skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have the ability to issue tokenized numbers, that's something that not everyone can do.

TBH, I'm not deeply involved in payments, but what they're doing is extremely unique and I could totally appreciate a larger company (such as a paypal competitor like stripe) wanting a piece of what they're doing.
I... still do?

This is more about ISPs where you live than anything else. Most people don't want the hassle.
>This seems to imply that families with 2 kids and a median household income of $60k will owe a extra $5k in taxes?

Yep. This plan will throw peanuts to His desperate impoverished base of low income voters, while simultaneously fleecing the middle class and enriching the .01% (Himself). Just as planned.
Nobody with a degree would do a Linux sysadmin job. I never saw anyone with a degree doing this.
Depends on which country your in normally dividends are taxed as income and capital increase taxed as capital gains.
I know this is a wall of questions, but I'm really impressed with your accomplishment. I'm interested in the origins of the site, how you chose the tech stack, any scaling issues you might have, how you create the content on YouTube, how you are handling cost, etc. I've been wanting to create something similar for a different domain and worry about scaling and costs. Have you written about any of this anywhere? Thanks for any answers, and good luck!
Second this recommendation. Really opened my eyes up to the entire mission control teams who are just as involved as the astronaut in getting to the moon.
'How to Create a Home Studio Without Breaking the Bank'
That’s correct.
Bitcoin mining guzzles energy – and its carbon footprint just keeps growing
Stop with the trolling.
What is the poor assumption that s/he is making?
Pretty much all cryptocurrencies right now follow the same model as Bitcoin, and require similar fees when congestion increases. (See Ethereum's recent fee spike when CryptoKitties took off.) The Bitcoin and Ethereum communities are both seriously exploring and working on solutions like off-chain transactions to solve this issue.
At the flea market they call it "looking at the customer's shoes."
These tax bills are hilarious. For the majority of us, it is like moving money from your left pocket to the right pocket. There is no savings whatsoever besides bad healthcare for all. This bill should really be called "Corporations are people too, my friends" bill as it really gives away money for rich companies who honestly do not need more money given Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are becoming trillion dollar companies.
Brain typo :)
Or we could make all the bitcoin/blockchain craze solve at least one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...
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Sure. But aren't they even more likely to be well-off? Are people who can afford to forgo getting a job for 4-5 years after getting their college degree more or less likely to be from a lower-income household?
Scalability and de facto centralization was always going to be the slow death of Bitcoin,from the size of the blockchain, ASIC miners (which locked out people who couldn't afford to build warehouses of them, creating a centralized market of people who can actually mine coins) and transaction fee. Its too soon now to say that Bitcoin is dying but it certainly will at the current rate, when? Who knows but it's got pretty severe design flaws that I think weren't properly considered in development.
Google 'ballot selfie photo' and prepare to be surprised at the fact that this is not actually prohibited in many jurisdictions. Terrible idea? Sure. Actually existing reality? Yes.

http://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/ballot-selfies-st...
Not really. I still host a number of sites on my home linux box.
This doesn't count AMT, everyone in the state who itemizes and makes more than $200k has to pay the amt essentially making deductions completely useless. A NYT article showed how elites in Cali and NY will lose money but I calculated various incomes and the only people who would lose money are the ones making $1M plus. The article completely excluded that fact. Steph curry for instance will lose over a million in this new bill because he doesn't pay AMT currently and deducts $2M stats taxes. Not being able to deduct that plus only a minor drop in income tax brackets screws him.

This is not a bad bill. Very few people wil have to pay more and those that do are making $1M + and they'd slightly see a decrease while people with $5M+ will see a more significant decrease, so I'm not concerned. That being said, I think there should be even a bigger tax cut on the middle class and greater deductions for disabled seniors. Family making $50k with 2 kids barely saves more than a family $35k with 2 kids especially if they have Medicaid while the other family has insane premiums and deductibles.
Having been transferred back to Germany, he came to the United States for a vacation with his wife and was seized as he waited for a departing flight in Miami.

That was an expensive vacation.

Seriously, good to see justice served. Curious to see what Germany does to the top execs there.
For something like microtransactions, why would you need to use Bitcoin? Can't you just make your own blockchain and track BTC/USD?
Totally, the scale can be outrageous. As you mentioned, Milwaukee's system is huge - but it works.

"Too Big, Will Fail" is a pretty common refrain from anti-infrastructure personalities, but when it comes to simple civil engineering projects it doesn't matter what the scale is if the mechanism is proven. Solving CSOs isn't the Hyperloop, it's just building a bathtub big enough in the right place and figuring out how to drain it appropriately when it fills up.

Milwaukee, Chicago - these are examples that prove that stormwater management is a solved problem. So let's apply that solution to places where the problem still exists.

Anyways, cool link, I didn't know about Milwaukee's system.
>They are doing exactly what they were programmed to do.

And we think we programmed them to do exactly what we want, and only that.

Bugs do exist, not discounting cosmic rays. I don't think we can claim to have solved the problem of creating bug-free systems. As long as bugs can exists, the possibility of unpredictable behavior exists. And if possibility exists, then it is just a matter of time and enough attempts.
See my comment above that you specifically replied to.

Lasp [in high-scalability mode] does not connect in a mesh, and the links I provided demonstrate that we do not connect in a mesh.

I specifically provided a link in the comment [with a link to an academic publication and a paper] you responded to about how we do non-full mesh and achieve 1000+ nodes.

Antidote only uses distributed Erlang inside of a single cluster limiting a single cluster to 100+ nodes. The multi-DC protocol is not based on distributed Erlang, and therefore, is not limited by distributed Erlang (but, is limited by other factors.)

Additionally, there are Riak Core modifications (authored by myself and others) that bypass distributed Erlang using the same semantics, and therefore, don't have the 100+ node cluster restriction.

And finally, the 100+ node cluster restriction is highly-debated, by myself and other academics, because the restrictions are based on use of the global module, where systems that don't use this module will experience higher scalability numbers (based on empirical evidence, not yet published.) For reference, Ericsson, has run 200+ node Erlang clusters.
With the injectivity-based definition, you can ask "how injective is it?" in various ways (eg, what is the dimension of the nullspace of T - λI; the Ax = λx definition is rather binary and corresponds to simply "T - λI has nullity > 0"). This is what is meant by "eigenvalue multiplicity" (there are actually at least two different inequivalent ways to measure this, geometric multiplicity and algebraic multiplicity).

Also for finite-dimensional vector space a lot of concepts are equivalent, eg "a linear operator L is invertible <=> L is injective", which are not in infinite-dimensional vector spaces (eg https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2447563/21437). Studying T - λI turns out to be more useful in this case (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decomposition_of_spectrum_(fun...)
Why not a bluetooth SoC like nrf52832 or DA18586 and a esp32 for wifi-bluetooth bridge? The price is the same.

This way you will have months or even years in autonomy instead of weeks.
This is completely wrong. The JCT takes into account dynamic effects when scoring all tax bills. I'm not sure why you would think this?
There's certainly an appeal to specific formats like 70mm, but that comes along fairly rarely. I haven't been to Portland, but I have seen 70mm films in classic theaters. They're rarely comfortable, the sound usually sucks, and the lack of stadium seating can be brutal, but you're there for the insane effort that went into end-to-end 70mm production.

Of course, I saw Dunkirk in IMAX 70mm projection at the Metreon in San Francisco, which is a state of the art screening room, but that will probably only ever happen every few years. Sadly the Metreon recently remodeled with completely terrible seats (only in the IMAX room), so I'm rarely tempted to go there.
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Kind of surprising that he returned to the USA (talk about cocky!)

I wonder if the USA would've gone through the diplomatic rigmarole to get him extradited. Anyone familiar with these sorts of cases have an opinion?
> The popcorn isn't even good.

Have you tried popcorn at every independent operator and chain on the planet or is this based on your own subjective experience? Come to Oakville, Ontario and I will give you a bag of the best popcorn you have ever had, until then, reserve judgement.

Also, salt (Flavacol) is added along with the raw kernels while making popcorn. It is always evenly distributed. This is true for virtually every movie theatre there is.
You don't advertise it. You say nothing until a customer expresses concern about your long term survival then you say "Oh yeah this comes up from time to time and the solution is code escrow, we've done it for customer Y and X so we know the drill".
The universities prefer to give the discount because it let's them do stupid accounting tricks that let them get more money in grants and stuff. Universities should just adjust the tuition for these students instead of giving a discount.
Why not put a $10,000 bet into escrow right now, since you're so confident on Bitcoin being used as a currency a year from now?
No. The amount of miners isn't tied to how many bitcoins exist, or how many transactions are happening.

Maybe you're thinking of how when more people are mining, it becomes harder to mine. This is because there is a global fixed rate of Bitcoin creation. Every 10 minutes, 12.5 new bitcoins come into existence. Miners are effectively competing for the chance to be the one to receive those new bitcoins. If mining becomes unprofitable, then some miners will drop out, causing it to become more profitable for those remaining. Miners don't set prices or rules; price affects profitability which either causes more miners to mine or some to drop out.
Really depends usually in the millions especially if this is a product related to trading.

It’s also important to note that as far as I am aware contracts on this scale have multiple stages and we are paying for PoC/pilot programmes during which we usually perform our review.
This usually isn’t software that a pre-sale engineer would come and setup in a few days so we are paying effectively even for a demo.

Overall we audit everything from Xerox software to custom balance sheet management products.

The process is dependent on the level of trust/confidence we have in the vendor and the risk profile of the product.

But in all cases there will be some sort of review.

For vendors that would not give us code access we request permission to pentest the product the pentest would include reverse engineering in most cases and as the vast majority of products in the financial sector are in Java the source code isn’t hard to get through reversing the byte code.
Because they want to receive the full $80k from the grant - often federal - and pay the student $25-30k. The right answer is to fix the accounting measures. For a PhD student primarily doing research which benefits the university and grantor, and taking no or few classes, why are they paying tuition? If it’s for facilities or university staff salaries, then just send the full grant to the university directly, and let the university pay the students whatever both parties see as fair.
Do you mean privacy? I don't have issues with Google's handling of security.
Seems excessive to me. 7 years is more than many violent offenders get. Way more than necessary to make the point.
One more idea about distributed consistencywithout synchronization: http://avodonosov.blogspot.com.by/2016/09/partitioned-availa...

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In my head? The same place I store the passphrase to my password manager.
At current growth rate Bitcoins will each be worth over $1M by 2018. This would imply being worth 3x all of the gold ever mined.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7hvj8e/dail...

If Bitcoin becomes the most valuable asset class in the world by two orders of magnitude (in 2020, assuming same rate), lots of crazy other side effect will occur.

Bitcoin isn't going to keep growing this fast. It'll go parabolic for a while, and then settle at a midpoint between where the rally began and where it peaked.
It's interesting that the executive received more jail time than the engineer (7 years vs 40 months).
>Because one per day is completely unsustainable and they only need to last longer than MoviePass burns VC money and fails?

Are we sure about that, though? I assume these people are not complete idiots. I assume they had a team of economists and business analysts crunch the numbers on this beforehand. The cost of a ticket seems trivial to the added benefit of having your theater full of hungry, thirsty patrons at what would otherwise be off-peak times. I think this is going to be a massive boon to the industry, and may even see theaters evolve into more like "family fun centers" and general hangout locations.
Security Update 2017-001 was released November 29, 2017: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208315

Does it mean it's the first security update of the year? :(
The article talks at length about how Germany refuses to extradite its own citizens, and even mentions an VW exec of Italian nationality arrested in Germany who is expected to be extradited.
> Albeit they don't earn the major portion of their revenue from ads […]

That's the most important bit when it comes to trust them on privacy. They don't have a major incentive to exploit user data.
And since then the main purpose of imgur is lost. I rather upload screenshots to my own site.

I don't hope they go down the Imageshack road...
Are there any known instances of a company dropping support for Oracle? My employer supported both Oracle and MSSQL for our now-legacy desktop offering but opted to support MSSQL-only when we rewrote for the cloud. Our testing and operations effort was reduced significantly and on-premise customers have dealt with those implications but I’d say it’s definitely a net positive for us.

Not saying that MSSQL is any better than Oracle, or Postgres for that matter.
I think it is the courts that have compelled the business owner to open the till. The deputies are just enforcing the court's judgement.
I've never used it, but I'm deeply grateful for it because, from what I can tell, without Ksh we wouldn't have Zsh, which I use every day and really enjoy.
White collar crime scales better than violent crime.
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I guess so. What would be critical to me is how the model is constructed. I want it to be formulaic, if possible, to come closest to optimal and without being subject to gaming by political parties in order to score political points.

I want cold, scientific, numbers-based, optimized rate setting.
How many lives did this statistically end vs the average violent criminal, and over how many years did this have to be a conscious choice.
That’s an entirely different narrative about Bitcoin, though, then what was presented to us when it was seeking adoption. The messaging was literally: use this to buy things. Maybe we all got it wrong, but a lot of people did, then; we must never forget the infamous Bitcoin pizzas.

https://twitter.com/bitcoin_pizza

I’ve noticed this trend lately of rewriting what Bitcoin is for because I assure you, it was presented as the new cash for a long, long time. We were supposed to see Bitcoin ATMs and paying for daily sundries with Bitcoin. Then that became difficult, we are starting to see the brave adopters drop out of using it that way, and suddenly it’s an investment vehicle and store of value and nobody really buys anything with it and that’s been the intent all along.

People were saying those things for years because Bitcoin proponents were telling us. It’s not like people arrived at that conclusion erroneously.
I remember in some situations that copyright infringement is cheaper than license violation. The former you can argue ignorance and pay a a fine the later you've knowing acknowledge what you've done is a violation of another person license but continued your behavior.
> Have you actually dealt with enterprise sales? Source code is a fairly typical request

Not the parent, but I have done deals like this and I feel the need to counter your sentiment.

Sure, 3rd party security review, escrow, etc etc is normal.

However, this is a massive red flag for me:

>Their justification is: "we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions."

I mean this is straight out of an episode of "Silicon Valley". The OP's entire product value is in "how your algorithms made their decisions" and this is not something you want to expose to anyone unless perhaps they are about to acquire your company.
I'm not sure what exactly simulations means? lots of Matlab/R/some specific DSL?

So when I applied to jobs with my applied math degree and 2 years of grad computing experience - but no industry experience - as a software engineer - I got lots of sorry no experience, we can't train you, etc... etc...

I eventually got a job as a support engineer and have kicked around a lot of roles including data scientist and software engineer.

I'd say if you don't have actual programming experience they'd probably see you pretty similarly to me. That being said if you're applying to a giant corporation and don't have some sort of standout crazy resume OR have an internal referral I think you're basically lost in the noise. Applying to smaller startups may get you a second look.

However, now there are things like triplebyte where if you pass their interview you can get an onsite to a lot of companies regardless of your background - which is pretty neat.
Yup. Fill with corn halfway, butter, then shake the bag. Fill to the top and butter again. Don't butter with less than half the bag filled or you will soak the bottom and get soggy corn. If the theatre won't do this, go to an independent.
Marqeta does this: https://www.marqeta.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit
Second layers over bitcoin won't have those properties you've mentioned either.
Analogue signal and image processing with large memristor crossbars
the mempool ignores transactions older than 2 weeks: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/5f0e27f1a8495d9be4...
There's definitely Cinemark theaters with 70mm. I saw Dunkirk at one.

More importantly, though, not very many movies were/are shot in that format. Not enough to really build a business on.
No, transaction volume and congestion is the thing that drives transaction fees up.

If transaction volume (and fees) stayed constant, then as the minting rate goes down, there will be a lower reward for blocks, and some miners will drop out of mining because it's not profitable for them. Miners dropping out will lower the mining difficulty, so the remaining miners will get a bigger cut. The system finds an equilibrium. Mining profitability only affects the mining difficulty and miners themselves (and the amount of resources necessary for a 51% attack, but as long as that remains obscenely high then the specifics don't really matter in this discussion).
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I'd pay them $20 a month to watch it at home instead.
Record low sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea
According to this[0] MIT study, the excess emissions will cause 60 premature deaths. If you commit 60 violent offenses you can expect well over 7 years in jail.

Edit: 60 in the US, many more globally.

[0] http://news.mit.edu/2015/volkswagen-emissions-cheat-cause-60...
I've read most of the comments here and I think many of them are off track.

You need to take this approach when dealing with a large potential customer : let's not get into the weeds of what you are asking for, but rather tell me what the underlying need is. That might, for example be : "we'll rely on your code to secure our customers' sensitive data and so we need to take steps to ensure you are practicing industry best processes for security". That need could be addressed by having a third party review your code and processes, protecting your IP.

In your case they said :

"we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions."

For me this would be a "Hello no", perhaps put more politely. You're building a product that has value embodied in those algorithms. The customer is paying you for that service. Therefore you should take absolutely no steps to tell them how it works. There is only downside.
[...] plead guilty to felony charges of illegally importing nearly 600,000 vehicles equipped with devices to circumvent emissions standards [...]

I think 7 years sounds fair given the scale of the charges.
> ghosting on your tinder date

What does this mean? Apologies if it's something obvious I should know; I'm not cool anymore so this terminology escapes me. :)
Impossible to say. But we all statistically end lives by doing many ordinary things, such as driving to work.

It satisfies the need revenge I guess.
Who orders should take more responsibility.
You’re right my bad I was thinking about the Washington Post but I said cops.
Is there a chance for early release? This 7 year sentence could become 10 months.
I was really cynical once I saw that only a lower-level engineer had been charged and convicted of wrongdoing so far. Glad to see that someone higher-up is also being held responsible.
one thing about non-compete and non-disclosures is that if you are a small shop going up against big shops it can be costly for you to try to enforce it against a larger corp. not impossible but not cheap and without any guarantee of success.
It's typically handwritten because computers aren't very good at transcribing music. You can use it to search for music: http://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html
Databases often house an organization's key data and related business logic. It's not trivial to port such over. PostgreSql is not 100% compatible, and testing and adjusting takes time.

That being said, an org should foster open-source RDBMS for new projects that don't need heavy data-sharing with Oracle instances, and slowly expand. For one, Oracle sales-people will give you better deals if they know you are nurturing alternatives within. It's better if Oracle has you by one nut instead of two.
Typo, too many acronyms.

As for the second part I wont comment really I’m not in a place to make decisions on procurement I just brake things.
I would just say that size/volume wise as far as clearings go there isn’t a better/bigger client. And everyone is the same.
Highly recommend reading Manufacturing Consent: https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...
LSEQ appears to improve upon treedoc in ways, too: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00921633/document