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Fintech Startup YieldStreet Raises $113M
I agree, especially thinking of rails
Lots do. The dollar has greatly depreciated due to inflation. A dollar in 1950 would be the equivilant of $10.16 today[1].

[1] http://www.in2013dollars.com/1950-dollars-in-2017?amount=1
Ask HN: My elder brother has died 2 weeks ago.I loved him so much.What to do?
Can you explain this further? Is a put contract essentially saying that this stock is not worth it and will lose its value in the next few months?
I'm trying to push Keybase within my friend group. I've yet to try Signal.
He has no opinion on tech stocks (neither long nor short) because he doesn't understand them well enough, and he is aware of the limits of his knowledge (and considers tech stocks outside of it). However, he does have an opinion on cryptocurrencies (so obviously considers them inside his area of expertise). That should give bulls pause.
I wonder if that happened because the traffic light was just on a timer rather than taking actual traffic in account. If the smaller road hardly ever sees traffic the light would be red very infrequently and getting your attention when red.
rutracker uses standard internet magnet links for the torrenting itself. They are just an indexer. There is no tracker nor downloads from them.
Related: North Carolina is no longer a democracy

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article122593759.h...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-carol...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/23/north_caro...
I find it hard to believe that the reason it was dropped was due to criticism of banks and allegations of government corruption, given there is copious amounts of other films with the same subjects available, including on Netflix.
It's not a subset of HTML, it's a system of delivering content that happens to shift some control from producers to Google.

Producers had disregarded users' interests for too long with increasingly bloated pages. Google was able to benefit both itself and users by cutting the bloat, but because the solution comes at the cost of further centralization, it's seen as part of the general erosion of the open and decentralized web.
Good luck! I really wish you the very best.

It might be easier to start with a goal of maybe 80% first before moving to 50%? Seems overly ambitious to start with.
Mobile App Programming: Exploratory Testing vs. Scripted
The businessman having his wife/secretary operate the machine poolside after a dip might be the best thing I've seen in advertisement ever.
To me it's like the limitations of first game consoles (1kB usable RAM for the NES). Having great games work on it needed quite crazy coding skills and several hacks to use less space.

Ethereum is still in it's infancy today and it does indeed have a very slow processing power and speed. But you can bet on the fact that it will improve exponentially.

Do you remember the first hard drives? 56K Internet speeds? IE6 browser? So many challenges have been overcome during the last decades in tech, why would it stop here?

There is a lot of brillant and very-well funded people working on the subject and they will find solutions to improve the platform. No doubt about it.

I always find it odd that such a tech-craving population as HN readers always seem to miss the bigger picture.
Golem Opens R&D Repository
Some chat system that isn't an "app", but rather, where the "app" is just an open source client for a documented, reasonably secure system.

EFF's recommendation list is being remade: https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

But the old one is still reachable from it.

WhatsApp is the one that got bought by facebook, which should be a red flag for those sensible.
> For example, governments could fail to recognize cryptocurrencies as valid contracts thus voiding the benefit of legal systems.

Another one is that courts could treat coins as chattels rather than legal tender / negotiable instruments. In that case cryptocoins that were stolen would thereafter be tainted and subsequent holders would be a risk for liability for trading stolen goods (even if they are other otherwise innocent third parties).
I would consider one of the most successful investors of all time to be a bit more than "some rich guy" hawking an opinion. He got rich by making smart long-term investments and watching market trends.

Crypto is a foolish long-term investment. Even in the short-term it's akin to gambling.
> cryptocurrencies are true, digital cash

I just wired money from my brokerage account to my checking account at a different institution. It happened in thirty minutes and I was charged no fees. Digital cash has been the bulk of cash for many, many years.
The Computer Virus That Brought Down Whac-A-Mole
Or maybe Buffett is just trying to protect his long term $1B assets in VISA
Yes but do you stick them to the front of your car?
FashionTech Sewport Reconnects British Brands with Clothing Manufacturers
Wow, really cool article!

I am not a huge fan of front-end dev, so I am really excited about the great opportunities behind this work/research. It will be another major step in the democratization of UI and less work at maintaining the web views.

My biggest concern is the model capacity. My question is: in your opinion, will it be able to handle very long HTML page? not to mention when it will be added a lot of CSS or JS. Even with more layers, will the model be able to generate corrected syntax(for really long pages)? will it need some additional modules(not only layers) to handle this? maybe a different problem formulation?
I don't think we're talking about the same kinds of roads.

In an area zoned for residential, e.g. a small town or village, the speed limit will drop and there are noise restrictions. That's quite common, although also quite sparse within the land area.

I've been speaking to unincorporated areas that have no zoning. Many of them are as you described: long, straight roads with mostly-evenly distributed houses over a large distance. These are the types of rural roads that make up the vast majority of land area in the midwest area of the US.
What about:

C) Someone is a gifted tattoo artist and you want to learn the craft from them, but you don't have any money to pay them. So the tattoo artist takes you on as a full-time paid intern, making a non-living wage
While the public key concept is indeed useful, you don't need a blockchain or cryptocurrency to have this. My country's banking system already works with public key crypto. I can pay local merchants with my bank account by signing the transaction with my private key, which is stored on a smartcard protected by a PIN. The private key doesn't leave the smartcard. When I take my smartcard out of the reader, nobody can fraudulently authorize payments from my bank account even if they had a trojan on the PC I used.
Websync: like `aws s3 sync` with automatic CloudFront invalidations and more
And a counterpoint, also on Slate http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
I'm from NC and was arrested (twice -- for 2nd degree trespass) while protesting these clowns.

Make no mistake, the crass disregard for the democratic process on display in NC is a model coming soon to a state near you :(

While rulings like this are good news, what of the laws passed by these unconstitutionally "elected" bodies during the last decade? The damage (to our school system for example) is lasting and won't be undone by a mere SCOTUS rulings.
Angband 2017 Review
Do something he would have been proud of.
Twitter Senior Engineer“more Than Happy”to Release Private Trump Messages to DOJ
DVDs have DRM.
Thanks! Good point. I should try to find a way to better organize notes while keeping the app simple.
A world without antibiotics is also a world with very limited surgeries.
The opinion, which does not appear to be linked in the NYT article, is here: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work.... Interestingly, all three judges, including Judge Osteen, a George W. Bush appointee, agreed that the map was unconstitutional and the legislature had to try again. Judge Osteen's dissent was only in part, and addressed the first amendment claim and the appointment of a special master to oversee the second attempt at drawing the map.
Is there a particular standard used to determine that a given map is considered gerrymandered? Or is it like porn, i.e., you know it when you see it?
AI hasn't endured a failure. Some miniature project inside Facebook got cancelled, that's all.
“There’s something about this that’s so black, it’s like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.”
I believe that is correct. However as he is operating the company from Germany, he would be required to register the company as operating a branch (Zweigniederlassung) in Germany.

The company would then be liable for German taxes on income generated from Germany. German Payroll taxes would also be required if they employ people within Germany. I am unsure if the Branch Office is also required to pay IHK fees but that may also be the case.
https://www.projectveritas.com/video/new-video-twitter-senio...
Because it is not the opposite of buying long. In the simple case, borrowing shares to sell hoping you can buy them back at a reduced price later puts you in a very dangerous situation when the market rises, which markets typically do over time. Unlike going long, directly shorting a stock is a bloodbath since you won't get the timing right unless you are the perpetrator of why the stock is going to fall.

Using options to sell calls or buy puts is the alternative, but options are levered and so any tiny fluctuations blow you up. Options trading is referred to as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" for a reason.

I did a lot of options trading in previous years. I had some big wins and some equally damaging losses and came out basically where I started, minus fees and oh yeah, the short term capital gains taxes, which eat up your profits like crazy. It's a waste of time because you are working against computerized trading bots that can front-run your orders on both the buy side and the sell side.

Like I said before, you only think you know what the scam is.

Big institutions that trade stocks use options as insurance, I don't think they make money on them unless they become a market maker or something.

The guys in "The Big Short" who correctly predicted the housing bond market collapse nearly lost their asses because their investors were screaming at how bad the CDOs that were used to synthetically short the bond market were performing--they almost got the timing wrong. Then, after they were completely vindicated, they had a very hard time collecting on those CDOs at all. They finally did, of course, and the rest is history--massive bailouts of the bond markets, several dead companies including Bear Stearns and Wachovia, and so on.
While valid, that argument focuses on a different issue. It is not the identity that matters for success of a technology.

Satoshi specified 1MB block size temporarily, and advocated increasing that limit to accommodate higher volumes of transactions on the network. The current Bitcoin Core developers, for whatever reason, have refused to compromise on any scaling issue - the blame lies with them.

As for locking away funds, there are a few things to consider:
1. If any of Satoshi's keys were to be used, intense attention would be attracted.
2. The identity and location of such use would likely be discovered by government intelligence agencies.
3. Even if all of that were to be dumped on the open market, the effect would be temporary with the eventual result bring increased availability of unit supply. It will be effectively impossible to transition away from Bitcoin without an overwhelmingly improved alternative once it is embedded in global systems, even if there's a serious shock.

I posit that the actual use of Bitcoin will not be as a transactional currency; it will be a reserve similar to the IMF's SDR. Therefore, only big money will be able to access it - institutions, governments, billionaires... normal people will have to make use of a transactional currency, perhaps Litecoin.

In conclusion: we cannot look for what we intend the usage to be; we have to observe that the the market may decide on a different purpose.
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There's a lot of hate on here for blockchain gaming/rare digital art so I'd like to clarify two points.

1. Blockchain games are best when only the necessary work is done on chain, such as transfer of ownership or enforcement of critical rules at run time. This tutorial may not show that so as to demonstrate the power of the blockchain, but most people in the space are building only the components players want to not be controlled by a central entity into the blockchain. It works fine.

2. The lack of digital scarcity is a real problem for artists. Blockchain art is a real solution. Artists I talk to are extremely excited about the ability to issue limited/special editions of their art on the blockchain that can owned and traded by their biggest fans. It's not about hiding the source art (image, music, etc) from the public, it's about having "signed" and "authentic" editions folks can collect and trade. They've lost that ability in the digital art world and this gives it back to them.
Good intentions, poor execution.

Fact checking is probably best done by a third party of the user's choosing. It's rare that a statement cannot be reasonbly argued from multiple angles. We simply have to pick the sources we trust and picking them for us is probably not the best solution.

I understand the desire to prevent fake stories, but probably much better to tie credibility to individuals so there's more at stake for them personally.
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I'm not a conservative (the very name implies that even if a conservative wins, all they get is to keep from losing). But it's clear Google has massive biases (at least in publicly visible representatives) and their fact checking (which I've only seen once or twice) has gone to biased sites like Politifact.
His game is identifying undervalued assets. If you're not confident you know how to value the asset you can't identify undervalued ones. I guess the point I was getting at was valuing a tech stock and valuing a crypto have little to do with one another. One is a business (which might be used as a speculative vehicle) while the other is a speculative vehicle.

EDIT: More specifically anything with as much hype as crypto (and tech to a lesser extent) is not really in the value investing camp in which Buffet is trading. Avoiding them entirely is a very useful heuristic for him.
Unless you don't mind a hostile take-over don't make it too permissive though. GPL is a good license if you want good protection while still allowing people to fork, share and profit on your work.
>And still, this wouldn’t be so bad, if the crap wasn’t starting to seep into things that actually matter.

>A leading indicator of what’s to come is the state of computer security. We’re seeing an alarming rise in big security breaches, each more epic than the next, to the point where they’re hardly news any more. Target has 70 million customers’ credit card and identity information stolen. Oh no! Security clearance and personal data for 21.5 million federal employees is taken from the Office of Personnel Management. ...

I’m not a fan of this type of article, the article where we find a group of bad things and then go find something to blame for it. It’s easy to say all this stuff was caused because “we just don’t make stuff like we used to”, but I think it’s wrong-headed.

Or more probably it’s used in the wrong sense. It’s true that we don’t make things like we used to. We have made giant leaps past anything we’ve ever done before. We have hundreds of thousands of companies online and millions of devices online, a level of interconnectedness that the planet has never seen before. We also have more accessible software development tools and many more people writing software than ever before.

Increasing numbers of security breaches are a sign of our progress not a sign of our failures. It’s just a sign that there is a lot more stuff attached to the internet and that unfortunately includes people with the intention to commit crimes.

Should we tolerate security breaches? No. Should we celebrate them? Of course not.

But let’s see them for what they are and search for a solution instead of something to vilify.
So can anyone here get their hands on one of these stripe atlas invite codes ?
Nvidia GPUs also affected by SPECTRE
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112283
Ditto, but you'll have more luck with Signal. They'll see the value of it more quickly. I'm currently trying to get 3 people to use Keybase.

My girlfriend/fiancee: Lives in another country, we're sharing data involving PII to deal with immigration stuffs.

My sister: We have a side project and I'd like to use the team based, private git repos.

A colleague: Same as sister, plus he's generally interested in privacy/security. And it's still been like pulling teeth to get him to do it.
> He has no opinion on tech stocks (neither long nor short)

He is a major investor in Apple and was a relatively-early backer of BYD, the Chinese battery technology company.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/billionaire-warren-buffett-m...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/11/investing/byd-warren-buffett...
Thanks!

If I recall correctly, the simplest algorithm was as follows:

1. When user begins scaling an object, compute the initial bounding box (bbox) of the object.

2. On each pointer move determine the scaled bbox into which the object should fit. If user holds down the shift key, adjust the scaled bbox so that it has the same aspect ratio as the initial bbox.

3. Finally, compute the transformation matrix that transforms the initial bbox into the scaled bbox and apply it as a "transform" attribute on the object.

The current implementation in Boxy SVG is a bit more complicated because it has to handle all the edge cases like multiple selected objects that belong to different groups or objects that have zero width or height (e.g. straight horizontal or vertical line).
I don't know. I just love cats. With a little patience and familiarity, they return that affection in their own way.
I think it's fine. While the article spends some time talking about how shitty looking Penn Station is, I felt like it delivered its emphasis on how the actual transit part of it is slow motion dying. Like tunnels literally creeping towards collapse. The comparison to airports I think is fine for envisioning scale in an American context.

Like all of the station level stuff is important, but I felt like the article was more of a plea to make sure that we'd at least fix the actual track and tunnel level problems before NYC gets strangled.
Regarding the last two paragraphs of the article, what is the typical way that past presidents are meant to be addressed? Contrast the curt 'Mr. Obama' with President Jimmy Carter and President George W. Bush.

>In addition to Judge Wynn, an appointee of Mr. Obama’s, Senior Judge W. Earl Britt of the Federal District Court in Raleigh joined the opinion. Judge Britt was appointed by President Jimmy Carter.

>Judge William L. Osteen Jr., who was appointed by President George W. Bush and sits on the federal bench in Greensboro, said he agreed that the existing map violated the 14th Amendment, but he disputed other parts of Judge Wynn’s opinion, including the decision to appoint an independent expert to begin preparing an alternative map.
https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/ is the definition of consent.

Simply having a term in the general conditions fails the "a clear affirmative act" part.

Saying "use such content" fails the "informed and specific" part - it needs to detail exactly what uses (explicitly listing each) you're consenting to; and it doesn't list the purpose of the use, which is a key part ("When the processing has multiple purposes, consent should be given for all of them")

If facebook has obtained your consent for one (or hundred and one) use-case, it does not mean that it can use it for something else simply by amending ("from time to time") the Data Policy, it would need to get additional explicit, affirmative (opt-in), informed consent to the new processing need of your information.
There is no way any company would dare pull that in the present political world...

I found it more interesting when the engineer picked up the readied punchcard and filled in some numbers. I suspect that beyond the storage medium (these days he would probably open some Excel template file), this is what most computing is still about today.
Nothing official, but people are working on quantifying it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/courts... Even if it's not perfect, it's useful to point out the most egregious cases.
>No, age and veteran status change over time.

You can't change your date of birth or fact that you were in the armed forces. That is static. Religion is constitutionally protected.
Well we would expect no different from medicine, or home construction, or automobiles without some basic guarantees:

1. High visibility of problems (people die, building collapse, crashes)

2. Regulation and inspection (some standards for evaluation and lines that should not be crossed)

3. Certification (you wouldn't let an uncertified random person do heart surgery on you, or build your house).

But for this to be possible, we as a whole would have to agree these are priorities and impose these limits. We're still in the time of the "surgery without anasthesia" or "no building codes" or "just let the factories emit whatever they want". Understandable due to the short time that software has been really "important" in day-to-day life, but now its time to slow down and make sure we do it right.
Good. Suburbs are a delusional fantasy that every nuclear family is a financially independent island who's lives can be air-gap'd off from the rest of the world. They were built for boomers and should die with boomers.
So.

In geometry an "affine vector" (c,v) is said to be the vector v tangent to c -- no longer a vector, a "tangent vector". In your neural network this would be the weights tangent to each bias. If you keep c fixed

Tc[V] = {(c,v) | c fixed, forall v in V}

is clearly a vector space.

Here's the fun part: if you tried to consider

T[V] = {(c,v) | forall c in R, v in V}

this is no longer a vector space. But it's a fun structure: at each c, Tc[V] is sorta like (homeomorphic) to the Cartesian product

{c} x V

this is a fiber bundle. For example: a torus is near each c the cartesian product of a point and a circle; a "circle squared" is a donut.

Now, we don't need to restrict ourselves to c+vx -- we can consider sigmoid(c+vx), which will have tangents (derivatives) to b at each w. For fixed c we still have a vector space with the derivatives dsigmoid/dv, and varying c you have a sigmoid fiber bundle.
But it's not? Let me try to rephrase that: If you do nothing at all your privacy will be protected by the GPDR. You, as the consumer, are not required to know or do anything if you want your privacy.
One of the main reasons I held back with Stripe Atlas back whenever it was in beta (been sitting on an invite for awhile) was that I didn't want the added tax burden while bootstrapping that an C Corp brings in, so I ended up going for a simpler LLC. These resources on taxes are good to see. The work Stripe has been doing with Atlas is really, really great.
I remember visiting the Olivetti Research Labs in Cambridge in about 1987 and interviewing Herman Hausser and Andy Hopper (I was a tech journalist many moons ago)

Some of the stuff they were doing was really innovative. Every member of staff wore 'Active Badges' containing something that today sounds rather like an RFID chip. and sensors blanketing the building

You could Telnet into the main campus machine and Finger someone's name and get the response 'Andy Hopper was last seen 5 minutes ago, by the lifts, on the ground floor'.

I thought that was dead cool at the time.