I don't really think Uber is going to innovate much from here (e.g .how much has the uber experience changed since UberX was rolled out?) outside of self-driving cars etc. there's no reason why we need a private company to innovate further, and there's almost no risk in doing this.

It would be seen as a natural extension to mass transit, and every government around the world should be providing it for their citizens.
>Yes, I consider 90% loss in revenue for their bait, err, content creators to be worthy of the phrase "fucking it up"

I'm not certain Google are "fucking it up," or at least, that this effect isn't intentional. How much revenue do those niche creators generate for Google? How much first party content do they include, that media companies might object to? Google may consider them to be a risk not worth the reward if their intent is to optimize their algorithm to prefer first-party commercial content, in order to increase the value of their platform to advertisers.

The existing system clearly hasn't been working for Google, so to me it seems more likely that the apparent failures of its algorithms are part of an attempt to forcibly pivot the platform while maintaining good PR. I could be wrong, though.
I make programming videos too, and a similar thing happens to me. The first day I release a video it's demonetized, and even if I don't request a manual review the video will be remonetized a couple days later.
> I don't believe the set of people willing to adopt a FOSS distributed peer-to-peer video streaming platform and the set of people who believe advertising to be tolerable would likely overlap enough to provide a better or more stable market than the existing web already provides.

> And advertising on the web is already breaking down and likely doomed to fail as a concept.

How did you reach these two conclusions?
My main concern for now is to be able to store/write the data collected from a million IoT devices in a scalable fashion, so there is not really a requirement for what to do with it other than, when the data is there it will be analyzed on an adhoc basis and then we will see what we can do with it.
Not all that unfathomable, Obama deported record numbers of criminal illegals.
> Or put it another way. The cost of the share buyback announced last year could cover the cost of the 13% of workers that are getting fired, for at least two decades.

Do you have any pointers on how to do this kind of financial analysis of a public company?
Some projects are setup for new contributors, they will have tickets marked as easy, so you can start with those. They will also have code reviews, so rejection would still be educational and you could probably come back with revised version that would be accepted.
True, but I think we all can say with some certainty that "a token intended to be used as currency should not regularly increase or decrease in value by 20% or more in a matter of days or weeks".

Who on earth would actually spend any Bitcoins right now? If you'd bought a Pizza with BTC back in 2010, you could have bought a car (or house?) instead only several years later. This type of volatility makes it totally unsuitable as currency.
Please don't alter our title. I'm the second author and tenured staff member of TUDelft, associate professor.
Yeah, container image is like a binary package that specifies whole operating
system as its dependency, and as such it's not really "you have consistency on
all servers", as you have a dozen of different versions of different
distributions, it's just you don't see them while deploying stuff.

And yes, with a binary packages you don't get to use all the orchestration
around Docker et al., just as you don't get with containers to use all the
orchestration and configuration management built around packages. It gets
pretty much the same, with the difference of introducing dozen layers of
abstraction.
From the FAQ:

> Our tracking code is installed on more than 2 million sites globally. [...] For our social media stats, we analyze every page view referred by a social media site.

Explains why Instagram, Youtube and Pinterest are scoring so low and why Snapchat is absent.
1) Grab a VPN, you can find ones that work in China quite reliably (I was there 1.5 years ago, that may have changed but I doubt it)

2) Hopefully!

3) Google Translate WILL work, just download the language for offline. And it does work well enough to say you're lost to someone or something similar.
In that case I hope he ditches assembly instead :)
Boostnote - https://boostnote.io/

I have been using it for a few months and it is working good for me with resilio as my sync tool but it works with dropbox also. So security is up to the way you sync your files.

Works on Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android and is open source. Takes a bit more to setup but I like this app since it reminds me of the old PIM Programs of old and has a good markdown system. It also exports as plain text or markdown.
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Sounds useful, but so scary from privacy point of view.

All of your sounds can be recorded by hacker, even if you decide not to buy Alexa you still may ended up in staying in hotel with Alexa for Business.
He didn't want to be a clockwork orange.

He preserved his own ability to choose, but then when he chose, he chose poorly.

YPTFPSD: Read the book by Anthony Burgess. The exposition character explains the ethics of choice in the context of mechanical fruits.

The main thrust of the book is that if you remove the human capacity to choose to do wrong, you also strip the choice to do right of all its virtue. You have to let Alex and his droogs be thugs, or we would all become robots. We'd all be clockwork oranges on a mechanical orange tree, clicking and whirring away with only our pre-programmed gears to guide us.
That doesn't discount the fact you are involved in yet another ICO. Cryptocurency integration and identity within IPFS could have been done without a new coin. I know you know this, yet you choose to do it anyway. That means we should question your intentions, across all your projects.

And, just for the record, a cryptocurrency fund raise is simply selling access to given private/public key pairs which contain values, like a database. Even hardened by mining, these values and keys are intrinsically worthless until they are used widely for something valuable. It's when convincing someone it's "valuable because you think it is" that it gets "tricky".
Generally, the burden of proof would be on the individual, especially if there is a Lambo in the driveway (or more generally, altered spending patterns without obvious sources of income).
To be a completely legal user of Coinbase, do I need to do anything other than report gains as income on my tax return?
Fair enough, I just figured others may find the exceptions interesting.

And to be fair, both of those cryptocurrencies have been around for ~3 years now, which is practically ancient history in this field.
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They have around 12,000 employees according to Wikipedia (and a few other sources show a similar figure). If we figure the average employee is 250,000/year in liabilities on the balance sheet (salary + benefits + options/RSUs) then thats $3 billion a year in employee expenses. I don't think $250k is too unrealistic considering the massive capital gains many employees must have on paper as well as the high level of talent Uber has lured away from competitors. They had the creator of Google Maps, the Otto acquisition (and the subsequent legal costs if we want to factor those in), and a whole lot of other experts around mapping / autonomous vehicles.
Wouldn't you be able to deduct the cost of the cocaine? I'm not saying it'd be smart, just legal from a tax standpoint.
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It's not a secret that in the european football the overwhelming majority of clubs are subsidized by their owners. This trend is increasing every year - mainly this was the reason for the new policy of The UEFA that is called Financial Fair Play Regulations, due to which the expenses and incomes of clubs are now strictly controlled. But “PSG” football club this summer proved that if you want, you can bypass this rule - according to the documents, Neimar was given hundreds of millions of dollars for the right to make him the face of the future World Cup in Qatar in 2022, and then he transferred most of the money to buy his contract from “Barcelona”. As expected, it provoked a chain reaction - many coaches complained that now average players are several times more expensive than just a couple of years ago. Then we witnessed the transfer of the young Ousmane Dembele for almost 140$ million with bonuses, so the transfer record was beaten 3 times this summer.

And this is only the beginning - in fact the same big clubs understand that they also need to spend as much as the “PSG” and the “Manchester City” football clubs in order to play at the same level. We see the first results even now - the owner of “Milan” FC is desperately looking for money, since he has already spent more than $250 million this summer. Thus, the expenses of clubs only grow each year, and even the owners of the most famous clubs in the world, such as “Milan” FC, are looking for investors - and this gives great opportunities for our future platform.

With our project you will be able to manage your favorite club not only in games, but also in real life.

We will build a system in which each decision will be taken collectively, discussions and surveys will be created by everyone, and every person will be able to vote.

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stuff like engine chipping puts loads of extra stress on whole engine/drivetrain/clutch setup that original car was not designed for. There are really no free lunches out there.

Even aesthetical changes are a big warning - this one has been somehow tampered with, and you have no clue what was changed and for what reason.

For example I bought some older BMW few years back. When i went for some complete checkup after cca 2 years, mechanic told me that car has been lowered a bit and brakes are some lightweight version. It was my first car and I didn't notice, and effin' dealer didn't mention it. All good but - lowered car has issue in places like underground parkings, where road is steep and sometimes I hit the bottom of the car when road bends too much. So because some idiot previous owner wanting to squeeze a bit extra driveability out of a diesel car (although amazing diesel it is), I now have these crappy consequences and have to drive carefully like with some ferrari. I've hit the bottom in various situations maybe 20x so far, maybe one day it will break something crucial and I will be left in some nasty situation with broken car.

Yeah, you want untampered (more) predictable stock cars.
http://sportience.online/
Just have a look at Timescale. It's a open source postgresql extension, and can sit side by side with other stuff. Scaling
postgresql should be no problem for you.

https://www.timescale.com/
It seems that Uber is, so to speak, riding on other people's money. They care about growing as fast as they can. Everything else is deferred.
The "interesting, well-spoken, articulate" folks have no issue speaking at college campuses. Playing the "good people on many sides" card ignores who these people are that are being forced off of college campuses. Alan Greenspan could show up to give a talk and be well received; Richard Spencer is going to spark riots (for good reason).

Most issues have a gradient or contextual answers so I don't buy the argument that just because someone maybe wrong implying their opponents are necessarily correct.

The "pursuit of knowledge" predisposes that not all ideas are created equal.

That "fringe, extreme" element of the right holds the presidency of the United States; pretending they don't exist, or don't hold power is ridiculous in 2017.
I love AoC! Last year was the first time I got all 50 stars, as I was motivated by a competition held by a Swedish podcast. This year, I'm even hosting a pub meetup about halfway through December, centered around Advent of Code, where a group of us hopefully can help each other out.
This illustrates a very general problem in computer security: how do you know you can trust your hardware-firmware-software stack? It's not enough to simply trust your vendor (c.f. the recent High Sierra root vulnerability). Even a vendor who says they are prioritizing security and has the technical chops to make that happen (like Apple) can make mistakes. Worse, unless they have really good internal auditing, a single dishonest employee can intentionally insert a vulnerability that can go unnoticed for a very long time (e.g. GOTO FAIL). If the stakes are high (e.g. you can walk away with a few hundred million dollars, or enable whatever intelligence agency you are loyal to to spy on hundreds of millions of people) then the incentive to insert a back door becomes equally high.

It is quite easy to create a pseudo-random number generator whose output is statistically indistinguishable from a real random number generator but is easily predictable to an attacker. (It's actually much easier to do this than to build a secure RNG.) This makes random number generators particularly attractive targets for attacks. Access to reliable random number generators is crucial for any kind of security, but is going to become increasingly challenging as time goes by.
Yes, it's one thing for serial content like a podcast or talk show, it's another for more artistic endeavors where it would lesson the artistic credibility to have an ad ingrained into the video.

It's also not a suitable format for those who create many small 1-5m videos.

Additionally, it prevents you from retroactively changing what ad gets sent with the video, which can lead to conflicts arising over severed business ties, and limit your overall ability to make residual profit from older videos.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is absolutely the case. Just look at the exploding expenditure on "administration" rather than education at these universities.

Universities exploit ridiculous student loan programs to make indentured servants out of their customers.
I'm sure there forex market rules that account for this.

Like buying EUR/USD then going into EUR/AUD
The web clipper is the killer app for me as well. I've been looking for a replacement for a long time and thus far have found nothing comparable that is open, self-hostable, cross-platform & syncable, and saves web media or pdf natively. I will also kick in to a Patreon if a web clipper is promised.
DEEP BLOG v2 is here, and hell, there is a lot of work left
Here's another snippet from President Clinton:

"I have long opposed governmental recognition of same-gender marriages and this legislation is consistent with that position."

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/scotts/ftp/wpaf2mc/clinton....
Is this what we're talking about though? I got the impression it was about using Bitcoin to avoid other taxes.
It's not enough. Patreon only works for certain audiences in its current state, and additionally lacks certain integration tooling that would make it more transparent.
> It's not a requirement to have a passport or driving license to open a bank account

That was a govt. mandate, they used to.
This may have been good advice previously, but the IRS has issued guidance on buying/selling BTC and mining. The former is treated as capital gains, the latter income. AFAIK they have not issued guidance on coin conversions (probably capital gains events) or hark forks.
European Commission launches first ever bug bounty (for VLC)
Moving from Python 2 to Python 3. I sort of debated learning something new, like Haskell. But I want to be competitive, and that means language familiarity.
Waymo won't bankrupt Uber. If Uber loses, they will appeal. Uber will run out of runway for other reasons before they're done with the appeal.

What a loss to Waymo might do is make an Uber IPO much less attractive. It might even be the difference between an IPO happening and not happening. And that might be the difference between Uber getting another year or two of runway and them dying in 2018.
Technically, the burden of proof is in the IRS, but if not it's just a claim that tax is due (and not one of criminal evasion) then it's a low burden of proof and very easy to meet it in the absence of counterevidence, putting the individual in the position of needing to rebut the IRS’s contention.
Deportations took a dramatic downfall in his second term and most of the "deportations" took place at the border, not in the way you think they did
https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2016

Always love the reflexive downvoting on the site, when facts don't match your view of reality
Openly supports and defends?

I'm no Trump fan but this seems blatantly false. He seems to have been disavowing racists since the start.
Where I live the general rule is anything that was attached is considered part of the home you're buying/selling. If you don't want the light switches and thermostat being sold they should be removed and replaced before you show the home.
Ruby 2.5 added delete_prefix and delete_suffix methods
When habit-forming products become addictive
> trying to get arc flash rated 110V breakers added as a requirement to the electric code.

Are you just talking about MA adopting newer versions of the NEC that require AFCI [0] more places, or is there really something new related to arc flash?

[0] A proprietary software hellhole, like everything else these days.
The more you oppose Uber, the more you should use them, to help bilk their investors faster.
If your hash is smaller than the (compressed) image itself, then you have information-theoretical loss; there is no possible way to reverse the operation. And these hashes are usually much smaller than the original.
A customer creates a cluster on their account. You as a customer can create one or more Fargate clusters on your account to launch your containers in.
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I agree, unlikely but not quite zero. As is the general rule with complex things.

But again, until a show stopper is found, I would say that bitcoin will never be popular as a means of payment. People would increasingly use it as a vehicle of savings.

Once it has reached some point of "maximum adoption", it would start behaving exactly like post-1973 gold. It would still go through periods of speculative enthusiasm in which allocation to bitcoin increases, followed by periods of aimless grinding in which it drops again.

It wouldn't follow CPI tick-for-tick, but over very long term periods, it would be nicely mean reverting vs cycles of general price levels and financial market prices. And as such, in terms of bad forms of money like government currencies, it would ultimately just keep rising forever. Or at least never go to zero.

So people who say "bitcoin is a bubble because it's not used much for payments" would be wrong. It's going places exactly because it's not being used much as transaction money.

And so, as Nobel prize winners would move up from the step of calling it a dangerous bubble to the step of decrying it as a deflationary threat, I predict no end to their criticisms.
I really don't think its that simple. Do you get taxed when dollars deflate ? do you claim a loss when dollars inflate?

nope

you really don't have to go in and out of USD with crypto currency .. you never have to touch USD again. sure they can try auditing your assets vs your salary and come up with some bullshit number you will then have to fight, but there will be many ways to come up with how much you owe

and what if you elect to get your salary in crypto currency? if that currency inflates what taxes are you paying?

hmm lots of down votes. didn't think my statements were that offensive or ridiculous :) nor am i a "Bitconian" really own 0.2 of BTC. Simply trying to understand what IRS is doing here..