skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important not to conflate the present issues with the eventual issues. Eventually, ETH will be an immediate and decentralized distributed value network with extremely low to nonexistent processing fees.

When we are dealing with money, trustlessness means not asking permission. It also means you can review what the code is doing before sending your valuable money to it. We also get a global headless processing center for free.

I think you should re-evaluate your opinions on eth. But, maybe you are right and people are ok with throwing their money into a centralized repository. Maybe visual sourcesafe will make a comeback as well.
Ask HN: How ‘minimum’ was your Minimum Viable Product?
How much time did you spend building it before marketing it to others? Did anyone at any point refuse to buy it/use it/take it seriously due to UI or lack of features?
For a second I thought you found something I didn’t know about git but then I realized I dismissed notes out of hand. They’re not managed automatically so it’s pointless for me to try to sell a large team on using them. We already work with multiple repos and doubling the workflow won’t be appreciated.

And if I recall isn’t it a pain to add additional notes?
Simple. Don't use Safari or any browser that makes the users dumb by making it "friendly" to make them vulnerable to things like this. It's not that EV is broken - it's the bad UX decisions and the mentality behind it.
There is a bunch of work happening with Ethereum to address the scalability problem, namely Proof of Stake and Sharding as well as complimentary systems like Raiden that use the main blockchain for dispute resolution and not every payment. I expect 2018 to be a busy year for Ethereum development!
They filed a Reg D exemption, which is different from a registration, but allows you to legally offer securities if you comply with a narrow set of restrictions.
Likely same reason as for the Apple Store's policies. The market of family- and children-friendly content is huge, so these platforms do not want to have any dark stuff associated to them.

Either way, that also leaves a hole, that is, an opportunity for other services.

The possibility to target ads to the the very specific taste of single individuals is very recent and, I would argue, not fully mastered yet.
Companies are registered at the state level, but names are trademarks that are overseen at the federal level. The real Stripe could probably sue and force a change of name due to trademark infringement, especially since the fake Stripe's primary business seems to be online as well. The real Stripe probably couldn't sue and force a change if someone registered another Stripe, Inc. in a different state who paints lines on roads or something.
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I'd argue that, though this is an advert for a job, the reason it was posted here was for its news/interest value - the people reading it are unlikely to be applicants.
Similarly, the fact that Steve Jobs pitched his devices as great things while not allowing it to his child (IIRC) makes me a bit sad about the whole situation, myself included.
Windows 10 is the exception by the way, the hotkeys for windows management are wonderfully executed — and, well thought out. Worth giving it a try.
It's currently the best way to withdraw out of bitfinex.
Please don't react to comments that break HN's guidelines by breaking them yourself; we all need to be more disciplined than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> people really only watched if they were super into anime around 2000-2004

That's me! My friend who got me into anime had watched Lain in fansub, but he took "not for sale or rent" very seriously and taped over it as soon as it got picked up for US distribution. As a result, it's one of the first things I ever watched on DVD instead of VHS.
> it means the organization exists for a purpose other than profit

The guy making $4 million/year in salary doesn't seem to have gotten that memo.
The sports finance landscape changes too dramatically for you to link 3 or 4 year old articles as present-day fact. Even GPs link is two years old and there have been big revenue jumps since then. I wish we had clearer numbers for college football programs alone for present day revenue numbers with current TV deals. Is there a recent link with just football program revenue vs expenditures? I can't find one.
Not always. Seems like under some conditions Chrome is interpreting it as a drag no matter what I do. Seems to depend on the window size, or maybe what monitor I have it on...
Interesting,

Does it makes sense to do statistical analysis on near-misses like it is done in experimental science in order to find if it is just a coincidence or if it warrants more attention?

For example: estimate the entropy of a formula and compare it to the error margin.
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Heh, yea, fair point. No idea why I was being downvoted for bringing it up... maybe the planned obsolescence comment?
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> I would've gone the hyper-v route, that comes with Windows 10 pro, doesn't it?

There's 2 huge things missing from the Hyper-V integration client (LIS) when running Linux with a GUI in a VM which makes it a non-starter:

1) There is no cut and paste between Windows and a Linux Hyper-V VM.

2) There is no way to resize a Linux Hyper-V VM window. The most you can do is to set it at boot time and the max size is 1920x1080.

Kind of a pity since Hyper-V itself works very well.
Based on what do you think Google is pushing off political context they do not like? We can see the screen here that there is nothing like that. Would suggest your allegation is untrue and Google is doing g nothing like you suggest and is the exact opposite.
Bernie Madoff began his Ponzi scheme in the early 1970s (source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2012/10/03/inside-the...)

He ran a scam for almost 40 years right under the nose of regulators and Wall Street.

Rentech may 100% legit, but absence of criminal convictions is not proof.
>Strong economic network effects are inherent, and lasting competition has only been present under very strict regulation.

Any examples?
I can't help but remember what an amazing value my 8-core Mac Pro 2,1 was (at least in US dollars). Those days are long past.
Why would your ICO have been worth anything at all during an acquisition? If it isn’t tied to equity in the company (to avoid securities violations) then what exactly would have given it value in an acquisition? Who would have bought it from you for more money and why?
They hired too many, too fast. When I was there, the whole thing was chaos. Instead of using a cloud provider, they are building basic infrastructure because engineers have to do something.

Beyond the obvious HR issues that Susan Fowler exposed, it was a bad place to work for almost any engineer. I would stay far away if you get an offer there.
Sewer lines underground can be a complete nightmare and post earthquake Christchurch had an hell of a time with liquefaction.
Having sewage come out the ground with every aftershock is nasty, and the aftershocks lasted well over a year with 10,000+ and hundreds of thousands of tons of silt produced.

Japan has a lot of reclaimed land too and this ground is vastly more prone to the problem.
It's basically "think of the children!" except you extend childhood to all of life. Perfect, really.
Powershell has short default aliases for its verbose builtins, and most parameters have short versions as well.

For instance, "%" is an alias for ForEach-Object, "ls" for Get-ChildItem, etc. And you can of course define your own.
98% of their funds are stored offline in a cold wallet. I bet they exhausted their hot wallet supply.

https://www.coinbase.com/security?locale=en-US
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I would encourage you to look into other alt coins for human to human value transport. My personal favorites are raiblocks and smartcash, but there are many others. Eth can even be used very effectively.

Litecoin has a cool name, a good position on the charts, and all of the same issues that bitcoin has.
A lot of emotion with LTC. People are downloading Coinbase and buying LTC simply because it is the cheapest on Coinbase. This is definitely a bubble, really cant deny that anymore. All emotional, non-rational behavior.
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I don't know where to read, but it seems to me that end of the 90s, TV shows (real and anime) became less episode based but got a whole story arc, like we know from current TV shows like "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire".

I always hear people talking about how "The Sopranos" was the first TV show that did this, but anime like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Cowboy Bebop" came out years before it.
haven't noticed that at all.
When I get home maybe I can take some screen shots. Maybe it will illustrate what I'm talking about.

I take your point about flexibility and you're 100% correct on the gaming aspect.
What Is the Howey Test? - FindLaw

http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey...

"The final factor of the Howey Test concerns whether any profit that comes from the investment is largely or wholly outside of the investor's control. If so, then the investment might be a security. If, however, the investor's own actions largely dictate whether an investment will be profitable, then that investment is probably not a security."

Howey Test
https://youtu.be/9lTS1Zofw8w
Interesting argument, but it doesn't explain how MS and especially Sony get away with it every few years.
I wasn’t trying to write it off, but I was trying to be funny.

To your point, I wonder what happens to people psychologically when they have to be ‘on’ all the time. We’ve built up too much of a culture of judgementalism and one of the aspects of recording everything is that everyone knows your business. It’s like living in a small town. Which, incidentally, a lot of people move to the city so they could just be treated as a random person when they go into a store instead of Betty and Charlie’s boy.
Leaks, secrecy, demonetization, ... ?? Jezz, relax.

Google/YouTube is just changing their policies for content and ads. It is absolutely comprehensible. It means lots of dollars.

Whining youtubers should adapt. Period. And if they are still not happy, then switch to another social media platform. Or for that matter create a new one.

"Secret YouTube Meeting"... what a stupid concept.
No, I've just been involved in capital raises and several public ones. People are more interested in other people that were involved with Ivy League.

How do you feel about that?
If this* isn't the very definition of a public bubble, I don't know what is :)

* Neophytes buying whatever they can put their hands on, because... mania
issue resolved. :D
Won't it be plagued by the same problems once the transaction numbers go high? It has 4x capacity, but I don't think that'll be enough for long.
Disconnect just a little bit
That ship has sailed. Save your money so you can afford a time machine. :)

But one to watch is https://www.telco.in/
> I hope that these actions clear house of the scams

Wouldn't the scams just get launched from other countries that don't have to care about the SEC?
I would argue Monero is the first stop before the coins figure out a more environmentally friendly method, because the killer feature of a currency is anonymity.

I don't know much about ethereum though, does it offer anonymity functions of some sort?
Having never been a part of an MLM, I would say the key difference is that there is no obligation to buy product.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Don't find that UK's defence is hiring a wargames designer is curious?
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Have seen this far too often. I was at a successful UK based startup very early on, so my strike price was pennies. Those who joined a year or two later were looking at strike prices in excess of £30 with hundreds shares. Recent investment rounds put the share price at around £120, but as always current employees can't sell until a full sale or IPO.

The result? A swell of employees who want to leave/move on but can't afford to buy their shares and leave. It's lead to a number of people just hanging around, even when their enthusiasm and passion is waining.

Not what options are designed for!
You're misunderstanding the term "profit" in the legal phrase "non-profit."

I'm not defending high salaries at all non-profits. Yes, some people are overpaid despite being at a non-profit. But don't be confused about what the term "non-profit" means.
Yeah, healthy competition and choice of providers seems like the real solution to me. Solve that and NN doesn't matter, plus you solve a bunch of other problems as well.

NN just feels like a distraction, driven by incredibly manipulative and overhyped propaganda.
Ethereum (for example) can be used to pay if the contract is fulfilled (e.g an intense computation job.)

1. You need to be able to verify that the other party is honest

2. When the data is intensive, you need to make sure that the computation is opaque to the computer. This is still an active research area, I believe. One of the keywords I associate with it is homomorphic encryption. Alternatively, consensus or verification can be done, with other zero-knowledge proofs or something similar perhaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
As soon as I can experiment with programming an EOS or Cardano smart contract I'll be happy to comment on their viability, but as far as I can figure out you can't, or at least no one is doing it.

Ethereum has a working smart contract on the foundation website, as well as an online compiler to test with.
This also deters entrepreneurship from otherwise less established entities. The risk with regulations like this is that in attempting to keep out the scammers, you also end up keeping out smaller by otherwise completely authentic entities.

In the worst case you end up keeping out smaller players, yet the scammers find creative ways around the system. Take, for instance, patents. They were initially envisioned as a way for independent inventors to ensure their ideas were not stolen. But a century of absurdly complex rules and regulations paired with extreme fees mostly keeps out very small scale inventors. On the other hands, the scammers are seemingly as active as ever and completely inappropriate patents are still regularly granted. So what have we truly accomplished?
Indeed. Same here. Either way competition will only make the cryptoassets and tools better.
They're not a MLM because there isn't the "pyramid" aspect. If I buy bitcoin at $10 and sell it to you at $100, then I don't get a percent of your sales going forward or anything like that. It's a plain old bubble.
It seems like this sort of system would be particularly susceptible to the type of spoofing that they've been able to do with image recognition. Images need to at least look unrecognizable to the human eye, which makes it a challenge to mask them for computer recognition. But with hidden physical objects, it seems that simple physical modifications would lead to unrecognized objects.
Oh hey :)

> where "wrong" is defined by a small unelected bureaucratic entity [for example, Ontario Human Rights Commission]

This insinuates -- again -- that the government is jailing people for using certain words. That's some Saudi Arabia shit, Canada's not doing it and neither is the US.

> There are softer ways to handle improper language, like social shunning, up to job loss, etc.

I would argue those aren't really working. Our culture is still deeply sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic. You're essentially saying, "the majority should police itself" but that never happens. The majority polices the minorities -- which is exactly what democracy and the idea of human rights is supposed to prevent.

> Your argument is essentially an argument to regulate every aspect of life under penalty of law.

I don't think that an argument in favor of a single regulation or law (water quality, speed limits, sanitation standards, domestic violence) is an argument to regulate every aspect of life. If you believe that advocating for a single law means you're advocating for "regulat[ing] every aspect of life" then that's an argument against all laws which I find ridiculous.

I do think there should be civil penalties for bigoted speech though. The specific standard doesn't matter much, but maybe we'll see fewer Confederate flags if you can be sued for flying one. Maybe then we'll have a real discussion about what bigoted speech is, how it hurts millions of Americans every day, and how you can avoid it.
Do you have evidence for this or have an idea of how many people have/are doing this?
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Unless you have a very good blender, you won't have the same texture.
No. Crypto kitties exists right now. They aren't using the money to fund future development. They aren't making promises about what the money will be used for. What you see is what you get.
I made the jump. It didn't even hurt.
DNS Over HTTPS (doh) -
and it can be rational
I'm sure Uber would like the secondary market to be illegal, but Uber embodies disruption.

https://equidateinc.com/company/uber
> The JVM's type system has been proven correct.

I'm not sure which proof you are referring to, but the Java and Scala languages both have unsafe type systems:

https://2016.splashcon.org/event/splash-2016-oopsla-java-and...

(Admittedly this is due to parametric types which are erased).

The JVM bytecode verification algorithm is over 100 pages in the spec.

> E.g. Chrome might add new opcodes or APIs that rely on other Chrome-only features.

We aren't doing that currently. We plan to continue participating in the W3C processes which have worked well over the past 2+ years.
The weird thing here is, Bitcoin is clearly a shitshow. There's not much debate about it. It has no redeeming qualities compared to other coins except the global hashrate. And it is worse off on so many aspects.
Verbosity is something I tend to reserve for scripts (which should not rely on certain aliases existing). In the shell code I write approaches golfing idioms (perhaps inspired by the fact that I learned PowerShell by golfing in it). I think they've done a good job of having the verbose things readable and understandable, while also being able to shorten parameters as long as they remain unambiguous (and offering short aliases for cmdlets that are used all the time).
There's the greed of wanting more marketshare and more customers, which is just fine. Then there's the greed on display here, which is just wanting more money per customer without doing anything. Take care not to conflate the two, and treat them the same.
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> regulations that protect the telecom monopolies?

curious, what is an example of this?
Or maybe your Oculus ICO would have been worthless because it wasn't an equity offering...
Yeah I can't wait to read books about this stuff in a few years, probably soon! Hopefully Brian Armstrong will write one.
What can possibly go wrong?
Obviously you can't contribute to HN discussions by making this sort of call for, or at least ode to, violence. You've broken the site guidelines downthread too. And I'm sorry to see that you've done it before. We ban accounts that do this, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them properly from now on?

By properly I mean really taking the principles to heart, because we all need to work hard to foster thoughtful discussion, and it's been getting harder.
Yes, and I've cashed out handsomely as a result of being lucky enough to predict exactly this.

For clarification: I bought some $1000s worth of LTC when it was under $100 shortly after the Futures news hit. It was pure gamble on my part and I could have easily lost instead of the other way around.

I also bought a few ETH coins when it was around $400 but haven't cashed those out yet. I'm predicting my LTC gains will be wiped by ETH losses.
> A large part of what makes me stick to Ruby over Python for example, is that I can't stand languages with significant indentation.

More like 'consistent indentation' methinks.

I still have nightmares about trying to merge some GSOC student's code from their branch to trunk where the indentation was all over the place, it was so bad that lint couldn't even figure out what the hell they were up to --
well, I think lint was crapping out on macros more than anything but still...

So...someone got to put on their resume they did a GSOC for Blender but the work they did was basically wasted since it wasn't possible to clean it up enough to merge.
Well... what we get instead is "this browser isn't IE, we don't support it. Get IE."; only now it's s/IE/Chrome/g.
Do you have a personal website / blog?

I could be completely missing something, but mat.tm is down.
No doubt about. Either way, the newcomers are bringing new ideas that can also make Ethereum improve.
Found a new job. Went from funding it hard to work 3-4 hours a day to 60 hour weeks being easy. Don't recommend that long as family everything.
My credential management tool has ~300 credentials in it, of which I use roughly 10% frequently, there is no way for me to remember these, without creating a scheme which someone could eventually reverse given enough of my leaked credentials (so far about 15% of services I use have had breaches using weak hashes, and these tend to end up in public). Such a scheme would also have to support password rotation (for services which are breached, or which expire credentials) If I am going to store them somehow, an encrypted blob seems to handily beat pen and paper.

The only scheme I can think of that would be strong would be one that is tool-assisted and given a set of password requirements (length, allowed characters, etc.), a domain, a master key, and an incremental counter, derived keys and formed passwords on the spot, but I'd still need to remember the criteria for each site, and the counter positions, and keep those secured... so whats a few more bytes?
So like, there are a lot of problems with cryptocurrencies obviously, but they don't really resemble mlm in any particular way even if you consider them to be a scam?

In multilevel marketing, people are being sold downstream profits directly from people they sign up. If you sign up another person you take a cut of their revenue. If you sign up enough people and they sign up enough people you stand to gain a lot of money with very little work.

When it falls apart, assuming you're not deep enough in that you're indited yourself, you keep that profit. It's the people at the tail end who lose because the only way to really profit is to sign people up.

On the other hand when you sell someone on bitcoin you aren't taking a cut of their 'revenue'. If you're invested in bitcoin you're as in the hock for a crash as they are.

It's an asset, though a somewhat different one to traditional assets. As such it's subject to the same kinds of asset bubbles as any other asset (ie. gold is not as liquid as fiat, nor is it really used to buy things). But it's not the same kind of thing as MLM.
Both environmental friendlyness and anonymity are on the roadmap.
> coltonv 1 hour ago

Stolen comment valor

> __pandaman64__ 11 hours ago

> The title of this page seems to be the default string ("Intent and product brand in a unique string of 43-59 chars including spaces").
Wait, and people are arguing that this process isn't an arbitrary class lock out?