skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is it because the implications predicted by orthodox monetary theory?"

---> Bitcoin is not money <----

There is no 'economics' or 'finance' or anything at play.

It's Tulip Bulbs without the Tulip Bulbs.

There are numbers, being traded back and forth for money 'because'.

There is no way to price BTC - there are no real underlying drivers - just what your cab driver and the guy in your office is willing to pay in that day - for an arbitrary number.

If anything, it's a study in pop culture, memes, and how information flows through social networks and the media.

It's just a number. That's it. God knows why some people want to pay $10K for a number they can't do anything with ... unless of course they believe, for some arbitrary reason someone else well.

Most bubbles are fuelled by speculation that is a multiplier of some underlying activity. But there is no 'underlying' BTC. So it's a study in pop culture. Not monetary theory.
They may set the upper bound like that (although you greatly exaggerate how common and simple it is), but you’re insane if you think that they won’t hire anyone for less if they can, and that they’ll then redistribute those savings across all the other employees. Ha!

Hiring is supply / demand like anything else, and companies are trying to minimize their labor expenses and maximize profit, not spend a certain fixes amount (and no less!) on labor.
A bitcoin 'wallet' is a strong encrypted key. The question is where do you keep that key.
>Value proposition on theaters is very low.

The value is that it is the most effective form of DRM around. TV, video games, books, music all get ripped same day. Movies pirated version look like garbage for months.
That's not why this is relevant. Given equivalent hardware it's still a worse solution for chess. The value is you can get results of similar quality with vastly more compute power even without 1,000+ years of analysis.

Otherwise the only takeaway is this failed to improve the state of the art.
But where do you store the key?
Data engineering and data science teams at Avant are biased towards hiring pure math graduates. I think it's because training in mathematics necessarily teaches you to jump up and down between different layers of abstraction which makes motivated mathematicians very quick and effective learners.

If you don't mind relocating to Chicago drop me a line at kirill.sevastyanenko (at) avant
The whole point of offline storage is to guard against the risk of whatever internet-connected device you use to store your keys getting compromised.

If you make a mistake or fall victim to an attack that lets someone steal the encrypted file containing your key, there's a good chance the attacker will also be able to install a keylogger and get your passphrase.
Indeed. Crap cash flow can lead to a poverty-type mindset of privileging the short term at the expense of the long, even if you're not actually poor (not from the IRS's point of view, anyway—possibly the bank's), because the unpredictability can undermine any effort systematic and long-term decision-making.

After a while it can feel Sisyphean. Just when you secure more recurring revenue, you lose an old customer or get slapped with an unexpected large expense. One step forward, two steps back kind of thing. Every day.

So, it's easy to preach very sanctimoniously about the paramount importance of good money management as a self-employed person, but it's another thing to do it, and I find that's true for a lot of self-employed folks. Back when I had W-2 income, I really had it together; great credit, putting away $1k+ every month, all bills always paid on time, etc. Since then, not so much, and it's not because I suddenly got massively profligate. You just give up trying to put the ducks in a row when life keeps sinking them over and over.
To be honest I might be at the copy machine to make a copy but I might not actually need to make it then and there. I might be able to re-print it, or do it later. When someone tells me he needs to do that then I think maybe it's more urgent than mine. I wonder if there are subtleties like this that explain these in reality.
That is completely different. You don't go to jail for a license violation.
They ran out of money or realized that they would.
great resource thank you for your insight!
You need to crawl before you can walk.

Get a support job. With no degree and no prior relevant work experience nobody will trust you in an admin role. Not all the skills you need to be successful as an admin are hard tech skills either.

- an ops guy without a high school diploma or greater
Bitcoin is not set up to ever be "stable" by any definition.

Real currency has a federal reserve to balance supply against demand and keep the value steady.

BTC has entirely demand-driven value-- which is precisely as steady and predictable as the human mind.
Self employed you should aim for 3x your W2 rate at least that's what IT contractors aim for in the UK
The fact that anyone still trusts Bitcoin services after all of the hacks still floors me.
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There are other options in Bitcoin land to protect against theft. If the online wallet uses multisig then it requires a signature from yourself before they can take the funds. If they're hacked then the hacker can't spend the coins.
Based on this article, I would venture to guess that Axler is also not a fan of the cross product, though, so he wouldn't feel that much is lost. Cross products are practically a vector-calculus hack that lack generality and risk obscuring intuition at the mathematical level.
"And I haven't found that integration (system) tests have a higher ROI – because they're usually much more expensive to write and maintain."

I think the worst code bases to modify are the ones with heavy use of mocking and dependency injection. You still get no feedback about the behavior when run against the real system and you have to maintain a potentially complex mock.
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It took several minutes on a couple of Macs with fusion drives. It seemed stuck at "Calculating time remaining..." but eventually finished, rebooted, and continued installing, this time displaying a reasonable time remaining value.
Not a chance. Been having that conversation with banks for years.

Banks don't see any assets in a pure service business like software/consulting that can be collateralised, and my personal credit is long-ago shot. Nobody lends or writes credit on prospectus for a business they don't understand.

A credit card with a ~$1000 limit is about the snow-capped summit of what I could reasonably get.
Sam Ritchie from Stripe was a guest on This-Week-in-Machine-Learning/AI (TWiMLAI) (podcast) talking about explaining black box predictions.

https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-73-exploring-black-box-predic...

TL; DR is basically you keep a decision tree in parallel to your model that carries with it long/short-form text that "explains" why the model does what it does.
Firefox's Reader View is great for sites like these. Works on mobile too...
> That's, of course, completely untrue in a world where refundable credits are a thing. Tax bills are not limited to non-negative numbers.

I'm pretty sure that is actually the case in the US tax system. A US taxpayer's tax burden cannot be less than 0. It doesn't have to be that way, but to make it so requires a more fundamental change to the US tax system.
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If you're writing the compiler as an exercise, skipping codegen means you're missing out on a lot of really good stuff.
Yep - third party code reviews for compliance or security purposes are not unheard of.

The "we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions" justification is a little weird, since that is effectively your secret sauce and just math equations.

Are they worried you're joining in illegally- or unethically-obtained data in making your recommendations? Large enterprise companies have brand reputations that they factor into vendor decisions, and they may not trust you as a startup just yet.
And no insurance company (understandably) wants to fully cover Bitcoins.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4099912-coinbase-insurance-...
You're making a poor assumption however. The college graduates that go on to pursue a graduate degree are not randomly selected.
PayPal is a US-based centralized corporation. They're an application with a single point of failure.
Um, it's been a while, but I think it fails that test -- the identity template is "$"
I come from the planet where Uber is currently:

- Hemorrhaging cash like a hemophiliac taking blood thinners

- Embroiled in various legal battles

- Losing labor market share to Lyft

- Losing customer market share to Lyft

- Failing to push legislation to eliminate taxi medallion systems

You know, the planet where they've lost their Keanu Reeves (TK) along with billions of dollars. The planet where I and many others do not use Uber in favor of a Lyft or taxi. The planet where Uber created a failing business model and tried to put lipstick on the pig by evading laws and throwing cash at the dumpster fire. The one where they subsidize every single ride with VC cash while they hold out hope for Level 5 autonomous vehicles to replace their substandard workforce on a more-than-optimistic time frame. The planet where Uber is a black hole of delusional "manifest destiny" style Silicon Valley kool-aid.

Taxis aren't dead. They'll be around well after these fools are parted with their money.
>Can't think of a single reason why it hasn't happened yet.

Piracy.

Any home version of a movie would be ripped and put on warez in hours after release in 4k. I'd never go to the theater again. But CAMs and TS suck.
I've co-founded three companies (www.futurescaper.com, www.podaris.com, and www.imatest.com, to a much lesser extent), all of which have employed mathematicians on at least a part-time basis. If you're doing fancy parametric constraints-based modelling systems, analysis of n-dimensional causal graphs, or analysis of digital imaging systems, then a robust mathematics background can really help. Non of our hires have been been pure mathematicians, inasmuch as we've needed them to also be able to code. But I can easily imagine that larger companies pursuing similar domains ought to see the value in having purer mathematicians on their payroll.
So you thought the website that caters lawyer services would just drop the case? Bold move Cotton.
A contender for https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ ?
> Universities will just start offering education for free instead of waiving the tuition

Aren't you supposed to be taxed on the value of a good/service/gift received even if it was given to you for free? What is the "true value" of tuition?

I don't think waiving tuition will work, assuming tuition is taxed like most other things.
As others have pointed out, it's not a pool. They're a service for connecting people with miners to people who want to mine something. They're a hash reseller. A user bids for mining power and where they want it assigned. Miners post rates they're willing to mine at.
> What exactly is the potential liability for a GPL violation?

An anecdote from 2001:

http://web.archive.org/web/20061106184219/http://docs.gnu-de...
It's not like in 1800 news of stolen gold was instantly broadcasted to the whole world.
You will come out ahead versus just buying tickets directly, but you will come out BEHIND using this new Cinemark service. The question was how can Cinemark compete with MoviePass, not about MoviePass versus individual seat purchases.
>That's, of course, completely untrue in a world where refundable credits are a thing. Tax bills are not limited to non-negative numbers.

Tax breaks and one's total tax obligation are two different things.

>(Also, lots of non-rich people pay taxes, even if you only mean personal income tax.)

A lot of people think they pay taxes, but they don't. And we'd need to define rich to really reach an agreement on the truthfulness of that statement. According to the CBO [1] (table 1 on page 31), households in the lower three quintiles of income are not net tax payers at the federal level. The gap in what they pay and what they receive in services is large enough that it offsets state and local taxes.

Reviewing the table I referenced above, I would agree that lots of non-rich people pay taxes. But the majority of non-rich people do not.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...
That's more for acquihires.
Edit: DeepMind's victory over Stockfish didn't need novel research. Giraffe already demonstrated that the asymptotic speedup was possible; it just needed more compute.
I'd generalize this to many kinds of failover setups, DB or non-DB. Practically each and every one I've seen is in itself less reliable than the thing it's covering for.
The notable part of the “and more” is the first stable release of the Material theme/UI library.
I just bought the year pass from them. I think the model is just going to fail. Right now they are the fabled "raising revenue by selling a dollar for 90 cents" start up that hopes to "make it up in volume."

The only way it works is if people don't actually use it.
Two problems with buffers: (1) never making quite enough money to get ahead of expenses enough to create one, (2) I owe significant back-taxes. Any larger liquidity event that could otherwise be used to establish a buffer goes to try to pay down taxes owed.

There's little point in accumulating assets when they can just be levied by someone you owe a lot of money to. At that point you might as well just cut them off at the pass and give it to them voluntarily.
We've been seeing record highs for the past 4-6 months though. The likelihood of any dip going below the past 6 month low is pretty low in my opinion. Especially with Lightning network, NASDAQ, other large players getting on board. This may be the last time we see $13K.
discreditable's comment says that they were in fact acquired, although with a username like that who knows ;)
I'd chip into that pot just for the pure entertainment of it all.
Funny thing is Google is the last company I expect to respect my privacy and I'm usually correct.

Apple has incorporated differential privacy in all of their products so yea they get to publicize it more.
or the time value of money
I always got the impression that the international students were from fairly well off families by the standards of their home country. After all, they can afford to pay full tuition, even after the exchange rate from currencies like the Chinese RMB.
I'm sure you didn't mean it, but your sentence could be interpreted that ending with a preposition is aping Latin. That particular tradition comes from English's Germanic roots. Latin languages typically have non-compound verbs which cover the same concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb
If he can run a keylogger on whatever computer you use to unlock your wallet, then it does it really matter whether you store it offline on USB stick in a safe or not.
Oh, they attached cameras to the back of the whales. Nifty!

Edit: Blue Planet 2 apparently did something similar; this article has more details: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/how-blue-planet-ii-team-1...
> otherwise well-measured calculations of risk and reward

Where do you work that attorneys generally make well-measured calculations of risk? And are you hiring?
There's nothing stopping one from going to a special theatre for that one film shot in 70mm. But most movies are not that.
Because the unlimited aspect of MoviePass likely changes user behavior.

Let's throw together a simplified example scenario. Imagine a user that previously went to the movies 12 times a year paying $10 per ticket. In a world without MoviePass the theater collects $120 from that customer. However with MoviePass that user might now go 15 times a year and the theater collects $150 total from MoviePass. That is an added $30 in revenue for the theater that was created by MoviePass. The theater still comes out ahead of any revenue sharing model with MoviePass that costs them less than $30 per year. Perhaps more importantly they also reduce the risk that the customer's $120-$150 per year ends up going to a different theater across town that is willing to make an agreement with MoviePass.
>In first, 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics

No.
Your rig is bigger than mine. Have been mining on and off for two months on my 1080TI to my own address (mainly overnight as days have been hot in Australia) and was just moments away from reaching the 0.01BTC payout threshold.

Glad I didn't trust them to use their wallet system - those are the ones who'd really get burned by this, if NH can't recover.

They really need to lower the minimum payout limit, or set that you can pay out e.g. every two weeks.
Oh crap you're right! The price seemed high, but I grew up in the city so I don't track it much - just whenever I catch it on the local radio station.

The numbers were way better than I remembered, so I kept trying to figure out where the costs came in...I wasn't finding it.

Thanks for the correction.
Bitcoin will fail to scale, until it doesn't any more. There is far too much economic incentive to scale BTC as a payments network for the assorted parties not to work it out eventually. Could one of the other cryptos overtake BTC? Only if they can overcome BTC's network effects. Right now, BTC has 9 years of history and a huge first mover advantage.
Property-based testing, preferably with with heavy use of design-by-contracts style pre/post/invariants checking. Ideally also mutation testing.
Executed?

Can't say I have a problem with that.
The footer of their pages says their cards are issued by First Bank & Trust, Brookings SD.
I don't think that the specific numbers are relevant for what deepnotderp and I were saying: that Giraffe already demonstrated the potential, and all that was missing was a boatload of compute.
Yes, this was what I was trying to convey. Customers (when I ran my company) explained it to me in terms of Moore's law. They could wait 5 years for 1 order of magnitude (back then). Or I could deliver that (near) order of magnitude now, but the economics still had to work out. So kN where this was not tremendously different in TCO than existing solutions.

kN might be 1.25x existing costs for 5x performance today. This was an actual example given to me. Customer then indicated that they'd be quite interested in performance at that price.

k*N >> 2x, and it got problematic. So I had my range to work with.
I would be interested in hearing more about this technology being used in practice. Are these codes primarily "hand written" by an individual listener or are they encoded by computers?
>Or a second transaction layer, like a bank or VISA?

* They don't transact bitcoin.

* They don't transact your (non)bitcoin in a decentralized way. They alone run the software and are in control of changes and restrictions, including who you're allowed to send to.

* You don't hold the private keys to your (non)bitcoin when it's a bank or VISA or Paypal. They own it for you. They can lock your account and maybe give you the privilege of putting yourself through some asinine process to regain access to it.

The lightning network is a "second layer" that still is decentralized and puts users in control of their own funds.
A safe deposit box with the digital copies of wallet may work
Hard to take articles from vox seriously when they put this in bold print.

>Mothers die too often because women’s health isn’t valued in the US
Why did BitGo allow 120,000 BTC to be withdrawn from users in 3 hours? (2016)
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Can we build such a blockchain, where instead of spending energy on calculating useless crypto hashes, miners actually solve parts of some gigantic distributed optimization problem? Let’s say fitting a NN to extract high-level concepts from all the internet data (and conquer the world).
Or just ask the person filling it up to do it for you.
I offer significantly higher discounts than that for quarterly or annual prepayment, in the case of recurring revenue. Cash is king. Even to the degree where taking a 12-25% haircut can be worth it.
new topic but I am noticing a new trend where rich people have started owning farm land. Not sure why but I hope it is not contributing to this problem in a weird way.
1) Were they stakeholders or from legal?

2) They are likely looking for concrete methods they can leverage as the platform grows.

3) Don't give them access to the entire kitchen if they're only asking for a recipe.
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Plus they mentioned their "journey" twice. That's got to count for something :)
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Hey, awesome project! I'm a huge fan of classical music and can definitely see myself using this. I'm going to share it with my dad who's also a big classical aficionado.

Anyway, my question may get lost, as this post really blew up, but here it is. I'm launching a project I've been working on soon-ish, and I'm wondering: what steps did you take to gain traction? My project is somewhat socially-oriented like yours (i.e. there's no paid product), so I'm wondering if you can share any insight into how to get it out there and get high-qualify contributors.

Thanks, and again, awesome job :)
I was using Bank of America's ShopSafe system a decade ago. Remember all those "Get a free Xbox for completing these 12 free trial offers" scams?

Well, it turned out that some of them weren't necessarily scams, and there were whole forums dedicated to actually completing the offers, keeping proper documentation and claiming the prizes.

Most of the free trial offers validated your credit card for the initial free month, and then made it incredibly difficult to cancel the service. So I'd just sign up with a ShopSafe number that was valid for 1 month with a $1 limit.

Typically, instead of actually shipping you the Xbox or whatever the prize was, if you completed the offer they'd just send you a check. The year after I got out of college when I had plenty of free time, I managed to get about $1,200 thanks to those offers and ShopSafe.

It's not a feature I'd use enough to have it dictate my overall credit card choice, but I'd love it if more issuers added to their products.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention to the news: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/11/06/japan-made-bitcoin-a-l...
You're simply wrong. Higher-income college students are far more likely to go to graduate school than lower-income students.

> The percentage of students enrolling in graduate school increases with family income. Among dependent 2007–08 four-year college graduates, 39 percent of those from families in the lowest income quartile, 42 percent from middle-income families, and 45 percent from the highest income quartile had enrolled in graduate school within four years of college graduation. [0]

It's also misleading for you to look only at figures for STEM fields, in which international students are much more highly represented than other fields. I'm not sure why you're using looking at STEM only and using that to prove your point. The NYTimes article you linked says it best:

> "in arts and humanities, the figure [of students which are international] was about 16 percent; in business, a little more than 18 percent."

Providing tax breaks for graduate school does disproportionately benefit the upper middle class and the wealthy.

[0] https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/86981/...
You'll still find it as the default shell on at least some BSDs, and I think AIX.
I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen with a dual citizenship, and I had no trouble (well, no more than the usual trouble) getting a security clearance.

But what does any of this have to do with anything anyway? The linked-to page doesn't mention the NSA, P0 team, or security clearances.