skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A transaction can have many inputs and many outputs. These are all Bitcoin addresses.

Sally and Bob each have 1 Bitcoin. Sally received her bitcoin to a single address. If Sally wants to send that 1 Bitcoin to Charlie, that transaction would have 1 input (the address she received it on) and one output (the address Charlie wants to receive it to). Bob has 1 Bitcoin total, but his 1 Bitcoin came from 4 x 0.25 transactions. Bob didn't want to reuse addresses, so for him to send 1 Bitcoin to Charlie he has a transaction with 4 inputs (each address which contains 0.25 BTC) and 1 output. Thus, Bob's transaction is much bigger than Alice's, despite the same amount of Bitcoin being sent.
This also can be acceptable based on the risk; sometimes we get a full pentest report from an independent security vendor.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-tax-deductions-econ...
My parents almost invested in an Apple II solution in the early 1980s that made robocalls using a wardialer and playing a message to people and telling them where to go or call to buy things.

In the meetings where farmers as well.

The company said the system was designed by Steve Wozniak at Apple and very reliable.

Farmers did not want to buy it but rent it instead.

Why?

When you rent equipment you can claim it as an expense on taxes, anything from a telephone to a computer to tractors, etc. Another reason is if they broke, rental company would fix it or replace it with another one.
I've had a good experience with privacy.com, although I'm not super excited that you have to give them your bank logins.
I don't really think I'm going to convince you that maybe Uber is doing what they've planned on doing all along and in the grand scheme of things seem like they're doing it pretty well. It sort of seems like you have some stake against Uber to be so vehemently against it. Just because Uber doesn't have a 100% market share doesn't mean they're doing poorly.
Will humans write code in 2040?
The market should be regulated if ALL OF US (grandmas too) are really going to end using cryptocurrencies.
I believe the latter 3/4 are not touched in this bill.
Your apparent mental prowesses will fail to impress those who find it easy to do the same. I have met my share of college students and professors who excel at dropping the name of a few philosophers, at using words only 1% of the population knows about… but, at a certain level, it does nothing for them. People simply roll their eyes and move on…

Solid life advice.
Absolutely, I wasn't sure if the entire article was intended as a complicated joke / cautionary example.

An interesting way to communicate the message, but I'm sure it was largely unintentional.
Given the nature of the product we sell (where implementations are in the six-seven digit range, with sometimes over a year of prep work), it tends to come up in discussion most times, and I think may even be in our boilerplate contract (which is signed by both parties, it's not 'order online, enter credit card' purchasing).
I just bought some and I will sell when it reaches 5x if it ever does.
Clearly foreign, like Bezos, Obama, or Wozniak?
When I read "video tags," I immediately thought of <video> and was very confused.

I now get that they're cameras, but I'm sure I'll make this mistake next time I read "video tags," too.
Probably from China going through Korea. And most volume in last weeks is coming from Korea.
Exactly. Until we pay rent, wages & stock with Bitcoin, it's essentially just digital gold bullion.

You'd be an idiot to pay for any service with Bitcoin. A million dollar pizza makes for a great news story, but it would suck knowing that you effectively let go of millions of dollars just to buy a pizza.

Bitcoin holders are disincentivized from spending it.
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Can you expand on what you mean? SV seems to represent more of a meritocracy than most industries or areas?
I'd bet he also drove to work.
Great to see, now let's hope with quantum's momentum it can increase the rate of growth, maybe as far as February 2012 standards (last time it was majority share)!
In the end, the only remaining jobs will be those that require interacting with other humans.
its pretty much the gas station model
"If the same had been done by GM for example, they don't think anyone would have went to prison for even a day"

I don't disagree that the government went after VW hard, and it's very likely that the fine would've been much lower had the same crime been perpetrated by GM.

However, I think government took a tougher stance because VW was a foreign company, period; not because VW was viewed as a competitor to domestic car makers. People don't cross shop domestic and VW.
I really enjoy the string of responses your comment has elicited. People really like only being liable for the amount of money they put into something. Regardless if the downsides of their actions end up costing more than the inputs.
demo: https://myliang.github.io/fish-ui
Might be an indicator of the old FOMO maneuvers. Whether the underlying realities are solid (fast, cheap transactions) or not is less relevant if people were, say, profit taking on their alts and pouring it into BTC since they feel BTC is rallying more/consistently with the spotlight on it.

Interesting observation, in any case.
So if I have a 401k with some money in a broad index fund which includes VW, I should be in jail?
You bringing up VB6 made me smile. Anything VB makes me nostalgic as well.

During Thanksgiving I talked to my Uncle who gave my family our first computer and also asked him if he remembered giving me his old copy of VB 3.0 to install. We couldn't remember if it was 20-something or 30-something 3.5" floppy disks but I remember feeling really cool being the only person out of my programmer buddies who had a legit VB 3.0 install.
how does this compare to tpl dataflow on performance? is a go channel kinda like c# bufferblock? are channels thread safe for multiple producers and multiple consumers writing to and taking from the same queue? i like the code sample.. very clean.
It helps if they control a private key to a wallet very early in the blockchain.
As someone that has been in since 2013, I don't even recognize the current scene. The only reason the vast majority of people are getting into it is to get rich. It seems totally unsustainable, but the only incentives for people on the inside are to loudly convince others to join them.
This looks promising to improve transaction speeds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73Gz3Tvx3k
It's neither Russian nor German. Baltic is a linguistic category on its own. Specifically Lithuanian in my case. Latvian is related. There were also Baltic language speakers in Prussia before it became majority German speaking.

"Surname from the Baltic States" implies linguistic precision and specificity that "surname from the United States" does not convey and is in no means equivalent to. There is some vagueness in what I said but I left it there intentionally, people don't get crazy specific about personal details here usually. I was meaning to say I have a "foreign" surname.
To no other framework?
I would have used Final if it were a debit card. Didn't want another credit card and was bummed to see that's what it was.
If you're buying in order to speculate, why not sell gradually into the gains? Your strategy seems like it is taking what is already a high-risk, and artificially making the risk higher than needed...

Also, the time to buy is almost never after/during a large boom, heh.
Can anyone speak to their successes with Angular post 2.0? I feel like any time it comes up, it's mostly horror stories about the transition or how shops have just moved on to Vue, etc. Is it worth still considering / where does Angular shine where React and Vue come up short?
That is very impressive. Congratulations!
> However, if Bank of America had $65M stolen, you could expect them to have other assets to cover that loss and make you whole.

That's exactly my point. Asking some cryptocurrency startup to look after your bitcoin, if they get hacked, they'll probably go out of business and you will lose everything. A major bank, with billions (or even trillions) of dollars of non-cryptocurrency assets, they will survive the theft of a few million (or billion) dollars worth of bitcoin, and have plenty left to compensate you with.

> I think the issue is that would cost a lot of money. Would you be willing to pay 2% of your bitcoin per year for this insurance?

Some people will probably say yes. If you expect bitcoin to go up by substantially more than 2% pa, 2% might be a reasonable amount to pay to reduce the risk of holding it yourself.

> Banks generally have some latitude to undo transactions.

I don't expect banks would apply the same rules to cryptocurrencies given the inability to reverse. For example, if you make a typo in the target account for a bank transfer, with normal currency the bank will probably just reverse it for you if you call them, with bitcoin you've lost your money. The threshold for compensation would be much higher. But still, if the bank loses your bitcoin due to their own negligence (as opposed to your own negligence), they'd be liable for that.
The United States used to hold stockholders accountable back in the late 19th century, when there were many more fraudulent and poorly run industrial and railroad companies. As a result, shareholders were so afraid of liability they gave their voting power to "voting trusts" run by bankers, notably JP Morgan. The banks ended up having seats on the boards of the majority of companies in an industry and would use their position to stop companies from competing with each other (after all, competition lowers the profits of all companies in an industry, which makes it less likely they will be able to repay the debt they owe to banks). The result was we ended up with monopolies in nearly everything, from meatpacking to barbed wire to railroads...

In other words, not only would punishing shareholders be unfair and stifle investment, it might have other unintended consequences that would hurt the economy.
I had a customer ask (we have an escrow clause), "What's to stop us not paying your bills (for support and licensing) until you go out of business and then getting the source code?"

We pointed to (one of many) conditions that said that escrow would be only released to customers who were in good standing with us -before- the escrow event (and that wasn't transferable, as in they couldn't settle accounts with trustees, acquirers or the like - similar to 'not being able to buy retroactive insurance').
When I saw Baader-Meinhof, I thought of the Baader-Meinhof gang. I'd never heard of the cognitive bias.
Net Neutrality Is a Freedom of Speech Issue. Period
I thought this was some kind of joke... until I realized they skipped v3. But still, v5 already? Or did I just get used to Bootstrap 4 being in Alpha for years?
buy high, sell low!
Meanwhile "An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15851824
Reminder about Cinemark:
- they sued Aurora victims for legal costs
- their founder is a donor to Roy Moore's campaign
> good to see justice served

I believe his participation in fraud should have repercussions, but I hardly feel like caging him up for 7 years is "justice". I'm not saying I know what the perfect justice would be, but I think it should be closer to restitution to those he harmed, rather than just punishment.

Ultimately, I think incarceration is a savage practice, and I hope for the day we're able to deliver justice without resorting to locking someone up. I think humanity will eventually look back at our practice of mass incarceration as quite primitive.
I'm sure it's out there somewhere, but it would be an appropriate corollary to the OP if there was a "Down with Cross Products", which argues that multivectors and wedge products should be taught instead of cross products in multivariable calculus. Then, determinants are "the wedge product of N linearly independent vectors", and cross products are "the wedge product of 2 vectors in 3 dimensions", which gives a bivector and trivially encodes their pseudovector properties.

(Also, surface normals in integrals are bivectors, the 'i' of complex analysis is the bivector resulting from wedge product x^y, and e^(i theta) is the exponential map applied to the i operator, and (del wedge vector-function f) is the (bivector-valued) curl while (del wedge bivector-function g) is the (scalar valued) divergence (and that's why del(del(f)) = 0).)

(But differential forms should probably be omitted in a first course, because they get hairy quickly and are hard to wrap one's head around. It's enough to know that dxdy in integrals is actually dx^dy, and therefore the Jacobian appears when changing variables because of the factor that appears from dx'^dy' = dx'(x,y)^dy'(x,y).)
because if you sell gradually, it doesn't move as fast...

since this is getting downvoted, I will give a simple example... if you have $2 and it goes up 100% (two-fold incease), than you have $4... but if you cash half your money, then you have only $1 invested, and you are stuck with $3 instead of $4 ... and lost 25%. Not sure if my math is 100% right, but if you are betting on value going up, you lost money.
> I like the concept of “simplistic programming” by which I mean “programming that is so simple that people will criticize you for it”. At first, that sounds strange… can we really get criticized for being “too simple”? Of course, we do.

Oh man, this hits home.

I've attempted to be a voice of reason on this front so many times, I've practically given up on it. I've come to the conclusion that most programmers suffer from an intellectual Napoleon complex (which I've seen in academic Philosophy, as well). I've argued for the use of simple "for loops" in lieu of complex map-reduce logic, argued against overly-complex threading logic where threading wasn't necessary, argued against using Spark where the dataset was so tiny, it could be handled by my iPhone. All my suggestions often fall on deaf ears. The counter-argument tends to be some contrived edge-case which (by that point in the discussion), I'm simply too fatigued to argue against. I've lost this war of attrition many (many) times.

The irony is that most OSS code tends to be "so simple it's dumb" -- why? Because simple code is easy to contribute to! I think if more professional programmers actually looked at real code outside of their corporate Bitbucket, working as a programmer would be much more enjoyable.
But the Internet accomplishes that. The fact that it also accomplishes everything else is a bonus.

BTC doesn't do its original job, and the current value on it, aside from idiots looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, seems to be that it will eventually do its original job.
I don't think anyone knows WTF is going on with it. I also sincerely hope people have only invested what they can afford to lose -- and that they've realized the gains that they'd be happy with.

Of course, it could just as likely be $20k tomorrow.
This is a farce. There's only been negative news today and yet prices jump higher than ever. There's no conceivable way this doesn't end badly. I guess people are gambling on being lucky enough to exit before then.

Edit: removed unnecessary hostility. If you have money to spare on a high risk gamble like this then by all means. But in general there's just no way everyone jumping in is fully aware of the risks.
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>the excess emissions will cause 60 premature deaths.

That's probably true but that point seems to be used as a jab to sell newspapers, at the very least it's inflammatory. Meanwhile, two-stroke engines, older diesel engines, airplanes using leaded avgas may be as bad as the ten million slightly off tune VWs. And I say this as a person with a parent very ill with lung disease COPD and IPF.

I'm not saying the exec deserves to go free but seven years is excessive. Even manslaughter (in my country) gets you two years which means you go to prison, in the US I think that's called a felony.
Is that what it's supposed to be?
Last day I saw a magazine on cryptocurrencies in a kiosk in Germany (in German language). As Warrent Buffett used to say, "When everybody and your taxi driver talks about your stocks... it's time to sell".

It's impossible to predict. Anyway, I'm investing with a buy & hold philosophy.
Your scenario seems implies that the original charge and the chargeback happen in different tax years, because if it was the same tax year, the chargeback would just invalidate the original charge.

In the cross-tax-year case, you pay the chargeback from the historical profits you have been booking from the LLC and book it as a business expense in the current tax year.

If you are running an LLC with zero cash backup to handle such situations, there could be a problem with the business model.
There's a very simple solution if you care about security.

Buy a hardware wallet (e.g. Trezor in my example) note down the 24 words that are basically your privatekey. But enable the passphrase (25th word/phrase) which you type yourself and could keep just in your mind.

You have the safety of multiple backups for the 24 words and the extra security from burglars and others with the 25th passphrase.

https://blog.trezor.io/hide-your-trezor-wallets-with-multipl...

It also serves as a plausible deniability because when you input your passphrase it will never say it's incorrect, it will merely open a different wallet (generate a different private key).

Helps with the $5 wrench attack. You could setup a "fake" wallet with some activity and a low amount of Bitcoins, and have a different passphrase for the real wallet with the big amount.

BYOB, freedom comes at a price.
Unless they maintain cost centers and do cross business unit accounting.
They are buying bitcoin to buy other altcoins.
I came here to say this. From what I gather, actuaries make big money and have significant power at insurance companies. (I was merely a gumby processing claims and needed special training to do my entry level job.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science
That's the dump part of "pump and dump".
I anticipate that a lot of comments about "bad bubble" and "bad bitcoin" will emerge like on every thread about bitcoin on HN.

I think people just don't understand that most participants in "Bitcon boom" knows this is a bubble. Every major news outlet says it's a bubble every couple of weeks. This is a common knowledge, everyone are saying it's a bubble.

I know it's a bubble too and I have bitcoins but I don't care that it's a bubble. I am holding BTC from the time it was worth couple of times less when everyone was saying it's a bubble also. Even if it goes down a lot below 10k now I will still make money.

I think a lot of people yelling "you morons don't buy bitcoin!!!1111" need to understand that people are aware of the risk, like they are aware when going to casino that they can lose money and there will be people that will lose their money for sure. The last one in the game takes the highest risk, that's all.
Various governments have done a pretty good job of meddling with it thus far.
If you lay the gravel properly, (i.e. get it rolled when it's first laid), and give it a bit of cursory maintenance (raking it once a week), it should last a long time without you needing to add any more gravel, or at most adding a bag of gravel once a year.
>Exactly. And people advocating stricter gun laws can't afford NOT be open about this.

People advocating stricter gun laws have been open about their intentions - it's obvious that such people just want to live in a safer society. Gun advocates just assume they're liars and really just want to come for their guns.
>Whether the underlying realities are solid (fast, cheap transactions)

but that's only the case if the coin isn't popular. more popularity = more transactions = more competition for block space = higher fees.
Huge numbers of people still believe in the idea of "electronic cash" (as set out in the original Bitcoin white paper.)

Right now the core Bitcoin dev team have gone one way, so the "currency" side of the debate have largely moved to alternatives like Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin etc.

The current backlog of transactions on the main Bitcoin chain is down to the artificial block size limit. How far on-chain scaling will stretch is unclear, but the core Bitcoin network could easily process more transactions if the block limit was increased.
Transaction times are slow because there are so many of them. What you're saying is sort of equivalent to "look at how much traffic there is at that mall, it's going to fail".
Pacemaker/Corosync is a good tool if you know exactly how it works. However, very few people know exactly how it works. This is a very old problem for that team if you check the mailing lists. If they offered a few "blessed" configurations or even an online config generator, I'm sure that people would have nicer things to say about it.

I've used it heartbeat/pacemaker/corosync with DRBD for over a decade and I'm pretty pleased with it...now. But it took a bit of trial by fire to get it right. Luckily I never lost any data and found the issues in testing. Which gets at the heart of any failover mechanism -- it's all useless unless you test it on a regular basis (just like your backups).
Indeed we are.
our journey...a true masterpiece, that blog post - the poetic equivalent of realizing there's a shit-stained toilet paper scrap stuck between your ass cheeks, but only after you've stood and washed your hands. A thing was done, but poorly.
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Unfortunately, I really believe that jail is the only deterrent for these people. Fines aren't going to do anything; they already have enough money that they never have to work, and you're never going to fine them enough for that to change.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Fogle
Bitcoin blasts past $14,000, less than 24 hours after crossing $12,000
Thanks! To be fair, it doesn't look like that particular situation is settled law yet.
Yet another hack resulting in the loss of tens of millions of dollars, transactions taking forever, retailers announcing that they no longer accept Bitcoin, massive questions surrounding one of the largest exchanges:

22% surge in a single day.

This is going to end well.
"The thing I've always hated about Obamacare was how healthy self employed folks are subsiding the unhealthy people"

Is that not how this all is supposed to work? the young and healthy help the old and sick, or the rich living in coastal cities help the poor living in rural areas.
How is that relevant, the price spiking isn't because of people like you. It's because of people buying in now.

People are obviously not capable of understanding risk. Are you serious? You bring up casinos when they are perhaps the best example of how ill-equipped the majority of people are to understand risk and probability.
The French are arguing over a small dot, the interpunct
They changed to semantic versioning. From what I remember they intended to keep their development style of breaking backwards compatibility where convenient, though. The consequence is that you’ll regularly see major version bumps.
How does the carbon footprint for x amount of Bitcoin (in, say, $ terms), compare with the carbon footprint of both printing and maintaining a similar amount of traditional currency?
Apparently they're called "grass parking mats"

Here's an Australian product: https://www.grassreinforcement.com.au/

Here's another one: https://www.bunnings.com.au/cirtex-surepave-plastic-pavers_p...
wondering if the buyer will unwrap a turd and void their check
I suppose it depends on which is more reliable, HDDs or the controller. If the likelihood of a HHD failure is much higher than a controller failure, then it still makes sense to go with RAID.