skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It sounds like you're saying that something there is important to them, so they choose to stay. We all make choices and live with consequences.

Yes, I guess that's basically my point. Many in this thread are talking about "options" and "choices" but really what we're talking about is an option that's better for these families than the status quo. No one cares that there's a million things that could make these families worse off, we're here figuring out what could make their lives better. What I'm saying is that for most of these families the option: "moving to Nebraska" belongs in the million pointless worse off options bucket and not in the life-improving options bucket. Even when you speak of "consequences" you mean the negative effects of their decision not to move to Nebraska, but I'm saying that not moving to Nebraska doesn't have that many negative consequences because moving to Nebraska is a totally shit option for most people.

>How can anyone be sure of that? But let's say it's true that moving anywhere else would make their situation worse. Then what are they upset about? They're already in the best place, aren't they?

You don't understand why someone trapped in the cycle of poverty would be upset? Why someone who has to go to a food bank every week to get by would look at the incredibly wealthy citizens of the city they inhabit and be a bit peeved? Are you familiar with poverty? Are you human?
Bubble concerns worth listening to on crypto usually talk about the price getting to far ahead of the tech, network congestion, tx volume, scaling solutions, hard and soft forks, governance challenges, and regulatory uncertainty.

Bubble concerns not worth listening to talk about lack of transparency, the fact that not backed by anything, hacks, and of course tulips.

Since I can't view the WSJ Economist Survey crosstabs and filter on valid opinion vs hot take, I feel safe ignoring this result. While they're probably right, they're also probably right for the wrong reasons.
I don't know whether bitcoin is a bubble or not, but I would love to see it pop and the twits who won't shut up about it lose all their money.

It may never happen. If it does, I will feel schadenfreude.
I think what would be helpful is some type of visual indicator on the buds (maybe a pulsing charging indicator) to express that the translation service is speaking so that the other party can see that you’re occupied with listening to the translation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290017/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.63

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/09/13/wed...
I find this an interesting counter-point to what I generally hear. Of course you don't have access to Google and a syntax checker, etc, and your interviewer knows that. They want to hear you think through a problem.
I don't think that's true at all. You won't see their values or their character unless you know them well, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

Does everyone at your work see you as the complex and good person you probably see yourself as? Do you think they understand you? I doubt it. So why do you think you understand them?
Think the downvotes are in response to the entitlement and complaining about the 'wrong sort' of pandering.
> I wish there was a "web security checklist"

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/database_security_requiremen...
He makes a discrimination between informed/uninformed times. "They seem to be good at predicting things with known variables, but not with unknown unknowns."

Bitcoin is a big unknown, for experts and enthusiasts alike.
Google teases custom AI math-chip TPU2 stats
Wow, that site is extremely weird and off-putting. Scroll down to the section "What are people saying about me?" to read what I can only assume is his friends being asked to write promotional blurbs about him. I can understand putting your best foot forward on your résumé, but this is something else.
Use CrateDB and PopSQL for Collaborative SQL Editing
It's a bit intentional hyperbole, but not by much.

Every chip card I've received to date from several different major US banks has included some variation of "Great news! You don't need to learn or use a PIN to use this card."

My personal reaction every time has been, "But what if I want to use a PIN?" and this far I've never seen a satisfactory answer in those same letters or on those banks' own websites.

Admittedly that is purely anecdotal, as far as citations go, but in my mind it seems pretty clear what these banks think about PINs for credit cards.
Amazon joins the rush to Kubernetes
I hope they can expand this to other genetic problems. There are hundreds of genetic issues science knows about. Just off the top of my head I can think of high cholesterol, cystic fibrous, and sickle cell anemia. I know there are others, but I'm just a layman not a medical doctor. Those who have any of the above would like to be cured.
The take by this economist seems pretty sensible:

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/11/bitcoin-and-bubbl...
Tokenization in Financial Services
Yeah. They were badly let down.
> Was it a contract vs no-contract? Was Whitefish overcharging? Is Whitefish a consultancy versus contractors? Was it too much money?
IDGAF!!

Not very productive for your long term self interest. Something is better than nothing, but that's a truly low bar.

> Yet for whatever set of reasons, they no longer are.

This information is widely available on the internet and even within the comments of this post.
I'd argue the Bolshevik revolution would still have happened even if Romanov wasn't a hemophiliac. I don't see how the child's disease would have affected the management of the Russian supply lines in WWI, or have caused the February Revolution.
Disney, Fox agree to deal that adds regional networks to ESPN
In the grander scheme, it seems plausible that there will be one or a few cryptocurrencies of the current era that will withstand the test of time and emerge with large-scale adoption rates in various markets. But with BitCoins technical limitations I really don't see it being a mainstream medium of trade one or two decades down the line. With that conclusion in mind, it seems inevitable that the BTC market will cool off eventually. And my I would never put my money into something that I don't believe in over the long term. I would be more interested in an ETF or other derivative that tracked the value of a basket of viable cryptos.
Whether or not to remove a web platform feature from a browser basically comes down to how many people are using it vs. what is the maintenance cost. I suspect that browsers continue to support <marquee> so they can continue to render all those great webpages from the late 1990s properly.
> This brings us to the "Seneca effect" http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2011/08/seneca-effect-or...

Thanks for the reference, seems a nicely concise overview. The resources and industrial output graph almost jumps out ...
> (2) Values are timeless entities that are distinguished from each other structurally. For example, it makes no sense to distinguish “this list [1,2,3]” from “that list [1,2,3]”, because both have the same structure - the same parts. Thus, what Python calls “tuples” and “lists” are not really tuple values and list values.

Would you mind expanding on this? I'm not sure I really understand what you mean – if we have two lists a = [1,2,3] and b = [1,2,3], then a == b, so I don't see how Python is distinguishing them from each other.
San Francisco Is Really, Really Worried about Robots
"Breaking" doesn't mean that, here.

http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=98
I agree. As soon as anyone starts comparing crypto currencies and Bitcoin to tulips I tune out. It is a sign that they clearly do not understand what they are talking about.
> The media was running that Clinton had a 98% chance of winning the morning of the race.

Trump winning doesn't disprove that. The models could be correct and we wound up in the 2%.

The chances of me winning the Powerball are one in a hundred million, but me winning doesn't disprove those odds at all.
Average Page Load Times for 2018 – How does yours compare?
Incidentally Marx argument for why he believed a revolution would eventually become inevitable also depends entirely on competition: He argued that it is the ongoing effectivisation of capitalism through competition that will eventually trigger revolutions by making too many people unemployed and/or destitute.
Somewhat like Google Maps and Location Services!
But you can pay them to slap a sticker on it.
That's why I said broadly, as CCW rules differ everywhere. In CA, it is illegal to carry in public buildings, schools, etc, so they clearly outline and review (in person with a sheriff deputy) legal approval to store/keep a loaded gun in your car (out of site) for these types of scenarios.
I'd say IOTA might fit your criteria, although it's still early stage.

I don't think bitcoin could integrate their tech since it's not a blockchain, but a DAG (what they call a tangle).

Interesting stuff.
Just to be extra pedantic, and not in a serious way, the 1917 Russian October Revolution, was neither in the last 100 years since we are in December.
> The very first reviews. These are almost always fake and unverified.

Possibly for new items in the mainstream.

However for the long-tail of niche items the plurality of my Amazon reviews were the first and often they remain the only, particularly for older or out-of-print books.
tldr; Amazon now requires fake accounts to pay them first.
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
Features missing in the iMac Pro
/that noise when your head hits the desk
As if media consolidation is bringing any benefits, rather than harm.
The one justification for skyhigh valuations is believing there will be a deus ex machina technology solution that comes out to solve the scalability problems of crypto. Honestly, it could happen (https://lightning.network/ or something else, ideally for on-chain transactions), but in _my_ opinion, betting on that outcome at this time is just not worth it. I believe a more likely scenario is we have a major correction, and then grow from there.
If only white people had fewer kids, then the environment would be better off. /s

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericagies/2011/10/31/why-im-not...
I'm not really sure, over $10k they are obligated to file suspicious activity reports if warranted, so they might have been doing due diligence.
Virtual Kubelet
You might want to check the sources for that claim. It’s often repeated but the reputable polls weren’t anywhere near that lopsided.

Nate Silver wrote at length about this but the gist is that the polls were pretty accurate but some people talked about them imprecisely:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-real-story-of-2016/
I got the number from there: https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1260-s...

It's the top result from googling "silicon valley population"

Still 7 million people is not a lot density-wise, I'm just saying you just can't blame high prices on people density only...

At least you can blame it on "not enough housing". Which sounds weird to me, cause cheap housing is very quick to build.
It spits out an HTML page with no body that solely does a Javascript redirect. Put it in the http response.
That assumes you have your coins on an exchange. If you have them in a wallet you would have to send them to the exchange before selling, and that process could take hours or days.
Most of what you said isn't true.

Foreign subsidiary gets taxed by, say, Australia at 25%. It pays dividend to US parent, 0% withholding tax. But the US parent gets an "indirect foreign tax credit" for the taxes its subsidiary pays. (The IFTC is only available to corporations, not individuals, partnerships, or non-corporate LLCs.) It's complicated, but the IFTC can include prior-year foreign taxes paid by Australia Sub, and correspondingly the total IFTC sent up to US Parent is proportional to the total amount of foreign earnings remaining in Australia being dividended up. If that's 100%, then USParent gets a full credit of 25% for the Aussie tax paid by the subsidiary. Note that the US Parent will also pay state taxes on the dividend, and will thus get a SALT deduction for those taxes (but not a credit, so not a dollar-for-dollar reduction).

The dividend, paid out to US shareholders, is subject to reduced rates, so it's actually taxes less than normal income. Exact rate depends on your bracket. Recipients will get taxed by their home states as well, but will also get a state tax deduction (at least through 2017...2018 onward depends on the GOP tax bill).

The effective rate of tax on foreign earnings from foreign subsidiary to ultimate shareholder thus becomes roughly 50% or less...cheaper than in every other economically relevant nation (meaning 1st and 2nd world countries) after all taxes and credits and deductions are taken into account. The US has the highest "statutory" tax rates but the lowest effective tax rates in the first world for business income.
I think a 5% chance of bitcoin becoming a world currency is obviously wrong. You also have to figure in discount rates.
Generally when banning things it is better to do it in waves because it decouples the triggers you used to detect the bad action from the ban. You as the person doing the banning don't want to create a tight feedback loop that allows the bad actor to test out their various "attacks" against your banning system.
...and the coffee shop doesn't block your number.

Also, a phone call consumes, as a percentage of available resources, vastly more than an HTTP request.

Disregarding that though, I think you'd need a court order telling someone not to talk to you, and you'd have to take action to prevent them as well, blocking their number and tell them to stop before that would be granted. If they persisted after being told explicitly and having their number blocked, then yes, I do think legal action would occure and be swift.

I would also assume, presumably, that "you" can be extended to be an automated phone system. (Which is still more limited in capacity than a server would be, but even disregarding that.)

FWIW, I'm not saying that "hiQ Labs" is blameless or acting in good faith. I'm saying that unimpeded access to publicly accessible information requires more than asking someone to stop and that the CFAA isn't the right tool for this.

I'm not an expert in this field, but I doubt the vast majority of anyone in this thread is. It also becomes interesting because I believe the CFAA has been used in similar situations before, but those were where the accessed knowlege could be assumed to be private, even if made public (client details at a phone company, or articles known to be behind a paywall) (and not that I agree with its usage there either, but the data accessed there could be assumed, by a reasonable person, to not be public).

So the key thing here is: if something is publicly available, can I ask you to stop looking at it, or do I need a more stringent court order to prevent you from viewing public information?

And in this case, I do think the capacity constraints disregarded above would come into play. I think the courts would look differently at someone calling your clerk 20 times a day vs looking at a menu you post on the window.
There's a reason I coined the term 'MAFIAA' for them: http://mafiaa.org/
To play devil's advocate:

everyone = Hacker News

Mostly likely not their customers; whom they have a vested interest in keeping money with.
If you chart them, they're actually right on top of each other.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-12/its-official-bitcoi...
Proof-of-stake is "very secure against attacks" but is less decentralized than proof-of-work. See Peercoin, Raiblocks.
My grandma bought some Bitcoin last week and she doesn’t even use the internet. Friends who are not tech-savvy are talking about Bitcoin often.

It most definitely is not still “pioneers and early adopters time”—that idea seems to be Bitcoin propaganda aimed at potential new Bitcoin buyers on the margin.
We might get Wolverine at the Avengers movies like in the cartoon series.
Totally right. Tulips were a tangible asset with intrinsic value.
Absolutely true. However, if crypto doesn't scale one way or another, it's use case is _greatly_ diminished.
The goal is not the problem. The method is not the problem. The problem is the problem.

You will have to increase the educational system's budget. You will have to raise taxes. You will have to build more classrooms. You will have to hire more teachers. You will even have to feed the damned kids, and improve their home life.

There is no "method" that avoids having to do these things. These are the problems you have to solve to reach the intended goal. How you go about solving these problems does not matter.

Use whatever method you want. Sweet talk them. Bribe them. Hire a guy named Vito with a baseball bat. The method doesn't matter. Just solve the problems.
Sure, but that doesn't change the messaging - nukes are good for defending national sovereignty.
512-Year-Old Shark Believed to Be Oldest Living Vertebrate
I have to wonder if at some point an Esquire fact checker called up his professor and asked if he kept individual grades in ancient student records. My guess is that it has been too many years now and all records are lost.
But only if you already have your bitcoins on the exchange. If you keep them in your own wallet you need a blockchain transaction to be able to trade them at all.

That will effectively put a limit on the amount of bitcoin that is able to be sold quickly in a crash.
Taleb wrote at long on the election models. TL;DR: A proper statistical analysis should have given around even odds (50:50), not 98:2.

"So back to the mechanism of the model, Taleb imposes a no-arbitrage condition (borrowed from options pricing) to impose time-varying consistency on the Brier score. This is a similar concept to financial options, where you can go bankrupt or make money even before the final event. In Taleb's world, if a guy like Nate Silver is creating forecasts that are varying largely over time prior to the election, this suggests he hasn't put any time dynamic constraints on his model."

http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5x/nassim_taleb_on_election_forecas...
I mean, obviously I regret it now, but at the time I had no idea it would work. I'm sure the next trial will be extremely oversubscribed! I think my trial was actually for a low dose version to test safety of the vector and it didn't have any clinical effects.

Its quite incredible though, there's only a few thousand people in the UK with haemophilia - this trial just cured like 0.5% of them
"Experts" predicting bitcoin's impending doom is nothing new. Does anyone remember Professor Mark Williams, a top economist who is so well regarded that he has been called to testify before Congress many times? In late 2013, he predicted that bitcoin would crash from $1200 to under $10 within the next 6 months [1]. After he was proven wrong, he revised his claim to say that the crash would happen eventually. I guess he was smart not to attach another date to his prediction, lest he be humiliated a second time.

Until these economists are willing to put testable specifics to their predictions (bitcoin will drop to under $X within Y weeks), or are at least taking short positions to back up their beliefs, no one should take them too seriously.

In contrast, the Winklevoss Twins correctly predicted Bitcoin's rise and become Bitcoin billionaires in the process. But they're not selling because they think it will go up much further [2]. Unlike the economists here, the Winklevii are putting their money where their mouths are.

Time will tell if they're right.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/williams-bitcoin-meltdown-10-...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins-say-...
Vitalik thinks it's overvalued compared to what it can do today, but that just means the market is confident that it will be able to do much more later.
I think you're still missing the point. These families can't afford to live in Nebraska either.

You repeatedly phrase your family as being different from these people, your family knew what to do and made temporary sacrifices for a better long term success right? And these families just lack the grit or determination or smarts or whatever of your family right? Have you considered these families are doing the same thing as your parents? That they're making the same calculations your parents made but that the Bay area is still a better scenario for them? That your family isn't really that different from these families?

Moving from a SV Chipotle to a Lincoln Chipotle is great until I try to figure out what to do with my 2 year old son and realize all the gains I've made and more will be eaten up by childcare bills that my mom/grandma in SV could have done for free.

Moving isn't some inherent good that magically makes you better off, it's a calculation: just because your parent's calculation came up with "Move" doesn't mean these people doing the exact same calculation are going to come up with "Move."
A lot less money than it takes to build a social network.
Unfortunately, you're a minority in this.
I hope everyone likes the Fantastic Four, because we're probably going to get a few years of Fantastic Four Marvel Cinematic Universe movies out of this deal.
Ask HN: What traits you need to be a team leader?
Suggestion, blog or book?
Isn't the corollary to your position here that as I can only afford about £6 per month on media that any claim for a greater amount in a copyright infringement case is thus wrong.

Yes in the analogy the person will claim for the cost of replacing the vehicle.

But a company claiming they lost media revenue to me of anything greater than what I can afford is also wrong. In a world of perfect copyright infringement prevention I'd just miss out on most of the mainstream social culture.
So what was the actual therapy?

That kind of title reminds me of BuzzFeed.
Bitcoin is designed to be a bubble. I mean, I love the concept and have profited from it, but looking at the mechanics, it almost makes sense to buy and hold, as the money supply doesn't grow much. This sort of puts a deflationary pressure on prices (of goods, not bitcoin - bitcoin becomes ever more valuable as the money supply tends towards a constant), meaning hoarders are rewarded, thereby reducing supply further. I don't know for sure, but mass deflation doesn't really sound all that sustainable. Couple that with hype driven demand, and you have yourself a perfect little bubble! I've personally sold a lot of my holding, but I'm very excited to see how this plays out in the next few months. There will be a lot of lessons to learn, but the end of bitcoin (should that happen) will not be the end of a decentralised money - I genuinely believe society needs this.
Historically keeping your coins on an exchange is the most effective way to have them stolen. I would hope most bitcoin users would have learned their lesson by now.
This is AWESOME!
Nice strawman. His one-sidedness clouds his commentary.
Today: My model says that I have a probability of 98% of making money by buying this stock tomorrow.

Tomorrow: I lost money. I guess I just fell into the 2%.
I don't understand why there is so much controversy over this. I've been reading about the reasons TPB is a bastion of freedom for years and they read like a list of reasons its ok to cheat on taxes, or put recyclable materials in the compost bin. We all know its illegal in the US, we know TPB knows it, and instead of changing copyright laws, it is continually justified. It feels disingenuous.

I'm tired of the same conversation for the last 20 years.