skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My view is that if the individual mandate is eliminated then other insurers will come into the market

That's absolutely incorrect. The individual mandate requires people purchase health insurance or face a penalty. This will do absolutely nothing to introduce additional insurers. The only thing it will achieve is increased premiums.

> The thing I've always hated about Obamacare was how healthy self employed folks are subsiding the unhealthy people

That's the core principle of insurance, taxes, and functional governments. Everyone contributes to the same pool even if they don't directly benefit from nor utilize every aspect.
I can't... agree with you more. Just lost one recently. There was no need to go "microservice" but we did (I have nothing against that structure). Argued against it, got shot down and they went around and are implementing it now. Happened so many times and it's.. dead tiring.
Experimenting with the low-end shows a $0.99 floor on their fee.
Their customer service was great in the early days, but has most definitely gotten worse since its gotten so popular. I think they simply can't find enough people.
The question is whether the overall gains outnumber the local losses.
As far as I can tell, the Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig (which has jurisdiction over the headquarters in Wolfsburg) opened investigations at the beginning of the year against a few dozen executives, including then-chairman-of-the-board Winterkorn (http://www.staatsanwaltschaften.niedersachsen.de/startseite/...).

I don't know of any charges so far, which is worrying, but the StA put "the end of the year" as their target for convicting people, so they clearly expect these cases to take on the order of a year or two to carry through. http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/braunschweig_har...
> No company had made it simpler to sign up, link a bank account or debit card, and begin buying Bitcoin.

Actually, I think it is still too difficult. I mean it is not that difficult, but if you had to send every e-commerce shop a photo of your driver license just to buy something there would be a lot fewer people buying stuff online.
What? I had to pay an individual mandate penalty on my 2015 tax return...

If you're right, then the IRS owes me a refund.
The Data Files: Twitter Emoji Analysis
"If Koreans want to keep money safe, they can, for example, buy US stocks and bonds. They can buy US Treasuries."

I wouldn't consider US securities to be a safe bet, especially considering risks from US's current political uncertainty. US might even cancel their debt, so US Treasuries might even be considered riskier than bitcoin.
The headline is the tl;dr. The article also mentions that two future exchanges, Cboe and CME, are adopting some bitcoin exposure on Sunday and next week, respectively.

Presumably, public notices like this foster an environment encouraging speculative purchases, even if presented objectively. It seems similar to how people telling others to stop contributing to an email storm fail to achieve their aim.
Most major exchanges offer margin trading.
Nice article. Code is written for the maintenance programmer to understand. Simple is better.
"too big to fail" doesn't yet apply to any entity directly engaged in this space, as its entire business model. J.P. Morgan got away with a central role in the GFC because it did not suit the regulatory environment to kick one of the legs of a wobbly table.

The same does not apply to this, or any other coin- centric company. Yes, in our terms, these are huge dollar sums. But if you work in fintech, this is a small pimple on the side of trades in real goods, and existing financial instruments.

Look: the fintech people get this space, and they are not dissing the model entirely. But please, don't pretend that the feds could not shut this agency down tomorrow, and it would have almost no effect on the US bottom line reports for financials.
I have had a case open with them since May 6th of this year, and have not heard a thing back other than their automated replies.

They froze my account, required that I pay them money to even get access to my transaction history, and then when I did (foolish, I know) the records don't show any reason for me to have owed them money.

It wasn't a large amount (<$50), but I'm still pretty upset about it.

I have moved to another platform.

It's not a unique issue either, just look at all the posts on the Coinbase subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/
The issue though would be that this person is an proper pentester but the fact that are these things obviously under reported when someone extorts you. Sure the person is the chump but we don't know how much data has been exfiltrated if they go the way of extortion.
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They should consider paying more to find a suitable equilibrium.
I'm not so sure this is always the case.

If MP tanks, I prob go back to my baseline of maybe 4 movies a year, but it's possible I'd be used to seeing more movies to I'd go more often. I probably wouldn't end up going less than my previous MP viewing.

Movies theatres want the popcorn / soda sales so it doesn't matter much how MP negotiates the price, since they don't get much of that anyway.
“Mr. William Faulkner got into the act by observing that you never crawl out on a limb. Said you had no courage, never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary.”

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. Did you read his last book? It’s all sauce-writing now, but he was good once. Before the sauce, or when he knew how to handle it.”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/26/dictionary/
https://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/12/oh-by-the-way-obama-j...
and hardly any hired hands any more - they work alone
Axler's book is fantastic. But sadly Springer altered the typesetting on the 3rd edition. A really classic and clear LaTeX layout got turned into something much less clear. This freaked me out. Look inside and compare:

* Second edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387982582

* Third edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319307657

I wonder whether widespread adoption of his book pushed editors to make it look flashier and watered down. The contents are the same though.
Not exactly true. If hype goes up then more people are willing to dump more money into it. The volume and user growth are definitely related to how much hype/excitement there is.
I bet Coinbase makes more money from their exchange (GDAX) which does $1 billion each day in volume. While limit orders are free, market orders cost 0.25% of transaction value.
I think it is not about AI but about improving our work with new tools. There are zillion developers doing the same thing everyday with the same mistakes and a lot of this work can be encapsulated at different abstraction levels.
How a solo non-technical founder had an idea, learned to code and got 1k users
I know what an ETF and an Index Fund is (and that is where most of my money is held). My point was that would be great if had such a currency (i.e. is fungible, commonly accepted as a medium of exchange, and is easy to carry & transact) as opposed to something stuck in your brokerage account.
Seats in the IMAX room is indeed very bad. It’s sad because the screen is 2nd largest in North America. But your only memory of the movie becomes how much pain your back and behind are. Try the shoreline cinemark in MV, very comfy seats!
New Yorker article I had read some time ago. Took me awhile to find it again, its not a very widely talked about topic apparently.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/rock-paper-sci...
It may be that your bank is charging you an international transaction fee and that is the second charge you are seeing. This happened to me the other day with Coinbase. If you buy from Coinbase with a credit card the transaction actually gets processed in London. Some American banks will charge you a 3% fee for this international transaction. So it will look like Coinbase has charged you twice, but actually the second charge is from your bank.
With the frenzy out there, Coinbase makes crypto currencies trading/investing/purchasing as robust and seemingly as safe as possible. This could be a signal, now that we have some reputable market players that crypto currencies are really just starting and there is a very high ceiling. Getting in before coinbase you had to mine your own (that party ended quickly - Butterfly Labs, cex.io for cloud mining etc) or be part of a sketchy exchange (mtgox, btc-e etc where funds were stolen or seized). Some of the rules such as 10k limits on buying/selling/transfers put a natural throttling on bitcoin that other markets don't have, since the buying is immense it should continue to go up for sometime due to this throttling and now reputable sources for buying into the market.

Side note: one of the absolute killer features of crypto currency markets is finally we have an always on market. Stock markets and exchanges still operate in the old days of the hours of the day in the country they are based in, crypto currency is an always on market which is nice because it eliminates the after hours/before open games that go on with stocks.
Top end bugs typically get paid far above the 'max payout' for more typical bugs, and that is not unique to Uber. Maybe not 6x higher, but 'max payout' is a soft ceiling.
Yes, it is easy to prove that "a basis exists" (almost by definition depending on how exactly you define dimension) and of course it's legal to use it in proofs, but I think proofs that avoid using this fact directly are more elegant
I remembered when I first learned that and how mind blowing it was to help learn complex scratches. I dug it up. Turntablist Transcription Method, TTM: http://www.studioscratches.com/scratchy-100-ttm-turntablist-...
It's not real.

It's real but it's not caused by us.

It's caused by us but the water does not rise.

The water does rise but that's actually good.

etc.
Could we stop turning HN into a Bitcoin ticker? It feels like every day we get a "Bitcoin reaches $X" post and it's getting old. It's certainly not newsworthy.

If there's something concrete that _causes_ Bitcoin to move majorly, I'd be happy to see that but if I just want to watch the price, I'll look at an actual Bitcoin ticker.
I am on my fifth month of waiting for my account to be unfrozen so I can withdraw my funds. I managed to get through once by phone (was assured that the issue was being resolved) and once via email (same) but for the past two months, nothing. I believe the CEO and probably several other employees are on HN so if any of them see this - please get your act together. Scaling is great but customer support needs to come along for the ride first.

If anyone is wondering, this happened because I accidentally opened the app while on vacation in a country that the US sanctions.
Hardship exemptions [1] are absolutely not the same thing as waiving the penalty.

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/hardsh...
Ask HN: What can I expect from a Show HN?
What was the outcome of your Show HN? How much traffic? How many signups? How much useful feedback?
raiblocks is intriguing. I normally don't care for coins that aren't trustless but I'm curious to see where raiblocks can go.
The second charge is actually an amount identical to the first charge, only 1 minute later. It was a couple hundred dollars.
Yes, it's too similar to C++/C (I know it's not very similar, but it's still low level).
So I could go to jail for holding an index fund?
Melting is a proxy for warmer waters. Water becomes less dense (e.g. expands) as it warms above 0C (a little bit less for salt water). When you have a volume the size of the oceans, a small increase is a big surface volume change.
The difference is that graduate students are employees, and the tuition waiver is a benefit of their employment.
If you live in America, consider complaining to your state financial services regulator. New York's Department of Financial Services [1], for example, is well-known for its teeth.

[1] http://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/fileacomplaint.htm
To the GP’s point though, the seats and food & drink at the Hollywood are not great. I still like going there, because of their selections. Inside the theater is a bit ratty, honestly.
What are you basing your contention that people with kids are going to see their taxes going up on? All evidence I've seen has them significantly expanding the child tax credit.
I mean, it can be, right? Take todays Advent of Code problem, where you want to grab the index of the largest element in a sequence breaking ties toward early elements, then re-distribute that element one at a time over other positions starting from the largest element (looping around as required).

I can write that using various maps, folds, flat_maps, and reduces, but no one else would understand what is going on in the code. Maybe someone will post the right idiomatic functional way to do that, but nothing elegant comes to mind.
GPU-based database, 100 times faster than traditional ones
Which version of webpack is this fix included in?
Also, isn’t the biggest VW shareholder Bavaria?
This is why Alamo Drafthouse my only choice. Comfortable seating, prepicked seating, no ads before movies, and you can order drinks/snacks/dinner at your seat.

And they take movie pass.
That's a pretty good summary of a casual conversation I had with someone that works in investing about Bitcoin and Ethereum. He said blockchain is here to stay and that knowing what companies are going to try and do with it is useful but these currencies, or at the very least, their value, could go away very quickly.
I thought capital gains rates weren't changing?
PEP 557 – Data Classes – coming in Python 3.7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
Nice counterexample to Betteridge's law.
> You can store your bitcoins online (in multiple places for redundancy) in encrypted file you never decrypt.

> Then you don't have to worry about burglars, fires or hackers. You just need to worry about remembering your password. And about the portion of bitcoins you keep elsewhere to pay for things or trade.

This accounts for confidentiality but does not preserve the integrity or availability of the wallet and for those reasons is far less secure than you believe.
There appears to be lots of enthusiasm about Rust - I'll probably learn it, but I'm trying to learn a higher level language (believe it or not, I don't know any "high level" "modern" languages, because I figuratively spent my last 10 years in a hole).
What about the CEO and the board?
It needs huge amount of computations to perform a task which previously required a boatload of domain experts' brainpower too.
IMO this is very dependant on the theatre.

The ones here have fancy seating, better sound, 3D, etc. For many movies, it's very much a better experience. If you're watching the bog-standard 2D version of the latest comedy film? Yeah, sure, home is better. Latest action/superhero movie? Unless I spend thousands to put together a home theatre, the added bits at the theatre just make it much better.

Mind you, from the descriptions I've heard of other theatres, I'm mildly amazed by how nice the ones around here are - especially since Cineplex more or less has a monopoly. I suspect they're just gouging us on ticket prices (and snacks, though if you do it right it's not too bad). Still, its nice to go on occasion.
> robbed from Spaniards

They were Mexican by that point, right?
There is a certain amount of financial regulation that they (and most other exchanges) have to comply with.
Painting the American Dream at Guantánamo
I used to use coinbase but some godawful KYC/AML thing kicked in and asked me to send them a "selfie" of myself, which creeped me the hell out. I'm a US citizen, am not on any sort of list of prohibited people, and had already given them a photo of my driver's licence and my SSN -- and have had no issues with opening other bank/bitcoin-exchange accounts online previously.

I thus switched to Gemini because I do not want to support this invasive nonsense. It's literally an automated version of "put shoe on head" (the request that /b/tards would make of camgirls that they wanted to troll).

Between that, and the thing where you literally have to enter your BANK'S username/password to ANOTHER WEBSITE (coinbase, in this case) to prove you have that account (of course it chokes on 2FA); the USian banking system is such a scary bad mess -- and i'm pretty sure that that's a significant driver of bitcoin adoption (and there's also the ACH clusterfuck).
Well, one could bet in futures markets that coastal cities will flood, and so on.
Pretty sure forex markets are 24/7
One often wonders why Google massively ramped up lobbying in recent years, the primary reason seems to be attempted regulatory capture by Oracle and Microsoft astro-turfing, shills, and funded industry groups, much of this going on at the same time Oracle and Microsoft were engaged in highly litigious campaigns against open source and waging offensive patent cases or in Microsoft's case, straight up shakedowns of Android OEMs. The ISPs and Media companies were also engaged in shennanigans (https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/18/7417891/google-condemns-...)

So when you see a State Attorney General in the middle of a fly over state suddenly become a warrior and white knight on a specific issue, you might want to wonder who's paying.

And yes, Google has paid people to write favorable articles on things like copyright or search algorithm freedom, but ask yourself, what's worse, Oracle copyrighting APIs, the old MS going after Linux and open source and patent trolling, or Hollywood aggressively cracking down on the web, or Google arguing it should have the right to tweak it's ranking algorithms on its own sites. One group is arguing to impose restrictions on other people with collateral damage all around, the other is arguing for greater freedom for itself. It's self serving, but I think freedom to innovate and avoid heavy handed regulation and
online censorship is a different animal than those rent-seeking.
Is that in the article? I don't see it -- maybe it was removed as inaccurate?
On this topic, I love older textbooks that read closer to prose than whatever passed for flashy textbooks (at least 10 years ago, I can only imagine things have gotten worse)
but you can actually implement ! in just three lines of assembly

I was actually expecting the "classic" x86 idiom for !, which also happens to be 3 instructions, but is slightly shorter and likely faster than the sequence presented:

neg eax
sbb eax, eax
inc eax

As a bonus, it also works in 16-bit mode (using the 16-bit registers) on everything back to the 8086, since SETcc is 386+, and given that I've seen it in early DOS compiler output, this neg/sbb/inc idiom has likely been known for a very long time. Figuring out how it works is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)
Most foreign exchange and derivatives exchanges are on 23.5 hours a day, except weekends.
Eh ?

Sea level rises are due to land based ice melting.
Anyone who thinks more lines of code equals better software should not be working in this industry. Hopefully the naive observer you're referring to would be someone with no background in software development
You can always find enough people, by paying them.
it's called prolog
Most interesting thing I learned from this article:

Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, "said he now holds more of his wealth in a Bitcoin competitor, Ether"
It looks like all browsers' share increased? I'd chalk this up to the amount of whatever unnamed browsers take up the rest of the share decreasing.
I agree, the level of abstractions will just change. We might end up writing something more like formal logic in a declarative language and the AI will then implement and optimise it.

Kind of the way a compiler generates optimised machine code from our higher level languages now.
Because if it's free only for employees, it's an employment benefit and it's taxable.
Not for retail trading and holidays can affect pairs.
This seems similar to forex transactions. Fidelity charges a % based fee when buying/selling foreign currency.
No, map reduce can be run in parallel, at least in some cases.
I've been thinking about switching to either FastMail or ProtonMail for a while, and an open-source client solution for Linux would eliminate the only remaining reservations I have (inability to use mutt and running unauditable JS with access to the password) without giving up security.
I'm not sure why I'm engaging on this, but...

How would that work exactly? They're not breaking the law. Apple probably has IRS agents on its campus at all times for what amounts to an ongoing audit to ensure that they're not breaking the law.

Apple makes legal business decisions to shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions and lower their tax burden. And you're going to fine them for that?

Not only would that not hold up in court, it's crazy unfair. That's like fining someone who moves from CA to FL or buys a house or saves for retirement to save on their taxes. How DARE YOU make a decision to reduce your tax burden??!??!
Why do you hold that bias? Are you aware that certain parts of the world have large numbers of people who engage in certain types of cybercrime?

"All males are human" doesn't imply that "all humans are male."
Apparently Steve Wozniak had to fight pretty hard for the expansion slots from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak):

> During the design stage, Steve Jobs argued that the Apple II should have two expansion slots, while Wozniak wanted six. After a heated argument, during which Wozniak had threatened for Jobs to 'go get himself another computer', they decided to go with eight slots. The Apple II became one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers.
I think the end game for Movie Pass is them buying/building their own theaters.
Senators serve for six years. It will be a loong time before that theory is tested, and the lessons derived from the election results will have weight until at least that time. Moore could also reasonably retire or die of old age before running in another primary.

I agree that this election in Alabama is difficult to generalize from though, there are many factors at play. Still, I'd prefer less ambiguity here.
GPL in my source? You'd be surprised.
I remember watching a (maybe MIT?) youtube lecture where someone described talking to Claude Shannon the same way. You'd talk about some idea and he'd simplify and throw things away, until you had just a kernel of an idea that was so simple it was just obvious.
Yeah I guess currency exchanges / futures have always been 24/7 as there is always an open market somewhere in the world. Crypto currencies are close to that I guess.

I wonder if equity markets will one day move to always on, I hope they do.

With more investment options such as crypto currencies, I wonder if they will eventually do it to stay competitive to investment cash.

Nothing worse than pre-market and after hours shenanigans in equity markets, can't pull that in an always on market.
The problem is that they didn’t get rid of group plans when introducing the individual mandate, as they did in Switzerland. Group plans siphon off all the lowest risk, leaving the individual market a huge mess.
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There is no right or wrong in this. Dollar and Bitcoin have their strengths and weakness. Neither is going to replace other in the near future.
If the bubble bursts, this will be a delightful pull quote in the postmortem:

"Correction: December 6, 2017
An earlier version of a photo caption with this article misidentified the place where Coinbase employees were gathered for lunch. It was the gaming room, not the cafeteria."
Have a look at Transferwise.

I transfer money to my mum in the UK once a month from my Australia debit card and its in her account within minutes, and the fees are far lower than a bank transfer.
There Is No Finland: Birth of a Conspiracy Theory