skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, cash would seem to be a security under this definition. Except it is explicitly exempted:

> The term ‘‘security’’ means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement or in any oil, gas, or other mineral royalty or lease, any collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or in general, any instrument commonly known as a ‘‘security’’; or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing; but shall not include currency or any note, draft, bill of exchange, or banker’s acceptance which has a maturity at the time of issuance of not exceeding nine months, exclusive of days of grace, or any renewal thereof the maturity of which is likewise limited.

From The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (N.B. IANAL).

So, will cryptocurrencies, possibly including ICOs, be exempted? Only history will tell.
Four paragraphs of a weak and factually incorrect analogy.
companies run into problems if American citizens "invest" in them.
>If this is a deal breaker for you, can't you just stay somewhere else?

Gladly. I opt out of the scanners at the airport. However the scanners in the hotel are secret and hidden. How do I opt out now?
Dilbert: A Reckoning
Take on a more challenging project with deadlines, hopefully with a project manager that calls you at odd hours asking for updates. Your desire for twitter and hn will vaporize :)
This page has some obnoxious scrollbar-breaking behaviour. Why do people do that?

Even if you think you know better than browser developers about how the scrollbar should work, shouldn't it at least be consistent? Even if you think this is the "correct" way to work, isn't it better for it to be broken everywhere in a predictable way than to be occasionally correct and impossible to predict?
I'd say "risky" rather than "poor". 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.

Many people just stick it out with their employer hoping that their options become liquid; in some ways that can also be risky/poor decision making. Maybe it's an unhealthy work environment or you've stopped learning/advancing in your career, or there's a real opportunity cost where you're foregoing a higher salary.

Maybe these people left because it was the better life decision (or maybe they were terminated), but regardless, most of us would think long and hard about giving up, say, millions of dollars in potential value. Hell, even at $300k in debt it might be a good or worthwhile gamble.

It's easy to dismiss this all as poor decision making, but there are real risk/reward calculations to be done here, and "walk away from millions of dollars" is not always the smart answer, even if it kills in the comment threads.
It's divided the technology space, in particular HN. One of the reasons is due to its connection to profit and gain at the core and this does not follow the purist mantra of long time software engineering culture. Source: Me, software engineer for 30 years.
> Even better, I should sell just a paper (well, an electronic one) stating you own some thin air.

http://www.airrightsny.com/

In concept, it's obviously not the joke you're making. In practicality, it's exactly the content of your joke.
The SEC's position on the DAO was that they were not going to apply their guidance retroactively to that one. Going forward, though, they're cracking down.
As the main developer on the project and the resident guru, I ask everyone working on this project to create a branch for their work and just drop me a message - a pull request. Which is a feature incompatible with some git workflows, like the linux kernel's, but finds wide adoption on git productivity tools like gitlab and github.
Train your system to flag a Faraday cage then. This system won't be perfect, but I'd is it better than nothing? (Maybe, if it's medically safe). Plus, I bet your typical psycho killer isn't going to jump through a lot of technical hoops.
How RSA Works: TLS Foundations
Google gave us HTTP/2 but they also gave us U2F. But they didn't give us soft U2F so everyone still uses passwords instead.
> And yet, that worthless fraudulent garbage is one of the few ways to get rich.

They are a much, much better way to get poor. There's a reason we have the laws we do: a long history of amateurs getting taken to the cleaners by professional fraudsters.
My name and address were used to advocate against net neutrality. I am absolutely livid and I want to see justice brought to these fucks who are giving control of the internet to Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.
I believe bllguo was referring to his own comment.
> It’s mostly because financing by the states has disappeared though.

State financing affects revenue, but requiring $50k per student just to operate is a problem that lies exclusively on the expenditure.

Throwing more money at this problem won't fix it. It will only make it worse.
Nothing prevents you from creating more accounts, perhaps one per purpose. You're required to provide a phone number for verification, but can use the google voice # of a main account without issue. I'm sure you've thought of this, just a reminder :)
To his credit, Grassley has signaled to Trump not to proceed with the Talley nomination.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/trump-judicial-picks/...
I fail to see why her being proud of her success both despite and because of her upbringing should be cause of criticism just because she fails to acknowledge her "class peers" who failed to make it where she did... it's sort of implicit (esp. since she didn't in any way denigrate them for "not working hard enough").
One of the new "features" not mentioned here is that the iMac Pro is no longer user-serviceable. The screws to open the back are gone, and you can't replace the RAM and, presumably, the SSD. For a $5000 Pro machine, that's disappointing.
"Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, is a proud racist."

And this author is a jealous, inept slanderer.
Completely agree with your assessment. I was very skeptical about Face ID, but it's leaps and bounds better than Touch ID. I've had more failures with Touch ID than Face ID, it's not even close. The "sweaty finger" problem or it being cold and you have gloves on already makes Face ID a lot more useful.

I've been outside, with a beanie or baseball hat on, and sunglasses and Face ID works every single time.
A ‘holy grail’ of computing hidden in human speech
> You can either work a middle-class job and not piss away every penny as fast it comes in

"Middle class", using the conventional definition of 67%-200% of median household income, is about $40k to $110k a year. The median within that range is about $65k. Let's say you pay about 25% in taxes, and manage to save 1/3 of what's left. That's about $16k/year, which means it would take that household an entire lifetime to save up a million dollars.
I've been grappling with how unjust it feels to be an employee working in service of enriching another. I'm looking for a way out myself. But it helps to think about this in terms of risk. The owners of my company originally shouldered a great deal of risk, for a very small chance at a very high reward. It's worked out well for them. I, years later, benefit from their original and continued risk-taking in the form of a salary and benefits. In exchange, I give them 8/hr a day of decent work. The rest of my time is completely mine, and my livelihood does not depend on what I do in this time.

This does not always ease the day-to-day pains I feel about working for "the man." It still makes my blood boil sometimes. But I do appreciate the relative cushiness this position affords me: benefits, decent salary, and perhaps best of all: a full life outside of my working hours. I never have to worry about business development, annual revenues, appeasing shareholders, and all the other risky behavior required to run a successful business.

To be sure, I will never get rich as an employee (without deliberate frugality and smart investments). That's not how the system is set up. But you might find you value a comfortable middle class existence with a lot less stress more than making a lot of money (which requires, generally, a commensurate amount of risk/work). I'm still figuring that out myself.
What's wrong with CLI tools?
D-flat is "Des". Dis, Fis, Gis and Ais are indeed the other sharps
The solution is having a legal requirement for adequate notification to all consumers that such monitoring is happening.
Does it make sense that managing your own hardware and data center is extraordinarily expensive? Why do you think public cloud providers are so popular? I don’t buy your scalability argument either. Netflix has about 100m users and moved from having their own data centers to AWS and is extremely profitable. Uber has 40m. Given they might have different requirements for a system it might make sense but if scalability is the main reason, that is a bad excuse to undertake a huge infra investment.
Sure, but merchants can generally get fees that are only slightly higher than what you get in cash back. Square charges a 2.75% fee (and some of that goes to Square, presumably), and there are 2% cash back cards with no annual fee easily available (I use the Citi Double Cash one). So even if your store is raising prices by 2.75%, you're effective price only goes up by about .7%.

If you want to get upset, get upset at how if you have poor credit, you're not eligible for these cards, so really this is credit card companies stealing from poor people.
If you're seeing frequent drops in connection, contact their support. [0] They're very good at getting openreach to fix problems.

Another option for you in particular (if you're willing to keep paying for both virgin and AAISP) is to set up a router with multi-WAN support which can load balance between both wans and handle failures, instead of swapping manually.

[0]: http://aa.net.uk/support.html
This doesn't make any sense to me.

How are the two threads communicating? Via a channel? Why can't you schedule when a value is pushed onto a channel? Why do you need preemption in this situation?
> I wasn't worrying about human betterment; I was worrying about US betterment. We are not better off by keeping future superstars out of the country.

There is already a visa for superstars, so you don't have to worry about that. There is also no caps on visas for academic and research positions, so you don't have to worry about that either. We are talking about H1-B.

> The H1-B visa is a dual-intent visa. It is not solely a temporary work visa. It is intended to bring skilled workers to the US and to sometimes get them to stay.

Yes, but you misunderstand the intent. The visa has two intents -- education and for profit. The education/research uses are not capped. The business uses capped. If they are a superstar, then they can get the EB visa. H1B is for middle of the road skilled workers -- eg. people slinging react code. So no need to worry about future Einsteins or superstars being blocked from entry because of H1B concerns -- that's a completely spurious argument.

> I am already in that country (the US)

Then you should not be worried about a shortage of skilled workers, because we have no such shortage. There is a shortage of cheap skilled workers, just as there is a shortage of cheap BMWs. Solving that "problem" is not the appropriate use of immigration policy, unless you believe the purpose of immigration is to arbitrage cross-country labor costs for shareholders of IP firms while our movies remain region coded and we push for stricter IP monopolies globally. When I can import medicine and music from the cheapest source around the world, we can then talk about doing the same for labor, otherwise you are just lowering costs for capital without also lowering them for labor, which results in shifting income from labor to capital -- something that is bad for any country.
You never know what has historical relevance until it is history. That lesson was learned the hard way and so now if something can be preserved at low cost we'd do well to at least attempt to keep it around until history can judge it.
But you can hold onto it for two months, and sell it for quadruple what you bought it for instead!

You just have to make sure not to be one of those idiotic idiots left holding the idiot bag like an idiot.
Once one person notices the title of a page, for the rest of time nobody else is able to notice the same?
> allow

This is the key word. It is never guaranteed, so apps don't require it.
Even if all the numbers were correct, and the measurements correct, and there were a control group, and solid proof that aluminium actually caused autism... there would still be the issue that there's just not enough aluminum in the vaccines to account for the amount seen. According to [1] there should be about 4.4mg total from vaccines. If you add up all the maximum numbers, and get all the vaccines (both pediatric and adult, as well as the different variants that cover some diseases multiple times like getting Hep A, Hep B, and HepA/B combined vaccines you get 7.5mg. Yet this study is reporting a brain with 11ug/g aluminium. For an average brain mass of 1.3kg that comes out to about 14mg total aluminum: nearly twice the maximum possible vaccine-related dose.

So the question of where all the extra aluminium came from would remain! Of course we ingest an order of magnitude more aluminium through food than gets injected in vaccines, so avoiding vaccines would still be an idiotic idea.

[1] http://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cente...
RegA+ companies don't require SEC proxy statements, director and 10% stockholder reporting, SOX independent audits, SOX internal controls documentations, or SOX CEO certification. Pretty much all they're required to do is create a quarterly audited financial report. How is that "obstruction, not protection"? What kind of company that ordinary people should invest in can't produce an audited financial report? Charities and nonprofits product audited financials!
> Psst. Schindler was not merely a collaborator, he was a Nazi.

Psst. Had you grown up in that time and circumstance, you undoubtedly would have been, too. And it's unfathomably unlikely you'd have joined him as the second of only two ever to be honored with a burial on Mount Zion and visited by survivors for decades.

I see Hatereon and particularly Stormfront as grave threats and it pains me to see people such as yourself strengthening both through relentless snarking and bigoteering. You need only look in the mirror to understand why your society is where it is and why the politics has grown so rancid. And it's not just your society affected by your culture wars. American-style intolerance is threatening to boil over into the rest of the world, too. You are a wealthy and influential person, almost certainly in the 1% of the developed world, and the second order consequences of your actions matter.

Setting all of that to one side, speaking of "dying on hills" and trying to put a stutter in someone else's mouth is damned childish and more than a bit irritating.
> I'm just trying to find out where you're coming from so I can suggest a Reading List for you so we can intelligently discuss this.

I'd like to point out how smug this line is, in case you haven't noticed. This kind of thing isn't useful to HN discussion, imo.
Public sector jobs pay maybe better than market in rural and economically dead areas of the UK.

In the South East, they generally pay worse.

If you don't believe me, go find your job in the civil service website and remember there is no salary negotiation.

Senior civil servants make good bank though and have very nice revolving door opportunities, so it's a good career option financially if you expect to get there (i.e. elite education and very good at debates).

The final salary pensions you mention have mostly been closed to new entrants - now you just buy into a fund and cash it for an annuity like anywhere else, with like 3-5% employer matched contributions.

Existing staff often still have them but can get pushed off them during reorgs so I figure they will be completely gone in about 10 years.
Found this illuminating interview with Arthur in the ACM queue: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
On the alchemical side of deep learning
The current Bitcoin transaction fee is $20+. Credit card processors charge you under 3%. If you're doing transactions of under about $700 USD, credit card fees are cheaper than Bitcoin fees.
There's no risk from drinking milk from cows with open sores on their utters?
The Senate tax bill does not eliminate personal AMT, it merely "raises the threshold slightly".

This could be fixed in reconciliation, but with the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if the house just votes for the senate bill.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/30/what-...
So, now that the concept has been proven, are we going to see a proper RFC proposal to standardize this? There's still 110 days left for submissions. That should be plenty of time to test what string types and electrolytes work best for various applications, to and improve the distance limit.
You're not paying for the air. You're paying for the pressure differential.
No, especially not the first and second. It's extremely uncommon for someone with a carry permit to consume alcohol at all while carrying, much less do so in public and to the point of intoxication.
That's all fine and dandy until you want to develop Windows applications using Ubuntu on Windows.

There's still a place for windows native tools.
Everything about a POTS operates completely from DC to audio band, from the DTMF tones [1] when you press a number to the signal that makes the phone ring (~90V@25Hz AC) [2], to the -48VDC power that makes the keypad light up and any electronics operate, backed up by massive battery banks and generators, in case of power outage.

ADSL operates completely beyond the audio band[2]. Since it's entirely a high frequency AC signal, with no DC component whatsoever, a break in a wire will just act as a capacitor, reducing the AC signal strength. Since a broken wire is a terrible capacitor, the signal strength will be reduced tremendously, but in your case, not enough to drop the link.

[1] http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_es/201200_201299/20123502/0...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_...
The first task is writing to the second when it's done with a computation, but not bothering to check input from the second while it's in the middle of a computation.

(Maybe I'm wrong and Go handles this smoothly?)
I don't think there's anything wrong with unashamedly self-serving. All plugs by developers are self-serving, and trying to enforce the veneer of modesty will just cause people to be more subtle and tricky. Better to allow so long as the interest is disclosed (which he did).

So really, the only possible reason to down vote is being off topic (which could definitely apply to this case).
Umm, no.

A CCW lets you Carry a Concealed Weapon and has nothing to do with the storing of loaded firearms in vehicles. Though I suppose it would apply if you are in said vehicle and then 'storing' would become 'carrying'.

--edit--

But who knows about California in particular because their firearm laws are wacky. Back when I lived there the rule was "two steps" away from having a loaded firearm in your vehicle, ie: take the gun out of a case then load the magazine (IIRC of course, that was almost 20 years ago).
Who cares about the VCs? VCs are an insignificant component of the financial system. I don't agree that ICOs would be harmful to VCs, but even if they were: the larger financial system would profit enormously from retail investment in fly-by-night startups.
No other county in the world requires about twice the average annual income per year to cover the expenses of enrolling a single student in a university degree.

When a college degree is so expensive, the problem doesn't lie in the university's revenue.
If he value his time so much why hasn't he built a faster PC for himself for all these years? Is he locked in some sort of North Korea where somehow only Apple hardware can be obtained?
A 27 inch iMac costs $3,000, that’s less than 2x difference in cost.

An iMac Pro will cost you an extra $80 a month over a 2 year ownership period. If substantially speeding a significant part of your workflow doesn’t yield far more than $80 a month, you aren’t even close to the target market.

My time is worth close to $100 an hour. I spend close to an hour a day in compiles. Saving 10 hours of compile time a month would be worth nearly $1,000 a month to me and my company.
You're absolutely right. I've read in other articles that IPv6 jumps up on weekends. IPv6 adoption is incredibly skewed. It's much higher in things like cellular networks and in developing countries. I think the weekend jump is attributed to cellphones (not sure if I'm connecting the dots or if that's what the consensus is).
I laughed at this:

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How are Go's pointers implemented in JS?
Unifi releases new AI powered analytics
if you are optimizing for regret minimization I'd probably argue that it's way less regrettable to end up in $200-300k in debt due to a crazy, unexpected snafu occurring (like an economic crash or company crash) than have to know for the rest of your life you could have been a millionaire if you just had bet on the (at the time) reasonably high probability event of eventual liquidity, by exercising options that you worked hard to earn. especially because in the crash scenario, you are surrounded by commiserating peers who also got burned, but in the upside scenario you missed out on, all of your peers except you are living the high life shaking their heads at your "foolish" (in hindsight) risk aversion.

edit: not sure why the downvotes. if you are interested in a treatment of peer-based utility functions that affect risk premia, see https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Risk-Premium-Volatility-Inves... -- in other words, risk may not be best measured as volatility but instead as the expected relative wealth gain/loss to your market peers. for private employee equity, those peers are other optionholders.
Cryptsetup 2.0.0 Release Notes
> That said, Texas law requires very, very specific signage.

Exactly right. The amateur signs you see are almost a running joke, to intimidate new CCW permit holders. Here's the full description of what standards a sign must meet to be enforceable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Texas#30.06_signag...

Bonus, you can carry without a permit, as long as you claim you were 'travelling', and the burden of proof is on the cops to dispute it: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-concealed-gun-laws-... (this law may have changed by now, but it was widely known when I lived there).
Pruning AI networks without impacting performance
Self employed (SaaS and consultant). I am sure there will be far less networking opportunities there vs SF, but my sanity, safety, and personal happiness is more important.
Fair enough, thank you.
But this behavior is happening. Go check out the bitcoin subreddits where you'll witness constant reinforcement to hold until your reach whatever your predetermined sell point is. Anyone who calls this behavior out is shouted down and ridiculed.
Is 65 considered young? Honest question. He was born during the Truman administration...