skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Japan, because debit/credit cards have historically not been readily available, a payment system around transit cards has been built up. People put money on to their transit cards and then can use those cards to pay for a variety of things from items in vending machines to MacDonald's, etc. In usage it basically works pretty similar to how the Lightning network will work and it's relatively popular.

However, I think the OP is correct that if it becomes mainstream, 20M transactions a month will not be enough. Lightning requires 2 transactions -- one to reserve the funds and one to settle up at the end of the period. The transactions cancel if you do not settle up, so setting that period of time is vital. If you set it to a month (probably reasonable), then you are basically limiting the service to 10M users (assuming the OP's estimate of 20M transactions a month is correct -- I haven't checked).

So I think it's pretty obvious that you are going to have to do something else
It's also useless because no matter what the theater does, nothing beats the experience of being at home.

It's not like a restaurant. A different atmosphere is a plus with restaurants. Not with theaters: you stare at a screen with the lights off the whole time. Also, with a restaurant you are served food without doing any work. Sure, watching a movie in the theater requires no work, but it's also trivial to play a movie at home.
I found your issue about this: https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass/issues/462

It sounds serious, for sure, and this software deals with sensitive data, so that is important to keep in mind (though, it versions with Git, so that's a nice safety). I just want to point out how responsive they were in your issue: it appears there was a fix merged in less than a day later!
True, but I'm thinking if you can tell it was written by people who know what they're doing, odds are the company will continue to have people who know what they're doing.
Because that’s how the game is played. When scoring the effect of a tax bill, you were not allowed to take into consideration changes in behavior
Oh definitely, I did that intentionally just to show that it was relative. I'm only speaking for myself, but I don't think an informed suggestion, even a kinder one, would have helped without having practiced giving and revoking attention to something I hadn't really looked at much before.

My pleasure - that's kind of the thing. All subjective experiences are impossible to define until we create words for them and know that we've shared the same experience with others. But we know that subjective experience is completely real. And it's everything.
Say what you want about the tax bill on net, the elimination of the SALT deduction is very good for the country.

There is zero reason for the Feds to subsidize and distort incentivize to encourage states to increase their tax burdens. SALT has always been one of the most corrupt tax breaks (mortgage interest being another).
Did you actually try reading the article? It is an in depth guide on how to root the device and a far cry from a scare piece.
Yeah, I know that we've seen reports like this before. But if the SV sphere wants to stop being part of the problem and start working on a solution, it is critically important it first stops perpetuating the meritocracy myth and looks at reality.
Awesome. $9 a month to see the crap they shovel into the theaters.

And now that they get paid regardless of whether I go or not I fully expect the crap to get even worse.
Other than a class on logic, all of my other courses involved enormous amount of written argumentation, e.g., reasoning, ancient philosophy, modern philosophy, Asian philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of film, metaphysics, etc. I would say that only logic had a direction connection to computer science, although as a computer scientist, I would choose to write essays about the Turing test, philosophy of AI, etc. This was 15+ years ago, but I assume things are still the same in many philosophy departments.
>>have invested in more than 60 startups in the past few years with a small seed fund (never lead investors), plus another 6 as an angel.

May you share some notable investments? I have invested in more than 100 startups and one of my most notable investments is Cruise.
Two reasons for that:

1) These are the first year income tax cuts, but most of these income tax cuts are getting phased out over time after the first year. By 2027 some of these income groups may see tax increases, and most won't see much benefit at all.

2) The temporary income tax cuts are peanuts compared to what is happening with the corporate rate, pass-throughs, capital gains, and estate tax (all permanent), which benefit people that own companies and/or inherit wealth - which is predominately the richest people. The richest people in the country don't get their wealth from their income, but rather from returns on capital.
Artificial selection has already made plenty sure that our surviving crops are invulnerable to what otherwise used to be toxic amounts of poisons.

Our own DNA has genes of ancient virus cobbled together, and those aren't even a kingdom.

"Naturally occurring variations" can also be phrased as "random genetic mutations we have no control over and aren't sure if they're safe".
Just pick a state without income tax, such as Florida.
Couldn't they just milk it until that happens and then release a more sustainable option?

If the theatres say no, what is MoviePass's option? They have no real control there.

I'm not claiming to know everything about this, literally just a 23 year old wanting to learn more.

How is this different from me (hypothetically) with a ton of money offering to give everyone their weeks groceries for $10 a month for $40 worth of goods and then turning around and saying to the grocery chain pay me $x for this. It just seems completely bizarre, if they could already offer the price they are asking , why wouldn't they do that instead of paying the middleman?
For a credit card company their support was amazing. I had a few issues with the 2fa SMS being delayed and they answered within a couple minutes.
The conversion factor seems to be 1 TPU-hour ~ 500 CPU-hours in terms of flops. We can nitpick that number, but it won't change the conclusion that AlphaZero needs a boatload of compute.
Now US$14k. ;)
I think ksh was the first shell I was exposed to vi command-line editing in on a Sun workstation a long time ago -- I haven't thought about it in years as it seems bash is so prevalent, but good to so some folks still keeping it alive.
The local Cinemark charges $8.00 for a evening admission to a 3D movie. Non-3D is $5.50, and a matinee is $3.50.

Amusingly enough, the website still tried to pitch me the $8.99 monthly subscription for one movie in a month. Um, no thanks. :)
> Btw you are talking with someone who worked in the games industry so unless you've got certain credible source to refute what I am mentioning here just concede the point.

Wow.

Well, I'll turn it back on you. What evidence do you have that loot boxes would not have come about in something very close to their current form if the Japanese game industry did not exist? And "because I work in the games industry" is not an answer.

I mean, this is a ridiculous hypothetical in the first place. But the broader point is that the fault for the current condition cannot be blamed solely or even primarily on the Japanese industry alone. "The merchants and the traders have come; their profits are pre-ordained."
This shows only a small portion of the impact of the bill - the SALT and child/marriage/standard deductions increase for earned income, but none of the passthrough changes, changes to the way unearned income (stock market investing, e.g.) is taxed, corporate changes. M/Billionaires don't file a 1040-ez, but that's what this page is showing (before said deduction increases expire)
I have encountered too many similar comments to believe that is the case.
I'm going to gain ~$3k, they're going to lose ~$10k each. So the math doesn't work out, even if that were a viable option without getting into gift taxes.
I just filed this issue: https://github.com/brockwhittaker/House-Senate-Tax-Bills/iss...

You are not properly changing the deduction for married people. You have a single static value that gets used and is the "single" setting..

That ore I read the code completely wrong (which is always a possibility) =)
My local Cinemark recently remodeled all the rooms to have fantastic reclining seats and reserved seating. In my experience, the trendy or upscale theaters like Alamo Draft House have far worse seats and screens. If I want $10 craft beers I can buy those at a store and drink them at home. The only reason I'm going to a cinema is to have the best possible comfort, picture, and audio.
Lightning Protocol successfully tested on Bitcoin Mainnet
> Importantly, our payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen. We are working to verify the precise number of BTC taken.

That should be easy to find via the transactions. Are they still in your wallet? What's the address? If they are still in there, then use a backup key to move the BTC now. Do you have a backup of the keys?

Being that it is connected to a payment system, it's surely the hot-wallet. No mention of a cold-wallet makes it seem they've been completely wiped.

Multi-edit: Stream of consciousness
bedrock principles of American democracy

Clearances aren't democratic (nor should they be).

No idea how they can tell citizen status from the name, though. I thought the US was made up of people form all over earth with all kinds of backgrounds so one couldn't tell from their name.
Ask HN: Wrong numbers that know your first name
In the last few months I have been getting phone calls from random people asking for me by my first name, then after I acknowledge it's me they say a wrong last name, or company. Then shortly after hanging up I receive a telemarketing call.

Has anyone encountered this pattern before? Does it have a name? Is there a way to report it?

In my case I am fairly certain the company behind it is "electric cloud" Who I foolishly gave my information to at a conference. I assume they are contracting out to a third party to verify the numbers they received, but the whole thing seems very shady.
As a former research librarian I have to say please check why in the world you are going down this path. It is 100% a Wifi device that is sending new packets. There is zero chances that what you are assuming to be true would work.

They are called in the published paper "printed Wifi devices, Wi-Fi input widgets, 3D Printed Wi-Fi Smart Objects." If your smarter and see how stupid or misleading these Phds are and MIT for publishing these finding then do it. Otherwise you are basing your whole argument on incorrect presuppositions and you didn't do any due diligence to see your missing knowledge how these actually work. How in the world would you send measurements to a Wifi receiver in your laptop? You would send a measurement of test tubes to a laptop without any electronics and no dc power.

Read how this is done for measuring wind speed:

"We 3D print a cup anemometer as shown in
Fig. 2 to measure wind speeds. The entire setup is sufficiently light that even wind speeds as low as 2.3 m/s will cause it to spin. The hub of the anemometer is attached to backscatter gear that encodes an alternating sequence of zero.

I understand your missing the similarities in the projects but they are all related by the same principles. The 3D printed Wifi devices (plastic adn metal, are doing what is normally requiring circuitry.
Also: Cross products.
heh, remember when you could actually host your own website from your home connection on port 80? Dynamic DNS services, etc... ISPs put a quick end to that, though :(
SIGFOX, UNB IoT Radio Protocol Signal Analysis
I definitely feel the same way about my double-major in Math. My favorite super power that came from the degree is probably "being able to read a statistics text book". I turns out that lots of industries run on statistics. And, if you can read a boring text book that covers the statistics used in that industry, you suddenly understand why people are doing what they're doing in that industry; making you a domain expert.

Anything you can link to to read more about Karl Kempf? A quick google hits linked-in and paywalls.
I think the root issue is that PostgreSQL does not offer an HA solution that works out of the box with minimal configuration, resulting in people using broken third-party ones and/or configuring them incorrectly.

They should either provide one or "bless" an external solution as the official one (after making sure it works correctly).

The other problem is that GoCardless setup an asynchronous and a synchronous replica instead of 2 synchronous replicas (or preferably 4+), resulting in only two points of failure, which is not enough.
i have always heard that movies make most of their profit from concessions. if that is the case, i'm not at all surprised they're failing. i've always brought my own snacks because they're cheaper and/or tastier, and i rarely get given shit for it. the minute they make me feel uncomfortable about it, i stop patronizing that theatre.
I emailed their support and they said they've been acquired by another company but can't disclose the details.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe this device could be sold for $4.99 at a profit, if you count up BOM, assembly and logistics related to sending it. But given that some posters mention Amazon actually gives you $4.99 back for the first purchase, they must not be caring.

Anyway, here's a teardown I found:

https://mpetroff.net/2015/05/amazon-dash-button-teardown/

Now a surprising thing that I didn't know before - this thing has a microphone on board. Yes. Yet another Internet-connected microphone. Apparently used only to configure the button via ultrasound, but I wonder how hard would be to repurpose it...
> A complex number λ is called an eigenvalue of T if T −λI is not injective.

Uhm, what the intuition behind _that_?
Yeah but I’ll be extremely surprised if MoviePass is still in business with the same model in a couple years.
If you buy a cent/penny, you don't own a dollar. You have a particular fraction of that dollar.

If you're speaking of stock dilution, there is a hard-cap on the number of BTC in the wild and a hard-coded granularity (as I understand it) where a satoshi is a hundred millionth of a Bitcoin.
>Often I wonder if Apple has any security people at all.

It just feels like they don't since they don't let their security people have social media presences. For example, their recent hire Jonathan Zdziarski
The senate bill does not have the change which counts tuition waivers as income, so at least on the senate side of the things, this site really isn't missing that.
> Paid for logistics for reporters?

See "embedded war correspondents" from anything after Vietnam. Iraq 1 is probably still the war machine's most spectacular TV production.
Those would be very exceptional horses. And very powerful maps.
> The presumption here is that you are a team of Kent Beck's

Not really. He explicitly says 'I’m happy to write integration tests. I insist on it'; in other words Kent Beck is admitting he doesn't always know how to perfect the underlying layers' design so as to push 'integration tests' towards being unit tests. But if he's right about the nature of the distinction, ie. that apparent 'integration tests' are really a symptom of underlying design limitations, it's surely a good thing to be aware of?

There are many areas where I do know my own code is problematic, but for lack of time or competence I can't improve it now. I don't believe I would be better off not knowing there was a problem.
Have you been to the Hollywood Theater in Portland? They have a 70mm film projector something no Cinemark has. You can see movies like Dunkirk in the format the director intended.
This sounds wrong. Almost everyone had a cell phone by 2003. I remember because we all stopped subscribing to dorm landlines.

Here's a chart, population of US is 320M:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Annual_C...
Plus upcharges 'may apply':

"Valid on all regular 2D movies. Upcharges may apply for premium formats like XD, 3D or IMAX. Upcharges may apply in Cinemark reserve dine-in - 21 and over theater in Bellevue, WA and Cinemark Playa Vista and XD in Playa Vista, CA"
Don't forget passive income via pass through and capital gains . Also deductions for private jets and golf courses.
There is a list of pre-approved apps, and a method to request approval if it is not on the list. Also, there is a list of approved licenses for open source software.
It's a premature optimisation gone malignant.

It's techno-philia from the techno-ignorant.
... aaaand you are now in a list of people that the CIA wants to know more about!
I remember the day a friend explained to me that MS Word, Internet Explorer, and MS Frontpage were the same DLL just with different entry points.
Their concern is the long term consequence, not the short term benefit.

> and otherwise get people showing up for free subsidized movies while they can.
The issue comes in when the "free subsidized movies" ends, but consumers are left with the expectation that the economics of movie sales can support that model. If MoviePass's business model turns out to be unsustainable and shuts down, all of the consumers that have gotten used to it will suddenly baulk at paying retail rates again. Rates that, while discussed as expensive, were accepted as the status quo prior to MoviePass.

The alternative also isn't pleasant for the theater: The economics of MoviePass work out, but now MoviePass has the relationship with the consumer. As it gets more popular, MoviePass gets more market power to dictate discounted rates with your theater, with the implicit threat of blacklisting your theater from MoviePass locations if you don't play ball. While in theory that doesn't hurt the theater, since such a high percentage of box office revenue goes to distributors rather than to the theater, distributors won't take that squeeze either. They'll either shift back to fixed-cost film distribution (which theaters don't like, because it's risky) or start adding in more and more onerous minimum guarantees to contracts to make up the absolute dollar difference. i.e. if your distributor gets 95% of box office revenue, slashing ticket prices from $10 to $5 only costs you $0.25 in revenue but it costs them $4.75. While you can make up your very minimal lost revenue from concessions easily, they can't. They're not going to eat that quietly, no matter how much additional volume you generate.
I'm not experienced with these types of situations but my common sense is telling me that you could, and should, make a high level design presentation.

That could include snippets of code where appropriate to show exactly how decisions are being made.

This presentation will likely benefit you in the future.
To be fair, Moviepass only allows standard 2D movies - no premium formats either. So that's at least the same between the programs.
From the rest of the article:

> Factor In Deductions And Other Expenditures, And The U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Isn’t So High
Streaming movies was impossible over dial-up, and still is. But you can if you have different internet connections like DSL, Cable, Fiber, etc.

For the original bitcoin that is currently being priced at $13,000 it is indeed technically impossible to exceed 6 transactions per second. Sure you could make a new crypto protocol, but it's not "bitcoin".
> delivered for free

which is subsidized by the USPS and Chinese government using mail reciprocity agreements to ship for pennies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
Yep, I was down voted in another thread for pointing out the the same thing. 20 years ago, I had to pay tax on all my employer provided tuition assistance for graduate level classes. Even if my employer cuts a check directly to the university, it's still counted as my income.

So why should it be any different for a university as the employer? This is just a loophole being closed. Just get rid of the damned "dissertation credits" and problem solved.
US federal government is looking for a few: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/478727900
We aren't using hosted postgres (much, yet). We provision EC2 instances and self-manage it. Failover is scripted, and manually invoked as needed.

None of us trust any of the automated failover solutions enough to use them. We want human judgement in that loop, even if it means being woken at 3AM to push the button. It's that hard to get right.

Just one incident like The Fine Article's is well more than our entire infrastructure's total downtime for the rolling year, and we have hundreds of postgres instances.

Done wrong, automated failover is a net increase in risk. And, in case my thesis is somehow unclear, it's hard to get right.
It doesn't matter and for the most part will all be newly issued debt. To explain: For the first few years it will be approx 100% new debt... You can exclude college graduate deductions since that's basically a small amount compared overall spending on medicare and social security etc... THEN wait a few years for the republicans to gut SS, medicare/medicaid etc.. under the guise of shrinking the debt/deficit with maybe a balanced budget argument. At that point you could argue that they've paid for these tax cuts by making those spending cuts. However, the republicans actually really like to issue debt when it pays their backers so you won't necessarily hear the balanced budget argument unless the democrats make substantial gains (e.g. take the House or the Senate).. They may try to push spending cuts through in 2018 but they may very well wait until after the election because as an election issue it might be polarizing. 2018 will be the year of campaigns that say "hey we cut your taxes", "we stuck it to the coastal and academic liberals". We also fixed Obama care as we removed the individual mandate (which is really all that non-wealthy people hurt by the ACA care about)... so vote for us!!! And without that mandate ACA costs will rise b/c insurance co's get paid on the backend to make up the shortfalls already, so that will just increase and need to be "funded", most likely by new debt. For all of these plans, if Trump is impeached it won't matter as Pence (or Ryan if it's a 2 for 1) will continue similarly.

I only see one way out of this and that's that we need to appeal to Trump to save us. Since he desperately wants to be loved and respected by the people. The only issue is that Trump has to play ball with the Republicans or else they will impeach him, at least until Russia is out of the way. The only way to prevent that is to take back seats in the 2018 election.. but this is a tough task due to all of the gerrymandering that's gone on. If Pence or Ryan are President after the 2018 election with a democratic house basically nothing will happen. If Trump is in there might be a small chance of saving democracy. He'd have to go nuclear on the remaining republicans and may convert his base over to the more liberal populist platform to get re-elected. That's a stretch but not unimaginable.
Snapdragon 845 unveiled with 25-percent faster CPU, 30-percent faster graphics
Do you know what "overwhelmingly" means? Your anecdote about a single person (you) being able to or not being able to afford college doesn't mean anything.

The other commenter's unsourced "overwhelmingly" claim is silly but so is yours.
It is equivalent to "A complex number λ is called an eigenvalue of T if Tx = λx for some nonzero x"
Hmm, I have the sheet music that someone transcribed, and an MP3 of the midi, but not the midi itself, and I don't know how to produce one :/ I will try to ask them for the midi and get back to you, thank you.
Easy: Make them pay for the privilege, based on how much you think it’s worth you to NOT show them.