skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He could be massively shorting it and using negative press to panic retail investors into selling, driving down prices further (and increasing profits on his short).

Not uncommon for public equity hedge funds. Makes sense that someone would do it in the wild west of cryptocurrencies.
> Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican National Party ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater ) literally said that the key to republicans winning in the south was couching racism in more palatable euphemisms.

What he literally said was this:

> You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

But think about what that is. It's a strategy for destroying racism by abstracting it into non-existence.

You have these racists who hate black people because they think they're inferior subhumans, and then a bunch of regular middle class people who don't care about race at all and just want their tax dollars to pay for their own kid's school instead of some stranger's kid, but they end up together in a majority coalition.

If you strip off the second group of people and give them what they want directly without any racial component then the first group loses all their political power. They go from 60% of people you can't ignore to 0.2% of people you can ignore.

And you can't pretend the outcome is the same either. A person can't change their skin color the same ways they can change their finances.
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Feel free to look it up and confirm or deny my recollection. That's more work than I was willing to put into it at the time I wrote that.

I don't think there's any problem relating vague recollections as long as they are presented as such and attempt to expand the conversation.
Reminds me of a similar factoid:

Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the National Hockey League record for most combined points by two brothers:

Wayne Gretzky with 2,857, Brent Gretzky with 4.
A salient point from the article:

So when we look for examples to illustrate the tax code, it makes sense to use a bunch of pretty wealthy families, because the big pictures is that nobody else really has very much money.
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Assuming a stadium with 30,000 seated people, that would imply an average net worth of about $67.

With 10,000 seated people, $200.
The internet was a big bubble, and quite a few stocks survived and made handsome returns.
I'd say that goes beyond "really not that much different".
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To most people there is no difference. The consequence is that Bitcoin seems unsafe because there has been lots of money stolen. It's like the Oracle bug I am tackling today, my customers don't care if it's Oracle's fault, they just know my product doesn't work.
He could, but if he is telling prospective investors one thing and doing another, that's a recipe for legal problems
Private trackers leverage the power of exclusivity and status to get volunteers to work hard. I worked probably 1000 hours on about 30 movies to get access to some of the exclusive perks reserved for only the most skilled encoders.

To this day I'm proud of my work and glad that thousands of people have downloaded my completed works.
More FUD which for a hedge fund guy is half the basis of their profit e.g. Jamie Dimon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_raEUMLL-ZI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3i3OUbxXI I'd pay more attention to the damage banks and investment banks have done to poor people.
No, although that is nice.

Taxes are why I think a piece of paper with a bad portrait of George Washington has some intrinsic value to me, whether or not there's a secondary market for them. It's why I think the purchasing power of that piece of paper is anchored to a real phenomenon in the real world, and why I don't expect that purchasing power to move around much.

Think of it like this. If the dollar lost 20% of it's purchasing power overnight, I would be pretty damn sure something important has happened in American governance. Bitcoin just moved 20% because...?
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Do you have data to back up the implication that poorer people read more Breitbart?
Whenever someone uses the word "modern" about a piece of software I stop reading.
> customer name, address, vehicle make and model, vehicle identification number (VIN), credit score, loan amount and monthly payment

If that turns out to really be the only affected info, does this actually have identity theft implications? It compromises access to NCF accounts, I suppose, but while there's some info that would normally be private (loan amounts, credit score), I don't see any truly sensitive info here. Notably, no SIN, work info, income amounts, or other things you'd expect on a credit application.

Basically, as of now it looks like the post-approval payment tracking system got breached, not the actual approval system.
Also see:

https://github.com/ortegaalfredo/kscope

They present 'Resonance attack against HDD':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DdqTz3CW5Y

They include code etc.
Because Bob knows he can use the gold to buy a chicken from Alice and she doesn't take USD because of the apocalypse?

Or perhaps your goat ate all your dollars...
Wow.. so, how much interference is caused by the ambient noise of the server room itself? Is there some "critical threshold" for noise beyond which you'd have to install sound dampeners or smth?
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The reality is that even for Bitcoin, the attack, as described, is infeasible. It is possible for miners to collude to censor transactions, but not to create fake transactions, or to somehow steal money from a person and deliver it to others. An attack on that scale would require rewriting the block validity criteria, and no existing nodes or other miners would accept the new criteria, which would result in the chain forking, and the main chain simply losing a lot of hash power, which would be working on the fork that contained the change the validity criteria.
Would love to give this a try. Thank you!

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Like everything else: through legislation.
IIRC, BTC has gone from ~$3k to it's current levels from the time when he first mentioned starting a hedge to fund to when it was supposed open last week. Typical financial instruments have a hard time keeping up with the current crypto volatility.
People always forget to include future innovations in their projections. It's as if they don't believe (or know) that software can rapidly improve.

The lightning network looks very promising in its ability to scale and reduce fees. It would make transactions nearly instantaneous, have reasonable fees, and help scale the network.
I consider it "intuition". The real math behind this is inescapable and formal. For someone like me, any article that says zero-math equates to having some intuitive description of whats going on, which is gold. I'll eventually get to the math pieces, but having an intuitive understanding of the topic makes it much easier to grok the math later on
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If you're referring to EO's issued by the President of the United States, you should be aware that EO's only have the force of law within two scopes of power:

* power delegated to the President by statute passed by Congress

* powers explicitly and exclusively delegated to the President by the Constitution (of which there are few)

It's a misconception that the President can issue an "executive order" that overrules Congress. Such an order would have no force, and would fail in front of a federal court --- you saw this with the original Trump Muslim Ban.
What you describe sounds like a recipe for the lowest common denominator in features combined with a geometric increase in bugs.

If it's just linking, loose coupling, it might work OK (for something like document creation or messaging) but it won't be integrated at a higher semantic level.
I've been seeing quite a few slate.com articles on the frontpage lately (the dockless cycle comes to mind). I hope this is not the new normal...
That is exactly what I believe will happen.
inboxalias.com usually works
He is just hedging.
The thing that bothers you the most about this is people not wanting cookies?
No. Always test purity of the products before consuming.
High COL locations typically manage to offer higher salaries too, though.
I think this is the same as www.turbo360.co which uses a node/express based syntax as an approach to abstract away some of the lower level details of AWS.
Took inspiration from the Harvey-OS HN post?
Every society has to have some kind of apportionment and exchange of resources, which might be called an economy, so I find the question strange.
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Absolute return funds aim to generate returns that are uncorrelated with the broader market. You look like a fool when markets are ripping (buy any passive etf) and a hero when you generate outsized returns.

One way to generate uncorrelated returns is by being long (making money when stocks go up) and short (making money when stocks go down) -- you are effectively trying to make money on the spread between your buys and sells.

In bullish markets, being short can hurt -- a lot. Hence you end up with negative returns (Your shorts did a lot worse, than your longs did good).

Hussman's funds satisfy a need in the marketplace for uncorrelated funds -- he did really well in the dot com bust and the years after that, but has really lagged behind not just the market but other peer market neutral funds which should be the true yardstick to measure his success.
The "number of leading 0's" is just a gross oversimplification of the actual difficulty mechanism. It's a lot easier to explain, and it's somewhat correct (it's easy to look at the hash for a block and see that it has a bunch of zeros at the front)

The reality is closer to what you say at the end there, it is calculated so that the resulting hash must be under a given value, and is pretty damn granular. Sadly many people trip over the idea of one hash being "less" than another, and it's just easier to go with the "number of zeros" explanation rather than spend time explaining how a hash just represents a bigass number.

For example, the current difficulty as of this comment is 1873105475221.611
Someone earning $100K in San Francisco is still significantly above either the average or median in purchasing power in the United States. Like, to an embarrassing degree. It is not as far above the average as somebody in lower-COL areas, of course, but it's not the same thing.
Bitcoin's value prop is a store of wealth and it's an entryway (through exchanges) to far more interesting coins.

Crypto is also a stock market 2.0, where bitcoin is an index fund.
Help scale "the" network?

No, it would help scale "the lightning network" which would not be the same as "the bitcoin network".
I agree with your point. I'm not a programmer or mathematician, but I enjoy learning math that's new to me.

But when my brain tries to learn math I haven't seen before, I usually can't extract intuition from the formula alone (compare this article with Wikipedia math pages). Short of playing around with the equations, I get a better understanding from articles like this when the topic is still new to me. There's less inertia to understand something like this, so I learn faster.

I don't think of math as a monster, but I appreciate simplification. The title is a bit click-baitey though.
The particular attack you describe is infeasible in Bitcoin for sure, and almost certainly for any other cryptocurrency. The problem is that the miners certify that a given chain is valid, but nodes and other miners will apply block validity criteria on top of that. Block validity includes things like "transactions are properly signed" and "miner rewards are correctly calculated".

This effectively means that creating a "fake" transaction that would empty someone's account and credit it to the thieves would require a valid signature from the original account. Otherwise nobody would accept the new block. Changing the block validity criteria is possible, but requires cooperation on a much more grand scale, especially for Bitcoin where there are many implementations of the protocol that would have to change to match the new block validity criteria (which, suspiciously, will contain a new criteria saying "oh, and the signature check criteria don't apply to transactions from this address").

Without some form of consensus, this would amount to "theftcoin" simply being a hard fork of Bitcoin, with the main chain continuing, potentially with less hash power.
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The original link (to imgur.com) is dead, but this seems real:
https://www.teslarati.com/image-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-spa...
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Actually not that erratic. he doesn't have enough stake in BTC or ETH to make massive market movements. he's wants to drive the price down to buy more and the only way is through his position of "influence."

BTC will make a massive rebound in 2018. I'm sure a lot of BTC bulls have full knowledge of this possibility and are acquiring as many as possible.
Good read - thanks for sharing.
> I just think that the sky isn't falling. You said it was worse in quite a few ways, but I think it's really just 1-2 big ones that can be fixed.

Well, it was several ports they replaced :-)

But yeah, it's not that I think the new ones are junk or anything. I have one for work. It's fine if you have USB-C stuff with it and if making sure you have that crap is someone else's problem, and expense. There's just no way I'm paying more for one of them than the previous model, for my personal laptop, because I use every port on there all the time—except the Apple ones (lightning/displayport? I can never keep the names straight) and don't have a single USB-C device in my house. If the new model came with a really great multiport hub/dock thingy to get us through this (multi-year) port transition period that'd at least make it less off-putting.
Noooooooooo. Bitcoin is not the stock market. It's more like a commodity
"If you can convince an entire community to rearrange their finances"

If we all behaved conscientiously and responsibly, almost all of the world's problems would disappear.
That is an awesomely cool set of rotating header images. I've also already wasted a few minutes trying to track down which Ulitma map that is to no avail.
or to make sure the delivery robot can navigate it's way around your house. Let's not assume delivery is done by a guy, or people for that matter.
When I actually settled down to use LaTeX for a paper, I found it plenty nice. However there are two areas of LaTeX best left to professionals.

Installation - just use a cloud LaTeX like OverLeaf.

Font Installation - use what's available. If what you want isn't available, use what's available.
They can run the laundering scheme with a rotation of however many decoy sites as they like. Making one site look like hundreds is not hard.
Giving a bear market fund a % of your total investment capital is the hedge. They don't need to be hedging their positions, you've already done that on the macro level by diversifying your investment portfolio.
What an awfully disingenuous comment. Just because some random so called "cryptocurrency" may still hold any residual value after this bitcoin pump-and-dump scam blows up it doesn't mean it makes any sense to keep pumping, let alone enter the fraud at this stage.
What's hard is distribution without allowing redistribution, which is what traditional companies consider a mandatory prerequisite for distribution
This is a good point. If someone is going to highlight what a federal tax cut does, they have to go to people actually paying federal taxes. Most people in lower incomes brackets already pay near 0 in federal tax. This is why tax cuts do not really help those who need help the most. To help those who really need help we have to spend money on things like healthcare, education, and jobs programs[1].

[1] As an aside, people rightfully rip on military spending waste a lot, but it is still a decently functioning jobs program.
The paper has the full details; they were able to halt all disk access for minutes at a time, resulting in operating system crashes.
I actually find it hard to focus or type when I use something like that. It's kind of like how you turn down the music when you want to focus on something when driving.
Maybe more appropriate: "Wow, my phone can _optionally_ run an onion service!"

https://github.com/guardianproject/haven/blob/0fd6f690ef6303...
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What he's saying is that in the next few weeks it's going to drop as low as 8k, it will be as much as 40k by the end of the next year, and within 5 - 10 years it will be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes. It's really not that complicated.
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Argentina doesn't make it illegal to save in currencies other than its own.
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> Just 2 months ago $10k for Christmas sounded very optimistic.

Who knows, it might still be very optimistic today.
From the title I thought the article would be about comparing the troff source to the groff source. But, it wasn't.
I thought the headline was amusing until I realized that I'm only a little more than a decade away from being a sexagenarian who will probably still be playing Street Fighter.
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And if you can't test it (but you indeed really, really should - and if not easily available to you, a lot of DNM markets also have sellers of reagent tests), at the very least start with minute amounts - and a sitter - before increasing it.
If that's an act of aggression and thus immoral, what is it when an online job application form requires you to enter your salary expectation before submitting (outside California)?
> People always forget to include future innovations in their projections. It's as if they don't believe (or know) that software can rapidly improve.

And you posted that comment while driving your flying car on your way to alpha centauri, right?

Foolosh cargo cult beliefs such as the ones you've illustrated do not serve as any basis to make investment decisions.
Here are the current headline on their front page which mention 'tax cut'. "Trump: Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Building Factory in N. Carolina After Tax Cut Bill", "Bank of America Paying $1,000 Tax Cut Bonuses to 145,000 American Workers", "Ted Lieu: Tax Cuts Make Poor People Jealous", "WINNING: Germans Fear Job Losses from U.S. Tax Cuts…", "‘Avengers’ Director Joss Whedon Has Two-Day Twitter Meltdown Over Trump, GOP Tax Cut Vote", "Winning: President Donald Trump Signs Historic Tax Cut Bill".

Put "typical family" into the Breitbart search box.

The first match is for http://www.breitbart.com/economics/2017/09/30/mainstream-med... . In it, "Gary Cohn, the White House’s chief economic adviser and its lead advocate for the GOP tax overhaul" talked about the effect of the then-tax plan on "a typical family earning $100,000 with two children that has been a standard deducter, has used the standard deduction and continues to use the standard deduction".

(You'll notice that Cohn used $100,000 of income, which is the same income that Texas Sen. John Cornyn was quoted as tweeting.)

Other media sources misinterpreted that as saying that the typical family earns $100,000, when "the average American family makes $74,000 a year".

Breitbart's article complained about "the difficulty of persuading a skeptical mainstream media that the proposal would cut taxes for the middle class."

I found no article describing how the tax cut would benefit the typical family.
Martian space trash.
Holy shit that's one hell of a demonstration!

I wonder if somewhere out there there's a sysadmin pulling their hair out trying to figure out why their I/O shits the bed every now and then.
We have an intersection somewhat like that in SF at 9th and Division St and as a cyclist it feels more dangerous than other intersections. A lot of cars block the bike path and a lot of cars think they have the right of way turning right vs me going straight.
I actually don't, stop being silly.

Where did Warren Buffet lose money unaccountably? Why are you shifting the goal posts, derailing a thread about personal liability for losses to talk about a successful investor?

I think you'll find that the attribute of "intrinsic motivation", which is what your argument boils down to, is not that clear cut (not even to the "fraudster") in reality.
If you limit the amount of real estate interest and tax deductions the price of houses should decrease theoretically because the house will be less attractive.

If you limit state taxes there should be a net migration to lower cost states.

In general I think the tax changes are bad for most people in the long term but high income earners probably skew toward professions who might be able to set up corporations and get the pass through rate on some of their income.
Hack the full nodes to modify their database. Or cut a business deal with the biggest full nodes (Coinbase, Bitmain, Shapeshift, But go, etc.) and decide to implement a rule much of the network opposes, like raising the block size (which consequentially makes a repeat attack easier in the future because fewer users will have the resources to run full nodes themselves)
I immediately thought of this one. Perhaps more useful to the 99% of us who dont work with SMD. I am sure the 'detector' would provide amusement to a few people.
Guessing at what the market will do is super smart when it doubles every month.
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Games like this one seems to be soo fun but when I'm back home after a whole day of coding I just can't find energy to write any more. I thought: why not create a game where you show examples of 'good' moves to your bot instead of coding them? So I've implemented my idea in https://top-tactic.com/en where you can teach bots to play soccer just by showing examples of good moves. Noone plays it, but it was fun to create :) and great way to gain some experience with neural networks.
compare these

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https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_gold/6154#Frequencie...

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_platinum/8180m#Frequ...

So platinum can run avx512 on 28 cores at 2.3GHz, while silver runs 12 cores at 1.4GHz
It turns out, though, that the median family of four has an income pretty close to the average family of four, so this point is a little less clever than most of the folks who are making it believe.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/actually-the-average-famil...
Yeah but those cost a lot more because of the premium on already having a slip. Also you get an old decrepit boat that needs a lot of maintenance.
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I personally like 'rust' a lot. Has aesthetic qualities, it's not what you expect of a new technology (usually the feeling associated with new products is "new, shiny and flawless"). Harvey is just a name... A name of an old, white, male US citizen. Sounds like something that was invented in the 80s by linus torvald's friend.