skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically in joining YC, each YC member would be granted a percentage of YC's 7% stake in all of the YC companies which would reduce their need to fundraise.

I was curious what this could mean in reality so I did some back of the envelope math. (As a disclaimer - I have no inside knowledge of the performance of YC's portfolio, so all this math could be wrong.) YC Summer '17 had 294 founders at 124 startups. Let's say there is an Airbnb ($30 billion to common at liquidity) and three smaller but still substantial exits ($1 billion, $500 million and $250 million respectively, same terms). The rest of the class is a wash after expenses and fees which leaves $31,750,000,000 to split up. On a side note, every time I do this math I'm reminded how the ten figure exits really carry the rest of the valley along for the ride; whether there is one in your class or not is a roll of the dice.

YC keeps 4% for themselves (out of which they generally fund expenses and management fees) and puts 3% (with no carry) into the common class pool, divided equally by startup (not founder, to avoid perverse incentives around cramming). In other words, the YC Summer '17 class collectively owns 3% of every member company. After ten years the 3% has been diluted down by follow on rounds to 1.5%. At liquidity, the fund returns 1.5% of $31.175 billion: $467,625,000. Divided among 294 founders equally (which it wouldn't be, as mentioned above - but for easy math) that's about $1.5 million per founder.

If you miss the class with an Airbnb, Uber, or Snapchat and end up with (merely) a few traditional unicorns, the returns decline 90% to a couple hundred thousand dollars per founder, a.k.a. not that exciting financially. So it seems like a gamble.

Still, I like the spirit of the whole idea. As a lifelong entrepreneur who hasn't quite pulled the trigger on applying to YC this might push me over the edge. It would definitely feel like being part of a grander experiment of some kind.
Ok, look, it's a pyramid scheme no different than the stock market.... coke heads at Goldman love this sh_t
For C++, I subscribe to Google style. It addresses this.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Function_D...
I'm making a website for beginners: http://learnmeabitcoin.com/

I'm trying to make it as easy as possible to understand (and work with) bitcoin data.
Also see this for more implementation details: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/09/01/build-kick-ass-mobi...

This could be done server side if you're already doing ocr.
Easy? Which exchange right now will let you sell millions of dollars at once? My coinbase account is aged, well used and verified. And I think I can't sell more than $10k a week.
It wouldn't be the first time in the history of Bitcoin and it might actually be a good thing. People should start seeing Bitcoin as something else than an easy profit highway.
Pipe works fine. I just ran dir | clip to make sure.
Don't go there, I got rid of them through my own actions. This isn't some serendipitous disappearance, this is not a takeaway from my anecdote, and certainly not something that should be used to detract from the value of BTC.
>I'm conflicted. I personally waver between "stallman is always right" and "free software misses the point" near constantly, myself.

Can I suggest a compromise with the belief that "Stallman is almost always right," because no human being with an extremist ideology is ever always right. A philosophy can be useful, even beneficial, but still be flawed.
Nonfiction: Hillbilly Elegy By JD Vance

Fiction: Golden Son by Pierce Brown - liked the whole trilogy; Rosie Project/Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
IANAL, but in the law there's a thing which is called Contra proferentem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem Basically, it means that ambiguous terms are interpreted against the contract drafter.
Yes this, Blizzard is a very conscientious company in everything they do. I'd absolutely trust them.

(Also not sure if anti-cheat is a factor here?)
You totally misread the parent comment. Nowhere did they state they only wanted a store of value.

They were talking about the blockchain and its public recordkeeping. There's nothing like Wells Fargo doing shady things and charging you money, or BofA randomly charging you money or changing their account rules, or freezing your account...

Coins have their downsides, but a public ledger for absolute truthkeeping is not one of them.
It is irksome at times, especially when I'm expecting concise journalism. And it's worse when you realize a given piece was deliberately written in this style to be more "appealing" (I wouldn't quite use the term "dumbed down," but it's in the same ballpark), and it ironically ends up being done poorly in that format, when it could easily have made a great "pyramid" style article.

And by "done poorly" I mean things like, the "story" they're trying to lead off with isn't particularly interesting, and/or has only the most superficial tie-in to the rest of the piece. That's a sign that they tried too hard to graft it on.

So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time.
There's a cryptocurrency called RaiBlocks that is working to be the best at transfer of value. The protocol uses new cryptocurrency concepts evolved over the years and I believe it can be quite revolutionary. In my opinion, bitcoin is one of the worst cryptocurrencies at the moment, and to be honest I hope to see it die soon.

Create a wallet using this site https://raiwallet.com/, paste your address here and I'll send you some raiblocks. The transaction time is about ~5 seconds and there are no fees, so it's almost on par with a credit card, except you don't depend on a bank or a credit card company.

Also, check out this link to google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=raiblocks. You'll see that the country with the most interest in raiblocks is Venezuela, which coincidentally is going through hyperinflation. Bitcoins used to be quite big there as a way of avoiding the loss in value of the national currency, but as the country became poorer and the cryptocurrency networks more congested, the fees became prohibitively expensive. Raiblocks could be a good alternative to cash, or at least help some of the most technically savvy people.

What I'm aiming at is, give the technology a chance. As the top poster says, it might be a big bubble, but it might also be a revolutionary technology (or both, just like the internet).

EDIT: Sorry folks I have to go so you'll have to wait until I check my account again. Still I'll do my best to keep sending as long as people keep asking.
That's great feedback. I had no idea about the public access around GCF -> Google Cloud SQL or the US-only aspect
Well. That's true until the government gets involved regulates it, and starts to actually monitor all transactions.

For Bitcoin like technologies completely lack privacy.
> what is believed to be the first commercial transaction.

I'm pretty sure Alpaca socks were sold before that famous pizza.
This isn't coins that have turned to dust when you take them out of your wallet to spend - this is coins that have been lost overboard from a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean.
It started working from yesterday (at least on Firefox nightly). I found it accidentally. Can you please try again today and see if it works?
How about fork? Does this work?

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Are you sure that they won't do it? Did they mention it somehow?

AFAIU, tensor cores are just super efficient matrix operations, and they might super useful in gaming applications, for example, physics engines.
Plus the programmability features of Bitcoin open up some other interesting possibilities -such as setup multi-signature wallets each in a different physical location.
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The https everywhere movement really caused this. Until google figures out a way to make money serving ads off localhost I cannot imagine they give a flying shit. :)
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Don't forget the housing bubble. The first time it occurred to me that housing was a bubble was when I heard the economist for the National Association of Realtors say on the radio this time was different because of a paradigm shift. It reminded me of what I had heard during the dot-com bubble.

Then I saw this map and was convinced:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/15/business/arm3...
I also maintained a relatively popular Bukkit (minecraft server) plugin a few years ago. I had to abandon it because it really does just become too much fielding the unnecessary repetitive support. On top of trying to keep up with API changes on bukkit while also trying to go to school.

As I was writing this I realized I am describing running a business, with everything except payment.
NVIDIA already does some form of segmentation with Quadro cards (i.e., artificially crippling things in driver/firmware). They have complete control over firmware, drivers and CUDA. More than the EULA, it's likely that they'll differentiate in software. For eg., CuDNN may stop working on GeForce, or some rubbish like that.
Yes, it's a gambling fantasy for many. It's like looking a penny oil stocks and their volatility and imagining a path to millions; I admit, I can understand the intoxication and gold fever. For others, it is an intense or obsessive interest in the, somewhat arcane, and a little vague, "technology".
I may not be a console expert, but I do know not to run things unless I understand what they do.

This is a bad joke. You might say it bombed.
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Well, they could but the entire community can just fork. Miners are under no obligation to stick with a crazy change like that. The core developers would only shoot themselves in the foot and make themselves never to be trusted again.

And with Bitcoin Cash gaining in popularity, a fork is not an impossibility. In fact, BCH is popular because it's actually usable unlike BTC at the moment (extremely high fees, slow confirmation times).
The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies is .6 trillion USD. There's dozens of coins with teams and communities trying to make them succeed and provide value. There's a lot of work and creativity involved in providing new technological solutions to overcome the limitations of older cryptocurrencies. I think you should give the cryptoscene another chance and do some research on what's going on. Saying that all this work, money and effort is something that will only benefits scammers is a bit unfair.
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> Shopping around for something to work on without having a personal problem to solve seems like putting the cart before the horse. I assume that's not why people want to do it. They must already have a personal problem. So, what is it, what's the motivation to have a "career" in "open-source"?

I mostly agree with you but I think you've failed to think from a beginner's point of view. My problem is that most of the things I consider bugs are deliberate project decisions. For example, Moxie absolutely refuses to make it easy for Signal for Android to work well with Google Voice. It is completely idiotic and makes no sense whatsoever because Signal for iPhone supports this (there is no way for Signal to access verification text messages itself so it allows people to enter the verification number themselves). However, they refuse to allow this on Android. Just look at this stupidity: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/213980898-How-d...

Actually, most of the article is sensible but the decision to not allow people to type in their verification code that they have and forcing them to answer a phone call is completely idiotic.

And no, I cannot afford to fork Signal for this bug. >_>
There are already new players in town. Currently Raiblocks is gaining in popularity. It offers AFAIK the fastest transactions with NO FEES. This is the future.
Coinbase.gov
Correction:

Innocent version: we did nothing wrong and you are reacting before having even looked at that certificate.
There seems to be a ton of excitement about Bitcoin now, not because of what it can do, but almost entirely because of speculation. Almost none of the general public interest in Bitcoin stems from an interest in what Bitcoin is; the vast majority of people simply see it as a get rich quick asset. And the reason why people are only interested in it for speculative reasons is because it doesn't seem to have any particular benefit for most people.

And if this is a speculative bubble the way it looks like it is, it will end like other speculative bubbles. A few people will get absurdly rich, not because they added any value to the system, but because they were able to time the market. Their money will come from the many others who will lose a lot because they tried to do the same thing but were too late.

Beyond that, there seems to be a small group of people who are interested in it because they see it as an alternative to fiat currency. But strong opposition to fiat currency seems to be one of those odd economic beliefs that some people get, similar to the people who think that our society would be great if we just got rid of money and had a barter system. Outside of fringe beliefs, fiat currency is generally seen as a useful tool.
I don't think it would give them strategical advantage
And SEC goes after shady figures, not Goldman
Within a given group value is reasonably correlated to expertise.

As much as I wouldn't give any time to sociologists valuing Alan Turings genius within mathematics, computer science, etc., I'd have equally little time for mathematicians judging his sexuality.
I'm normally on board with Hanlon, but "infosec idiots" who fail to educate themselves on basic security principles are guilty of negligence at best. There's no reasonable way they don't know that security is a real concern, so they should be looking into it. If they still fail, then we can go back to Hanlon's razor.

But as one HNer to another, I was really talking about your second case. To claim here that security can ever be discounted, as the person I was replying to implied, is pretty much inexcusable. Everyone here knows that security affects more than just your business, so no one here should be solely applying business logic to it.
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I like an 80 column limit for C and python, but it starts to be a problem in C++. This says something about C++ and I don't think it's positive.

I actually also like a fairly small limit on the number of rows (around 40). If my functions and methods are too complex to understand in this much space then it's time to refactor. Of course, I usually have to work on existing code and the functions/methods are not always so compact.
Satoshi could have also mined later when difficulty was still not so bad and have other wallets people don't know about. So in theory Satoshi could have cashed out couple millions from his later wallets already and be living on some island in Caribbean.

It's definitely conceivable that he/she would not be so greedy as to touch the origin coins. It's enough to cash out couple millions from later wallets, buy some nice house near beach and live very comfortably.

Of course, I still think much more likely scenario is that Satoshi is dead or lost his/her private key.
The management tools along with the stability of the overall system. Debian might be a good choice for stability. Though it seems Redhat (maybe CentOS?) has a good lead on much of the KVM enterprise tools.
> No way are they ever touching cryptos.

Not what I’m hearing in legal circles

Everyone wants exposure, and if they require a new legal structure or a financial derivative they are doing what needs to be done.

The pensions will just go through the next hedge fund that buys for them.
Or if you're still a subscriber of American Telephone & Telegraph's services.
Because of vaporware promises from the developers of BTC.

Don't worry, in 18 months^, Lightning Network (TM) will come out and fix everything by adding a second layer to bitcoin, nevermind that the first layer will be ignored

^ Not accounting for perpetual delays as LN as been promised for a long time
I'll bite your bait. Just made an account, my address is xrb_3zrgt5ocbm6u5xjy8xxy8q918bi5rg7eimu5suywjmgebnwnhy4d63bwohk3

Although this site doesn't seem all that secure
Lighting network channels don't require you to trust the other party.

Lighting network is also distributed, you don't need a direct channel between you and another party to pay them. You just have to find a route.
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> In other words, Mattermark employee shares are worthless.

Happy holidays everyone!!!
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Interesting approach! When/if you update a KVM instance, does it recreate it?
For those wondering, a satoshi is 1/100,000,000 of a bitcoin.

At the current bitcoin price of $14591, a satoshi is worth $0.0001459190.

The maximimum amount of minable bitcoins is 21 million.

Current global gold supply is ~ $7 trillion

If bitcoin completely replaces gold, bitcoins will be trading for about $333,333.33, so a satoshi would be worth ~$0.0033.
If they manage to stick this - which is a big if - wouldn't that just cause a major pivot of interest to ML on AMD? Sure, OpenCL is very much the poor cousin right now, but an 8x cost hike is a pretty strong incentive to look around for your Best Alternative Elsewhere.
Well you can and apparently did google it; it's just a fork bomb. It'll spawn new processes until the system figures out what is going on or chugs to a halt. It's not particularly harmful - modern systems tend to have process limits. But I guess it is Microsoft...ctrl+s first.

Serious question, though; I'm sort of curious how the whole Windows/shell thing is coming along.
Or financial disaster because we can't help the economy by manipulating the money supply. Most people think this leads to deflation. Truly a new currency for the guilded future!
I like 100 or 120 characters. I feel like 80 is far too restrictive, especially in “nesty” or “chainy” languages like JavaScript and Ruby. On a 30” display I can comfortably fit three or four columns at 100 chars in Vim.
There are many other cryptocurrencies. It's a well known fact that Bitcoin is probably one the worst ones at the moment. Its hopes rest on the core team's ability to provide an effective solution to the scaling problem, and so far their track record leaves much to be desired. Meanwhile there are new coins based on new protocols emerging, some showing a lot of promise.
I'll happily take you up on your offer
xrb_3enb5r6u5tguje5jknzi7zepnqdqrsy7io7z7jwxbpuxjkinhwhomawmnry5

I had heard about XRB for awhile but I'm surprised I couldn't find it on any of the major exchanges.
I'm looking for a Windows tar implementation that can save/restore Windows ACLs/DACLs and/or other extended attributes. Was thinking of taking the Red Hat GNU tar patches that handle Linux xattrs and SElinux attributes, and adapting the same technique for Windows, but haven't learned enough of the Windows API yet to make it happen. As for getting that info stored into the tar file, I believe this can be done by using PAX tar format (which can take any arbitrary name/value pairs without losing tar compatibility).

Specifically, I need this functionality to make my backup program (Snebu) more useful to Windows users, as it relies on an installed tar implementation on a client to gather files.

If anyone here is skilled in the Windows API and is interested in helping with this, let me know.
Jesus. Just Jesus.

And everyone wonders why they didn’t come out and talk about this sooner.
The most complicated implementation I've seen has been Office Lens, which also corrects distortion and does edge detection.
It's not just a new form of exchange, it's a new way of storing and transfering ownership and value in an immutable way -even by the most powerful entities of the world. For the first time in history the separation of state and economy is something conceivable. That's not only an economic paradigm shift, when materialised (and I firmly believe it will, because it makes so much sense), it will affect practically every aspect of society.
Why do you think a public ledger will be the medium for illegal transactions?

How exactly do you plan on converting fiat to btc and then paying for transactions? Every step of the way is going to be on the. public. ledger. Forever. Linked to each step along the way. C'mon.

BTC is for people who don't want to be at the whim of banks or paypal. Or it was anyways, until the fees became too high and the transaction times became too long.

The serious use is with other coins like ETH (powering smart contracts, dApps) and BCH (hard fork of bitcoin from August that doesn't have BTC's current issues). Or altcoins. Raiblocks and XRP have extremely quick confirmation times.

All of which have a public ledger by the way. If you want to do illegal activities, you'd probably want to use Monero or NAV, but first you'd have to prove either are truly private.
I’ve been using wget on Windows for years, though it’s not built in.
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>>If it's a bubble it's a terrible idea to allocate a few percentage points to it.

If I had $100 million, I wouldn't have any issues with investing $2-3 million in Bitcoin just for shits and giggles.

The idea is that when you have boatloads of money, you don't have to be risk-averse, as the marginal utility of each dollar you have is very low.
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sent :)

https://raiblocks.net/block/index.php?h=74031BB65A3CEB5E4222...
Ubisoft just got a lot more respect from me. I wish more game developers did this.
I didn't downvote you, but I do disagree.

Javascript can be turned off, or modified at will in the browser, and its source is available and viewable. Most Javascript is FOSS licensed, and can be forked, edited and redistributed. Minified libraries usually have plaintext sources accompanying them, meaning they can be studied and validated. WebAssembly, meanwhile is barely being used at all, much less in any way that can be considered 'like DRM on steroids.'

I understand a lot of people here don't like Javascript, and dislike WebAssembly even less for being a binary format, yet as languages and their environments go, Javascript makes itself far more amenable to user freedom than others, and WebAssembly still barely even exists.
The negativity often seems to go beyond reasonable criticism and delve into spite. As another commenter suggested, I suspect a bit of jealousy is at play and it wouldn't surprise me if a few spiteful commenters wouldn't discuss the shortcomings in a much different way if they held Bitcoin.

Obviously, there is more than enough happy-clapping on the side of speculators to balance everything out, but I do wish the conversation more often found a practical mid-ground.