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I wonder, what are these exchanges like GDAX, BitMex etc. doing with their dollar/euro/etc. reserves?

They obviously need to keep dollars on hand in order to cash everyone out. But what if Bitcoin goes up in price? If there is a run on the exchange later they may have to sell their bitcoins on the spot market to cash people out.

Banks reinvest money held into loans and other speculative investments. But what do you do when as an excuange / market maker you stand ready to buy and sell at any time?

Here is my concern: while it was just two guys meeting up to exchange $ for bitcoin, the $ kept circulating. But these exchanges may be locking up more and more USD just so they have enough to cash people out on demand. As a result, there is a real transfer of wealth to bitcoin and USD is getting frozen in exchanges.

If this continues for 5-10 years more, wouldn't bitcoin become millions of dollars and bitcoin holders would be able to buy up anything vs dollar holders? One bitcoin holder could buy half of NYC already, and who can stop them?
I doubt the casinos are going to care too much if you're bringing in recreational drugs.
> Thin air from France, thin air from Japan

That reminds me of "Perri-Air" from the movie Spaceballs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbIrb7LUJA
She outed all the tech bros!! awesome.
It ranges from bugs to missing features.

When you import UTF-8 encoded CSV file, you cannot scroll the preview, since todays update. In previous versions, it would crash Excel.

You cannot connect to PostgreSQL, unless you use a "blessed" ODBC driver. The one from EnterpriseDB, which works will all other Mac ODBC apps, will make Excel crash. So will your own build from odbc.postgresql.org, no matter which version you try.

There are exactly none of the Power* or Inquire features from the Windows Excel.
Probably not a infrastructure capacity issue but a limited amount of cryptocurrency in a hot wallet for transactions.
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I'd assume its windows native, considering it can run without the WSL.
I don't agree with any kind of hero worship or 'thank you for your service' either! It makes me cringe.

But it really doesn't make any sense to argue that 'it's just a job'. That's simply technically wrong.

A soldier is subject to a whole additional legal system to civilians. They can go to prison if they don't do the work they're told to do. They can go to prison if they leave before their contract is us. They can be told to do something that they know will get them killed. None of these things are anything like any other job.
Uber isn't publicly traded, so its stock price couldn't have "started crashing."

Large investors aren't able to sell because they hold their shares in LLCs. They're able to sell because selling rights are part of the terms they negotiated as part of their agreement to invest. The form of ownership has nothing to do with it, and indeed the use of an LLC as a holding company for corporate stock usually complicates the legal and tax considerations for the sale of stock held by the LLC.

Also not sure why you're including a disclaimer? You're not offering any sort of advice so you don't need to disclaim anything.
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Keep an eye on http://archiveteam.org/ on how to participate in archiving it.
lol, that PDF is referencing Spark 1.3 from March 2015 and to say that you need 12 modern Spark machines to break-even with one machine running a non-distributed ML framework is ridiculously wrong. And he wan Spark on EMR, which was pretty unoptimized back then.
Still waiting for C99 to happen. If they dedicated just a fraction of the effort put into C#, VB.Net, and PowerShell we could have had a proper, modern C frontend written from scratch.
For the record I only see the programming language #, neither of the other two.
It is a bubble. In fact I'd venture so far as to say it's a Ponzi scheme. But in any successful Ponzi scheme, the early investors actually get a huge payout. I don't regret investing in it one bit.
They key thing about pyramids/MLM is that the growth is based entirely on getting more investors i.e. people who are putting money in with the intention of getting money out later (this also included MLM sellers who have to buy product upfront). Whereas a non-pyramid grows because it has more non-investor users, or some other source of revenue from people who don't plan to take that money out later.
All of that is true of Bitcoin as well.

Litecoin has more potential for pumping though because it can be pitched as a better Bitcoin, which will cause a mania in the masses who missed out on Bitcoin the first time, leading to a much more powerful rise in price in a shorter period of time.

I’m telling you, this is it!
I read the article. When I was making "would say" statements I was merely copying the expression parent used.

Facts are that black people commit more crimes. These are not fake crimes, these are real crimes. This obviously makes it very probable that they'll have issues with the cops, including shootings.

It's very simple, groups that commit more crimes, do get shot more often than others by cops.

Yes, there are instances of obvious cop racism and bad judgement but these are instances, not an epidemic.
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I had the same experience.

I knew I was covering my college tuition and even in 2000, I couldn't understand how I could ever afford out of state tuition and room and board. I had near perfect grades and solid test scores, but the financial obligation scared the hell out of me and I had no idea private schools handed out big scholarships for good students.

I ended up staying in town and going to my local state college and had a good experience, but I completely missed out on the prospect of going to a top university where I would meet other ambitious and curious people. I worked part-time to full-time for four years to pay for my tuition, and it was tough. I wish I could've been immersed in college and academia and even college-life, but the cost just felt like a huge barrier when I was 18 years old.

TL;DR: I fear poorer people may be more afraid to attend college because of the costs, causing an even greater gap between the haves and have-nots.
I heard they wanted to use the ps extension but that has long been used for PostScript, and though very few Windows users use PostScript files directly they still didn't want to step on those toes. Particularly, they were very cautious about using anything that looked like an existing file extension because they didn't want it to be an easy vector for malware to confuse users. ps1 doesn't step on any toes, at least, and looks weird enough to an average computer user that they might hesitate to double click one.
Alongside is an apt description. It feels a bit like running Linux in a Docker container.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has it's own directory in the Windows filesystem that corresponds to /. It's uses some NTFS magic to store the Linux file attributes that don't directly correspond to NTFS file attributes.

It also, within the Linux environment, mounts your host drives under /mnt.

For what I generally use the OSX terminal for, WSL probably hits about 80-90% of my use cases. A lot of lower level utilities have weird issues - e.g., 'ip addr' seems to present the Windows network interfaces as though they were typical Linux ones, 'ss -a' gives a bunch of netlink errors, dmesg says "dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Function not implemented", 'tcpdump' doesn't work, etc. On the other hand, curl, scp, ssh, etc do exactly what you'd expect.
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Already happened basically!
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This is the exact opposite of my experience.

I've been bombarded with pro-NN propaganda from most of my friends, and none of them are engineers, or programmers, or live even remotely near SV.
Your theory is someone accidentally brought their gun with them. So they figure: "I might as well just shoot up the place since I anyway have a gun?"
What do you mean by VM?

I don't think there's a virtual machine in Go.
Why is that a concern? Obviously you can fool the system into thinking you have a gun, but I don't think casino's will have any qualms in banning fake-guns.
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It's a letter. Come on.
Being online isn't a business. stripe.ian.sh does not compete with stripe.com, and there's zero risk of consumer confusion between these two websites. Stripe.com has no case for trademark infringement.
True, I was just speaking in general.
There was an unintentional fork on August 15, 2010, when "[an] attacker exploited [an] integer overflow bug that permitted an attacker to create several billion bitcoins". [source][0]

There was an unintentional fork on March 12, 2013 caused by previously disallowed number of tx inputs (?) as resolved by [BIP50][1].

[0]: https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/02/26/a-brief-history-of-bi...
[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
>Hard-forked? Never. But you don't need to hard-fork to secure the network.

I think the point was about vulnerability + hard-fork due to disagreement a la Ethereum Classic
Your source says:

"It was caused by unusually high amounts of ice late in the season, meaning adults had to travel further for food.

[...]

WWF says a ban on krill fishing in the area would eliminate their competition"

Not that I find that any more trustworthy than your post, but it pretty much claims the opposite explanation (you claimed warmer waters lead to more jellies which eat the krill).
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A lot of people have a ton of btc and don't really view it as real money
Actually, I agree that the RegD numbers are arbitrary. They should be much higher: they haven't tracked inflation. A person with 200k in annual income in 2017 is by no means necessarily in a position where they can safely invest in securities that have exempted themselves from disclosure requirements to their investors.
Why would the ACLU care? It's a private entity doing a private thing. It's not like it's the TSA, a government agency, gate keeping a public form of travel.
libertarians will tell you that that's on you for not understanding the risks involved, but that's a heartlessness and antisocial position to take.

instead, potential startup employees can educate themselves a bit on how options are a risky derivative investment in the startup you work for. there's really no need for the bitterness in your post once you can properly account for them (they're like lottery tickets that are only mostly, but not completely, up to chance).

if you know some quantitative finance, you can (approximately) value the options (binomial and black-scholes are commonly taught in b-school), but it's really easy to miss important valuation factors that will throw your valuation way off.

for example, preferred shares bought by investors could have (very unfriendly) participating preferred clauses that discount the value of your common shares. you can value that, but you'd need to be pretty good about forecasting the future value of the company to get it right.

a simpler approach is to do a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation like this: i've noticed (completely anecdotally) that startups will give you options at the current valuation that if the company has a good outcome, will net you about 1-5 years worth of salary in the end. if my salary is $100K and i believe the chances of this startup succeeding is 20% (this is the hand-wavy part), my options are worth $20-100K in 5-7 years when the startup exits.

or if you're risk averse, you'll completely discount the value of the options in comp negotiations. that's different by the way from scornful statements like "options have no value" where you're completely surrendering your agency in the matter. in this case, you acknowledge your risk tolerance and account for it.
The Xbox and PlayStation appeal to a different audience, one more in tune with how gaming works. The Wii appealed heavily to non-gamers.

PlayStation is easy. One, two, three, four. Not hard to tell the difference. Xbox is a bit stranger, but still easy to tell apart because against its numbered and we’re used to numbered things being different from each other.

But Microsoft is headed down a Wii U-like path with the Xbox One... even as a gamer (who admittedly doesn’t own an Xbox), I have no idea if the Xbox One S is newer than the Xbox One X or what the difference actually is, and it’s not intuitive that the Xbox One S is actually appreciably different than the Xbox One other than being smaller.

Sony may find themselves in a similar pickle if people stop buying PlayStation 4 games because they’re unsure if they work on their PlayStation 4 Pro Or vice versa.
> what remains is pure profit and you can't lose money.

Except to inflation ;). But adjust for inflation and selling enough to cover that gets you back the initial investment and also you don't lose money.
That’s reasonable, but maybe the answer is to dismantle the additional legal framework about that industry? I’ve not seen any desire to do so, but that doesn’t mean the conversation isn’t worth having.
I locked in gains with LTC a few weeks ago like a rube thinking there was going to be a correction :( Locked in some good gains but missed on 70 thou plus USD....sigh...gotta keep trying though right?
Being able to sell shares would imply it's a public company, not a private one, right?
Might be, I would have prefered something like psh, but it is just nitpicking anyway.
You can keep them in perpetuity.

UBS is only holding those shares for you under your own name (a key distinction from having a structure where the shares are actually owned by UBS and you legally own a part of UBS' contract with you).

In the worst case you can ACATS transfer your position to another brokerage (I did this with stock resulting from exercised options). I imagine there are federal laws regarding protecting your equity holdings (cash is more at risk than equity in this regard since they lend it away I think?)
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> Instead of using a cloud provider

As I understand, we tried using AWS to power key infrastructure but ran into scalability/cost issues. We still use 3rd providers for various things but my understanding is that a lot of this eng work is to reduce the costs incurred from these services.

I do agree though, as a new hire, that the culture here is quite a bit on the NIH side, compared to a more traditional software shop.
Cold wallets don't scale, and that's the entire point of them.

"Hot Wallets" can be hacked, because they're connected to the whole system. "Cold Wallets" are offline, and require human intervention to transfer money into and/or out of.

Figuring how much money to keep in the "Hot Wallet" is a tradeoff in services, convenience, and security.
Why should a global decentralized currency be beholden to local regulation?

I guess the lesson is to do a fair launch and run nicehash to control a large percentage of the network. Then you don't have to abide by SEC regulation as the coin does not represent a centralized organization.
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I'm disappointed in us, HackerNews. A thread about an ICO being shut down and most people in the thread are luke-warmly celebrating the SEC. Is this the compassion, sophisticated society we're working to build?

The SEC, like the rest of the state, is focused on keeping wealth in the hands of the wealthy. This action does not protect anyone's freedom or agency. Instead, it ensures that the only people who benefit from good ICOs (and none of us can now know if Munchee was going to be one) are "accredited investors". This is an insidious phrase which simply means "have a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence."

This is just another action to divide-and-conquer by class. The internet will not tolerate these hijincks; it will simply shift economy and influence elsewhere. But will we?
Because there simply aren't enough names. Trademark doesn't care if you use the name Ford, for example, as long as you don't use it to sell cars. They care about "name + line of business", not just about "name".
Yes the analogy to an OS is good. Many language comparisons sadly miss this because they just look at Smalltalk through a 'programming language' lens and only see at a slice of the Smalltalk system.

Interestingly there is an Pharonos project (maybe defunct now?) http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/mikefilonov/pharonos
Tulips were sold before the mania, just like Bitcoins were.
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>and still SEC considers it self to have jurisdiction over the transactions that grown-up individuals do.

Umm, isn't that the entire purpose of the SEC or even more broadly the purpose of all contract, finance, and commerce laws? Just because someone is moving bits around instead of pieces of paper doesn't mean the law doesn't apply to them.
There is a diversity of approaches. Some companies let anything through. Some want to speak to the newcomer first. Some aggressively exercise their rights of first refusal, or outright block sales, while providing internal tenders for employees. Uber stands somewhat alone in doing none of those things.
I'm not kidding when I say that you would be surprised at the size of the market for canned air. I made this same joke several years ago and then looked into it and was blown away.
Because they are graphically striking, lush.

Also they are magical objects. A visible shout of power.

Speaking as an artist, it's low hanging mangos on a silver platter. Of course we're gonna do them.
I should add. I always use a GUI like SourceTree for staging. With the command line it's much less fun.
Put it in a sandbox without network access. https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap might be worth looking at for that. It also has the added benefit of reducing the attack surface of running w3m on untrusted content.
And yet anyone can buy 3x leveraged ETF/ETNs and not understand how the products are structured.
Some of those products, due to the structure, will always lose value over time as the futures used to replicate them are normally in contango.

So some financial products where they will always drift to zero are fine, but investments in companies that have a chance to profit aren't allowed.
I’d expect to be treated by the NHS in the same way

Except that a soldier can't even expect that (yes RAF I know but still) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11892935/RAF-...
The question is which is the worse bubble Bitcoin or Litecoin?
And the Surface devices are even as expensive as a similar MacBook.
The most obvious difference between cryptocurrencies and tulips is that tulips existed centuries before their rise. These coins are based on an effectively new technology. If you want to compare it to a bubble, compare it to the dotcom boom. How the tulip argument continues to be peddled on HN escapes me.
Yeah, this is the dilemma, but can't beat yourself up too much over it. I mined my first bitcoin in February 2011 just out of interest in this cool experiment, not expecting it to go anywhere. I've always had a bit of btc in reserve but every time there's a big jump the impulse is "Better sell out of this silly bubble while I can". People who imagine that they'd have $50M today neglect that they'd most likely have had a similar reaction when it was $20, $100, $500, and so on, and it's unlikely they would've held a substantial portion until it hit $20k.

I think the part that's hard is that there is a stickiness to hype. Hype starts as baseless hype, but the belief and interest of others is frequently enough to sustain a company or project that has nothing of actual benefit to offer. This makes it hard to dismiss hype-fueled bubbles entirely. There's a circular effect somewhere here that converts the initial baseline hype into value just by the sheer force of will of "true believers".

This applies not only to bitcoin/litecoin, but also companies, software, and all sorts of other things. Generating hype, goodwill, and other mostly-positive forms of human attention is inarguably more valuable to a project or venture's long-term lifecycle than providing actual objective value. Get enough attention or interest on something and any objective value that may potentially exist is liable to materialize, at least in part.
I think the big question here is what the crash will settle at for the big 3: BTC/ETH/LTC. Thoughts?
You know they will. But they should have no basis as this is an unregulated market and global, so local governments will have no incentive to socialize the losses of foreign citizens.

Governments need to quickly enforce suitability guidelines along the lines of accredited investor status asap (I believe some countries already working on this.) Some would argue this is unfair, but people just getting by have no business playing in this wild west.
People don’t want a different or meaningful coin.

They just want a better Bitcoin.
Typically, when RSUs vest, shares (which you can sell just like any other shares) go into a brokerage account with some percentage of shares automatically sold to cover your estimated tax liability.
Hey, we've toned down the 'destroying society' shtick, Facebook insists
> Take a crypto vulnerability everyone assumes has been eradicated for years

I wish!

https://twitter.com/veorq/status/683360050199552001
Usually there isn't any risk in this scenario but thanks to cboe rules that cap volatility at 20%, there is quite a bit of risk hidden here. Say, you buy btc and short the future. If btc drops by 30% in a day, future trading will be halted at 20% which means that you can lose money if it is an expiry day. Also, CBOE and your btc exchange aren't linked. So you will have to put up additional margin when btc goes up and your future is losing money.
>your transaction may be silently dropped, and even without may require multiple hours for confirmation

specifically, after 72 hours if it's not confirmed. but your wallet will continually rebroadcast the transaction, so it's not a hard limit.
RSUs vs ISOs > before a priced round (83b is cheap at this point), and after you're a massive company, say $2-5B range (option upside is too small so you put a double trigger vest clause in to protect employees from taxes on illiquid shares)
Anything Ethereum does can be done as a Bitcoin sidechain.
A true 100x engineer and a really nice guy.
"Free traffic to MEO apps already included in your tariff" - and the music app costs 6.99/mo per user. That is one way to drive customer adoption I guess.

I don't really want this. I just want...bandwidth.
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Your mom's bubble is worse.
Two decades ago you had to fiddle with config.sys, autoexec.bat and win.ini too. Do you still judge Windows based on that experience?

Otherwise, multi-monitor setup is plug-and-play. I even have an anecdote, where Thinkpad with Fedora saved a meeting ;)
Do you think it's better for the economy overall if they are not regulated by the SEC?
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This is pretty well executed. Straightforward presentation of the impact and plan, ample time to deal with it, and no BS.
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Eth is at $630 right now, so unless I'm misunderstanding something, you'll have made money.