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I think the former method of creating currency is fairer and more transparent.
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Most engineers I know welcome dissenting opinions - especially those based on facts. If I wrote the code that issued tickets, and someone pointed out a math problem, I would thank that person and get it fixed.

This has NOTHING to do with engineering credibility, calls to authority, or anything else. It's entirely to do with revenues being impacted and potentially having to pay out past revenues if it gets enough public attention. This is about politicians trying to find a way to silence someone.
Yes Goldman would be a clearing broker; by selling I meant more like offering these futures to their clients as a product, so selling was more in the retail meaning of selling a product/service than the financial one.
I bought that about two weeks ago. It really is a good read. I wasn't around for the game itself, so it's nice that the book introduces the target hardware.
I disagree. The text was trying to get students to think rationally, be open to contrary ideas, and to use logic and argument to examine and discuss ideas.

I don't want to say that this is only a millennial issue, as I've seen sloppy thinking in people from multiple generations, but what he's addressing are very much tactics millennials are in the habit of using to shut down a discussion (using isms to bypass clearly expressing or thinking of an issue, using feelings to avoid being proven wrong, a lack of belief in absolute truths, etc).

Clear critical thinking is important, and requires skills that don't always just show up by default, and this is just done of the current cultural issues that get in the way of that.

Edit: having read your response to the other comment, I think the whole diversity and equality thing is coming from a millennial belief in ideals that must be shown and proven to be ultimates.

Virtue is one, and every generation seems to value a different subset of virtues. Like the Romans valued honor, courage and strength, only valuing those still lead to a lot of things that go against other virtues.

I agree the argument made in the article isn't the best one, but I believe it was aimed at the students who have never even questioned those terms, and they definitely exist.
I’ve heard great things about Gravit Designer (https://www.designer.io). It apparently is close to achieving feature parity with sketch. I don’t think Gravit supports plugins.

Alternatively, you could use InVision Studio (not released yet) or even Figma, but those are web-based, so maybe not such a great idea.
A few reasons (imho):

* No one has really tried.

* Google will remove malicious apps from devices via Play Store if they spread too wide.

* A phone botnet would be pretty lame for ddos, which is what botnets seem to be all about these days. Their connections are unreliable, and utilizing the botnet for more than a few hours would kill it's batteries.

Phone exploits seem to be more about harvesting personal data[1], ransomware[2], and/or adware[3].

1. http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-bank-data-stealing-android...

2. http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-nasty-new-android-ransomwa...

3. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31129797
That's why the opening of BTC futures is so interesting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/inside-bi...
Seems plausible. I have replied to the tweet and asked him, see https://twitter.com/TonnyGaric/status/939152498249666562
pump and dump without all the regulators coming after you post dump
Doesn't the Law of Large Numbers imply that equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are one and the same thing?

Or to put it another way, how do you measure "equality of opportunity" if not by "equality of outcome"? If your theory of "equality of opportunity" differs from the measured "equality of outcome", doesn't that automatically mean you've omitted some characteristic of the real world from your theory?
A similar thing happens to me sometimes with 1Password on the web. I'll click the extension's icon and type in my password and realize I'm typing it into a text box on the webpage. I've tried to reproduce it and I can't, so I have no idea what the issue is. It freaks me out though.
Google pauses accessibility app ban
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I believe the "official" start of the discussion was on the Go blog [1].

[1]: https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2
If you can convince 1000 people to invest $100M each with just $30M in advertising, you're some kind of marketing Einstein of our generation.
Was a few years ago, I'd have to google it myself.

google: US australia tax treaty; search: "royalty" within it (has a particular meaning in the act). The term "component" is not actually used, IIRC. When the IRS audited a US firm I know, they had to sort it out with their non-US component suppliers.

I'm not at all sure, but maybe "w8-ben" is the relevant form (though it serves several purposes). Whatever the form is, I noted that Atlassian had a pdf of it on their site, and avoided all the complexity because their products were used directly by users (i.e. aren't components).

HTH!
And this still will if they resist cherry picking their evidence.
Isn't there some fact about how COBOL (which I'm reasonably sure doesn't have generics) still handles more transactions and/or more $$ per year than anything else?
And their iOS bug bounty program is invitation-only.
For a cup of coffee you probably don't need to wait a full day to be certain the transaction has gone through. Blocks are mined on average every 10 minutes and pending transactions are broadcast immediately and (assuming a large enough fee is paid) will be included in the next block. For a $3 purchase, you probably don't even need to wait for it to be included in the blockchain (although to protect against double spend you do).

But the poker guy is right, bitcoin is not really appropriate for replacing credit cards for small purchases at the minute for several reasons:

1) You must wait between 1-20 minutes to get your transaction included in the next block.

2) You must pay a fee that could be 100% of the total transaction or more (for small purchases).

3) You must pay capital gains tax on your purchase (possibly at the short term capital gains rate even), which complicates your tax reporting.

Issue 1 and 2 may be solved with technological solutions soon, if the lighting network (distributed settlement layer on top of bitcoin) is successful.
Isn't the whole point of paying $5000/month to live in SF the access to cultural benefits? If you want a strict monastic environment for your company, rural Idaho would probably get the job done at 1/10 the price.

I'm reminded of a story a couple years ago when all incoming Duke freshman had to read Alison Bechdel's Fun House, a graphic novel with slightly gay themes. Yes, a few were offended by this, and one person made the news for publicly refusing to read it. But I don't think it ended up as a PR loss for Duke. They said if you are coming into an elite liberal arts college, these are the type of things that are consumed and debated.

Everything makes someone uncomfortable, mine's Karaoke - if they have a machine there people will be like, "stillsut come up and sing Tom Petty with me". But we need to be firm about our desires and not let the heckler's veto erode the culture.
Express trains. Certain lines skip many intervening stops to decrease travel time between major hubs.
QT = QuickTime :P
According to the Entrust revocation list for the Entrust L1M CA http://www.entrust.net/customer/crl_form.cfm

Certificate issued by L1M with serial number 1BDA21F20CD791160000000054CDC61A has been revoked.

Revocation Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 5:00:17 AM +00:00

Revocation Reason: Superseded
also known as the bitcoin pump-and-pump
Why pay for the marketing when every major news outlet in the country will continually cover the story as the price continues to rise wildly and as major financial institutions get invested?

I run multiple browser plugins to block ads on my browser, but has anyone actually seen Facebook, et al ads for cryptocurrency?
> Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this.

but Hillary lost.

Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that came from accounts associated with Russia.

Clinton and Trump combined spent $81 million on Facebook. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/
Did you read the legend? It literally explains that exact case.
One big difference between government snooping in china and Facebook and google having tons of potentially compromising data is that in the US and EU and other countries, you have some level of protection from harmful misuse of that data in the form of regulations, lawsuits, and public goodwill. Not saying that either of those are perfect but they are real protections.

Regulations are slow and won't necessarily protect the first people who are harmed (see subprime crisis) but they can make it much harder to do similar things in the future

Lawsuits don't always work and are heavily weighted against consumers but do provide some protection

Public goodwill is huge. If lots of people got really hurt from a Facebook or google data compromise, id bet people stop using them. Seems crazy now but there are alternatives and Facebook is not essential. All these companies (and many other non tech ones, like banks for example) are strongly incentivized to not harm the public in a large way because the execs would lose their jobs and careers

These protections are FAR from perfect and shouldn't prevent you from losing sleep, but imagine living in a country where the government is incentivized to not protect its citizens through regulation or enforce standard legal protections

More chilling is the potential social acceptance of such snooping in the name of social harmony, trust in government etc. if people no longer believe such censorship or oppression is bad, you have a real problem

Edit: The NSA is an analogous threat in the US, but to my knowledge that info isn't used to secure the reputations and positions of government leaders. Also there is a huge public backlash against them, not sure if the same exists in china
I use KDE Neon, it has the latest Ubuntu LTS as base but with latest KDE. See http://neon.kde.org/
Even if you create a popular/useful coin based on a *cratic system (e.g. iron workers get X number of coins) and try to evenly distribute the coins, they will cluster over time to people to game the system. Perhaps some game detection could penalize those folks and rebalance the distribution.
This might actually be a bigger deal than people realize. This sets a precedence of being able to submit engineering publications and work without being licensed. Sure you can't still perform commercial or public engineering works unless licensed but you can speak publicly on technical matters.
1. Most of the market at that point is filled with 'get-rich-quick' people.
2. It's not regulated and can be gamed like above.
(I understand that not being regulated is also it's biggest selling point)

It's probably like a great social network totally filled with 'tag-your-friend' posts.
Can you expand on this? I've looked into several data science positions in Japan and they pay on-par with the U.S. From what I've experienced as a person who spent decades there, the key is to not work for a Japanese company...
I know this is off topic, but I noticed the typography too and was just seeing if I could tell what it was before looking. But oddly enough, I can't seem to find out what typeface is used using the developer tools for the life of me. Does anyone know how that could be hidden from the styles pane?
I have way more graphics/cuda driver issues on Windows... I'm not seeing a performance delta that extreme either. If you are comparing AAA games, the driver does complete code rewrites on anything important, that's an apples/oranges comparison.
Ask HN: How can anyone afford $42K/year for health insurance?
I'm a software developer in my early thirties. I do a lot of free lance and my employee doesn't provide health insurance. For good coverage post-Obamacare, I'm looking at $42K per year.

https://i.imgur.com/d8IezmJ.png

How does anyone afford health insurance?
In Firefox 57, shockwave allows disabling autoplay, but H264's plugin only gives you Always or Never; Ask is there but greyed out.

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> most native Oregonians would be fine constantly because they drive insanely slow

And this is why they do not want you to drive slow. The difference of speed between cars is what causes accidents. This is why speed limits are raised based on 90th percentile speeds. And this is why everyone in California drives 80 in 65, and CHP are apparently OK with that.
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Futures trading allows better price discovery, and generally improves the market for the underlying by contributing liquidity, especially from speculators.

(This is true for most commodities, but I think it could potentially be false for BTC depending on the way hedging transactions are logged and computed.)
> Swing Copters

This appears to just be Flappy Bird rotated 90deg [1]. Pretty funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuoCeze0B3c
Eh, Apple has been talking up post-PC since the launch of the first iPhone.
> If you think people in Africa aren't getting paid enough, why are you not selling your PC / smartphone to help them out?

Because that would not solve the problem, and it's quite naive to think it would. This gets into lots of debates in ethics that are far from solved.

I do however donate regularly to groups that do economic development in African communities across the world though (more than the cost of a new iPhone annually), so no, I am not a hypocrite (fully at least).

In fact, if you want a great non-profit idea, make a company that translates bitcoin profits into economic development in those communities. My donations have recently been coming from said profits.

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Regardless of whether I am a hypocrite or not, it does not change the facts of the world and bitcoin. Just because my actions do not match perfectly does not mean they shouldn't. That's not a valid argument against my ideas, just against me personally.

> you're still typing into this tech forum

I didn't know using technology is immoral now if others are suffering injustices. Not to mention that there's plenty of utilitarian arguments about cascading effects of convincing others.
For all of the publicity about vulnerabilities, I don't remember any that are really that useful for compromising large numbers of devices. Many, including this one, require something like installing a random app from the web, which most users likely have disabled. Some require being physically close to the device. Some, like Stagefright, are easily blocked at the carrier level.

I can't remember any that were like some of the Windows vulnerabilities of the bad old days, of fully owning the device just from it being on the network. The OS is a lot more locked down too, no install of non-store apps by default, and heavy restrictions on app permissions.

Probably also helps that since they're phones, anything doing the usual botnet activities would result in rapid battery death and the user getting their phone fixed or replaced.
This sounds like a fairly obvious scenario that the lawyers who define the CDS would’ve considered. Is that true?
This is cool it runs very well on my phone.
Could you start a company whose bylaws stipulate that a certain percentage of the profits has to go to charity, with no ability to ever change that rule?

If so, you could set up two companies. One is the charity, the other is the for-profit. The for-profit has to give much of their profits away, but they're still allowed to be as capitalistic as they want to be, and the charity doesn't need to own them.

On the other hand, I don't know if such an arrangement could ever be legally binding.
I run multiple browser plugins to block ads on my browser, but has anyone actually seen Facebook, et al ads for cryptocurrency?

Twitter is full of ads for ICOs at the moment (probably only if you are in the subset of users who are targeted).
Somewhat on topic I'd like to ask what a good device is to read these books on?
I'd like to grab a couple books to read over the holidays.

For example someone else mentioned this book.
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python

It's available as two options...

combo $49.99: pBook + eBook + liveBook

eBook $39.99: pdf + ePub + kindle + liveBook

Personally, I prefer paperback books, but I'm willing to try out something digital.
Do any digital options allow me to take notes?
I currently own a Lenovo X1 Yoga which folds completely into tablet mode and has a very nice stylus.
Does any Windows software allow me to read one of those digital formats and take notes?

Thanks,
~Eric
The capital letters all look bold. The font is extremely ugly.
It sounds like this is the misconception that makes people respond the way they do. If you haven't tried this yet, maybe you'll find that your life improves if you take a moment to describe to your friends what quadriplegic really means. I personally have always assumed it meant "completely paralyzed and helpless."

You could even jumpstart it by saying he's "partially quadriplegic," which of course isn't technically correct but would give uninformed people like myself a better picture of your true situation, and an opening to ask what you mean by that.
Indeed, thanks.

Here is the relevant part from it:

> Go 2 must also bring along all the existing Go 1 source code. We must not split the Go ecosystem. Mixed programs, in which packages written in Go 2 import packages written in Go 1 and vice versa, must work effortlessly during a transition period of multiple years. We'll have to figure out exactly how to do that; automated tooling like go fix will certainly play a part.
You're right of course, but still there is a point: For 1 'intellectually' interesting data science job created there's probably 10 that have more to do with data massaging and all the relatively boring logistical stuff that come with data science.

Doesn't invalidate your point, but the majority of jobs under the very broad 'data science' label just aren't super interesting after all. Guess you just have to be careful to examine exactly what a specific 'data science' position entails.
I don't understand the idea that a whale could move the market and make money off it.

To move the market, you need to spend money.

The only way it works is if you create some kind of momentum and the market continues to go up. But rational markets will sell into the artificial momentum and the price will be be close to where you started. The net result is that you lost money.

I believe there is momentum in markets (they are definitely NOT perfectly rational). But is there enough momentum to really make money with this scheme? I highly doubt it.

Also consider that a group of whales would have to work together to do this. Do you really trust your whale friend to buy at the same time you do? What if he front-runs you and you end up buy the bitcoin he just bought last week for 10% lower?

I don't buy the theory that there are a group of "whales" sitting around planning how to manipulate markets together.
Chronicler of Islamic State 'killing machine' goes public
I'm, buy NVIDIA, they are the best? You can run cuda on them and not anything else?

Don't buy NVIDIA if you don't care about performance of OpenGL/etc.
You can look and see exactly how much the price of BTC would move on an exchange by looking at its order book. GDAX's charts[1] makes it easy to see this infact. You can just mouse over the order book and see how many $ it would take to move the price to a certain level.

[1] https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD
Webflow is the only solution to come to mind right now. They have the power of PS with and high quality HTML export. I’ve heard it’s pretty good.

(I’m not affiliated with them)
I thought the same! I was like: Cool I will them send some satoshi, but then... :(
it was initial screenings, she was a data scientist (but really a statistician). I passed the first two screenings (code interview, database / sql interview). every question was about statistics, and probability.

This position was in NYC.
Sweden used to have a very high trust rating until very recently, too.

If you watch some old movies, you can see very lax airport security.

How times change. How did we end up trust each other so little ? What happened ? Is it really inevitable ?

I don't think all change is progress. For example, some ancient Greek cities like Athens were more progressive on gay rights and sexuality.
This is the only worthwhile comment IMO. This is where discussion that isn't a joke would begin.

We can't even hold people who start wars of aggression accountable, we'd rather destroy food to keep prices up than feed the world, but brain/machine interfaces? That's all for helping people. Yeah, right. People who believe that have lost the plot on such a fundamental level that you don't even have to criticize them for them to be offended; you just have to not fall for it to have their insecurity come gushing.
I can't agree with this more. It really holds us back (since the beginning). From school boards, local government, and even HOAs. Humans are so prideful, they rather find ways to defend their wrong decision than fix the underlying issue.
But now they could also own put options.
Well the assumption here is that general public or the dumb money can actually create a rally which increases in multiple of 1000s.

This is possible and does happen in penny stocks where stocks go from couple of cents to couple of dollars or maybe in 100s. But, in 1k or even 10ks? I seriously doubt it.....Unless there is a story behind the volume and there is some serious round trip trading going on:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/round-triptrades.asp
It shocks me that we literally have a license to speak about some matters in some states, and some people are OK with that.
The rendered typeface is Stem Text. If you click on an element with the typeface and go to the computed tab that will show you what font-family style is applied.
Ask HN: Relocating across the country and the stress is killing me
I recently accepted a job at a large tech company out west. I live on the East Coast and have done so my whole life. Lately the prospect of taking all of my stuff and moving across the country has begun to seem, well, terrifying to me.

The company I'll be working for is taking care of / paying for the relocation, so no concerns there. I'm mostly just stressed out about the whole process, the idea of uprooting my life, and all the thrash that is involved. My girlfriend and dog also cannot join me out west right away, she will need to wait until the spring to come out so that adds another layer of complications.

- HNers who have relocated across the country for a job - how did it turn out? How did you handle it?

- Do you have any tips for planning/making the process easier for someone doing it for the first time? Is there anything you would have done differently?

- If you had a SO at the time you had to relocate, how did they handle it? How did you make it work?
If it looks stupid, but works, it ain't stupid ? Hmmm.
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If you subscribe to the Bitcoin in-universe dogma that views committing fraud and extortion as something that central banks and governments do, not what free market actors entering into voluntary contractual agreements with one another (which are regulated by math and logic spelled out in open source code) do, then maintaining good opsec is not just good business but a moral imperative.
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5% is an extremely small percentage. Foundations are not supposed to operate perpetually. That's the difference between them and charities.