skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the suggestion. I just dug up documentation of the most recent case and left a message with a local bankruptcy attorney :)
How do you pay income tax on income not received isn't that the point of having a company to allow it to build up reserves and don't US REITS work that way. Uk REITS and IT's certainly do

The US tax system is really insane some times
I'm not a fan of any security mechanism that places a burden on the user

And as long as people have this attitude, things will never be secure. Users are already the weakest link and excusing them from having any responsibility for their own security is not helping.
The admins I've "met" (phone) are for a company that is not hiring, and are in Dallas TX. I'd love to work for them, and believe I would have no problem getting a job with them, if 1) they were hiring and 2) I was within commute distance of an office of theirs.
I'm in the same situation. I have started on a SaaS that will be profitable next year, but as it's education based, I won't be able to monitize until July. My job is ending in June... so I have to figure something out in the meantime. I'd love to start building a portfolio, but don't know where to start.
Doesn't matter if value is appreciating or depreciating

I'd say it does, but the thing is that if the value is rapidly appreciating today, it might as well be rapidly depreciating tomorrow.
Amazon Sample Boxes
Some states allow you to pay double the fine and avoid the points that way.
To be fair just paving over everything is a cheap and immediate solution. Lots of towns don't have the money for maintaining greenery.
I wonder what it looks like in terms of resource usage.

I think there's a strong case for something like this for IoT type devices. Imagine the simple case of adding a name to a contact list on a mobile device, and wanting that to get synced up with a series of other devices.
cardholders are not liable for unauthorised transactions by merchants

any merchant that commits that sort of fraud repeatedly will have their account terminated
As far as I know there is no historical precedent for cryptographically secure ledgers with distributed consensus. I'm not trying to poo-poo the article, sometimes we really do have to admit that here be dragons.
Good piece, other than the Grammarly product placement that stood out like a sore thumb
Because there is not enough of space for transactions in mined blocks, you can't fit all which means people that pay more will have higher chance to get their transaction into the block.
I have not, but thanks for the suggestion. I don't have much experience here, but I was under the impression that Active Directory was for Windows networks.

A detail I didn't include in my original post is that the primary devices used are Android tablets & phones. I don't know much about ldap in the mobile context (or in general, to be honest).
The article quoted Google's application, which only claims private registration, and then makes wrong assumption's about google's intended use of it. The article's wrong, or used internal to only mean "closed registration".
Exchanges don't ban users for exploiting arbitrage, every trade is money to the exchange and it benefits them to enable arbitrage to take place. No idea where you pulled that claim from.

It's also not impossible to trade via bitstamp and bitthumb, sure it may take an hour or so to get your btc from bitstamp to bitthumb but that's not the bottleneck. Once you sell on bitthumb for USD you need to get that USD back to bitstamp. So you have to get it from a Korean Bank to your own account and then to bitstamps European bank account. Best case scenario that route takes 5-10 working days so the BTC network taking an hour or so to confirm is the least if your problems.
The fee is chosen by the person making by the transaction.
How to Use Yubikeys for SSH, 2FA and 1Password
We only know bubbles in hindsight. No one can say for certain.
First of all, most startups (and there aren't many in central KS!) probably don't want a dedicated Linux admin. Also, the jobs I've found all would be companies with bureaucracy. :)

Edit: Does it ever do any good to show up in person and ask for an interview?
The Bullet Hole Misconception
Exactly, you use a fixed RNG seed so that the behavior is reproducible.

For complex multithreaded code, it can become difficult to achieve consistent execution, but a fixed seed is at least a good start.
Since I am investigating HA with PostgreSQL right now and have bitter experience of Pacemaker 'HA' instances that have been anything but, I am looking at Amazon Aurora and Microsoft's (in preview) Azure database for PostgreSQL offerings. I would really appreciate any insight from others who are already using them (we intend to do some PoC work shortly).

Our dev team also came up with some pertinent questions, which we have put to both companies, but if anyone else can comment from experience that would be fantastic:

* Is the product a fork of PostgreSQL or a wrapper round the current version?

* Will the DB engine keep in lock-step with new PostgreSQL releases or might they diverge?

* If the DB engine keeps in lock-step, what’s the period between a new version of PostgreSQL being released before its incorporated in the live product?

* When new versions of Amazon Aurora/Azure DB for PostgreSQL are released will our live instance get automatically updated or will we be able to choose a version?
Amazon has quietly entered the sample box business.

In itself, not that interesting, but when you consider that many major subscription box models are built on getting samples to consumers then enticing them to buy full-size versions, should companies like Birchbox be concerned?
To be fair, the political will today isn't comparable to what it was during the Apollo program.
How about 0 fees?

Try Steem (almost Steam lol), it's meant to do that https://steemit.com their site is a social network where people get pay on Steem that isn't trying to phish for your personal data.
When you have to judge papers/findings by the motives and qualifications of the authors rather than by the data, you no longer have science you have opinion.

When the theory of relativity was introduced by Einstein, it did not matter what you thought about Einstein's qualifications or motivations. Einstein himself gave several ways the theory could be tested independently.

Because of the prestige that science garnered - it gave us airplanes, radio, tv, internet, landed a person on the moon, etc, many knowledge disciplines branded themselves as "x science". Thus, has the word "science" become devalued.
While they target an older driver API, the userspace is mostly Wine's, so it is much easier for them to support recent software.

In fact, for the last 10-15 years, Wine itself to some extent is written against Windows kernel APIs such as ntdll.dll, and only the lowest levels talk to the host OS and wineserver. This means that ReactOS can keep also some of Wine's lower level DLLs, such as kernel32.dll, as long as there is something below them.
Bitcoin hits $13000
It's possible to have both randomness and reproduciblility - generate a random seed, log it, then explicitly seed the RNG. If you encounter a failure you suspect is caused by a particular random seed, temporarily hard-code that seed while you debug it.

The "that's an intermittent failure, just re-run it and it usually passes" attitude is in my experience more likely due to just plain old poorly-written tests, usually with a time.sleep() or something similar that makes them unreliable.
How does pgbouncer make this process easy? Just because there are less connections to go to the final DB? I've also got a random question you might be able to answer (having a hard time googling)... when using pgsql in streaming replication mode, are created functions replicated/updated to everything else as well?

(just learning about postgres and saw an opportunity to ask someone in the know)
Cheers!
I wish someone invented a currency that was a percentage of the stock market index. Maybe blockchain could help with this...
Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer in 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn
Well yes of course that would be useful.

But let's try again. What's the least amount of evidence that you would find dispositive?
What interesting stuff did you move onto?
Good luck transacting in gold, because it can't be done efficiently due to assaying costs. You can transact in metal bars stamped by Credit Suisse or another bank, or coins minted by some sovereign or other trusted authority, but nobody in their right mind is going to accept plain gold for any transaction. Without the imprimatur of some authority, it's simply not trustworthy.
OnStar was the single biggest reason by far that my most recent car purchase was a Honda instead of a GM product. Now GM is adding spam to the mix? They seem hell-bent on pushing me away from their products.
Which is why you get the Lega Nord in Italy and the Catalan nationalists who object to subsidising the poorer southern parts of there counties.
Shares of dental suppliers drop on potential new threat from Amazon
My bank charges nothing for instant transfers of up to £10,000.

That's both cheaper than and faster than bitcoin.

(And this isn't a cost hidden in a perk of a monthly fee, there's no monthly account fee either.)

I'm pretty sure if Satoshi re-appeared "he" would be lamenting those artificially keeping the blocksize small. The 2MB limit was put in as a temporary solution to a problem of too many worthless transactions. Bitcoin has the opposite problem now.
Store at least the value you put in. Falling in value would be bad. But rising in value is a bonus.
In a word: internships. Large corporations and government agencies (at least in the U.S.) do much of their hiring from intern (or co-op) programs. You might want to reach out to your graduates to find out where they work and what they do (alumni offices are pretty good at tracking them down).
FYI you no longer have to bid for AWS spot.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-streamlin...
Some exchanges offer fee-less withdrawals (like Bitstamp), which makes arbitrage more profitable. I'm pretty sure they'd ban you ASAP if you're withdrawing like crazy (they are paying your fees in BTC).

As for transfer times for BTC not being a problem, 1 hour is a gamble in cryptocurrency world.
Subsidising farmers is double edge sword, it do inflate the prices of everything you are supposed to buy with that money, be it tractors, land, fertilisers and such. Dealers know how much you are going to get from government and they want some of it.
Lightning Protocol 1.0: Compatibility Achieved
You quote yourself "reflects radio signals". If you look at the paper, they are reading signal strengths with which they receive the packets the first station sends and are using the change between different packets to read the data. From the paper:

> At a high level, a Wi-Fi transmitter sends a sequence of Wi-Fi packets and the Wi-Fi receiver uses the changes to the amplitude of the Wi-Fi packets, caused due to the backscatter operation, to extract the backscatter information

> So we decode the backscatter information from the
amplitude variations in the received Wi-Fi signal across packets.

Your other links again are about totally different projects, doing different things (they involve chips for instance, not just 3D printed components. "Of course" chips can actually send/manipulate data at the speed necessary to generate packets, nobody is arguing against that)
Thankfully we have nice companies like equifax which help secure our details /s.
ADHD Management – any tips?
I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD, and am wondering if HN has any management tips. I am wondering if I should start medication, if there are alternative therapies, tips and tricks, etc.

Although I've done my own research, the wisdom of the HN crowd has always been very valuable and enlightening.
It's written in erlang so should be better ram usage than a Java database.
Just use lacolhost.com:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749515
Bitcoin Payments Platform BitPay Raising $30M Series B
>Dig up all the paved streets and replace with soil, with train tracks on top. Adapt vehicle wheels to train wheels and provide platforms on train wheels for the ones you don't adapt. Provide overhead lines to power vehicles adapted to use them.

Seriously?

Steel wheels on steel tracks are way more efficient than rubber on asphalt. There are many reasons this hasn't been done already.
In my personal experience, as someone who has been taking credit card payments on the web for over 20 years, no. Charges to expired cards are not accepted.
The 80s Software Program That Made Email Famous
It is interesting that we live in a world where everything is recorded, companies and even mobile applications collect everything they can, NSA listens to every international call, but when it comes to catching real criminals, this system just doesn't work.
Singapore Airlines changed U.S. route because of North Korean missiles
Stores of value are normally viewed from a long term perspective. For most investors these are viewed as a hedge, even if the underlying store can be used for other purposes (think industrial and ornamental uses for silver, or the enjoyment of a renowned art piece), and so the short term fluctuation is not really an issue.

That said, if the trend of wild volatility were to continue into the long term it would indeed prove to be a poor store of value, but market speculation would indicate as such long before we were to get there (assuming we pick now as the period delta starting point for a "long term").
I think there are probably several times that could be said to be "the time robocalls were shut down".

Currently, I'm living in one of the times they are not shut down. Apparently student loan refinancing is quite lucrative now. I neither know much about it nor (personally) care, since mine have been paid off for a while, but apparently every state in the union has someone who is desperate to let me know about their services. In the last couple of weeks they've started leaving voice mails instead of just ignoring them when I hang up.

(I'd be slightly less frustrated at the amount of advertising targeting and surveillance done if "the system" (scare quoted because I know it's not really one thing) would figure out that, say, I don't need to hear about student loan refinancing.)
To start - help to get rid of the sentiment that programming is beneath them.

A lot of math undergrads won't take CS classes, won't learn to program, bc they think it is somehow inferior.

source: BS/MS in applied math and didnt learn to program until grad school. I know many other math undergrads that had similar views. I now work in c++ all day - writing algorithms for catheter navigation and geometric mapping of the heart (and previously image processing for factory automation, machine learning/data science for predictive maintenance via aircraft sensor data).

It's a real problem. You don't even need a full CS minor to be useful in industry. An intro programming class, data structures, 1 or 2 algorithms classes. An OS class if you want to be more thorough. In some students it's an attitude problem, in others it's just unfortunate lack of awareness.
Where is the C5 in here, it's cheaper and faster than the C4 instance.
Great links, thanks.

Markup ate your Wren source link [1].

[1]: https://github.com/munificent/wren
> the curve is not always smooth

THIS

If the tax code was easily understood, these steep/jagged areas of the tax curve wouldn't exist. Even my accountant seems to struggle with the amount of variables when I ask similar questions.
Having used bitcoins as money, I really want the confirmation times and transaction fees to go back to what they were a year or two ago. I keep hearing that this mythical lightning will fix things, and I sure hope it does.

I want internet money. I want to be able to send money to anyone, anywhere in the world, at the drop of a hat, as easy as email. I don't care about speculation or getting rich or avoiding taxes or sticking it to the man or anything like that. I just want to have a convenient way to get tipped on IRC by anyone at any time and to be able to repay in kind, to anyone at any time.
That's more or less what ETFs do.
It’s possible that merchants could charge you whatever they like for however much they want. But it’s unlikely. And if they did, you would get all your money back and the merchant would pay a fine.

The privacy info is valid, but BTC isn’t private either and people are connecting identities to purchases all the time. Not to mention 99% of the time I must give my info to the merchant so they can mail me whatever I purchased.
If you treat it like gold(store of value) then having a service that makes it liquid is just a bonus. Is like expecting to be able to purchase something using stock.
It's more often the other way round; ReactOS uses Wine DLLs (in fact many Wine DLLs can be even used on Windows).

However, the reverse engineering work of ReactOS developers has indeed benefited Wine too.
They should also play ads on the dash screen. I have already encountered it in Delta airlines, in the screen in the back of the seat in front.
Thinking back to the Gore-Bush election and issues of ambiguous paper ballots during the very tight recount. Everyone remember hanging chads? Or double voted ballots? There's an argument to be had that digital systems are more robust and will enforce the proper rules in a non-ambiguous manner.

That's not to dismiss the claims of cost (projected to be cheaper than armies of manual counters) and speed (instant results on election night!) that also likely spurred this decision. In hindsight though we are learning of the other issues we have created while trying to solve the originals.
What's the point of following a dead composer? As if they were going to compose new work...
This direct link works for me -- https://rare-technologies.com/machine-learning-hardware-benc...
I posted this as an Ask HN, but this might be interesting here.

It's sort of off-topic, but in this case there's not much to say about Steam dropping Bitcoin anyway. Maybe it'll hover near the bottom:

What should we do about the destabilizing potential of Bitcoin?

There are two facts about Bitcoin worth worrying about:

1. There is no upper bound on the price

2. Everyone who thought the price won't continue to exponentially increase was wrong

Greed is a powerful motivator.

It's easy to smile at this[1] but it will only take a couple more 10x increases before people stop laughing.

What happens when governments start putting money into Bitcoin because they don't want their economy to be left out? It'll only make the price go up even further.

It might be a good idea to take a step back for a moment and stop thinking "Can I get rich?" and start thinking "Before this reaches a point where we should worry, what should we do?"

I'm aware that this has roughly a 0.1% chance of happening. But if you'll suspend your disbelief for a few minutes and accept "What if it might be true?" then you'll find it's an interesting question worth thinking about.

It's starting to feel like no one really has a plan for this contingency. It will be a relief if the price crashes back to $1k, but Bitcoin defies belief. How many of you have parents that are seriously talking about getting in? Everyone wants to become rich. And if that infectious mindset spreads to the whole population, we might get an uncontrolled upward spiral.

Is there a way to prevent that?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lfobc/i_am_a_time...
It _is_ taught to 16 year olds in Australia, if they elect to take math C (math a/B is compulsory where math A is remedial). Everyone hated it and wondered what the point was (including me - it was only when I did a course on abstract algebra in university and learned about quotient groups that I was converted)

Also covered in math C is the computational parts of linear algebra (e.g. Gaussian elimination, Cramer's rule).
Of the big tech companies (GOOG, FB, MSFT, APPL) I really respect Apple for the things they do to protect privacy. From standing their ground against three letter agencies to ensuring user privacy even while collecting information. Albeit they don't earn the major portion of their revenue from ads unlike GOOG and FB its still commendable.
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Actually both Hillary and Obama are one nation Tories ie centre right only Bernie might be considered left wing but would be considered a Blarite by hard line leftists.
Luxury Brands Win a Crucial Victory in Battle Against Amazon Distribution
>cardholders are not liable for unauthorised transactions by merchants

Assuming they are really fraud and aren't just a "free trial" expiring, aren't a contractually-agreed upon price increase hidden in fine print, or that the cardholder saw the fraud and reported it within 60 days.

Not to mention now the cardholder is now unable to use the card if fraud is found, and needs to wait for a new one to be sent via mail. It would suck if the credit card thought getting gas out of state was fraud, and they canceled your credit card on the first day of a week long trip (happened to me, I had to borrow thousands from a friend for the length of the trip...).
i got hit with fraudulent charges from abcmouse.com . i had never even heard of them before .
These are effectively i3/i5s there is no Kaby Lak SP/X (well there is technicall X but these are 2-4 core CPUs which isn’t a traditional
X class) and it’s not coming the 2018 refresh is Cascade Lake which is annoying since you’ll have Coffe, Canon and Cascade Lake all the the same time so I’m guessing it will be CFL, CNL and CSL not confusing at all.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/cascad...
I love it! Such an awesome site. I like to listen to Classical playlists curated on Spotify because I don't want to go out and look for specific composers, etc. It would be cool to have something like that, where there's a main-stream/playlist that I can play whenever I log in without having to search for composer name, etc. Also, definitely integrate Spotify and SoundCloud if you can!
Even with the GPL, as long the software is only run in house, you don't have to contribute back.
Simplicity and Michelson
Not in my country, there are rivers every 50 kilometres and canals between those.
Fuck optimization. I want vote tallying to be slow, labour-intensive, and repeatable by independent parties with no special knowledge or equipment. Making the system more efficient opens attack vectors. We know how to count and paper ballots have been around so long that the attack vectors are known and can be planned around.
Good advice, though it's pretty light on concrete actions, details, or examples.
Backscatter is the same technology in both projects. Yes, scientifically they are new packets.

See https://youtu.be/4tmatoD0I1o?t=3m48s

They could do it with a radio signal of a clean sine wave and through the 3D object they could convert the sine wave into wifi. Just like they could take a bluetooth wave and make a wifi signal. The big advantage to this is they can just take a Wifi and use it to do the same thing. No need for new hardware.
Bitcoin transaction are never "returned" - they are simply either confirmed or not yet confirmed.
Or a second transaction layer, like a bank or VISA?

At which point, why not use those same layers over USD instead of over bitcoin?
Weel, you know, we all want to change the world
IBM's new, open source typeface: Plex
I read that as well, and I'm pretty sure that's still the case in the US as well. You never pay "debts" unless you're sure it's legitimate. NEVER.

And I say that as a person who has actually done some of the same things as the man in the article. Not to the lengths he has...but, yeah, I've spooked quite a few debt collectors. It's one of the few times in life you can unleash against all the wrongdoing in the world and aggressively berate/hound/harrass some scumbag who completely deserves it, and has no idea when they've crossed the wrong person.