skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some links I have come across

My favorite summary:
https://qz.com/1156706/a-guide-to-paying-taxes-on-bitcoin-in...

This was linked from a message on GDAX:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

And some additional tax tips:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-tax-tips-to-start-2018...
The issue isn’t whether you can create things without copyright. It’s whether you can create Star Wars Episode XYZ without copyright. The answer is probably not, for the same reason you don’t have open source laptops with the fit and finish of a MacBook Pro.

The thing is: absolutely nothing is preventing people from creating content without copyright. So what exactly is the problem? AAA content gets produced and monetized using copyright protection. People are free to use copyleft for their indie content. And at the end of the day, the market speaks and AAA content is what people want. Saying that “getting rid of copyright would be fine except we’d probably get less AAA content” this is completely unresponsive.

The “SWAT team” issue is a red herring. I don’t think we should have SWAT teams responding if my neighbor’s fence encroaches onto my land, but that doesn’t say anything about whether I should have an enforceable property right in the boundaries of my yard.
Risky if you do not want to be blown up too or at least irradiated. Decommissioning does involve removal of nuclear material first. Missile fuel is likely burned up as it is highly toxic.
I guess I could have been clearer. there is no exclusive resale right. I meant because the lack of rights, there would be competition to drive down distribution costs. The idea is that the first purchaser pays full price to be able to know what the item is, as the idea is otherwise a secret. Consumers could then pay content creators directly to generate the content, rather than going through a publisher. There could be demand to have a distribution network that is up to date.
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People treated their children well enough for us to exist!

If we had a time machine and brought an ordinary American from the 1950's to the present, or asked ~40% of Americans nowadays, chances are they'd be horrified by what they'd see as the legalized murder of tens of millions of children (abortion). I'm not trying to bring politics into this (I'm strongly pro-choice), just pointing out that the definitions of "crime," "violent" and even "child" are highly subjective.

In any society I can think of which left a substantial enough written and/or archaeological record, it's clear that people were particularly affectionate towards and protective of children, which is the only way it could be since our brains and emotional/hormonal responses are literally wired that way.

That's in turn because those instincts are necessary for the continuation of the species. Objectively, it takes well over a decade of near-constant, stressful labor before a child provides net-positive economic utility, which, at historical life expectancies (early 40's), would usually be after one parent's and shortly before the other's death. So if we weren't hard-wired to want to care for and protect children, babies would be left to die of exposure and we'd die out after one generation.
Unfortunately, they tend to be promoted quickly. For being so brilliant, you understand.

And then they're your boss. Or your boss's mate.
Making some wiggle room for engineering innovations
Guys billing $500 an hour to tell people what they want to hear.
Has this always been the case (ICOs are only open to the accredited), or does this only apply to ICOs after the SEC's Dec 11th, 2017 statement?
And this "surge" only takes the price back to where it was 3 months ago. Which in itself is less than half of 12 months ago.

It looks like an easy short but you could easily get burnt.
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I lost a camera while whitewater kayaking. Flipped, hit something upside down, and the housing latch popped open letting the camera fall out. Amazingly, GoPro support sent me a free replacement.
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The exact order of trustworthiness for the Big Five is irrelevant, because it rounds down to zero for all of them. They all have an NSA backdoor through PRISM - this trumps all other privacy concerns.

It seriously boggles my mind. Snowden revealed that these companies have all given direct access to their data to the NSA. The public's response is to forget about within a few years and to go out an buy microphones and cameras from these companies to put into their homes.
Why I’ve had enough of this “niching down” crap – and why you should too
To ignore the obvious and simplest hypothesis because you're afraid of being labelled politically incorrect is just as unscientific.
Thanks for the article and the shoutout to blockgeeks!!
It's already been happening for a long time - California has border checkpoints for fruit pests:

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/ExteriorExclusion/borders.h...
Nice tool. Sadly, it reports that my browser (Chromium 63.0.3239.132 with strict site isolation (chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process) enabled) is vulnerable to Spectre. Do you know if there are any other steps that I can take to secure myself aside from using Firefox?
I find it a good argument for increasing education funding, especially in the non-STEM fields
That's a great explanation for something the article didn't explain very well.

Still, LRU only works if they are of equal importance. Otherwise, work on the important one, even if you've worked on it more recently than the others.

A related idea is the "tyranny of the urgent". You can't let the urgent things keep you from doing the important things. (I stole this from a booklet with the quoted title, which stole the idea from the manager of a cotton mill.)
http://www.toapi.org/tutorials/step3-sqlite3/
When authority is centralized, it's akin to full control.
Decentralization fragments control across many, many different parties, who in consensus have authority.

If the transaction is on an immutable public record, the authority couldn't say: "Well, no you didn't pay us. Pay us again, or we'll steal your dog."

If you live somewhere where Government/Corporation are out of control, this sort of safe guard has major benefit.
The tax accounting isn't that complicated. I don't have anything specific to point you to, but for the most part, cryptocurrency assets will be treated like any other asset like a stock or bond. If you sell it for more than you bought it for then you owe taxes on the difference in the tax year you made the sale.

The only reason it seemed complicated is people were trying to gimmick their way out of it by making complicated arguments for preferential tax treatment. This is always the way it was headed IMHO.
> But stereotypes exist for a reason. The hard part is separating hatred-based stereotypes from the stereotypes based on observations throughout history.

The problem with stereotypes isn't just when they are "hateful" or "inaccurate"; the problem with stereotypes is also when they are used to deny individual variation.
On the other hand, now that we've had a few terrorist incidents where vehicles were used to plow through groups of pedestrians, there is kind of a perverse intersection of these two issues. Also, there has been a proliferation of bollards in areas where such attacks are considered a risk.

Lastly, your point about the psychology of risk is well taken. I can't remember where I saw (perhaps it was a comedian?) the lament that climate change doesn't have a beard and turban.
It appears this is still not fully resolved per their status page, but at least for one of my team's repos, we're now able to access it via the Bitbucket site (and view PRs, etc.).
We're going to have so much bitter fun in the future..
I hear this all the time, but does anyone really think that the market cap is what you can really get for an asset?

It's a metric, one as "untrue" as an average or median. It's not a contract, and you won't get that if you change the market, which selling and buying does.

I don't think that means we shouldn't use it as a metric to use to get information from for comparisons. And I don't think that it's bad journalism to say that the market cap dropped by $100B when it did, even if that doesn't equate to $100 billion being burned.
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/fuel-dump-of-zum...

mirrors:

http://archive.is/chd3C

https://web.archive.org/save/https://sattrackcam.blogspot.co...
Archived link:
http://archive.is/l1kc7
Until recently babies weren’t even destined for heaven, they went to limbo. It took an update being in 2007 for this feature to be added.

The people who come up with this crap hardly ease suffering.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1549439/The-Pope-e...
#1 - realtime password input - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTpXqyRYcBM

#2 - physical memory leak - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn0FopiF16o

the videos aren't very long, someone should compress it to <10mb as an animated gif and do a pull request to put it in the README
“Customers will not receive the January 2018 security updates (or any subsequent security updates) and will not be protected from security vulnerabilities unless their antivirus software vendor sets the following registry key”

Another incentive to stop using questionable AV software (since this was implemented because they can't get their act together).
>especially at a company like Kodak.

As they have barely anything left, I agree.
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Actually, there is a certain wisdom to promoting incompetent people in this manner. At least then you know that they're nowhere near anything they can use to do real lasting damage.
That article has no date attached. I find that infuriating.
No. You’re not dealing with reality.

Reality is that African Americans are not doing well as a segment of the population, for whatever reason.

Reality is that compared to men, women aren’t as interested in STEM, for whatever reason.

Reality is that Asian Americans are doing very well in STEM and other fields, for whatever reason.

Removing reasons from the equation, you have to realize that reality will dictate the distribution of the best candidates for these jobs.

these are all generalizations. A woman can be more interested and better in STEM than a man, but the left forces us to generalize by gender and race, which ultimately lead to statistics that make people uncomfortable.

* I provided no citations for these generalizations for the sake of time, but if anyone disagrees I can provide them.
So basically you are holding back the opportunity for your child to make the same childhood memories you are so fond of, because you feel the world is more dangerous and know that it is not.

Nice job, man, nice job. Hating the world by proxy.
Most drivers do not appreciate how dangerous speeding is, definitely. As a libertarian friend of mine will say, "people automatically drive at safe speeds". (He has a very libertarian thinking style.) This view seems to be believed by the public at large if not stated explicitly, though it is false.

To be fair, one needs to consider both absolute and relative speeds. Risk increases monotonically with absolute speed, but if you are going around the average speed of other vehicles on the road, that is safer than going slower. Many drivers I've spoken with will point that out as if it says speeding is safer. But the reality is that slower speeds for everyone and relatively little spread are what's actually safer.

Learning patience and driving slower is a more productive use of one's time than fighting a speeding ticket. I am confident there's something about cars that actively erodes away patience in a way you don't see in bikes for example.
Possible use for this not well-served by existing systems: people looking to license photos in places or communities payment processors don't serve or don't serve well can potentially use this.

The microstock sites have spent the last several years driving the value of an image down to the point where you're lucky to get 25 cents (only because it's currently the guaranteed minimum), so it's already in reach of places with low cost of living. Those are the same places where buying stock from people based in already heavily-developed places is complicated by transaction fees and anti-fraud measures.
The article even takes that a notch further: for things that really matter to you, once you find your true calling, you wouldn't even procrastinate in the first place. You get immersed in omnivorous curiosity around it, you get lost. There's no social media/tv/external factors that would distract you from it.
>For example, I do not see Bezos building anything I would compare to cathedrals

No, I'd say the majority of the things the wealthy build now are less self-aggrandizing and more useful.
What's the name for this logical fallacy? You see this shit all the time.
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That's not true, but why let the facts get in the way?

6/10 highest-grossing movies last year were not comic book movies:
Dunkirk - Original property
Fast & Furious 8 - non-comic franchise based on original property
Despicable Me - non-comic franchise based on original property
It - remake
Beauty and the Beast - remake
Get Out - original property
Star Wars Episode 8 - non-comic franchise based on original property

The most profitable movie of 2017, Get Out, was an original franchise. This follows on the heels of 2016s most profitable movie, Split, a sequel to an original property (The Sixth Sense/Unbreakable universe).
The point is that no one really knows the actual value of any asset until you've sold it. You can only measure value in the past; future values can only be guessed (excluding things like future contracts).

This is true regardless of whether we're talking about Bitcoin, stocks, metals, houses, chickens, or seashells.

Most of these stupid market movement predictions are equivalent to astrology and only exist because WSJ and others have nothing interesting to say. The daily market fluctuations are pretty much random, and this has been proven many times over.
A couple weeks ago a startup pitched blockchain solutions for government problems (I work at a government agency in Brazil). The presentation sounded like Scientology, lots of circular arguments and bold claims without much substance.

I asked a few questions and he dodged them like a professional politician:

* what do you do if you need to reverse a transaction (lets say, court order)

* what if someone loses his wallet/password

* some people claims blockchain is over-hyped

He said that I being skeptical proves my ignorance and I should study more about the subject instead of challenge him.

Remembered the short tale "The Emperor's new clothes", I'm unable to see the king's clothes because they are made of a magic fabric invisible to the stupid. I guess the magic fabric is made of blockchain.
If the cycle is:

1 photographer uploads photo;

2 photo consumer (e.g., magazine) pays USD to Kodak for photo usage;

3 Kodak pays KodakCoin to photographer;

Then it looks like a cash grab and the chances of success may be limited because there is no demand driving the price of KodakCoin.

If the cycle is:

1 photographer uploads photo;

2a photo consumer buys KodakCoins from exchange;

2b photo consumer pays KodakCoins to Kodak for photo usage;

3 Kodak pays KodakCoin to photographer.

Then it may be viable because requiring the consumer to purchase coin creates demand for the coin.
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Oh for fuck's sake
Actually, a lot of people including dread driving cars and try to avoid it as much as possible. My wife thinks I'm lazy because I don't want to drive to so and so, but the real reason is because I know the more I drive, the higher the chances of a life-threatening accident
I think the reason for my dread was sparked by my uncle. He was shot and killed on Halloween in his 20's, before I was born. But growing up very close to my grandmother, she treated me like his replacement because I guess I'm a lot like him. She even called me by his name sometimes. Even though he was older, my entire life she's been a shell of a person in many ways.

When my grandfather died, we thought she was going to go ballistic. But she didn't even cry, she took it better than anyone. I asked her how she was able to handle it so well. She told me the loss of a child makes anything else in life seem trivial, even the loss of a decades long spouse (I'm paraphrasing). It's like a scar so big you don't have room to feel anything else, or the ability to. So thankfully, I don't truly understand, but it put the fear of God in me.
They're already backordered. If they lowered the price, they would be even more backordered, but have less money. We won't know what the non-early-adopter price is until a few years from now.
FYI: To learn about blockchains - why not build your own blockchains from scratch (zero)? At the Awesome Blockchains [1] page I collect starter blockchains (in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.) and articles plus fun blockchains (such as CryptoKitties and CryptoCopycats) [2].
[1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains
[2]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-cryptokitties
I have two projects that talk directly with k8s, it's keel (CI tool for kube) https://github.com/keel-hq/keel and ingress controller for webhookrelay.com so I need a working cluster locally. However, other services are also tested on local minikube as it's easier to make sure they are interacting as intended when running in K8s :)
I know HN isn't too spiced up about Crypto, but it's important to realize that lots of these "cryptocurrencies" are built atop Ethereum -- that's part of what makes it magical.

This is leveraging Ethereum, to create a currency, to address a market need: photographers getting appropriate renumeration and accreditation for their work.

Picture this: you snap a photo, its hash is on a decentralized public record. If someone uses this photo, you're aware of it and can be rewarded/credited appropriately.

We can scoff at the blockchain-ization of all these applications, or realize that they really do have far-reaching implications. Whether the investors are patient enough to wait for the benefit to become actualized, though, is a whole 'nother matter.
But for a company like Kodak to be beholden to a 3rd party development team is operational risk. Taking the proven technology and forking it under your centralized control seems like a smart move in my opinion. They're not trying to cash out on a digital currency, they're trying to leverage the smart contract tech that's shown to work.
My experience as the youngest child is that neither of my parents wanted to repeat the "mistake" they made giving my brother resources and supporting him. So where my brother generally got things like cars and a college education, I got things like jobs and student loans.
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What if I tell you the alternative is that they'll just get funding to try again. They successfully made the case that building and launching this satellite was necessary. Presumably the same argument will apply.
Doesn't https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/improving-urls-for-... address one of their two demands?
I keep seeing ´blockchain´ in proposals and start-up documents where the whole thing has been dragged in by the hair and through the weirdest of reasonings be made to seem like an integral part of the plan. It is a surefire way to end in the wastebin, but as long as there is enough dumb money tracking these projects I am afraid it will continue for a while to come.
Found this earlier today via GitHub search: https://github.com/cgvwzq/spectre/blob/master/spectre.js
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The lesson of this article is that unfortunate things, that come with a lifetime of grief, happen to good people. And perhaps more importantly, that empathy and understanding are incredibly powerful.

It is true that we should take "the responsibility of driving a lot more seriously, and treating driving as something risky" but treating this as a story about driving less broadly misses the point.
Maybe this will appeal to people who are green-minded, but live in a conservative area and are ashamed about it.
Have you spent any time living/driving in places like Houston or Atlanta or the suburbs of Chicago or Los Angeles? How about the bay area outside of SF?

Because if you have, I can't imagine how you'd think it's a solvable problem.

The US is too big... at least a lot of cities are, in terms of distance covered. EU benefits from population growth pre car-era. Density necessitates lower speeds and smaller roads, and good luck regulating US cities into that state.
So Microsoft basically abandoned their previous Manually Patched Equation Editor Executable[0]?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15720923
Having you head on a swivel for would-be child snatchers at all times seems like irrational paranoia.

I imagine it's the deceptively mundane that is the true danger, automobiles being the most obvious.
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Show me the same graph from ETH and XRP please. Bitcoin is outdated, Bitcoin is to us what ARPANET is to the Internet. Welcome to the future.
The domain KODAKCoin.com was registered 7 days ago. Looks like someone jumped on the bandwagon and registered KODAKCo.in just today after the announcement.
Except if you are into *BSD. In that case you might want to label it "selective disclosure" instead of "responsible disclosure".
I also live in Buffalo and would point out I agree with the sentiment. I really wish SolarCity/Tesla would hire the workers here. Talent and good skills exist here and Buffalo is only growing. Why bring ambitious projects here and then have them go bust like this? The effect on the population here would be a lot more than that of a big city where people have a lot more opportunity and don't need to hope for one big project.
I don't think this is the argument the author of the article was trying to send at all. This accident could have just as easily happened in a dense urban core, as it could have in suburbia.

The message was something else - sometimes, bad things just happen to people, and there is little you can do about it other than move on, and learn from the experiences.
if they only increased it twice, then that's not due to rent control, which allowed for 8% each year (recently changed to 5%)
Yeah, it's not called the Hype Cycle for nothing[1]. Not sure about the latter part of your post -- I'm sure there are legitimate uses of blockchain tech, but on the other hand I'm sure I've seen any yet, personally.

EDIT: [1] Actually, it's pretty weird that this is even a thing given how interested we (as effectors of "tech") SHOULD be (but aren't) in how all of this has gone before. Granted, blockchains are a relatively recent invention, but just because it's technically doesn't mean that it's actually meaningfully different in effect/politics/etc.
A janitor, whom never uttered a word to me before, asked me about bitcoin in a very forward manner just last week. As much as I'm excited by the concepts behind crypto, "jump the shark" has been on my mind ever since.
I'm just waiting to buy some pets.com coin
I'm not exactly sure what you are arguing but the value of these coins were trading about 30% lower, so using your definition above, the market value was clearly lower as can be seen by actual market activity. The price has since recovered.

I don't think anybody is claiming the number on Coin Market Cap is the actual market value because it is simply a metric derived from aggregating across multiple, very volatile exchanges.

EDIT: ok i saw your comment below, and it seems you are arguing, albeit very aggressively, that daily market fluctuations are random and cannot be attributed to an actual event, such as this one?