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The only thing you cannot do with bitcoin is pay taxes directly. You can do that indirectly by trading your bitcoin for USD. There are a lot of different goods you can buy with bitcoin, some of which you cannot buy any other way (many are illegal but that is a different matter). Bitcoin is traded for other currency all the time.

I tend to believe those who say bitcoin will not last are right, but right not it is a currency. Not the most useful one, but there are countries with a real currency that is not very useful.
Meta: but this is probably one of the rules I've broken most frequently.

Most times not because I was downvoted (and then only to ask for an explanation IIRC) but because it seems like people are misunderstanding or IMO abusing the downvote feature.
Who pays for the video storage and streaming costs? The same person with the site?
Technically true, no matter what you invest in and for how long, but I suspect casinos would be less thrilling places and caused less addictive costly behaviors if you had to wait for the outcome of your gamble few years.
What's `hd` in this context?
My theory is still Saudi Arabia. The government as well as individuals fearing further confiscation of their assets.
Oh, it wasn't over yet. 11 days of gains lost...
“Hey, our currency dipped 20% today. And swings any number of percent each way daily. You know, like Zimbabwean dollars and the like. Don’t worry, it’s value will only increase in 2018”

People are delusional (except those who scam people out of their money)
That post is almost entirely about a debate over viewpoint-based regulation. Regulations that are viewpoint-neutral, especially when it comes to commercial speech and broadcast radio/TV stations (and especially the combination of the two), are generally on much stronger 1A footing.
If you're going to go for the "zero-math introduction", it seems only reasonable to expect some "glossing over [of] the actual explanation".
While I'm certain all sorts of shenanigans come out in divorce proceedings,

> (indeed, in one state where I looked at the statistics in depth, as a man, you have a 12% chance of engaging in domestic violence, and a >25% chance of being accused of it).

This statistic is not sufficient evidence to draw the conclusion that women make up domestic abuse charges with regularity. Its far more likely that women are more likely to divorce their spouse if they are abusive.
Dockless bikes have arrived in Paris since October.
The city officials would like to regulate them and maybe tax them as they use the public spaces to park the bikes: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-paris-bicycles/par...
While I'm certain it sounds bad to the people who would find this icky, there is zero in this article about the risk.

Yes, the word "risk" is used. But the Osterholm quote is not a medical risk analysis. To decide what, if anything, should be done differently, it is necessary to both quantify the risk, and decide what level of risk the public finds tolerable for convention centers.

I would be surprised if the risk of infectious disease from cadavers in the convention center is as high as the risk of infectious disease when the convention center is packed to capacity with germ-carrying people there to watch power point presentations.
1 - absolutely. You have high chances that a program that was written 20 years ago still works with Windows 10. Games might be an exception, but usually OpenGL or DX games work too.
Same in London. The boroughs don't give enough permission to the dock based scheme. One council shared a photo of the bikes on this scheme they seized, https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/cyclists-fury-afte....
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Well, by now on you've read the article by Belapan where you saw the quote that arrest was made based on the Interpol warrant by request of Azerbaijan. Belapan is independent news agency, at least they claim so on their website. It's not state owned, Belta is. How is my evidence is partial then?

P.S. Also he's a blogger, not journalist. And the story of Belarusian jail that OP referring to is full of shit, even some Belarusian opposition members who spent some time there, not few days like this guy, wrote in comments to the article that he wrote mostly bullshit. Of course it's not a resort, and for someone who got there first time it can be tough and shocking, but it's not as bad, as he describes.
Interesting. The pattern from the 9:30-10:15 range (EST) is a classic Ross Hook 1-2-3 (low) setup [1].

[1] https://oxfordstrat.com/trading-strategies/ross-hook-1/
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Typical HN kneejerk comments.

The GeForce series cards are designed, spec'd, priced for consumer usage. Nvidia has to warranty and guarantee what they sell, consumer confidence is important.

When you're doing ML or blockchain Proof-of-Work the card becomes a consumable. Is it fair for manufacturers to guarantee them like they would a consumer desktop or gaming GPU? You expect people who play with ML in their free time to subsidize your GPU cluster?

That said, hope this gets people angry enough to make TF support OpenCL. CUDA is too pervasive.
We are working on an OpenCL based layer that enables AMD GPUs, see these links for more info https://developer.codeplay.com/computecppce/latest/getting-s... https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22
You don’t do open source because of the money. You do it because you believe software should be free, and if you’re lucky and your software is useful then maybe you can eek out an existence. But most open source makes no money.
The very first thing that you need to do is to pick a software stack, ideally opensource and then learn how that software-stack works bottom up. Learning how a linux application works might be a good starting point if you are totally new.

There are multiple layers involved here and really understanding each one would take time.

Next would come understanding browsers, browser although it is an app, it is a world in itself. How an http request flows through a browser, how an http response is rendered, what are various layers involved. TCP/IP stack to physical layer, wifi/usb. It is extremely vast and very interesting.

And once you have gained enough experience , you will be able to clearly see the similarities and differences between various software stacks, both bottom-up and top-down, right from hardware level to your application's code and vice versa. And then reasoning about security of the stack at various layers would become straightforward.

In terms of conferences, I find Blackhat(http://www.blackhat.com/) Conference is a very good source of keeping oneself up to date with world of security( including applying Data Science to Security)
The beginning of the article does a horrible job of explaining the big question. The Millennium Prize problem[1] is a math problem: whether the Navier-Stokes equations always have a solution with certain properties. Some possible answers to the problem would mean there are some physical situations where they don't produce any prediction at all about what might happen next, or they produce multiple predictions, or they produce physically implausible predictions. (If you have a strong math background, the official problem description might be interesting to you; it's a bit beyond me.[2])

The article does get around to explaining it better if you keep going.

it certainly seemed to me that no one was relying on N-S as an accurate predictor of motion (as you would a newtonian model of a ball rolling or something like that), but rather just as a first order approximation

Numerical methods for solving the Navier-Stokes equations are approximate and therefore diverge from the correct solution. The same is true for a ball rolling down an incline, but the inaccuracies are smaller than you would ever care about in the real world. What your colleagues were saying about the Navier-Stokes equations is that the numerical error was often large enough that the calculated solutions were known to diverge from mathematical reality in significant ways, and therefore seeing them diverge from physical reality was consistent with physical reality and mathematical reality being the same.

[1] http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems

[2] http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/navierstokes.pdf
May I ask how much you friend makes, on an average?
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As far as I know, he isn't either, but as I said, I keep hoping that somehow it dawns on him that salvaging the USA from this hideous path it's on is within the domain of ‘philantropy’ that he is pursuing.
"What’s causing the depreciation is anyone’s guess"

I thought it was obvious, a bitcoin exchange was hacked
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/technology/south-korea-bitco...
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How do you identify the inflection point and then execute when it hits? There are conservative choices that would scale all the way through, but many startups would avoid them due to the hit on "velocity" (which is itself a very fuzzy topic.)

It seems that this same pattern plays out with many tools, and not just languages. When you've built something and you now have a team, processes, etc. built up it becomes difficult to see the forest for the trees, or to make the hard decisions because it might involve replacing people.
Installing other OS is by definition not ChromeOS anymore.
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It’s a canary in the coal mine IMO. Sure, he’s early; but he’s not wrong. A very significant portion of growth over the last decade has been the growing ability of US companies to avoid paying US taxes. That growth eventually caps out until you reach a 0% corporate tax rate — the problem here is that shifts the tax burden 100% onto the populace, which absolutely destroys consumer spending and ultimately the economy as a whole.

Right now they’re just turning these changes in the tax rate into enterprise value, but it’s a one-time shot. And if you do too much of it, you undermine the economy. But the corporations can’t help themselves, so we will have yet another boom-bust cycle.
And I could make thousands of kinds of physical coins next month, it doesn't mean physical money is worth less...

I feel like I'm crazy here, how is the ability to make a new "thing" make something else less valuable? A toyota isn't worth less because I can make a new car company next week, Facebook isn't worth less because I could make a clone of it tomorrow, A company stock shouldn't be consitered "worthless" just because I can create a new company tomorrow...

What am I missing? Why would the ability to make something new affect the rarity of an unrelated "thing"? Why isn't the value determined by what that "thing" does, how it does it, the number of people that believe in it's ability to do the thing it says it will do, and more? Why do you think it matters that someone can create a new currency?
Not well versed in the open-source realm at all, but my guess is that if monetary gain is your primary goal, you'll probably have a bad time.

Most of the value of open-source work lies in the experience gleaned. It looks good on a resume. (There's also of course the personal satisfaction you may get from knowing a bunch of strangers use, and maybe even love, something you made or contributed heavily to).
But it's not like those aircraft carriers are going to show up if someone doesn't take your dollar. State backed currencies (backed by state backed armies) have failed plenty of times. History is dotted with governments who suffered by poorly managing their currencies, no matter what their military power.
I believe that if you truly understood how exchanges work, you wouldn't hold this belief. I guess I should elaborate. You may know some of this but you likely don't know all of it.

There are two types of orders: LIMIT and MARKET. Limit orders get added to a list. There is a list of standing BUY orders and a list of standing SELL orders. They are standing/LIMIT because no one has taken them up on their offer. For example, I can enter a limit order now: "I offer to buy BTC for $500."

You can only enter a LIMIT SELL order at 1 penny above the highest BUY offer or higher. Conversely, you can only enter a LIMIT BUY order at 1 penny below the lowest SELL offer or lower. This is because when you TAKE an order that already exists on the book (the lists), you execute a MARKET order, not a LIMIT order.

Executing a MARKET order means that you "eat up" the book/list until you have reached your order size. So if I place a market order to buy 3 BTC I will progressively buy BTC at higher and higher rates from the standing limit sell offers until my order is fully filled.

That is how an order book/market actually works. Now enter your claim:"Market manipulation. The prices are really set by the coin exchanges"

What exactly would this entail?

I guess you suppose that Coinbase simply increases the price of Bitcoin on their website, and pockets the difference between what people pay and what they acquire them for. Clever!

But wait a minute, in order to increase the price, they have to eat all of the orders between the starting price and the finish price. Otherwise people would notice that the price moved over their order without filling it, which should never happen, and which would thus prove fraud, which would probably completely destroy the company.

So Coinbase, knowing this, decides to eat up all of the orders from the original price (let's say $15,000) to the new price they want BTC to cost: $20,000.

In order to do this, Coinbase has to OVERPAY for every single coin they buy on the way up. There is a fair market price, which is what you can expect to get when selling a coin, and you would have to agree to pay above this price for every single coin in order to manipulate the market. As a result, your attempt to manipulate the market would almost certainly lose you a massive amount of money. The order book has a lot of orders in it. This appears to me to be one of the stupidest things anyone could ever try to do. It would move the market, but it's not clear that there's any reason to believe that it would be anything but massively unprofitable.

Imagine walking into a gold market and offering to buy all the gold that's for sale at higher than the current fair price. Wow, what a clever strategy! Surely you'll make a killing!

It doesn't really make any sense.
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The anecdote is amusing, but not very relevant. My experience is exactly opposite: my Comcastic internet is shit, but I regularly ride my city-run light rail, and the trains are clean, well maintained, and always on time.
Petro dollar is directly tied to the US military prowess. If you try to create all alternate Petro dollar they kill you. See gaddaffi for example
This is why I come to Hacker News.
Your numbers are off by more than a factor of 1,000. As of a couple days ago, you could liquidate $30M (not $30K) on GDAX with a market sell order (which would be the worst possible way to sell) for more than 95% of last-quoted price.
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I'm interested in GRC - could you explain what else to study or what certs to get to go that route? Thanks
NVidia has always been more of a pain under Linux for at least the past 5 years, even if AMD wasn't contributing much to the open source drivers code-wise at the time they published hardware specifications for their cards so the mesa and DRM developers could do a halfway decent job. My Radeon R9 290 worked quite well without installing fglrx, as did my Radeon HD 7850.

I'm actually at the point where I need an upgrade for my work laptop, and I am going to seriously push for something that doesn't use NVidia graphics since they're such a pain to deal with under Linux (especially Optimus, holy crap).
Some people think of a programmer as someone who can write code; and a developer as someone who can develop solutions.

The difference being that the developer is expected to be able to identify problems to be solved and the solutions to the problems, in addition to implementing them. The programmer is told what the problems and solutions are and only needs to be able to implement them.

However, not everyone makes any such distinction, and in the vernacular the terms are basically interchangeable. If someone uses one or the other term, don't assume they make that distinction; assume they're just talking about someone who can program. If you see one or the other in a job title or description, you will still want to speak with the hiring manager to understand the scope of responsibilities.
You know what? That's a good point, and a problem with the Bitcoin end game. As Bitcoin mining gets harder and more of the value ends up entirely in the already-mined BTC, those with all this mining infrastructure are going to realize they can maximize this otherwise-stranded-asset by monopolizing mining power and developing a consensus to allow them to continue printing money.

"But transaction fees!"
Okay, but if transaction fees go way up, that will encourage people to move away from BTC anyway or find some other way to reduce their exposure to transaction fees.

Once mining draws to a close, miners will consolidate. Just like in every other industry after a bust.

Cryptocurrencies are still, of course, very interesting and powerful.
The past few instances this has happened tended to follow some big news stories, like China banning ICO's or SK banning cryptocurrency exchanges, or the (falsified rumour) news Vitalik Buterin had died, some inflammatory SEC actions, etc.

People panic sold on a lot of that news. As good news came in, like the reversal of those decisions the price recovered.

This time it's bizarre to see, especially after the Goldman Sachs announcement yesterday. There hasn't really been much other news the past few days. Considering everything is down in almost equal proportions, it certainly looks like something else is at play. Panic selling piled on top of ___?

When it goes crazy, it goes crazy I guess...

edit: Apparently there was a South Korean exchange hacked: http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/technology/south-korea-bitco...

So that could be a pretty big influence!
You are missing the reason the fees are high: it's because Bitcoins it the most widely used cryptocurrency today. Scaling something like Bcash, which doesn't have that many transactions - is easy. The fees can be low because nobody wants to use it. Because there is no real demand for those transcations, and so the price can be low. For a crypto like Bitcoin, which does have high demand for transactions, some of the fees have to be high right now. (Does not mean they will be high in the future.)

Are there scalability problems? Yes they are, it's very evident in the transaction fees.
But are technical solutions being developed to mitigate this? Yes they are - that's the real work that actually goes on in the background, by the people who actually work, instead of spending their time on internet posting about the price. It's not an easy task, but it is being done.

When people bring up the transaction fees, sometimes it sounds like they think that real Bitcoin developer's don't know that this is a problem. They do, and they work on it! It's just that regular person doesn't want to hear developers, he wants to hear someone that tells them they can make 3x their money over a weekend.
Well the city should fine people who do this. Don't the bike share companies know who the last person was to park a bike?
Maybe you misunderstood.

The problem isnt that the quality is poor. The problem is that the client application fails to recognise microphone input.

The calls are fine if it works, but when it doesn't its a one way call.

Again: this whole thread is why linux on desktop is a fucking fantasy. Any problem and the mere idea that its because of unreliable software is avoided like a hooker with an eye patch, lest people have to recognise "yeah this shit just doesn't work well"
There's a section titled "Streaming and Hosting Affiliation" in the article that answers that. Fly-by-night file hosts that pay for hits and serve a billion malware popups to visitors.
Inner city schools do not get less of the funding. Property taxes only account for half of K-12 funding. Federal and state grants to inner city and rural schools account for the other half. Here in Maryland, for example, Baltimore spends about the same as Montgomery County, a wealthy DC suburb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-2....

> When federal dollars are included, just five states are spending less in their poorest districts than in their wealthiest. Nationwide, the average disparity drops from 15 percent to less than 2 percent.
The economy is just a mechanism to have a predictable environment in which to raise children.
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The other right answer is do not let someone create an account with an email they don't have access to.

My short gmail address gets a signup on some random website a couple times a month and they're often nigh unto impossible to delete.

Fitbit is one of the worst for this.
Thanks for your reply. I asked above already, could you explain what to study or what certs to get to follow the path of "advisory folks (think PCI, HIPAA)"
Lately I've seen the catch-all "We could not verify the credentials you entered" and it has grown on me a lot.
Super pedantic, but I believe we have 11 active carriers and 2 under construction.
Who was the author? I didn’t see attribution on the linked page.
I'm sorry if it seems I am persecuting you and putting all your ideas down, but I really don't see how this can be true either.

The 3- or N-body problem is about point-particles interacting gravitationally at nonzero distance according to an inverse square law. Navier-Stokes is, at root and in the limit, about elastic collisions about infinitesimal corpuscles that transfer momentum between each other.

Again, I can see the analogy “lots of things interacting”, but they have quite little in common beyond that.
I'm interested in this project - but I do have a few questions:

Who is the target audience? Developers that need an OSS RoR alternative to wordpress? Property owners/managers that need quick sites? Someone else?

Why does Open Source matter in this case? And how does it affect the target audience?

What disadvantages of Wordpress are you trying to fix/improve/innovate around? (I took a look at the link provided on the website, but assuming the reader is not a developer, it may be better to summarize in your own words).

What do donations go towards? What fees are associated with the upkeep and development of this product? How will my donations contribute to development?
Isn't that instagram?
Seems to be going up again pretty fast.
Look at CMC. Everything is down 20-30%. They are very correlated on the way down. https://coinmarketcap.com/coins/
This is a pointless argument because I doubt Github or anyone who uses this message seriously considers it to be a security measure. Github's usernames are absolutely public. But they also have so many users that I suspect the wrong username is typed all the time. So yes, sometimes maybe the username is wrong.
> actual end of actual value for Bitcoins

Do keep in mind that people tend to massively overreact to any bitcoin-related movement. It's at 13k now, back where it was like 3 weeks ago.
Does this really make a big difference?

I mean it's a problem for the gamblers that came in late, but the people who were there at the beginning probably could care less.
sarcastic comment added the same value your comment did...
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Everything you say is true, and the value, I think, is clear. The part I don't like is that I have to create a database manually. Granted, the results will save me time as I don't have to manually tag the routine.

Food for thought.
In that case it's an exceptionally bad one.
> Neither is broadcasting lies to deceive the public.

That's pretty damn rich given that the FCC did this just a few days ago.