skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it doesn't apply to them. This is a popular argument from libertarians but unfortunately it is a purely ideological argument that has no basis in reality.

The aforementioned currencies are backed by the value of their issuer's economies, those economies are real.
This isn't done, as evidenced by the very different prices on each exchange. It's considered unwise to keep bitcoins on the exchange, and certain exchanges have a 'trustworthiness' premium that they charge. Presumably there's not enough capital willing to take this risk to move the markets.

People might start taking advantage of the futures market to go short btc, so exchange exposure is only limited to the time it takes to immediately move coin off exchange. Time will tell if that allows enough capital to arb the difference.
I'm not talking about hiding money. Plenty of people have had large amounts of perfectly legal and reported cash confiscated from their vehicles. They're often able to get it back eventually but only by suing. With a hardware wallet the cop can take it, but it won't make any difference.

All of which is beside the point of the actual article, which is about Russia using crypto to get past sanctions.
What was once friendly enthusiasm has become hard lines and jagged edges with organized shilling campaigns from all sides. It's quite off putting as someone who spends a lot of time in these communities. It's hard to even ask technical questions or address concerns without being named a "FUD'er", and I don't think it's changing anytime soon.
(I had to look it up)

Welt·an·schau·ung
ˈveltˌänˌSHouəNG

a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group.

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Personally I came for the faster/robust Ruby first and then over time discovered (and am still discovering) the other powerful pieces. I think that's ok.
Also learn the concept of state machines. Like how a vending machine or other embedded systems function.
Which exchange?
If anything, I am sure kremlin would do this on cryptocurrencies that support privacy - otherwise no sane business would like to accept money from a "tainted" address.
Most of the value is in the data (common login credentials). The bulk of obfuscated code is probably stuff doing the network communication and perhaps some other mundane stuff, that you can do manually (over telnet, or whatever) if you like and don't care about creating a botnet.
Yes they can, or they can use something like monero or zcash.
This only applies if they are using bitcoin. Monero, for example, is impossible to trace (with current known technologies).
I think this highlights an inherent tension between marketing and art.

When I create such and such a piece as an artist I want to present it a certain way, even down to the marketing material--I want it all to express the correct vision--i.e. there is one 'correct' promotional image for it.

Marketers, contrarily strictly have the utilitarian principle of conversion in mind--they want to manipulate my vision to make it a better fit for as wide an audience as possible and in so doing diminish and cheapen the art to target certain subsets or groups who may not actually fit the intended audience when you consider the work as a whole. Art is reduced to a profit making instrument.

That's precisely what this method attempts--cast a wider net by deceiving the fish and ignoring the wishes of the fisherman, who, only wanting trout, now gets the whole biosphere of the sea in his boat.

Its not very honest, and will probably make people upset unless the content based recommendation algorithm aligns perfectly with the image focused one (i.e. the image is only manipulated to fit your taste after it's ascertained the content as a whole and on its own fits your taste, and not only a subset of that content, i.e. one or two brief romantic scenes in a movie that has as its actual subject matter something entirely unromantic).
I believe they all beep because they want you to replace all the batteries.

I had this happen a few months ago except it wasn't a low battery alarm. It kept yelling "FIRE FIRE" but then turning off. Of course FirstAlert apparently doesn't indicate which alarm is causing it. They say the initiating one flashes a different pattern but I didn't find one. Ended up, after getting no sleep at all, replacing all 9 of them with nests. At least then if one fails I'll know which one.
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Bitcoin is not fiat; a fist currency is one whose value is based on its backing by a government (“fiat” specifically refers to the authoritative dictate of the State giving the currency value.)
Στοίχημα: Σε άνοδο Έβερτον και Φενέρμπαχτσέ
Relevant part:

> If a parent's income had no effect on a child's opportunity for future upward mobility, approximately 20% of poor children who started in the bottom quintile (in the bottom 20% of the US range of incomes) would remain there as poor adults. At the other end of income spectrum, if children were born into wealthy families in the top 20%, only 20% would stay in that top income category if their mobility opportunities were equal to every other child's in the country.

> But long-term income statistics show this isn't happening. Mobility opportunities are different for poor and wealthy children in the US. Parental incomes and parental choices of home locations while raising children appear to be major factors in that difference. According to a 2012 Pew Economic Mobility Project study[19] 43% of children born into the bottom quintile (bottom 20%) remain in that bottom quintile as adults. Similarly, 40% of children raised in the top quintile (top 20%) will remain there as adults. Looking at larger moves, only 4% of those raised in the bottom quintile moved up to the top quintile as adults. Around twice as many (8%) of children born into the top quintile fell to the bottom.[19] 37% of children born into the top quintile will fall below the middle. These findings have led researchers to conclude that "opportunity structures create and determine future generations' chances for success. Hence, our lot in life is at least partially determined by where we grow up, and this is partially determined by where our parents grew up, and so on."[20]
A related remark: there is another (rather silly) way to "geometrize linear algebra". It goes something like whenever you see a ring R, think of it as the sheaf of functions (the structure sheaf) on some space. Whenever you see a module over R, think of it as the space of sections in some vector bundle over that space. Then anything you say about modules through this admits a sheaf-theoretic version, which is often easier to picture if you're geometrically inclined.
>The supply inflates every 10 minutes, this by definition is inflation.

Precisely, I see BTC being called deflationary all the time, when really it's just not exponentially inflationary, but logarithmically.
Establish the means by which my having a million dollars' worth of bills in my hand, can get at the value of the USA economy.

If I can buy an item from Amazon or Overstock.com via Bitcoin or via Yen or via USD, explain how there is an actual difference.
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You can sell it to private investors at a discount in country.
> they don't somehow possess a special human nature that removes all the nasty emotional impetus behind crime.

It's called culture, and it is causal.
It's obviously an ideological rant of the sort that has been repeated countless times before and is just the kind of thing we don't want here! That's not because we're socialists or some other ideology, but because experience has taught us what kinds of discussions degenerate.

Even if it were "facts", which it isn't ("The snowflakes chant"?), factness is only one concern. Others include how relevant the "facts" are, how often they've been repeated, and what sort of discussion forms around them. There are infinitely many facts people might discuss, and very different intentions go into picking them. The intention we have here is for thoughtful discussion.
Over many predictions we can apply a proper scoring rule to judge calibration. It's certainly the case that we don't learn much from looking at a single prediction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule#Proper_scoring_ru...
Everybody knows Tethers are worthless, and "backed" by a flimsy promise that they are not backed by anything. I would say that this is remarkably transparent that the Emporer has no clothes. Compared to Mt Gox, which I suspected was insolvent from their actions only while the world kept on believing. This is a major improvement.
I would caution anyone reading this top-voted comment to look at any other story about crime stats in Japan. This knee-jerk response about manipulated statistics is almost always in the response. If you don’t think crime is exceptionally low in Japan, go spend a year or two outside Tokyo and get back to us.
That's really interesting! Do you happen to remember where you read about demobilized soldiers in countries, or about the possible motivation for the crusades?
Precisely. This is a strictly business focused/profit gaining feature, not a consumer feature. The consumer's actual wants and desires seem to have been entirely left out. The question "what does the customer want" is shaped for the assumption "The customer wants what will net our company more profit"
Hmm, that example is really interesting. I think you're right once we formalize L_infinity, because the goal will be to minimize the maximum possible distance. But the other scores can be phrased as penalties and minimizing expected penalty or total penalty summed over the data points, and it's not clear how to phrase L_infinity this way because the "penalty" would be infinity for any outcome...
I completely agree that it is the wild west and given certain scenarios you would not be able to reliably cash out. However, I have had no issues cashing out so far.
“Lived experience” is anecdote, which is a fine way of coming up with hypotheses about generalities, and a very bad basis for asserting any but very weak, tentative conclusions about generalities.
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It's now the spec for 3.6+.

> #python news: @gvanrossum just pronounced that dicts are now guaranteed to retain insertion order. This is the end of a long journey.

https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/941709626545864704

More here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7jyluw/dict_knownor...

OrderedDicts are backwards-compatible and are guaranteed to maintain order after deletion.
Very likely. My neighbors son has a loud as hell car and it definitely rattles my windows even when in idle.
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> How did anything get into those wallets in the first place?

I think you misunderstand the nature of freedom and rights. I don't have to explain what I did with my money. I have the presumption of innocence. You don't get to trawl through my financial records looking for a crime. You have to have probable cause that I have committed a crime, and then seek supporting evidence for it.

I think it's funny that the country with the first and second amendment is the one that has, for decades, pushed the restriction of rights in money. Americans seem to have forgotten what a right even is. With the first amendment, people aren't legally 'allowed' to say what they want. The government doesn't have the right to stop you saying what you want. With the second amendment, people aren't legally 'allowed' to have guns. The government doesn't have the right to take them away from you. For too long the surveillance state has crept in, and now there are people that believe that you have to prove your innocence. Incorrect. You have to prove I have a case to answer, and I get to protect myself from self-incrimination, and you have to prove that case beyond reasonable doubt.

That is what is so insidious about civil asset forfeiture. It is civil. Instead of proving beyond reasonable doubt that you have committed a crime, all they have to prove is the balance of probabilities. You are treated like a criminal, but it isn't you who is the criminal, it is your assets. When they don't know your assets, nor have access to your assets, because they can't just confiscate the cash out of your car, your house, or your bank, you are protecting yourself.

Law, meet bitcoin.
Absolutely that's ok. Everything's a journey.

(I tend to get lazy about learning, so perhaps I doth project too much.)
lol. Fair :-)
Then it sounds like your argument should just be "this is too risky for more than a tiny investment unless you're very secure," which I agree with.

Where I part ways is in your claim that the price is somehow illusory and it's impossible to cash out. Until recently I worked for a company that was mostly paid in crypto, and had no trouble selling it off, moving the money into a bank, and meeting payroll.

Crypto is new and the market infrastructure is immature; that means there's more risk, and also more return, just like the early days of other new asset classes that have arisen over the past century. William Bernstein wrote about this in his recent Investing for Adults series.
I agree that forfeiture is a huge problem but I’m missing what Bitcoin adds to this versus, say, just not keeping large quantities of cash. I don’t hear about cops running charges on people’s cards, for example.
In the case where the base ring R is a field (all of typical linear algebra), then the space associated to it is a point. So a vector bundle over this point is just a vector space, so we didn't really gain any extra geometry here - if you want a way of picturing linear algebra geometrically, you still need some other idea.
Crypto market cap doesn't mean the same thing as the market cap of a stock, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless. It approximates the total amount of wealth currently held in the form of a particular crypto, which is interesting to know in comparison to more traditional asset classes (stocks, bonds, gold, etc) as well as to other cryptos. If you also have some knowledge or an assumption about the velocity of money in the crypto, it also gives you an indication as to the total amount of commerce that can be facilitated by the crypto at its current valuation.
See, my obnoxious questions are awesome :-p

Actually, I came here to post the correction rodorgas beat me to posting. But your diagram works too: 1/2 base * height… nice.
I do really wish I could tell Netflix about things I never want to watch.
I think many Americans (especially younger ones) are at the point where they are jaded by the act of voting. Sure, I can cast a vote for someone, but what difference does it make in changing the government? The government isn't like some small-town legislature where single people can stand up and closely represent their fellow citizens. Everyone is taking money from someone at the end of the day to get elected, and that someone is rich people. Us "normal people" are worthless to political representatives at the end of day - it doesn't matter what the party is. Honestly, getting votes from people is just a formality for elected officials at this point, and once elected, all the attention goes to the rich people that financed the campaign in order to "pay them back".
I don't think openssl in phronix benchmarks use armv8 instructions, which makes those benchmarks unfair. There are benchmarks on cloudfare with openssl-devel, with hardware armv8, where arm performed decently. We have to wait and see how this pine64 does.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/
Though that does remove a lot of the incentive for the IoT company to change anything.
It’s one thing the parties can agree on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clint...
But my point is that I can already take away someone's due process.

I say "this person is awful to work with. Don't hire them".

And they won't get hired, 99% percent of the time.

And I can do all of this in my word alone, without and judge jury or trial.

Society already says that this is ok in hiring. Nobody is going to go around saying "you can't accuse someone of that and prevent them from being hired! That is he said she said!".
Wow, downvotes for stating the facts. I couldn't care less for votes but would still like if someone care to explain what is wrong with my statements?
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I'm not so simple-minded to think that when I pay taxes I can relate to a billionaire having to pay taxes
The powerful does not earn income, they seize the fortune, and those are not subject of tax system.

Let’s see how richer the trump family will become after the presidency...
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Or it was what they want you to believe.
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You have to pay your taxes with USD, so there's always a base demand for USD. Bitcoin has no intrinsic demand. It can go to zero because nobody needs it.
To give a real life example, the other day I bought about $2,000 worth of a crypto asset, which caused a ~20% spike in price and raised the market cap by ~$5M.

I'd say what the asset is, but I can't because if literally only one other person reading this decided to buy some then I effectively wouldn't have the option to buy more of it.
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What's its biggest use case now? Funding ERC20 ICOs?
Not really. Inflation reduces the value of money, but not assets. A wealth tax would tax assets as well.
At my secondary school a girl stabbed my hand with the tip of a pencil (which is still there under the skin).

You don’t need hot glue guns to do damage to each-other.
I'm not sure small ISPs are a viable business model like it was in 10-20 years ago, but if you want to build a small regional ISP, I don't think peering relationships are going to be the problem, you can simply purchase transit bandwidth from the big guys. To do that cost effectively you do need to be renting rack space at a carrier hotel though.

The really hard part is the layer-2 last-mile infrastructure to end users. For the most part this means dealing with the local incumbent telco (leasing copper/fiber/DSL/ATM backhaul) or building your own wireless infrastructure. Except in rare circumstance I think the regulatory environment is going make it infeasible to build out your own physical infrastructure to compete with the telco or with the local cable franchise.

Google Fiber was an attempt to roll out a new last-mile infrastructure and it hasn't faired well. It isn't going to be easy to disrupt the last-mile infrastructure market.
"replace bitcoin with gold" and you'd have a different article. One of the two has a many-thousand-year history of liquidity, and a lot more market demand and trading (on regulated exchanges) today.
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Research for those interested: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05627
can you spot me to this unreasonable assumptions?
Unfortunately MathJax is a bit large and nontrivial to host yourself. And it recently switched to being hosted on cloudfare instead of mathjax.org.

I struggled with this choice myself and so far, decided to do the same as the author with a noscript tag to explain to the reader why I'm loading cloudfare code.
The tragedy is that for hundreds if not thousands of years half the population has had their voice muted and ability to contribute intellectually hamstrung
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@patrick

Every American participating in that economy must pay taxes every year on their income. The taxes must be paid in US dollars, even if the economic activity uses a different currency or barter. Therefore Americans must come up with a quantity of USD proportional to the size of the American economy every year (or "go to prison"), and provided that the total amount of USD in existence is bounded (this part is the job of central banks) this places a floor on the value of USD. This story is necessarily simplified but I think essentially true.

There is an old saying that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Likewise, a fiat currency is a currency with a taxing authority.

Gold, on the other hand, is just valuable because it is expensive to produce and has a long history of being valuable. So that model can work.
Bbr is about high bandwidth latency product network with low error rate.

Any window based retransmission protocol just breaks under high error rate, that what happens in wireless links.
Off topic to the discussion, but you hit on something that struck a nerve with me so I'm going to go with it . . .

Oh good God, this happens to me every time one of my smoke alarm batteries starts to go. I have 6 smoke detectors and an older home where they're not all wired/battery back-up but rather all battery powered.

The "chirp at 90 second interval" thing is the worst design in the universe and it bites me every time. If I didn't know any better -- since there is no clock device and these things are not networked in any way -- I'd swear they are also programmed to only start chirping between the hours of 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. I've lived here 10 years. I have never had one of these fail in the morning, middle of the day or afternoon; only in the middle of the night. Hunting down the one of the six devices that is failing with its way-too-infrequent chirp that's so high-pitched, only a dog could figure out where it's coming from, is made extra fun when you're in the fantastic mood that being awoken from a pleasant dream in the middle of the night and have the joy of hunting it down in your boxers in a cold house.

How much more complicated would it have been to also include a visual indicator. The things have an LED on them that continues to blink as the battery dies. Why not also have it either stop blinking (to conserve battery) or blink faster -- anything to make it easier to identify which of the infernal, identical, devices is in need of a 9-volt.

Thankfully, they're due for replacement this year. Now I have to research which of the models that are available handle this circumstance with a little more intelligence (that don't cost a hundred bucks a pop). This is such an easy-to-solve problem -- I don't want a "smart smoke detector", I want a $25 one that A) detects smoke and B) reports when it needs other attention in a way that is useful. Heck, I'd pay an extra $10 for the latter feature even knowing it would cost them no more than the "dumb chirp" method.

There was a very bad house fire a few miles from me about a year ago and the person who lived there died in their sleep while the fire raged. The rumor was that the home had a bunch of smoke detectors without batteries in it and it was spread through our neighborhood as a "cautionary tale". I'm willing to bet there's a story of being woken up in the middle of the night for a battery change chirp in there somewhere.
> The supply inflates every 10 minutes, this by definition is inflation.

Well, it's inflation of the money supply, but (while certain fringe groups confuse the issue) that's not what “inflation” alone normally refers to, which is instead price inflation, which is approximately inflation in the ratio of money supply to the utility-weighted size of the market.
Which is probably also why it would be hard to implement :)

Also I'm not sure discouraging invests is a good side effect..

But it's an interesting thought nonetheless.
'approximate' is the key word as it's averaged over exchanges which is a big difference to standard market prices, as mentioned in the article:

> Quoting a number like “$19699.46” to seven significant figures when your data’s got a 5% spread would get your high school physics teacher slapping you upside the head. It’s entirely deceptive. It should say something like “$19,700 plus or minus $500 depending,” and that line graph should be a thick grey bar.