skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get off of Upwork, now. You're only getting into a bidding war with low-priced overseas developers.

As an ex frequent buyer on Upwork I can confirm, that place is the pits.
Aren't restaurant review coupons in some sense the ceiling on how too-good-to-be-true these ICO deals can be? I mean: that business is obviously not going to work. A reasonably sophisticated person can only put money on it in the hopes that someone dumber will buy it off them in a week or two.

Your argument hinges on the assumption that the government should protect people from this outcome. If they make a bad bet, it's their bet to lose.

Right now, churches ask for thousands of dollars via mail. People send them with the hopes that they are "planting a seed" and to "watch that seed grow." All of this behavior goes on without society collapsing.

What's the key difference? Why do people need to be protected when suddenly they have a chance of winning real returns, however remote?
> They probably knew it was "risky" in the sense that they were extending themselves but perhaps underestimated the tax consequences or risk of the company's fortunes turning

"[over-]extending themselves" - risky

"underestimated the tax consequences" - poor; this is a straightforward computation assuming you exercise your rights to get the latest 409a valuation after exercising a single share
and even then, crypto could be seen as a better store of value than the traditional market so even a bear market might not negatively effect the crypto space or at least not to the same degree as stocks
it's hilarious how many times I've seen this repeated on hn over the past couple of weeks.
> During that same time I transferred 15k$ from one crypto-wallet to another. It took 10 minutes all told.

You conveniently skipped over how much it cost in fees to transfer that much. I'd wager it was significantly more than $7.50.
not young but most would consider it premature death. Average life expectancy in US is over 75
If that calculation is true, have you invested in a Mac Pro or a custom-built machine?
Because the software that makes him most productive doesn't run on non-Apple hardware?
Vegas has become family friendly, so to speak. Who assumes liability for the images of children? What are the legal protections around the storage, retention, secure deletion, handling and viewing of the images?
I have to draw a line somewhere between libraries and products. A CLI tool is more a library than a product in my opinion.
#NIPS2017 highlights
Changing OSs is also a big time sink.
Chase bank app: Take a picture of a cheque received and the money is credited to your account instantly.
It is not vaccines in and of themselves, but the aluminum based adjuvants that introduce aluminum directly into the body. Other adjuvants can be used in vaccines instead.

The research does not suggest avoiding vaccinations, but that a non-aluminum based adjuvant be used instead.
If it seems easy, it surely must be easy. -- HN

It's funny because you're actually mad at ACH here.
Should be fixed as well, thanks for the report!
I believe BTC is here to stay, due to it being some form of "backing" currency for all other crypto currencies. I guess one could claim the same for ETH, since it's used for many ICOs.

But apart from that I am not sure what the future of ETH or LTC will be. To me it seems some adaptations of ETH have a much clearer use-case and therefore are likely to raise a lot in value in the future. One of the ETH based coins that I really believe in is OmiseGo[0] (OMG) which will bring banking capabilities to many people that currently don't have a bank account.

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[0]: https://omisego.network
The updated post basically boils down to the following encoding:

000 => 00
001 => 01 00
010 => 01 01
011 => 10 00
100 => 01 10
110 => 10 01
111 => 11

It compresses all-zeroes and all-ones blocks by one bit, and expands all other blocks by one bit. Compression rates therefore depend greatly on the exact bitmap, but this approach never yields more than 33% savings, and it results in expansion for random bitmaps with densities between 0.21 and 0.79.
Whenever someone says they're sure of a crash, I assume their true feeling is isn't confidence of a crash but frustration at having missed out. Have you shorted Bitcoin? That would help you to profit from your belief.
> I'm on a Dell XPS 15 9560 if that matters.

It does as I've had no issues personally on as self-built desktop, an ASUS laptop, a MacBook running Bootcamp, and now a Surface Laptop.
It's not only for PHP or JavaScript and it's not for projects but for products. You're very welcome to submit some Java/C#/C++/C open source products if you find them.
For what it's worth, my experience has been nothing like what this guy described. I live in Colorado, which is a fairly sunny place, and I've had no issues. I've used Face ID with polarized (Oakley) sunglasses, with a beanie on, with a baseball hat on, and it works flawlessly both inside and out (even on the mountains in an open field on a 100% sunny day).

I had far more failures with Touch ID, mainly due to slightly sweaty fingers. Or failures after washing hands. Failures if you have greasy hands. Not to mention if you live in a cold area where you use gloves in the winter, Face ID is dramatically better than Touch ID now.
I understand the rationale behind your comment but I think it expresses a form of emotion when including something like "unfortunately" to an already negative statement. It feels like an expression of regret. Personally, saying something like "unfortunately, my grandmother passed away this year" instead of just saying "my grandmother passed away" feels a bit more emotional.
Uber's Scraping Program Collected Data About Competitors Around the World
You probably already know this, but I think it should be pointed out for others: this is not a true fail-over. The connection still gets dropped and needs to be reestablished.

So, an online game will disconnect and a video stream will stop. You will however be able to reconnect or refresh right away.
To anyone non-technical, a decision is AI. 99% of the world is non-technical so its probably only going to continue to be this way.
Alas, not all of us can expect to live to an above-average age.
I admit I had a big struggle with visualizing polarizers. It is easy to do in 3D or some 2.5D. In 2D every visualization was confusing (the one we use is the least confusing).

Any ideas are welcome here (as long they work for every possible orientation and are 2D).
Ikea is non-profit.
I thought GGGP’s post was to propose a solution that worked under current rules.
I'd like to know where to get those complimentary whiskey sours in Texas.

Or you could avoid punchlines based on stereotype that don't actually fit the context.
I wonder what that's worth now? Be interesting to see what you could fetch by putting up the 'nothing' you bought from CAH for sale.
Parallel Python with Numba and ParallelAccelerator
Credit cards aren't an apples-to-apples comparison because of the risk to banks of default. An apples to apples comparison is ACH, which is free, and now same-day service is available.
If it only took 10 minutes it wasn't BTC, so the fees would be much less.
A great further read:

"The saddest thing I know about the integers"

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-sadd...
In my experience (been using them for a few years now), the difference is that if you contact them (via phone, e-mail or IRC) then they are significantly more likely to provide useful support vs. "Hmm, I don't see a problem. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

They are still beholden to Openreach, but they will actively manage them vs. just take them at face value/accept what they are being told.
After another 10 ADSL iterations, I think someone will accidentally forget to connect the wires and discover that it works just fine over the air.
It does have some similarities to an MLM scheme. Mainly the part where a bunch of obnoxious people are doing everything they can to con others to buy in and make them money.
Put differently, a tremendous number of people are willing to put up with SF, warts and all, rather than move somewhere else. It must be an amazing place to live.
They should have just called it a Tweet Storm and let the crowd win. Instead, they tried to pioneer a new term and act as if it was in their heads all along.

As for the topic itself, I do find "threads" interesting, but on the whole, would much rather read longer format text.

I love the 240 character limit. I do not love having to sort through a thread, or seeing a single thread item retweeted.

There's a reason athletes and entertainers are using notepad to author longer form content, and there's a reason "threads" are interesting, and it's not because of the format. It's the content.

There are so many times that I read a tweet, and because of its length, have zero context to use in understanding its meaning. This is one of the reasons I've stopped using Twitter, and why my businesses are planning to do the same.

It's a pool of nonsense.
Also, if they were able to figure out how to install that face map onto the secure enclave on your phone, it would likely have to be turned off and back on and then they would need to enter their passcode on boot before Face ID would work.
"That isn't quite fair to the creators either."

It's fair if it's clear and applied reasonably consistently.

Google makes completely arbitrary moral judgements about 'advertising guns' - which I might support, but they are arbitrary.

With this - it's about advertisers interests, not Googles.

If Coca Cola et. al. don't want their ads jammed into CardiB rapping about her vagina, her butt, your python, and her vagina again - well that's Coke's prerogative. Surely.
Yeah for example I have composer only installed in Windows (EXE) and not within WSL and it works fine within the bash prompt.
Ask HN: What is the reason behind the rise of cryptocurrency?
I have been following the rise of value but I am still unsure about reason behind its rise.

Most of the discussions point on crypto sub-reddits are about buying and HODL-ing. I sort of understand that people are investing hoping someone (A greater fool?) buys it from them at a higher value.Holding also discourages people from using it in exchange for goods and services. Isn't that defeating the purpose of a currency?

Also, what justifies Bitcoin's value at ~17k ?

I am interested in reading any neutral posts or articles analysing the rise of Crypto and where it is headed.
Or copper.

You'll never justify your choice of "wet string" as medium of choice when things go south.
Personally, I don't think Weinstein, and the after effects on other public figures, would have blown up to this level without Susan. Actually, going even further back, people like Ellen Pao and their stories have been consequential as well. I would say stories like Pao's cleared the way for Fowler.

Not to be dramatic, but I think this example is very timely and appropriate for showing the impact of an uncensored internet. We can only guess whether impact like this will still be possible without net neutrality.
> When the primary determination is whether you already _have_ money, rather than education, professional history, earning potential, or a history of demonstrated ability to make informed investment decisions...

This is the case because many regulations (Tax code, laws) favor the wealthy. If we didn't have the SEC regulations, then the clever and wealthy would prey on the poor and uneducated. This is textbook what happened in the 20s.

Honestly, the SEC is probably one of the last decent regulatory bodies of our government.
Interchange fees are restricted to 0.2% (debit cards) and 0.3% (credit cards) in Europe now.
Deep Learning for NLP, advancements and trends in 2017
There's identity checks and SWIFT and lots of other possible points of slowness, but the fact that coinbase doesn't really circumvent them in practice is kinda the point being made.
> with names like Porta-PuTTY

Okay, I think I just found a new contender with GIMP for 'worst software title'...
How much of that is because the collection based prime detector has to perform the calculation for every item in the array, even after it's gotten to the 10th item?
Now, now; don't be greedy!
OK, I can agree: git is not as safe, mistake-proof, or consistent as it could be.

What I like about git is that it gives a simple algebra of patches (diffs), and allows almost any sensible operation over them.

It would be great to build a different CLI on top of the same data structures (and maybe the same plumbing) that would expose a more consistent and usable interface, while allowing for [most of] the same capabilities, and preserving interoperability. I suppose git-hg tries to achieve something similar, too.

For me, much of the pain of git CLI was alleviated first by a set of aliases, and then by using magit from within emacs.
> It's like saying those with FICO's over 480 have a monopoly on the ability to get a car loan, or that those with basic math skills have a monopoly on programming jobs.

Wrong. It's like saying there is a LAW requiring a certain credit score or a certain set of math skills. I don't have anything to add on whether investor accreditation is fair or not, but comparing federal law and regulations to loan or hiring opinions/choices is disingenuous. The comparison to predatory loan regulations or legal certification requirements for hiring would in fact be more apt.
He publishes in journals like this because they are not paywalled like the better known ones are.
Countless other posts also contain links to alternatives. Some people think being thought police is a good thing.
it's a common colloquialism that means "I'm sad that ..."
Also reminds me of ethernet over barbed wire. Seems like similar things have been done for a long time...

http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
You are welcome to your views, and they may be certainly valid, but I need to point out that you used some sensational language without providing any references.

Edit: I generally agree that SF has many management problems, I just take issue with how this comment was framed. Specifically: "social justice backlash", "villainize hard working Americans", "victimize criminals". I just think that it'd be more constructive if we discussed SF without imposing such a narrow view on a complicated topic. By "references" I meant that it'd be helpful if we had some stories or articles that substantiates these claims of "social justice backlash", "villainizing Americans", "victimizing criminals". Of course it's all relative and I have my own subjective perspective on everything, but I do believe that it's possible for us to discuss this topic without resorting to phrases that trigger knee-jerk emotional responses.
would love to be a bubble, to drop in price so I can get in, but I don't think so, if you compare bitcoin with gold, bitcoin is better, the "gold" brand is stronger still with its history, but not so much among the new generation, unless bitcoin gets to 7 trillions, the gold market cap, I would not wory about being a bubble.
Ashita No Joe (1970) is the earliest anime series I can think of that features power lines, at least in the opening episode as it sets the scene. I'm sure there are manga earlier than this that feature them too, but I'm not sure about anime.
If it will help me automate more, give me access to a new domain or framework for thinking to help me solve problems faster and more efficiently- I'd go for it.
Statute of limitations exists to protect the people. Imagine being a disagreeable sort to the government, and then being punished with every violation ever (every driving mistake you've ever had but were never charged with, every incidence of jaywalking, having to go through decades of taxes instead of two years, And similar things caught by some surveillance device).
Sri Lanka, Struggling with Debt, Hands a Major Port to China
The fruit tree itself would not be the security. It's the thing which gives the investors the right to their share of profits which would be the security. Or, in other words, a security secures your right of ownership to something else. In a company, we typically call those things "shares". You either own the tree directly, or you hold a security which secures your right of ownership of the tree.

So, if you own gold, you don't own a security. You own the actual gold, and that chunk of metal does not secure ownership of any other item. It can be exchanged, of course, for ownership of something else, but that's a function of its value as an object. Now, if you own a share of a gold ETF, that is a security that describes your rights to some chunk of metal.
Or do any sort of repair on the thing. It's quite feasible to do basic board level repair with the schematics. But not without the schematics or if the thing is welded shut. It's wasteful, and I sincerely hope one day we can have a proper "right to repair" act. I mean, this has nothing to do with user experience, security, or aesthetics. It's basically just an anti-consumer move on Apples' part. And, I honestly don't get why. What are they trying to protect? Just put some screws or other mechanism for detaching the thing and publish the board schematics. They won't loose money over it.
I'll sell you mine.
Similarly, Gavin Newsom was appointed to the Board of Supervisors by Brown. San Francisco could markedly improve if appointments to vacant elected offices were banned.
Of course EV is broken -- of more like, people's mental model of the benefits that EV confers is broken. As noted in the article, an EV cert asserts that the domain name is controlled by a legal entity in some jurisdiction. This is a very distinct notion from the site that you've arrived at being the site that you were intending to visit, but people use it as a terrible, flawed proxy for such.

On the topic of certs, last year, when Google announced they were now a root CA [1], I remarked that this made a lot of sense, because "who better to say that Google is indeed Google than Google itself?" [2]

I went on to write that not everyone runs a root CA because coordination of trust between various parties is difficult, and so are the mechanics and practices of running a CA, but if your browser (and/or OS) is the final gatekeeper of the trust anyway, why not just push trust towards the edges and out of the middle? Certainly, the most-visited websites could easily be in this boat.

As it stands today, the most-visited websites already don't use EV, because DV certs are good enough for their needs. People trust their website by fiat, simply by mental associations about their domain names, an imperfect process that makes plausibly-looking domain names such an effective tool for phishing. But users already fall for phishing conducted from ridiculous domain names too, so there's not much point.

[1] https://pki.goog/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13495262
Tezos wants a "bailout" from the foundation that they created.

The "bailout" is "please give us our own money that we raised during our own ico so that we can use it to build the product people gave it to us to build".
The bubble part of it is not their meteoric rise, it's that they can easily be replaced by the next best coin. There is no inherent reason why Bitcoin should be more popular than Litecoin as a store of value, except for the fact that it currently is.

There will be many hundreds of coins flooding the market. There is no such equivalent in the real (offline) world. You have gold, silver, platinum, etc. - but that's about it. No one is inventing/digging up new types of metals.
I once saw a list of successful people who dropped out of either high school or college. It ranged from Peter Jennings to Steve Jobs to a number of billionaires. Very interesting.
You're not countering anything. I'm aware of both. The SEC is going to have to decide if these coins having utilities makes up their value.

These aren't new concepts. People have been trying to get around regulation for thousands of years.
I'm 60. My mother is 97. So yeah, as far as I'm concerned, he died young.
You could bootstrap initial distribution through an ICO (e.g. if people need an initial stock to be able to distribute it to others). And e.g. in-game currency commonly can be bought, but not sold through official channels.
Ah, yeah totally forgot about starlet. It's been a while since I messed around in the Wii homebrew scene, but that was basically got me interested in cybersecurity in the first place when I was in middle school. I should go back and look at it now that I actually know what I'm doing (more or less).
AFAIK rebase always rewrites history. If you rebase your feature branch, you have at least rewritten the history of the local branch even if you then delete it and push to a new remote branch. The trunk will subsequently get a FF merge.

Rebase might give you a "simpler" end result in terms of what the history looks like but conceptually it is much less simple in terms of its mechanism and its implications (e.g. rebasing a branch with multiple contributors screws up the audit trail as it now looks like they made their changes at a different time and in a different context to when they actually did) than the idea of a graph with two branches and a merge commit.

I have seen teams with limited git experience switch from habitually rebasing public branches to accepting merge commits and suddenly cure a whole host of workflow problems.

If you can rebase directly onto a fresh branch (not something I've seen) then I am fairly sure that that's not part of your average workflow - establishing new branches every time you want to update from trunk comes with its own communication overhead too.
Rio Tinto puts its faith in driverless trucks, trains and drilling rigs
I really miss ‘git bash here’ from File Explorer when I’m on my macbook. Why it doesn’t have open terminal here/open iterm here I don’t know. I used to have an AppleScript thing to do it for iterm 2 but it got broke and now all I can find is a button in the finder window.. but it really should be built in.
>physicist and computer scientist,

Don't you need a degree in computer science to be called computer scientist.

Not sure if i'd call every software programmer a 'computer scientist'.

Merely mentioning this bad apparently. downvotes.
> If you can’t afford the regulation then you can’t afford to sell securities.

People are growing tired of the pay-to-play barriers to entry. Why can't we have the regulations without the financial burdens? (Hint: the answer is not about following the regulations themselves, but artificially limiting supply to make for easier enforcement. Otherwise there are too many to meaningfully regulate.)
As someone also previously living in SF, I did not find his post sensational.
iota is scammy

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2017/12/12/iota-partnership-...

https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...

https://hackernoon.com/why-i-find-iota-deeply-alarming-934f1...
Considering that an ico in oculus’s case would mean that they would issue a token which could be exchanged against a device, I fail to see how the token could increase in value in any significant way.
Assuming the streamer proves they are at or above the legal age of consent for their location, why could this not be tolerated?
Not that much more actually. Given he paid the normal fee rate. I bet the additional dollars was cheaper than physically taking time off to go to a bank which is only open during (your) working hours.
It sounds like you've already answered your question :)
Sometimes i read a paper and wonder if the authors are actually gunning for an Ignobel nomination. I prefer serendipitous nominations, I think.
Haha, ok, should have guessed.
Completely agree. What a hit piece.