skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you short 1BTC, you get the current value of 1BTC and pay the future value of 1BTC. If you buy a 1BTC put option, you pay a premium for the option to get the current value of 1 BTC (the usual "strike price") and pay the future value.

So for a short:
Max loss: Unlimited. if BTC rises to $x, you have to pay $x
Max Gain: The current value of 1BTC. If BTC drops to zero. you pay nothing but were given the start value.

For a put option:
Max loss: The premium, as you don't have to exercise the option
Max Gain: strike price minus the premium.

Shorts have a fixed period and put options expire, so if the drop you predict doesn't happen in the time you predict, you can get wiped out even if the drop does happen later.

So In effect buffet is saying he believes it's going down, but either isn't confident about when or admits there is a chance he's wrong.
Why use steps when ordering online?
I have asked myself so often: Why do all online shops use modal steps in the order process where you first have to fill out all fields before you can see what’s next? Seems like a big support overhead to me when users can’t know which options are there before beginning the order. Any thoughts? Thanks
The killer app for chatbots is voice.

That's about it.
Google Drive wins it for me.
It may be less "chat" and more "typing". Consider that at the same time, Amazon Echo devices have become wildly popular.
A user with access to a mac could enable the option to automatically install macOS updates, which given recent trends, could impose a security risk.
The difference is that it’s within Apple’s rights in the US to refuse to cooperate with a warrant in the way that they did. The constitution of the United States has strong protections for individuals’ privacy from the state.

This is not the case in China.

In both cases, they are protecting user privacy to the greatest extent they can by law.

Secondly, Apple is not handing the keys to their system over to China. Instead, they are deploying a separate system for Chinese accounts to preserve the privacy and security of all other accounts. And finally, they are not compromising the Secure Enclave or any device security features.
What's to stop you from disconnecting it after setup?

I've got newer Vizio's with Chromecasts connected to them... no issues with them being disconnected.
You know you have many, many 20-something year old people agreeing with you right?
Electronic shutters don't work well with fast moving objects. You can get distortion. I think they don't read out the whole sensor at once.
Voter ID laws themselves were not declared unconstitutional, the extra actions by the Republicans were. I see no effort from Democrats to offer any option on how to secure our elections, which is especially damning considering they've spent the whole last year falsely claiming that they were "hacked".

Active election fraud is almost exclusively in the favor of the Democratic party. I can't remember the last time someone on the right was arrested for fraudulently filling out registrations forms, or when >100% of the registered voters in a district voted for the Republican candidate, as happened as recently as the 2016 presidential election in Detroit in the favor of Clinton.

The problem isn't voter ID. It's two sides using it as a way to unfairly benefit their interests. One side pre-emptively and the other actively during the vote. Both are wrong, but Voter ID itself isn't.
In practice that DRM has been a "solved problem" for a long time. Blu-Rays have somewhat more effective protection.
I used Backblaze B2 for cloud storage backups for a commercial blog I run IT for.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/transparency-in-cloud-storage...

I use free accounts on Dropbox and Google Drive and paid top tier iCloud storage (2TB) for personal items mostly because of ease of use of iCloud for photos on every device. Photos also backed up (compressed) for free to Google Photos so there isn't a single point of failure for all my family's photos.
If the choice is either to comply with those governments, or loose an enourmous market, Apple will comply in both cases.
I sort of chuckle at this, but the truth be told .. I can't even watch the news anymore and I grew up on it.

However, my conservative nature is less about news itself, than the extreme requirements to meet revenue streams of yesteryear by legitimate news organizations (namely the ones that actually HIRE journalists). By contrasting example, my local Buffalo WGRZ news organization works closely with Investigativepost.org and they seem to be very bipartisan by all accounts. Maybe that's just my region of the country demographically speaking ... but I do enjoy the quality of news.

My point is really the de-valuation of industry on the whole because of information availability to the masses and the microphone passing to everyone on the street. As they say, the meek shall inherit the earth and as a technologist ... this is just one of the unintended consequences. I do believe in the sharing of information, ideas, and software (noting opensource seems to have done a great job, and if we could only KEEP Net Neutrality .. we'd be better off to the alternative I think).

It creeps into everyone's space of sanity, and for me ... eating chicken wings and watching the news .. has lead to the same as gym rats lifting then seeing some stuff that makes their blood boil .. you can die from that.

Stay safe my gym rats .. we will both make it through this. :)
Dude, you're missing the point. You do not walk on the road the same way a cyclist cycles on the road. You do not walk up to T junctions, indicate with your arms and turn left. You neither come to a set of traffic lights in the same way. Cyclists have to do all these things.
This is the way I went as well. One of the best purchasing decisions I've made in the past decade.
IMHO, this reflects all that is bad about blockchains. So many systems around the world having to forever track nonsense like who owns a fake kitty. This is bloat.

Throw it in a database that is owned by a virtual-kitty-selling company. Yeah, it's not decentralized. So what? It's a game! IMO the blockchain should be for important (financial/legal/real estate/?) transactions.
Platinum doesn't rust, neither does silver.
London does prove that it can be turned around. So there's that, at least.
> The ca.crt is there because it triggers desired behavior - e.g. that you can connect to services over SSL without errors. Test that instead.

Awesome example here! We have a test that uses container-structure-test to do exactly this over here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/distroless/blob/1ea91...

You can mix and match between tests that check file contents and tests that actually run commands inside the container and make assertions based on their output.
ZkSTARKs – Scalable, transparent, post-quantum computational integrity
Are you talking about native modules that need to be rebuilt when the V8 version used by node is also upgraded?
Still reading up how it works, but if we could somehow bend the direction of the resulting force, ever so slightly, it would be enough to enable the spacecraft to thrust partially retrograde, which achieves lowering of the orbit.
When I was learning to program, designing a good interface was something I always considered to be part of the job. Maybe not graphic design but there's always an element of interface design somewhere in programming, such as API design
The theory with Signal is that you might verify their identity in meatspace, or some other way. But yes, it's definitely an interesting chicken and egg problem. As far as the thought exercise goes, it might be worth limiting your scope at this point.
There has to be some support for it either in the company or their clients.

I wouldn't be surprised if they got a kickback from the channel.
High Sierra and Sierra both have enough disruptive bugs in them that I had to downgrade my 2012 Macbook Pro to El Capitan, which did not have those bugs. The most notable one for me was the massive regression in video drivers, that not only made many previously smooth-running games unplayable, but also caused several of the ordinary desktop apps I used to become unacceptably slow.
I think your criticism of the dems is totally fair and that simply giving lip-service to a policy doesn't actually solve a problem. With that stated, the third party option is demonstrably pointless with regard to advancing policy goals, so unless your third party candidate is a liberal independent that has a positive working relationship with the dems, they'll never be able to make any progress towards NN.
What are you suggesting? Revolution?
I am super interested in the answer to this as well. It seems too good to be true. That is why I have not dipped my toes in RaiBlocks (XRB).
sorry. i failed in a moment of weakness.
> It would be interesting to learn why the German version retains the darkness.

Because this is the version that the Brothers Grimm wrote down. I am nevertheless aware that there exist other (sometimes even darker) versions of the fairy tales than the versions written down by the Brothers Grimm. In this sense the versions of the Brothers Grimm are not "the original", but some version of the fairy tales (this is the difference between "Volksmärchen" (folk tales) and Kunstmärchen (literary fairy stories) - only for the letter one there exist some concept of "the original").

So I would say that Grimm brothers versions of the fairy tales conserved the zeitgeist of the beginning of the 19th century and there exists to my knowledge no other popular collection of German original language folk fairy tales. But of course today there exist translations of collections of folk fairy tales from different language areas.
Where and when was this? That's certainly not true in California in 2018.
> We should abolish software patents.

Maybe so.

> Reason software builds on Mathematics and you cannot patent Mathematics.

This is not a convincing reason. All engineering builds on mathematics; this is not specific to software.
When Chines can produce superior IPs than other nations, then they will become the true defender of IP.
> The rest of the state is pretty much full-on red

> so the majority Republican legislature

I get that this is the system, but it's an inherent problem of the system.

If (arbitrary numbers) 5M people live in three cities and they voted Democrat (leaving aside the Raleigh issue for now), and 1M people live in the rest of the state, there is no credulous interpretation of how you can come to a conclusion that

"the majority of the state is Republican"

other than to acknowledge that your system is not about 1 person, 1 vote, but 1 unit of land, 1 vote, and it unfairly awards people who own large tracts of land, or live in undeveloped areas. Yes, yes, I get that this was to allow country folk to feel represented.

But be clear, in no way is the state truly "majority Republican" other than in terms of square miles, regardless of who does or doesn't (because huge tracts of federal land, national parks and the like, get lumped into these rural districts) live there.
"Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co"? Doesn't sound sketchy at all.
Since the Obama administration it seems the US government is actually moving in the opposite direction, discouraging home ownership and encouraging massive concerns operating multiple properties -- the latest example is the tax code eliminating tax breaks for home owners while creating more tax breaks for multi-property landlords. If you're interested in the topic Matt Stoller has explored it a lot.
> I think it's one of many safeguards to help ensure that elections are legitimate.

Requiring voter Id, while making it not trivial to get voter id, has pros and cons. The pros are theoretical, as you say "I doubt it's abused much", and the cons are actual. That alone should indicate that it's a bad idea.

The position that "an ID should be required to vote, and that it should be easy acquire an ID" is logical and defensible, except when that's made out to be the actual situation. The problem that it solves is theoretical, the abuses of it are manifest.
Try this, then:

Prior to the housing crash, multiple people figured out that CDOs were full of shit and bankers were committing massive fraud with mortgage bonds. Traders could purchase credit default swaps (CDSes) to capitalize on this risk and pay the premiums until the correction hit, at which point they'd cash in huge.

But uh, here's the problem: The same bankers that were investing in mortgage fraud (all of them) were the ones that would sell you the CDSes and cash your premiums. If the housing market was truly built on fraud and corruption - and it was - and banks could collapse - and they did, requiring a bailout that the banks knew was coming - maybe the bank wouldn't be solvent enough to pay you on your bet that you so rightfully won. Your largest upside win is capped, and thus the entire trade could be easily net negative.
Now if they would only ban music. Nearly every person in a gym now has a smart phone and wearing earbuds. And for some reason gyms insist on blaring some god-awful awful generic "workout music." The net result being that customers have to compete with the gym's music in order to hear their own preferred music.

I tried to explain this to a manager at a gym last summer and he just stared at me blankly. It did not compute.
I empathize but I think that attitude is an artifact of the age we grew up in. I'm sure equestrians felt the same way when those rackety automobile contraptions started zooming around.
Property tax in California is at least 1% (typically a bit higher due to various local fees, but let's say 1% for this example).

That means if she bought the property 20 years ago for $150K, the property tax in year one was 1% of 150K, or $1500.

Under Prop 13 property taxes go up 2% ever year (compounded). So after 20 years that property tax would be up to roughly $2400.
Side channels are the only way, practically speaking. Call them and have them read off the hash of their key and verify it against the key you received from "them". Or have them send a nonce value through the system to you that you provided over a side channel.

Any time you have a central authority providing that validation, you have to trust that your "friend" hasn't fooled them.
>opticians

You'd be much better off going to an ophthalmologist, an actual MD who specializes in vision and the eye.

Opticians just do prescriptions and eyeglass stuff (at least in the US).
Why this and not single-rotor collective pitch? There's no good explanation in the marketing material.
A better solution is aggressively fining absentee landlords who don't take care of their property and placing a lien on the property if they don't pay the fines. Replacing landlords who don't care to do the upkeep with low income homeowners who can't afford the upkeep is absolutely not a solution.
If it only compiles with a C++ compiler, it is C++, regardless of the amount of language features being used.
Most problems are constrained by the facts that it costs resources to move things, and that you can't trust people to play fair when they can get ahead by cheating.

The latter makes us establish physical security around election polling sites, and the former requires that we spent money to move people, machines, and consumables into and out of those sites.

As such, those costs require that political districts consider geography as a practical, money-saving measure, especially roads and buildings. You have to print N blank ballots and send them to the polling stations, and then send back any unused blanks, and the local issues on ballots for adjacent districts might be different.

In order to eliminate geography, you would need a system that has good data security without requiring physical security for the whole network. And an integral part of that would be a foolproof and uncheatable online identification system.

Good luck with that.
> Active election fraud is almost exclusively in the favor of the Democratic party. I can't remember the last time someone on the right was arrested

A nice key word there, arrested.

Especially given that multiple members of Trump's electoral team, even his own family, were found to have violate electoral law and fined.

I get it though, they were just "confused" and making "honest mistakes".
Meltdown and Spectre: does patching your PC impact game performance?
The term "shares" is used here in loose sense, all these are coins/tokens .

All these companies behind this coins/tokens have no "paid" employee or assets and no legal registration ( for the coin itself) so there is no meaning to "shares" . There is nothing for ownership rights in the sense of share .
When discussing the benefits and drawbacks of e.g. technical implementation of buying/selling with a cryptocurrency, "understanding cryptocurrencies" requires understanding cryptography, and currency markets are not particularly relevant.

When discussing the benefits and drawbacks of decision to buy or sell a cryptocurrency, "understanding cryptocurrencies" requires understanding currency markets, and the cryptography is not particularly relevant. If anything, people with no practical experience in forex or stock trading (especially for less regulated or so-called penny stock markets) should be considered clueless in this regard.
Did James Damore ever claim that women overall have lower IQs than men overall? [Citation Needed]
I'm not really going for 100% complete, but I am going for 'complete as much as I possibly can'. From what I've heard, 100% complete would really be a grind, but I'm still totally enjoying taking my time and discovering new things. Some days you want to fight, some you just want to explore the world.

For example, there's an element of the game where you photograph various animals/objects and attempt to collect an example of each and every one. Now and then I take some time out and just roam the landscape, honing my photography skills. The next thing I know it, hours have passed and I'm thinking to myself "what am I actually supposed to be doing again?" It's a game to get lost in, big time.
anyone found the tutorial (or a similarly recommend one) in text?
This just reminds me of that subthread in yesterday's Facebook home device post where people were ranking tech companies. A lot of people put Apple first on respect for privacy.

It's good to have a reminder of the nature of corporations so soon after that. Tools for users to take privacy and security into their own hands need to be made accessible enough to make it truly matter.

Its like herd immunity with vaccinations: it doesn't matter that you use encryption and block trackers if all the people around you provide enough data to make inferences about the private few.
Yes, I have been poor. I worked for minimum wage and could only get around by bus until my twenties and still had an official ID. Have you, or are you assuming what it's like to be poor from the outside?
Luckily, when I lived in NYC back in 2012, I never had to cross paths with Penn Station.

Mainly, I’d use the PATH train from Jersey City to 33rd Street, which ran frequently and mostly on-time.

The one time I had to visit a friend in Long Island, Penn Station wasn’t the horror show the article suggests. Then again, it was nearly 6 years ago, so it’s plausible that it has degraded. Fingers crossed that The Boring Company can actually execute.
New Nokia 6 (2018) has just been filtered: price and features
Maintainer of container-structure-test here.

Cool example! We started with something like this, but ran into some issues when trying to test images that don't contain a shell.
hyperloop?
That's still pretty insignificant, isn't it?
Yes, exactly. It requires a password, then doesn't require a password on subsequent attempts for a certain period of time.
As for the train picture that's supposedly packed and dreary, it's still miles ahead of some of the oldest trains operating in some of the lines around Paris, which are ~50 years old and when they are packed, it's people standing up from one end of the wagon to the other. At least they're in the process of being replaced (the first new trains were delivered last month).

Still I'm glad that Paris has a good public railway system, even if the improvement work in the summer can be really annoying (like when they are cutting the West-East line for one month in Paris).
EmberJS no longer targeting “routable components”
I'd say to use imgur.com to upload images.
Yeah that makes sense. I agree with you, and I'm not sure it's feasible living a regular middle-class lifestyle.

Me, my wife, and our two kids all live in a 720 sq ft, 2 bedroom house in a worse part of town. We have one car (1999 minivan bought in cash). Right now I work remotely, but I take the bus to work when I'm not remote. It's definitely not living large, but I like the freedom and low-stress.
Even for a conservative investor, a 1% portfolio investment could produce 30 to 50% of your total gains for the entire year. I don't see how you can not at least own some cryptocurrencies.

Since it's entirely global, the space could very well grow to $5-10tn before crashing down to $1-3tn. We're at $730bn now. The dot-com bubble, which was US focused, went up to $6.7tn before coming back down to $1.7tn.
Job creators don't ride public transit, so they don't care. Having two parallel universes is a problem.
Not understanding Bitcoin and cryptocurrency doesn't make you right just because you're one of the world's best value investors, either.

(This coming from someone who holds quite a bit of Vanguard index funds and a small number of cryptocurrency in his portfolio.)
This is exactly what this is done. Apple needs to isolate its Chinese users so that only they are affected by Chinese government regulations.
Maintainer of the tool here - I'm not sure I understand this idea. What would go in the mock container? How would you test against it? Would you mind elaborating a little more?
I sent a few test transactions with XRB and they appeared in my wallet within 10 seconds. Confirmed on the network within 1 minute. I read the whitepaper and it seems solid and seems like it will scale much better than other mined coins, not to mention it's more energy efficient because of the lack of mining. Excited to see where it goes, as I'd love to see a coin that is viable for real-world transactions (honestly, I just dislike carrying/receiving cash and dealing with banks to use my money). Looking to check out IOTA next.
Sadly the opposite might occur. Fake news is very useful. For corporations, it acts like PR/marketing channel. For nation-states it's a great propaganda channel.

What if the Communist Party of China was actually visionaries what the Internet could do for oppressive nation-states, if properly harnessed for the good of the party?
My problem with it all is right now, there are numerous ICOs happening by new companies, old companies, and small groups of people. Instead of adapting ones created already, such as ethereum, they claim theirs takes it to the next step. When does it all stabilize and people actually use the currency instead of invest? Who knows.
And Google Cloud Functions are running v6.11.5 [1]. Not much better. Ancient LTS release, and three months behind on patch release.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/exec
The M assistant seemed like a 10 minute programming job to make dumb sticker suggestions
There's a lot of truly revolutionary ideas with some of them, the currency aspect is only the absolute top of the iceberg. I could clearly see 20 to 30 ones which are not just cheap copies of other ones.
Isn't this potentially a feature? In that you won't be promoting resistance in non target bacteria? Seems that this would force much less over-prescription.
Whatsapp disagrees, from the article:

...a WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed the researchers' findings, but emphasized that no one can secretly add a new member to a group—a notification does go through that a new, unknown member has joined the group.
Off the top of my head: use event MPM, disable any modules you don't need, disable .htaccess config, etc.
Oh boy that's me!