skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied to to this point in the parent comment but to expand on that:

>If anything, it is more traceable and public than physical cash.

That's true, but cash has its own set of limitations. Using cash to transfer large sums of money in not very convenient and good luck explaining to the border police why you have $20 million in cash with you. Spending and laundering large amounts of cash without raising suspicions is also pretty difficult.

>But when you do associate a person with a given key,

s/when/if/

>that association probably persists over time.

How so when you can generate a virtually infinite number of new addresses whenever you like and the current practice is to avoid reusing the same address if at all possible?

Sure if I buy some drugs in BTC and then I see that some money transits directly from the destination address to the known address of some politician then I know that something fishy is going on.

But if the money is then split and merged to a bunch of different addresses, then moved to an exchange in china where it's converted to LiteCoins, then put through a coin mixer, then moved to an exchange in Brazil where it's converted back to Bitcoins then I wish good luck to the IRS employees.

And you can do all of that from the comfort of your home in an afternoon, through TOR, without having to reveal your identity to any 3rd party.
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> in Silicon Valley

Ironically, I assumed he was talking about NYC. Apparently he's actually in Minneapolis
Dammit, Gartner, make up your mind!

You told me last year that one data scientist is gonna solve all my problems. Now you're telling me I need to babysit him with five data engineers, because he is not going to get his hands dirty with data??
Right, I wouldn't. Maybe it's better termed cryptomineral instead of cryptocurrency.
> There's absolutely no source to the claim that 40% is owned by 1000 people. Only at the very end of the article we see a lateral claim, that 17% of bitcoin is held in just 100 addresses.

Yeah, I really dislike that the title sounds like it's a fact.
In the context of this discussion, which is gold holders hypothetically pumping & dumping the market it's pretty much only the big reserve holders that matter.

How do you think someone who's gold holdings are 1 kg in a warehouse embedded in motherboards is going to extract that to dump it on the market? Most gold by weight is effectively illiquid, while every Bitcoin is equally liquid.

As the source the article uses[1] discusses the breakdown of those 187,200 tons is:

* Jewellery: 89,200 tonnes, 47.6%

* Private investment: 40,000 tonnes, 21.4%

* Official sector: 31,500 tonnes, 16.8%

* Other: 26,500 tonnes, 14.2%

* Below ground stocks: 57,000 tonnes

So around 50% of the number you're quoting is gold still in the ground. To repeat your snarky remark: Did you read the article?

I guess counting the official sector and private investment the top 10 official holders "only" have around 30% of the liquid market, which is way more distorted than Bitcoin, and very comparable in this context of a few owners of large liquid assets being able to distort the market.

1. https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/gold-mining/how-...
Absolutely!
I bought a heavy duty paper cutter off eBay for less than $100. Just search for heavy duty paper cutter or guillotine paper cutter. They have a huge clamp and mine came with an extra blade. One of the best investments I've ever made.
The argument mostly boils down to that most rational actors will only tolerate a +/-N% change over the lifetime of a futures contracts

So the average future contract +/-N% (overall futures) roughly becomes the maximum volatility you can see out an asset over that duration. If it is exceeded people may stop trading futures, lowering the number of swaps, and by extensions trades of that asset. Providing a method to -let steam out- of a volatile system.

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There are many examples against this (housing crisis 2008). The main example for is Chicago future exchange in the 70’s and 80’s http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FuturesandOptionsMarkets....
Beyond the novelty of doing it? No, completely not worth it.
I've always been so puzzled by these "synthetic" financial products. If someone wants to "insure" a corporate bond, why don't they just swap it with a bank for a cash flow stream guaranteed by the bank, minus some premium?
It correctly predicted BTC at $10k in 2017. So much for satire!
> keyboard-clacking

The rise of mechanical keyboards has made PTT practically the only option. Otherwise you just hear little clicking all the time.
What are some other things botnets could be used for?
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>> Deflation means that the rich will get richer

>Wrong. Rich people don't have money, they have holdings. Most of the holdings that rich people nowadays have are not money.

Isn't one reason for not hoarding cash (and instead investing it in various holdings, stock market, etc...) is that money loses value? If I was a millionaire in dollars I definitely wouldn't keep that on my bank account, slowly having it lose its value. If I was a millionaire in BTC I'd have a hardware wallet with my secret keys in a safe and that's about it.

>Deflation just benefits the savers, as opposed to the spenders. Some savers might be rich but not all.

Sure, but conversely I can tell you that the people who don't save money are overwhelmingly poor. For a big chunk of humanity saving money is a luxury.

>Incentivising saving instead of consumption may make the planet a bit greener.

Coin mining will take care of filling that gap, don't worry.

If rich people reduce their investments because of deflation how do you redistribute wealth?

>Plus, if one day we stop measuring cryptocurrency value with a fiat-unit of measure, maybe we find out that the cryptocurrency value is actually the stable value.

Well yeah, 1BTC == 1BTC, that's stable I guess. If BTC replaces fiat it'll stabilize eventually but it will still be deflationary. My arguments were about that, not the current instability.

>The asset that is not stable is the fiat currency because it's being depreciated all the time. The day all stores in the planet denominate prices in cryptocurrency, the bad consequences of deflation (hoarding for the sake of profit) will be almost imperceptible.

That's kind of the hand waving I was talking about in my previous comment. I don't see how you can justify you jumping to that conclusion.

How can you assume that switching from an inflationary to a deflationary economy "will be almost imperceptible"?
>Since taxes are not voluntary

>The libertarian position is that human interactions should be voluntary, so the coercion problem is where libertarians find issue first.

Do you believe obeying property law is voluntary? I find it to be coercive.
Are there any specific examples that will illustrate your point ?
You can kill the slug and still feel bad that a living organism was destroyed.
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I've seen that issue with LG displays at work, but when I get home and plug in the MBP to the setup there, (I have dual "Dell Ultra HD 4K Monitor P2415Q 24" displays on my 2017 15" Macbook Pro) there's never a problem.

I'm inclined to believe it's the LG displays. Their washer/dryer appliances have some issues too, so I've learned to stay away from them.
Yeah, they've started to ticket people for this lately and it's been a god-send.

Since the port shut down in Portland I see so much stupid stuff on I-5 as the increased semi traffic + left-lane campers can turn the 2-3 lanes into a gridlock and cause all sorts of dangerous situations.
And to be clear, I'm not even holding out for a massive dip. I just can't fathom buying it during a clear spike. I want to buy it going down, even if it just goes down from 16k to 10k or 12k, whatever. Normal fluctuations in Bitcoin, really - I just don't want to buy it on the upswing, on principle alone lol.
Beta Sign-Up:
http://godankey.com/panel/external/QUdaUU5RYzBCMjFSWXc9PQ

Steam keys are delivered next Friday, December 15th.

Ghostly Horizon is a 3rd-person spell-caster on spherical worlds in a cute low-poly stylized setting with unforgiving battles.
The game features Singleplayer, Co-op and Competitive Multiplayer.

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhVigZdyPkQ

The game modes available during the beta will be:

Conquest – Team-based multiplayer

Battle Royale – Free for all multiplayer

Invasion – Co-op and Singleplayer

Survival – Co-op and Singleplayer

Official Discord Server: VwG4KYS

Steam Page:
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I hope some of you give it a go!
If you do, leave me a comment here or join the Discord.
The game is developed by me alone and I do appreciate all the feedback I can get to make this game the best it can be!

// Ghostly Horizon Developer
> Does someone who knows more about professional engineering know if this law in Oregon is uncommon?

Most every state in the USA has some sort of Professional Engineering law.

But I think there are only one or two states in the US where generic Engineer is a protected title (as opposed to e.g. "Civil Engineer"). So in most of the USA, you can call yourself a "Sales Engineer" and not worry about anyone coming after you.

But it's definitely a much more wide-spread practice in other parts of the world. And even applies to software.

E.g., Microsoft was sued in Canada for referring to holders of one of their technician certifications ("Microsoft Certified (TM)(R)") as engineers.
Qt does have QSharedPointer and QWeakPointer. Also, you can use QScopedPointer for things like implementing RAII with custom deleters, etc.
N.B. jwz does not like being linked to from HN. Open the link in a new tab.
I hit the shift key
The parliamentarian is someone who is thoroughly familiar with all of the Senate's rules. They ensure that bills that are passed comply with the rules that the Senate operates under.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_...
As a side-comment, don't limit yourself to recently released programming books! I used to do that when reading about web stuff, since most older texts were outdated. But there's many topics for which older books are far better sources of information! The 80s and 90s had tons of improvements and innovations which are still highly relevant. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that something is better just because it's new.

As for 2017 CS books, I'd second Designing Data‑Intensive Applications.

If we count updates, the latest revision of The Swift Programming Language is solid. My forays into Swift have been enjoyable.

This last one is kinda cheating since it's continuously updated, but I'd highly suggest browsing through the HTML Living Standard [0] and reading any parts that grab your attention.

EDIT: Looking through whatwg's news, I found out there's a developer edition [1] of the spec which strips the stuff that's only relevant to browser developers.

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/
In some countries, Bitcoin has been outlawed. Owning stuff the government doesn't like is certainly a risk.

They also endured 90% drops in value from early peaks to troughs. Bitcoin could have gone to zero at any point if the system had failed. (It still could)

Some invested time learning about new technology that could've gone nowhere.
How are you able to definitively say that's more of a waste than to gather cotton and linen and then print money?
"Sorry she feels that way." What way? That we don't need your pity or sympathy, just a ramp? That's the only point she makes. I really don't understand your comment; it seems like you commented without reading the article.
There is almost definitely rampant sockpuppetry in the bitcoin community.

One question I’ve been interested in: is there a way to trick algo traders into buying an altcoin? Perhaps by spamming twitter and Reddit with positive sentiment text about that altcoin?
They not "long-only" futures. One particular broker has decided they're going to let their customers have long positions in the future rather than short, that's all.
Thank you for this comment.

I joined a non-tech company as their first data scientist, and am now tasked with building up the data science efforts of the company. Your comment is really ringing true, though I've found the company here to be generally great to work with in terms of their flexibility. Funny enough, it took me months of working with the IT department to get a VM with 8-cores and 64 GB of RAM, or the ability to spin up AWS instances (none of the analysts at the company had ever asked for that). I'm happy with it though, it's a fascinating challenge and I'll admit at times I feel a bit in over my head.

In my experience, many companies are wanting to hire a lot more data scientists (and paying them six-figure salaries to boot), when what they really are looking for are what has traditionally been called a "data analyst" position. I.E., the entire sum of the job is Excel reporting and basic statistics, but instead wrapped in some "Machine Learning" marketing language.

As opposed to more long-term focus on what business problems can be solved by carefully cleaning data, building models, testing predictive power, and then deploying these models into production. Which obviously takes a lot more time, a lot more effort focusing on a single problem, and doesn't have nearly as many immediate deliverables that higher-ups can open their Outlook inbox and see. Naturally they then wonder why they are paying such a premium for someone who doesn't bring as many deliverables to the table as their 60-70k analysts. And then the data scientist wonders why he's spending most of his time sending Excel attachments. Definitely more of a problem in non-tech companies.
Dude people still use fortran and cobol. This should not surprise anyone.
I'm also an engineer who has had to interview. My question to you is: how do you filter through 100 people each with 6 pages resumes? I'd rather have 1 page, 2 max, because I have to filter through a bunch of people in a short amount of time.

I did the math once and for the initial filter which was the resume scan, I and another person gave about 1 1/2 minutes per applicant and it still took an hour! I doubt in the future I'll get any more time so please make it scannable in ~1 1/2 minutes.
I lived in a town full of millionaires, and while I've met plenty who are just as or even more decent than the average person, there's also the ones who would spend 20€ on a piece of cake, but then not tip the waitress. Yet others seem to think that because they're so rich (and in their mind, that makes them important) they shouldn't have to pay for anything, even a penny is a penny to much for them, and the richer they are, the more time they spend whining about expenses. For some people, money is an end in itself, and that's because they have no personality worth writing home about and nothing else to fill their lives with. Nietzsche was exactly right when he said for some utterly impotent people money is the crowbar of power. But ironically, the more power they have, they weaker they become.

As I said initially, I don't mean "all rich people", not by a long shot -- but anyone who is rich and still a fully fledged human being will know even more of the people I'm talking about than I do -- and there's plenty of poor people who are petty, too. Idiocy and insanity don't care much for class. But just because people do something doesn't mean there is a good reason for it, sometimes it's really just psychopathology combined with not having anyone who is strong enough and cares for them enough, and/or no accidents of life, that force them to stop going deeper into their dead end. They need help, not excuses. That is not aimed at the person in the article, just generally.
If the goal is to ensure that qualified people are hired then perhaps background checks and validating certifications would be enough without having to make a word illegal to use by the majority of the population.
The biggest difference is ex parte re-exam doesn't allow the requester to participate. It's just the patent owner and the examiners. If the patent owner makes an incorrect statement to try to keep the patent there is nothing you can do. An IPR is a full hearing on the validity. With evidence, depositions, briefing, and oral arguments.
It would just need a bit of CSS to make it look modern without making it slower.
> The slow drivers are no different than the fast drivers

Bingo. You should be pissed at people who don't drive the speed limit.
There is an article from 2007 [1], quote: "Working in the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) has been voted number six out of the ten worst jobs in science in 2007 [...]"

But I believe (I hope?) a lot has changed since then.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/205327/microsoft_st...
We didn’t hit a hard limit. Slack explicitly disabled new user signups for us because they thought we were getting too big.
Left-libertarians definitely find property law coercive.
These are synthetics. Why offer both side of the coin if you only believe in one side.

If interested in Bitcoin have Bitcoin. If interested in synthetics buy this. Counterparty risk plus plus.
> This supports the libertarian idea that we should reduce the size of government and regulation if possible, because given long enough and enough bureaucrats, fallible humans will exploit whatever mechanisms are available to them

OTOH a perfectly libertarian system is ripe for the exploitation of fallible humans. Anyway there's a case for moderation here. I don't think shrinking the government to some ineffectual, microscopic or nonexistent size will accomplish what libertarians would hope for. Likewise having an omnipresent behemoth that controls every aspect of life isn't good either.
Does it mean the vuln only affects devices running < 7.0?
What do you mean by "too academically focused" ? Developing new methods?
It'd be nice if their CUDA libraries worked with the open source "nouveau" library. All the driver does is init the card and do some resource management; all the secret sauce is in the CUDA libraries.
The businesses usually think they have a lot of data because they look it in terms of number of years of data but in practice their datasets are only a couple hundred megabyte large. Yet they setup Spark, Hadoop, and all of that stuff to "extract insights" from it. Usually all they need is someone who knows python to write a script to parse their data and put it in Postgres
Are there any numbers about what's spent outside of facebook/twitter? Or at least any investigations going on?

Most of the crappy ads I see come from other ad networks (outbrain, taboola, etc).
> Going faster does not improve the speed of traffic.

The parent never said that.

When you merge on onto the freeway to need to merge at the fucking speed of traffic.

I've been in so many cases stuck behind a clueless oregon driver merging onto I-5(70mph) at 35-40mph while there's a fucking semi bearing down on us 1/4-1/8th of a mile away.

It's goddamn dangerous and putting people in situations where someone is going to get killed.
Till the device is lost or in the case for me breaks.

Back in the day they would as for the 6th word on page 34. So people copied manuals.
I may be wrong, but Slack might be hijacking the window order, there's def some monkey business going on there.
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Your comment would be more useful if you attempted to address my misunderstandings, as you perceive them.
... which guarantee would then be hedged by the bank with a CDS.
They do, with the caveat that they are not legally required to do so and there are documented cases of them declining to do so for large orders.
Would you rather spend an extra minute or two on the resume scan or an extra half an hour in the interview only to find that a month after you hired them, they're incapable of doing the job?

Careful where you think you're wasting time and effort.
Including FFS Estate Agents (Relators)
Wes noted himself that pandas.read_csv() with its 50 or so parameters probably accounts for a substantial part of its popularity :)
Dollars to donuts, this stuff always seems to be in that enterprise buzzword laden minefield of trendy make-work. There seems to be a tremendous amount of money and energy behind it for some reason, though.

I've seen some customers of ours being quoted six and seven figure prices by their internal data science teams to essentially slurp and transform a handful of SQL tables. It's the kind of thing that shouldn't cost six or seven hours to write the code for.
A major point that's underappreciated in academia is quality of execution. The more complicated a model is, the less well you can execute it.

Academics are rewarded for building complicated things, but it often takes graduate PhDs entering industry a long time to learn about quality of execution. I think that's the fundamental tension between business and academia.
Agreed completely. Furthermore, imo the worst are slow mergers and lane weavers. On both counts they're entering lanes of traffic at wildly different speeds, which not only creates more traffic but puts everyone at risk.

I don't mind speeding in the left lane if they're at a reasonable speed above their immediate right lane. If they're going 30 over what the one-right lane is going it's quite hazardous. Yet so many people feel justified. Selfish.
>Any chance they were saving that for the trial?

Yes.

>Strategically, isn't it better for Uber to let Waymo yap on and on about it and then crush them during the trial than to ask the patent office for a review and let Waymo drop the issue before the trial even starts?

Uber would have to inform Waymo of their invalidity theory way before trial. You can't spring new prior art right before trial.
That's "implementation-defined behaviour", a different category from UB. Both exist in the C standard.
>> In some countries, Bitcoin has been outlawed.

Very few. In more/most it's just taxable.

>> They also endured 90% drops in value from early peaks to troughs. Bitcoin could have gone to zero at any point if the system had failed. (It still could)

OK, sure, but again not a massive risk if your initial stake was tiny.

And it was a stake rather than an investment - it's not really an investment as you're not investing in a productive endeavour. More like buying and holding an asset.
People predicting bubbles are ridiculous. You're wrong every single day until you're inevitably "right" because volatile assets rebalance. Just stick to EMH and stop.
Even at the end of my 28 year career, my resume was only two pages. I continually edited it down. The older stuff, probably no longer relevant stuff, was reduced to just a few words. For anything older than 4 years, only a sentence describing the work is sufficient. If the interviewer is interested, they can ask.
The retail investor is the time to sell.

After they buy, who is there to sell to?

Pick your peak... do unload.
Are people intentionally crafting their resume in such a way that the first page(ish?) could essentially be read as a standalone thing -noting the highlights and main points. Then the remaining pages would, in a sense re-state some of what the initial page has but drill down and provide more detail. Is that a good approach to take?
it was examined by Mark Songer an ex-FBI Forensic Examiner. And now there is a second piece of evidence.

On a side note, Man, you guys will go to some great lengths in your misinformation. I can understand some critical thought, but its like talking to defense attorneys.
A nefarious but incompetent spyware campaign targeting Ethiopian dissidents