skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a read a few people comparing Bitcoin's store of value to that of Gold's. That analogy does make sense but they started off by calling Bitcoin a new form of currency, have we given up on that use-case?

Also, Gold fluctuates a lot less and the exchange of Gold is often not anonymous. If I am looking for a place to put my savings why would I choose an anonymous market that is highly volatile?

I understand that this logic is negated by Bitcoin's current
value.
"Crypto" has a different meaning among different audiences. I know many in cryptocurrency say, "Sorry guys, that's OUR term now" but in a diverse audience like HN (many of which work with crypto libraries on a regular basis) I don't think you can make that assumption.
if you cant move out money at all, you will happily take a rather large haircut to be able to do so.
Yeah, in 1950 you could die from polio. Half the male population smoked. No seatbelts in cars, ... No treatments for cancer, heart disease...

There were a lot of factors.
Unfortunately violating the OS X EULA isn't really an option for companies.
Are project Gutenberg books still relevant? I am not someone who knows a lot about technology. Therefore, I am not sure how to gauge the relevance of these 50 to 100-year old texts.
In addition, this can also mean that they'll keep people who are a net-negative to the team. I have worked in such a place. Some folks really should have been fired and it dragged down the rest of the team.
It depends a lot on what specific aspect of media you're in but this isn't necessarily true. In video there's a lot of Avid, Davinci Resolve and RED, in photography (particularly fashion and very high end) there's Capture One Pro, in music there's ProTools and the like.

Adobe competes everywhere and overall it's very successful but there are a lot of niches where it doesn't dominate.

Just about everything is available on PC as well though so your point still stands. The main exception is Final Cut Pro, which is very popular with video folks.
The tech is identical, it's simply used less than BTC so doesn't face the same stress of scaling.
Interesting point.

Can you point to any evidence that Chinese money has been behind large share of 2017 Bitcoin purchases?
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Alas, Manfred von Thun is no longer with us. Seems unlikely there will be another release.
....and if you're a recruiter, these are the issues to address in your sales-pitch. I can't believe I still get cold emails to work for 80hr weeks but only if I am good enough.
True. Only if they have zero leverage at play. No borrowed money, no loan to default on. If not then there is most definitely going to be some element of a bailout.

Anecdotal: but in the last month I have come across 6-8 people who have taken or know someone who has taken 2nd mortgages, maxed out their lines of credits, and credit cards to "invest" in crypto.

I'm generally a-ok with investment loans (not from credit cards), they are a good resource to reduce portfolio risk - if the loan remain tax deductible. But what is currently transpiring is insanity.

Someone will definitely get bailed out (hint: it will likely be the banks that's unknowingly provided the leverage).
How many employees are allowed to participate? Seems like they need to be accredited investors. Many will be left out of this.

under Wikipedia:

In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence, or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
Who doesn't love it when the HN stars align?

Good luck! And let me know if there's any help/advice/resources I can give you.
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That looks kinda flimsy... I'd be a little scared of putting my (employer's) $3000 Macbook on that.
Yeah, I don’t really disagree... I just hope that there are/will be people in his life who push views like this to him. Maybe I should write him a mail?
Anybody who can read the actual PDF -- is this at room temp and no large magnetic field? Those two things seem to be the big stumbling blocks for these types of quantum computers..
Sure, there's at least a sound basis for accusing Brown of being a big city machine politician (in style, at least, SF isn't really a big city, despite what it thinks of itself.)

But even that hardly supports an analogy to Trump: there are lots of things you can say about Trump, but machine politician isn't one of them.
"the hacker v cracker debate" is (in my mind at least) over. There were and are many people who don't like the way the word "hacker" is used, but so what? Language changes, slang evolves. "Crypto" used to only mean one thing, now it means two. What's really the big deal about that?
We'll probably need better criteria for what's actually a proper crypto 'currency' vs 'security' vs whatever else first.
I use this for my MacBook stand: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/small-storage-organisers/...

It folds up compactly, is extremely lightweight, and has survived 4 years of almost daily use without complaint. Highly recommended.
It's only a ratio of 2250 estimated metres for each actual metre of wet string, perfect for low cost broadband needs! :p

I'm still amazed that it works at all, but I guess that does show how fault tolerant ADSL is...?
I'll stick with my superior Roost, thanks.
They also had a handgun, a revolver, I believe.
Except that all Chinese exchanges / ICOs got banned a couple of months ago. The US is probably that largest market, it's the home of Coinbase ... I just don't see what you are basing this assertion on.
It is worth pointing out that really fast is ... well ... really fast. See [1] for some benchmarks they did for small, medium, large data sets.

The machines that $dayjob-1 used to build dominated the STAC-M3 for a few years (2013-2015) because we paid careful attention to how kdb liked to work, and how users liked to structure their shards. Our IO engine was built to handle that exceptionally well, so, not only did in-memory operations roar, the out of memory streaming from disk ops positively screamed on our units (and whimpered on others).

I miss those days to some degree. Was kind of fun to have a set of insanely fast boxen to work with.

[1] http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt
Yes, same in Chile.
I guess I was thinking more of Oculus as platform than as device.
I wish you'd actually read the article before shooting your mouth off with a Well Actually. FTA:

> Next one: nanomsg. An alternative to ZeroMQ.

In comments:

> How would you split nanomsg, then?

> [...] 2. coroutine library, e.g. libtask, libmill [...]

Not to mention that this is obvious if you understand what the core of each thing is in terms of capabilities. If you are gonna be the "technically..." guy, at least do it right.

It's about decomposing things, which is the essence of good design, and - supposedly - the UNIX philosophy at its heart.
An opinion is usually biased. There's a reason it is not a fact.

Not exactly sure what you're trying to say. If you work in a liberal city, your opinion likely has a bias. If you are at a certain educational level, your opinion likely has a bias. If you are male/female, your opinion likely has a bias. If you were raised in a poor/rich family, your opinion likely has a bias. All your life experiences contribute to your opinion having a bias.
What about these new protocols is antagonistic towards satellite/microwave endpoints? If anything I'd think the 0-rtt support would help.
If you're doing the fund-raising in the US, they would absolutely have jurisdiction.
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I don't know anything about fintech in Africa, but the countries you listed have a total population of 318 million people. That's about 26% of the total population in Africa, a pretty large slice isn't it?
ICOs are in a hype. But there is real value. First, they can be used to bypass a lot of (but not all) regulation. This is good, because the financial sector is overly regulated (and wrongly regulated). Second, there are applications that are not possible in the traditional financial system. For example, the smart contracts behind the Bancor system (another overvalued ICO) provide automated market-making on the blockchain. These smart contracts have a capital buffer no one can touch and that is used for completely transparent market making, thereby ensuring that you can always buy or sell shares. I won't go into detail, but it basically solves the liquidity problem for penny stocks.

In the medium run, I see ICOs as a light-weight alternative to IPOs, but not as a seed-funding instrument. This is non-sense.
Canadian here, great to hear about your success, I'm on google play store and couldn't download, guess its US-only at this point?
Both can be true. It's entirely possible that the majority of traffic is people that never read tweetstorms and also that tweetstorms are very effective for some users.
If a strategy consistently generates 2% on capital, it can be pumped up to 30% return on capital if 15x leverage is used. There are obviously laws against that, which Rentech evaded. The details of Rentech's criminal activity is in the Senate report. The billionaire ball lickers don't like hearing words like "criminal" and "fraud" about their hero but the Democrat-run Senate would not put out a report like that about a major donor if the activity were not serious.
You completely overlooked why it was 65. As I explained to your other comment:

"Yeah, in 1950 you could die from polio. Half the male population smoked. No seatbelts in cars, ... No treatments for cancer, heart disease...
There were a lot of factors.
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This is entirely untrue. Just search for "youtube" in HN's search and you'll see articles describing how inconsistent, inaccurate, and overreaching they've been.
It's insufficient to say "Relevant TVTropes article", but perhaps as an entry point into that cavernous maw": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FauxSymbolism
I don't see how this is a good anal (shortened form of analogy) as I've never once heard or seen people use that as a short form. If it became widely used and accepted then sure, it would be just as correct.

"Crypto" as a term is widely used now to mean both cryptography and cryptocurrency.
Visa actually has charge fees of 1.5%-2.5%....
Has Coinbase just been hacked?
SQL's only virtue is that it is well known; It is otherwise not very good compared to other query languages, and every SQL engine extends it somewhat differently, extensions which you can't avoid cause the standard is too limited. I agree most query languages would be better off as minor extensions to SQL - but kdb+/Q is different.

Unlike SQL which pays lip service to Codd's relational model but breaks it with things like TOP, ORDER BY, LIMIT and others, the Q language embraces the order between tuples to great effect, making e.g. "as-of" queries which are quite common trivial; whereas in SQL and the relational model, as-of queries are inefficient in either execution time or storage space (usually both), and reasonable execution speed schemas cannot, in fact, guarantee their integrity (which is often quoted as one of the the main advantages of the relational model).

As another example, Q implements "foreign key chasing" also called "reference chasing", which is also implemented in the web2py DAL and surely others; compare[0] the equivalent tpc-h query:

in q:

select revenue avg supplier.nation=`BRAZIL by order.date.year from lineitem
where order.customer.nation.region=`AMERICA, order.date.year in 1995 1996, part.type=`STEEL

in sql:

select o_year,sum(case when nation = 'BRAZIL' then revenue else 0 end)/sum(revenue) as mkt_share
from(select year(o_orderdate) as o_year,revenue,n2.n_name as nation
from part,supplier,lineitem,orders,customer,nation n1,nation n2,region
where p_partkey = l_partkey and s_suppkey = l_suppkey and l_orderkey = o_orderkey
and o_custkey = c_custkey and c_nationkey = n1.n_nationkey
and n1.n_regionkey = r_regionkey and r_name = 'AMERICA' and s_nationkey = n2.n_nationkey
and o_orderdate between date('1995-01-01') and date('1996-12-31') and p_type = 'STEEL')
as all_nations group by o_year order by o_year;

[0] bottom of http://kparc.com/d.txt
Say you have 10,000 lines of text, and you want to find the index of the line that contains the 302nd 'U'. You could do this with a while loop, but in the process you would find yourself setting up an index and dutifully incrementing it by 1 to keep track of the line you're currently looking at. A for loop is simpler here.
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> Centralization is an easy way to scale

That is one reason why I prefer centralised to decentralised. I have yet to see a justification for the cost of decentralisation. This cost is an important thing, not a trivial thing.

Other reasons include but are not limited to the governance mechanism of things like bitcoin not being demonstrably better than the governance systems of any other currency, but that’s a much longer topic of discussion.
funny but I still love the feature, if only to gauge interest.
Asia is not a country. In Chinese news stories about American power failures they usually have to start by explaining that there are actually a lot of power lines above ground even though the U.S. is considered "developed".
Nvidia is so far ahead in mindshare that even when they mess up (see GeForce 400 series) they come out miles ahead of AMD/RTG (Radeon Technologies Group). At this point, even though they're making a pretty decent dent in the market through Microsoft and Sony's consoles and provide all of Apple's dedicated chips, they just won't be able to catch up to Nvidia's pixel pushers.

See: AdoredTV's The GPU War is Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN7i1bViOkU
Personally I see the three biggest factors as:

1. Rampant speculation. Note that a relatively few "investors" hold a fairly large percentage of BTC in particular.

2. Capital controls and wealth protection in certain countries (most notably China and Russia); and

3. Illegal activity (including money laundering).

If I had to guess, probably in that order (from high to low). The seedy side of this (3) is obvious and (to my detriment) is why I steered clear.

Cryptos may have been envisioned as an alternative currency but it's clear they're behaving far more like an asset class and that they have some bad properties for a currency to have, most notably the deflationary aspect and the inability to manage the money supply (which some will view as a positive).

It's really anyone's guess what happens from here. Thing is though, even though an individual coin is limited in supply my personal belief is that this will even out when people realize that different coins are essentially commodities so new ICOs are what will meet demand. I'm not sure when we'll get there however.
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The diagram of the center spreader piece doesn't make any sense without context. Are the four pieces glued in place? Is there a tab that isn't visible in the picture which allows it to be sandwiched between the other two pieces?

What materials? Is there a cad save file for cutting it ourselves?
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I did refresh the page, which was how I found the the input field again. Yep. Given the comments here on HN, it is fairly evident not many do.
I am a daily Twitter user (the key is to find interesting people, and to block annoying people), and I doubt I have seen more than a handful of tweetstorms over 20 and certainly not more than 50.
Currently it looks like k7 is going to be an actual commercial product in the near-ish future. Arthur is still hashing the details out, but the language design is substantially similar to k6. If anyone ideas or strong opinions about how to make k7 better, now would be a pretty good time to email Arthur.

For those not already in the loop with respect to k6, the reference card (http://kparc.com/k.txt) provides a good overview. Note that it is neither exhaustive nor completely representative of the current state of the language.
It's not really that impressive. It can't image anything. Here are the demo videos.[1] This is a much simpler technology than millimeter wave imaging. It's one step up from metal detectors, but way down from Z-backscatter. Think of it as a metal detector with enough smarts to ignore coins, keys, and cell phones. It's probably going to detect a pair of pliers, but if you're bringing tools into a casino, the management is very interested.

[1] https://patriot1tech.com/news/videos/
that's a bittersweet side effect but only works if the competition can see the number of downloads.
the paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1708/1708.03530.pdf
Sigh. The frame of reference has shifted so much that people no longer care that the display is so firmly tied to the rest of the computer.

I've got a 2004 vintage 24" Dell monitor that works quite well, 13 years later.

Not so for my 2006 vintage 20" iMac. The screen is still great, but the computer is flaky, so overall it's a dead product. Same for my 2007 vintage 24" iMac. Still a great screen, but the computer is well past its prime and can't run the latest macOS.

What really upsets me is the hypocrisy that nobody cares about. Apple is always telling us how eco-friendly it is, and yet nobody employed there cares about this?

Of course, it's business leaders' role to be hypocrites. But what about people on the so-called "independent" Board of Directors? Director Al Gore wrote "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit". And yet he's happy to take Apple's money and stock while helping them greenwash their company image.

I fucking hate the hypocrisy.
That is entirely expected for a 10-core vs. 6-core machine on a compiling workload.

As in, if this is a workload you care about, maybe what you really want is a 64 core EPYC not the "lowend" 10-core Xeon they managed to fit into the display.
Ask HN: Would a configuration management marketplace be useful?
A place where you can buy and sell production-ready infrastructure automation scripts (using Ansible, Chef, etc.) that help you focus on building solutions instead of setting up/configuring Kafka (or <insert-tech-here>).

I would love to hear your thoughts on the high-level idea using the survey below, before I start building it. Takes 3 minutes or less. Thanks!

https://goo.gl/forms/ttL40MmYp1QbiPAZ2
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As well, got other questions, but understand if you don't want to answer, what did you think was the most important problem you solved for your users and how did you get people to really download your app after the beta stage?

This also sounds like a good link that can go on indiehackers.com
The affordable housing movement changed. It used to be people who wanted housing to be cheaper. Now it is people who want housing to be more expensive. They just kept the same name out of inertia.
2) attractive store of value due to the deflationary nature (note that not all cryptocurrencies are deflationary)

Could you give an example of one of these non deflationary currencies?
Of course Bitcoin's value is a function of its popularity - it is a network. Networks become more valuable (and more useful) the more popular they are.
Well, that's a concern (for the profitability of the casino) but isn't what I was replying to. The parent post was suggesting that there could be objects designed to look like guns to this system. I have a hard time imagining why anyone would do that.
There are some MLM scams in crypto. Bitconnect, for instance.
And access to file system through /mnt/c even longer.
I wonder if you could do this with similar metal alloys to get an ingot that changes physical properties along its length - for example, a bar that's harder on one end but more elastic on the other.
Ask HN: When to establish an LLC or S-corp for a 1-person startup?
For example:
Let's say Sam is currently employed by SomeStartup, Inc. As an early employee, Sam has 5% of shares in SomeStartup, Inc that have vested.

Sam also wants to create his own startup on the side, and is currently the only founder/member. The startup will be a tech business, and Sam will make the website, host it, etc.

Sam will have his own startup, and then still work at SomeStartup, but perhaps transition to an independent contractor in the future.
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Courses of action:
My (limited) understanding is that operating as a sole proprietor adds a considerable risk burden, because Sam could be sued directly in this case.

Even in the early stages of a personal startup idea, is it recommended to form an LLC? Are there certain tax or IP benefits to having the assets under an LLC as opposed to under a person in a sole proprietorship? Couldn't legitimate business expenses and travel be deductible either way? I am wondering about the factors that impact the timing of when to establish an LLC.

I have also heard about individuals establishing S-corps, but is that overkill for an early stage startup or a valid pre-emptive step?

Based on taking a look at the differences between LLCs and S-corps[0] it seems LLCs are much less of a headache for comparable benefit for very small startups, but again I am a novice in understanding business taxes.

I have also read about people creating Delaware or Nevada LLCs, but I am not sure what triggers that decision when the primary place of business is not in those states (unless it doesn't matter for websites with no physical place?)?

These kinds of scenarios are new to me, so any guidance or personal experiences are greatly appreciated, thanks!

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/011216/s-corp-vs-llc-which-should-i-choose.asp
Yes: power held by the involved parties. A small company or a person scraping
data from LinkedIn usually has no power over LinkedIn or people it's
collecting data about. Government collecting data about protesters wields
whole sophisticated enforcement apparatus and can do virtually anything to any
and all protesters.
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> 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.

I already made it clear that I am not talking about current superstars; I am talking about people who are not currently superstars but have the potential to be. H1-B holders are almost universally young, well-educated people. They are much more likely than average to end up being superstars in the future. I also think it is absurd to suggest that only people in academic or research positions can end up being superstars.

> Yes, but you misunderstand the intent. The visa has two intents -- education and for profit.

No, that is not what "dual intent visa" means. Per the first Google result: "A dual intent visa allows foreigners to be temporarily present in the United States with the known intention of possibly immigrating to the U.S. permanently. That’s significant because most temporary visas require that the visitor intend to return home."

The H1-B visa is clearly intended to serve both as a way to temporarily work in the US and as a pathway to permanent immigration.

> 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.

That is a matter of opinion, and I disagree with your assessment. It is a much more realistic concern that overly restrictive immigration laws will harm the competitiveness of American businesses than that adding a few tens of thousands of extra software developers to the several million software developers already present in the US will result in lowered wages.