skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention foreign entities trying to recruit or manipulate your views and information. Someone only letting in their interests is different and probably better than being a free-for-all target for motivated actors.
1) No one ever said "electric cars will never happen". There were electric and hybrid vehicles before Tesla even existed.

2) SpaceX is no more a "private space company" than the United Space Alliance/United Launch Alliance that builds rockets for NASA and others. Or both are. Both SpaceX and USA/ULA operate under similar models: clients both government and private pay them to build rockets.

I do not understand why people think NASA builds rockets. They don't.

Rob
There is a serious point here - as someone more familiar with the alcoholic beverage of the company's original name than its wholesome products, I think we need some blockchain-themed cocktails for the holidays (it's probably been done... does anyone have recipes?)
There are 2 ways to connect from Slime, see:

https://gitlab.com/eql/EQL5-Android/blob/master/examples/REP...

If you use the 2nd one (requires an SSH app), you should be fine.
Group A is talking about bitcoin a lot to mutually reassure themselves that buying into it was the right move (and also a bit to keep others from selling before they do).

Group B is talking about bitcoin a lot to mutually reassure themselves that staying out of it was the right decision (and also a bit to keep others out since all new paper money entering the exchanges weakens their arguments, at least superficially)

I think that defection rates between those groups are already very low and will keep shrinking.
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This does show how most share brokers/buyers trade.
Their business practices are so bad that I know I personally wouldn't feel comfortable using them.
Since Bitcoin isn't a currency and never can be, and seeing as it's a store of value (which matches up to its profile in terms of mining difficulty, scarcity, etc), the question if you believe Bitcoin is going to actually one day be worth $3 or $5 or $8 trillion: which countries own outsized holdings of Bitcoin? The US and China to name two. Very large quantities of Bitcoin were mined & purchased in the US in the first 3-4 years of Bitcoin. And China has represented about half of all mining the last few years as the difficulty has soared.
I can understand working with people you disagree with; I do that all the time. But there's a difference with disagreeing with someone, and that other person believing you don't deserve the same rights as other people.

Even if he can manage to separate out his professional life from his personal life, that sort of belief poisons the well for people that have to work with him.
Well, futures (or forwards) give you leverage.

Options give you convexity (optionality, as it were), additionally.
If you want people off your website, why do you make it publicly available on the net? ;-)
Oh well, that makes more sense than 232.

But then again, it lets you fit the bookkeping data into a single 64bit word (32bit pointer + 32bit size).
Yesterday, finally, my 77 year old mother actually asked me about bitcoin. The end [of the bubble] is nigh...
> I still find that Louvain-la-Neuve have failed to build a city for cyclists, but I can't pinpoint exactly why.

That is definitely the case. I think they planned for a very walkable/human-scale city but made many of the passages just a bit too small, I remember side-roads where you can only walk two abreast and you have buildings/walls on both sides (at least some of the time) with pretty sharp cornering, that makes it very inconvenient and unsafe for cycling beyond a walking pace, definitely not safe to have pedestrians and cycles both going in both directions.

I guess the planning could have benefited from a few cyclable "arteries"/ring roads.
Is this supposed to be comedic? It seemed comedic to me in several places. Is that the joke?
I was just about to write almost exactly this!
I miss Usenet, I really do... I know it's still around, but it's basically dead.
I'm sure we heard this frequently in the early days of the public internet. "What are we going to use this for?" Not a lot survived those early days, but enough did.
I am currently writing my master thesis on predictive policing using machine learning. Working with local police in Norway. Got a bunch of papers and articles you might find interesting. Hit me up: michaedm@stud.ntnu.no
What made the internet feel like home is that you _had_ a home - it was called home page.

Ultimately the only thing that can make the internet feel home again is if you have your own little corner and that little corner can play nice with the other corners.

The really important tech is either webmentions, activitystreams, Linked Data Notifications, and all that are similar, protocoll-based tech. Mastodon can be one of these, but it's not the only one.
Good luck stealing a ton of gold using a keylogger.
WINE vs CrossOver is another example. There's a plethora of examples available.

There's also an example of software which clearly doesn't wish to follow such scheme: IDA Pro.
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I wish we had real data on the population. I bet a non-trivial percentage in fact could pull a resume out of their pocket and get a job, though probably a working class thing (warehouse / restaurant) not "middle class" (whatever that means). A non-trivial percentage are probably batshit crazy and should just be taken care of nicely for the rest of their lives. We just don't know, and talking in generalities just exacerbates the partisan bullshit wrecking the country.

In my mini-Portland (Olympia WA), I observe the 100 or so "homeless" who hang out downtown. I bet the percentage is about 50/ 50.

P.S. : To be honest, I wish we cracked down on anti-social behavior in public generally, and funded a lot more public housing.
Did people expect the dotcom bubble?

I was just 15 but one of my current day co-workers was active at the time and he lost a lot of money in shares that he thought would keep their value.

Shares he had received from employers.

But with cryptocurrencies people can't stop talking about how it will burst. Maybe that will change things in a somewhat psychological way.
The auto suggestion of even more extreme feeds/views tends to polarize
Don't be surprised if those predictions are heavily biased against minorities and poor people. Do you care if they do?

It's a similar problem to using ML to give people credit scores.

If the training data includes a lot of minorities and poor people breaking laws / delinquent payments, then your ML will simply key on race/economic status as a predictor.

So you've built a system that simply targets those groups.

But you might object and say that this race/economic status targeting gives the highest accuracy! It was only learned in the training data, after all. You can make a great classifier that is extremely unfair.

So you have to realize there is a conflict here between accuracy and fairness. This means there is a conflict between observational data (training), and using that data to produce decisions/outcomes.

If you make decisions/outcomes that reinforce the training data, you do not give racial groups/low economic status people a chance to improve their lives.

That is extremely inhuman, predatory, and unfair.
I used to think this, too, but recent games like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain have changed my mind. Astounding graphics and facial expressions.

Curious what Kojima will do with Death Stranding:

https://gamerant.com/death-stranding-still-shooting-scenes-m...

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/kojima-death-st...
Portland is terrible. Don't move here. There's nowhere to park. There's homeless everywhere. There's no real tech companies. There's no VC. And the air smells like pot.

Don't move here. Trust me. Stay in California. You think it's bad but you have no idea what happens here. Your children may be kidnapped by Sasquatch.

Did you know that meat might even be illegal in Portland by 2019? And they still listen to rock music, cassettes, and guitars. Don't move to Portland.

Disgraceful anarchists. Car hating thugs. Dirty homeless people. It's terrible. The author has no idea how bad it is.

They don't fluoridate water. You can't pump your own gas. They shut down roads for cars and only allow bikes. It's going to be illegal to drive your own car. You can't do anything to your property if there's trees in it.

And there's hippies. Real smelly granola types. They all smoke pot all the time.

Don't move to Portland. It'll ruin your life. The homeless are everywhere.
Maybe I'm blind. Where does that page show their new name (other than the news ticker on the side)?
I can see the shark below...
I'm pretty sure the opposite is true. Many people are already invested in stocks and, even in the .com bubble, many had accounts with etrade and the like--some of which were part of the bubble itself. All you had to do was transfer your cash/stocks to pets.com or whatever.

With bitcoin, you have to sign up for/transfer money to various sketchy exchanges that you've never previously used.
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NNTP is not dead at all. However, finding data on how to run my own NNTP instance is close to nonexistent. I'd be very glad if someone could point me to some docs.
Thanks! I presume it's the Coinhive script that triggers it. What antivirus software do you use?
It's got what plants crave.
For me the BIGGEST gain of using serverless architecture is security. For example, this year I started two ecommerce platforms. One's a digital delivery e-shop - selling ebooks, training and stuff and the other is a physical delivery e-shop. Normally, I'd write my own Phoenix/Rails app, but this time, I decided to go serverless for my furniture shop and wrote it all in Jekyll. Yes, the static site builder. I use netlify to manage the production aspect of it (which IS pretty AWESOME) and simple excel sheets to track inventory (which is what my vendor provides me, anyway). For payment, I simply use the checkout/cart functionality provided by Paypal and all this just works! The site is designed in such a way that you can't even tell anyway what's being used for the backend. No one can tell it's just a bunch of static HTML pages on display.

Whereas, for my digital delivery store, I regularly need to check my logs to see if anyone's doing anything suspecious. For example, a lot of IPs randomly try to visit wp-login.php or /phpmyadmin. Maintaining a production web application is a full time job by itself, if you don't have a team.

Having said that, many people would immediately assume static page builders are generally dumb. That isn't exactly true - You can automate a lot of stuff. For example, my local machine has a custom Jekyll plugin for my store that resizes and optimizes product images before pushing to prod to keep the page load time small. IF I had chosen the Rails/Phoneix route, I'd need to worry about hosting imagemagick or the like somewhere. Or maybe write some code to communicate with an third party API and usually, it's not free.

End of the day, I make sales and that's all that matters. That's when it hit me hard that my customers needn't care nor know what's behind their favorite site.
This is the fourth or fifth of these I've seen in the last year. Riot Blockchain for example, which used to be a worthless, failing, tiny biotech company. Overstock.com pulled a version of this fraud (I'm calling it a fraud, they may be technically legally in the clear; I believe these companies are commiting intentional fraud however, knowingly misrepresenting critical facts about their business to shareholders).
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> my company is planning to have a division start using Ethereum as a development platform

Hi! Serious question: can you explain more about what you mean here? I'm having trouble imagining what "development platform" means here, or how/why a division would use Ethereum as one. I'm guessing you mean something other than software development?
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There are people putting their life savings into bitcoin. You'll see those stories pop up from time to time on the bitcoin subreddit.

I've only got in it what I can afford to lose, personally, which isn't a whole lot, but it's still some skin in the game, at least.
So for those who remind us that the cryptocoin world is full of tulip-like behavior with no underlying asset value... while stocks provide dividends and represent growth and so forth: this article is a gentle reminder that stocks are also subject to tulipy speculations.
You can have a useable bike for a hundred Euro or so. It will be a long time, if ever, that we self-driving technology becomes cheap enough and small enough to compete. If you want a small, self-driving vehicle, you might as well put four wheels and a roof on it. Cars don't have to weigh a literal ton.
They didn't change their name (it's just a publicity stunt), yet they still got a 200% spike in stock value. It's just absurd.
Once I learned one can parameterize queries, not doing so began to feel kind of dirty to me.

To me, the big point was not even security, but the fact I no longer had to deal with properly escaping/cleaning messy input. Plus, somebody once told me parameterized queries can (potentially) give better performance. What's not to love?
"When federal law enforcement is detached from the mission of national security and focuses (perhaps shortsightedly) on criminalizing certain benign behaviors, a chilling response from the security community will develop, and an even greater divide between law enforcement and the security community will unfold"
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if you keep a ton of gold in your house, good luck.. keeping it safe, there are safe ways to keep bitcoin, cold storage, etc. is not like is impossible.
It seems strange to me to require that people turn from an outside lane across a lane that goes straight. As a cyclist, this is one of my biggest constant fears. I think I feel safer if drivers have to merge into my lane first, then turn from my lane. Unfortunately in practice where I live in the US, most drivers aren't safe and don't look no matter which way they do it.
>> You are confusing legality with ethics.

In this case I'm not sure I am - if there are laws that companies need to follow, even if they are not always strictly or consistently enforced, I would consider it the legal obligation of a company to follow them.
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> to be a part of niche interest groups
> Same for WhatsApp

No desktop client. NO DESKTOP CLIENT.
How do you type?!
Rather, I have allowed my instincts to set the limits of what I'm willing to accept as true without evidence. Yes. With adequate evidence, I'll believe anything.
IMHO: This is a broader economic problem, and should be addressed as such. We really need to get away from the idea that you should pay for digital media based on the time you receive said media.

I'd love to fund journalists, and reputable news-sites, but there are far too many for me to keep track of, and not enough time and interest. I'm not sure what the solution is, but doing things the old way, just because "we've always done it that way" is silly.
You're right. And I agree, the missing info about the contracts and the overall derivatives market here plus the expiration and strike being so far away makes calculating IV or delta or vega or convexity or well calculating anything pretty irrelevant and has little to zero practical use.

Plus we are talking about Bitcoin! so none of this is relevant. The old option theory bullshit has even less rigor beyond fun mental exercise. I still think it's interesting and gota start somewhere, and we'll see how things develop in this market. I did try to qualify in my comment writing something how calculation not really applicable to Bitcoin and doesn't even work on equities properly. But again you're right and I should have worded my comment differently, probably a bad lazy old habit to even use weird finance terms on non-finance forum like HackNews, so maybe could have said something like 'wow interesting to see someone paid 20% of the current price for an option with a strike that has bitcoin gaining +200% in the next 12 months'?

I would guess this is some sort of covered call as you suggest. It's only 275 bitcoins and a 20% premium on the spot price seems like a decent yield for so far out the money. I'm not a bitcoin trader but it's my understanding from what I've read there was no short side price discovery until very recently when derivatives started trading so volatility has no historical nor frame of reference. Bitcoin options could be super inexpensive deal right now or way overpriced there's no basis to say either way but there does seem to be enough inefficiency across various markets for arbitrage if someone wants to make the effort.
SF also has like 1/10 the population of NYC.
I can't edit my post anymore, but you're correct that the payments went to an entity that Steele owns, and Steele's own comment (as user nautilus) describes it as a pass-through. So I'm willing to let that go.

The rest of my opinion hasn't changed, though. I think Steele is using his staff's ignorance as a red herring, and I highly doubt that top-rate writers will want to work for Nautilus in the future.
In my experience at HN, people (even recognised experts) typically try to back their opinion and explain the facts, rather than resort to "all these comments are all incredibly wrong." Please try that, you'll have a much better reception.
I find Waze to be absolutely horrific at routing. Just this week, at the start of a route, it sent me into a wreck on a surface street it already knew was causing crawling speeds for over a mile. 13 minutes in traffic it should have avoided.

In the general sense, Wave greatly prefers higher average travel speeds over distance to the point of being comical. Going between my two most frequent destinations can be 34 miles on a bunch of super highways or 21 miles of surface street with a long stretch state highway that is mostly posted 55mph. The calculated ETAs are usually within 3 minutes of each other but Waze almost always wants me to travel the longer distance -- burning a bunch more gas and making the drive more stressful.

Then there's all the screwy stuff it does with side streets. Having to enter busy arterial roads from uncontrolled intersections is probably not saving me time and is certainly not making my travels safer or less stressful. Especially when it wants me to turn left.

Waze is a nice substitute for shuffling my Valentine One between vehicles.
Respectfully, what drives people to post tulip and dot-com bubble comparisons on literally every cryptocurrency / blockchain post? We saw it yesterday. We saw it last week. And a few months ago. And in 2016, and 2014, and 2012.

It's unfalsifiable and meaningless. We don't need to have this same "point" made on every post.
Faith based currency is a different beast. Money like silver coins can have utility beyond their exchange rate. For example, melted down and used to produce a physical item. You can't do that with paper money or a cryptocurrency.

The utility of silver could still drop, but it's much less likely than someone deciding that a piece of paper or a token in a ledger is essentially worthless.

That said, faith based money can skyrocket in value if everyone believes in it.
You know what the US government thinks of your gun?
https://www.military.com/equipment/mq-9-reaper
How would they enforce this in any way at all?
As bad the NSA's current data collection activities are, I don't think it compares to China's Big Brother.

I seriously doubt in China, for instance, that the EFF that highlighted much of the NSA's surveillance activities would even be allowed to exist.
Why would their stock ticket show anything not related to the financials of the stock?
But it can be compared with other decentralised protocols upheld by cryptographic functions, so it’s a commodity of sorts.
I have a cs degree from a good private university but with a not so great cs program. I didn't learn anything more than the basics of c++ programming, as I felt that it would be best to do the bare minimum. Looking back, I truly wish I had taken courses that really challenged me, as I'm finding that I use my background more and more these days.
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Great perspective. Without question there are definitely risks that anonymity introduces. But there is an effective tyranny of free expression when parties are forced to use their names.

The protections of liberty afforded on paper don’t always play out in real life. In theory we have protections of free association, freedom of religion, free speech and we’re all entitled to equal protection under the law - this doesn’t always play out.

Too often mob rule has resulted in oppression of dissenting views and oppression of classes of people. Privacy, private communication, anonymous communication and pseudonymous communications are all essential for healthy society and discourse and cannot be written off because some would use them for nefarious purposes.
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Thank you sdangol, the only way I can do is to limit the scanning to origin IP.
Something with a lot of fizz that leaves you with a bitter aftertaste and a bad hangover?

Looks like there's already a bitcoin cocktail floating about:
http://www.barmeister.com/drinks/recipe/7511/?o=by_date
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this is so true
Know Your Customer, requiring exchanges to provide the necessary data, etc.
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All organizations are political.
> and people here should stop repeating it.

Or maybe they should repeat it until it's acknowledged, corrected, and they're satisfied with the answer?