skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because its exactly equivalent to selling Tether for USD, which we know they do. There are arguments that they couldnt have liquidated so much BTC, but I don't see any specific argument that leads on to assume that they wouldnt have. Unless one puts fraud as the entire goal. Which can't be discounted, but its just not obvious, to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16268152
We've already fixed this - devices are now described as "Desktop", "Mobile" or "Web" by default. It was a thinko (mine actually) that we put too much detail in the device descriptions originally :(
End of financial year... budgets to spend?
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Do you really think hosting on GCP / Azure is going to let you beat Amazon?
Maybe i could use tiny robots to find the bottle of sloe gin i know i have somewhere in my house.
Cache expiry time ? I guess it won't take $5M. But in my mind it's virtually impossible for me to determine what it should be
Wages didn't really recover after 2008. The larger the company, the more flush with cash they've become. Nearly every major industry has been going through mergers. Dow Chemical and Dupont. Bayer and Monsanto. Disney and Fox. Charter and Time Warner.

Given the fact that Trump and the GoP are in control right now, the FTC's position is weaker than it's ever been. We'll need anti-trust legislators in 10 to 15 years or disparity in the US will be at an all-time high.
> FIAT currency and Bitcoin have value as long as people believe it has value

This argument precludes any rational discussion of the price of Bitcoin. Bitcoin at $50,000? Correctly priced, because people feel like it! Bitcoin at 50¢? Correctly priced, because people feel like it!

Contrast that to national currencies, where fundamental relationships between rates, real GDP and other factors relating to the economy can be measured, forecasted and compared. Two informed people can have a reasonable debate about the price at which one should trade a U.S. dollar for Japanese yen or Canadian dollars. Two informed people cannot have a reasonable debate about the price at which one should trade a U.S. dollar for a Bitcoin.

In that sense, it's sort of like gold. Unlike gold, Bitcoin doesn't have millennia of heritage grandfathering in an informal consensus [1].

[1] http://www.mining.com/what-a-roman-centurions-pay-says-about...
This is because 50% of your working time goes towards marketing, self-promotion, and other things clients don't pay you for. And 50% of your revenue goes towards taxes, office space, and buying products and services to support your business.

I'm hugely in favor of charging more as a freelancer or consultant, but this isn't accurate. In general, software devs have very low overhead, don't spend half their productive time on marketing and promotion (perhaps they should), and the additional taxes you pay when self-employed in the US are either small (other half of SE tax, max ~8% but usually lower for high-income) or negative (you can write off a lot more).

The reason to charge more is because you're delivering more value, not because you need more money. Clients don't give a shit what you need to make. Charge them based on the value you produce, whether that's 2x or 10x what they'd pay an employee.
Consciousness is linked to psychology and philosophy. Any -logy is just a way of naming things--a level of indirecion--while -sophy is one name of the thing we want to name, philanthropically. As it leads to physical change one way or another the psychology of physics is merrily taken into account as evidenced by several godly identifications with the sky and stars, cosmology for short, while model building and phenomenology necessarily take a standpoint at ground level into account, as with the limit of light speed and the Relativity in Einstein's thought experiments. And quantum physics is certainly philosophical and projected onto the consciousness.
More evidence of rent declines in Portland, due to supply increases
> For a multi-decade, legacy brand to entrust that guy with their future is rather bizarre.

Could it be that you've been playing by different rules? Maybe Kodak was always like this. Who knows.
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Yipee. I can't wait to buy one.
I don't see the problem. Though not a host address, that's known in the sockets networking API as INADDR_ANY, useful for binding a socket to listening on all networks, for instance.

The GNU C Library getaddrinfo accepts 000.000.000.000 with the leading zeros and all; I just tried.

It is important to support special addresses like 255.255.255.255 and 0.0.0.0 in the dot notation. For instance, in the configuration of some daemon, you may need to be able to specify that the bind address is 0.0.0.0. The value can't be rejected due to not being an address.

Also, you need to be able specify network as opposed to host addresses, and netmasks. You know, like 10.0.0.0 and so on.
How many entities have recently stopped taking bitcoin, and how many have started? Are the growing transaction cost and latency going to kill usage?
As the other poster guessed, vi is there on any system I log into that runs some form of Unix, including switch hardware.
You can't just expect to use this conversion and always be able to make it work.

Company you worked for might have proprietary tech, patents/IP, massive clients you'll never be able to get, etc and thus can pay you more.

If I work for Google as a search engineer making $200k it doesn't mean I can leave and then suddenly earn $800k selling search consultancy services to DuckDuckGo and AskJeeves.

If I'm an accountant at Deloitte making $120k auditing Fortune 10 companies it doesn't mean I can leave and make $480k revenue auditing sandwich shops and I probably won't be able to take any of my previous clients.
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Hi Jeremy,

I greatly appreciate your response! I will take a long look at this paper again and attempt to digest it.

Thanks again!
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/mentally-ill-do-better-in-...
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For us onlookers could you perhaps attempt to elucidate the difference in your points of view rather than slinging insults?
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My example was froogle vs. shopping. I agree on search and Google superiority. That’s what froogle was. Their new shopping site doesn’t use their search engine and instead only searches advertisers. Instead of the web.
The fact is, some older people have always been prejudiced towards younger people, to the point it's a cliche, and, therefore, the five millionth iteration of it isn't interesting, or valid, or true, or even much worth hearing.

(... and it's especially rich to hear it coming from the Boomers...

and I'm sure the more historically-aware of the Boomers thought it was quite rich to hear it coming from the Jazz Age refugees... )
It's backed by an army and a government, along with the trust of the entire world. These things ensure value a lot better than being back by gold does.
Rates for programming jobs are widely variable. Some people work forn $10/hour.
Thanks for many of the good points. I don't disagree with your sentiment that deforestation is the problem, it's just that I feel like this is silly.

If the problem is deforestation, let's attack that problem first. Otherwise this is just pushing the dirt around (literally) and hoping this will fix it.
Is it just me or is Amazon doing all of these things already?

Create an aspirational brand -> they have tons of in-house brands in many categories, from premium to budget. They're just not usually advertised as being owned by Amazon.

Build a community -> Lists, Vine, Reviews, their forums, probably a bunch of other things

Personalize your products -> Amazon Merch

Deploy an omnichannel strategy -> Retail stores, Treasure Truck, Amazon Go, Whole Foods, Prime Now, Flex, drones...

Go niche over mass -> Marketplace

Commit to values -> I think the last 20 years have shown that Amazon is pretty committed to investing in growth...
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up next: Facebook is starting it's own currency...
It sucks that their business was, effectively, obsoleted by GitHub. I totally get that.

However, if your business can be pretty much wiped out by another company simply adding a new feature to their own product, well, one could argue that you didn't really have much of a product to begin with.
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Not exactly the anti-GMO crowd pretty much muddled the distinction between Transgenics and GMOs.

On more “scientific” forums including popular science like Star Talk Nye always explained that it was Transgenics that he had concerns about and using GMOs when talking to a crowd which already decided that GMOs only applies to cucumbers which were spliced with chicken DNA was pretty much the only way to go.
It's a 2g frame and camera mount I designed - you can download the plans here (the button next to the QTY selector):
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The TX is a Jumper T8SG + FrSky M9 gimbals and recased into a 3D printed case I made. Haven't finished it yet (waiting on a third iteration to be printed), so writeup when I'm done :)
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(Article is about cryptocurrencies)
I have great experience with agreeing on the features to be delivered in a two-week sprint. You provide and estimate in hours and have a hourly rate for your work. This allows you a) to outperform your estimate and gives b) your customer some planning security. If you screw up, a the content of a two week sprint won't brake your neck. If you outperform you have more time for your project.

Additionally you get rid of the discussion if dev a is worth 1.2456 more than dev b.

Infrastructure is cost you bill additionally.
Assuming this is accurate, that only 1 minute elapsed between first response and Governor notification is impressive:

> Events After the False Alert

> • 0808 Day shift warning officer receives false WEA on mobile device

> • 0809 HI-EMA notifies Hawaii Governor of false alert
They basically do this, but they also take into account things like the book's condition and whether the content is relevant and valuable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeding_(library)
Slight and continuous adjustments, though with a proper RC controller you can make faster and more accurate adjustments, so maintaining altitude would be much more accurate than all the wobbling you saw in the video :)
Model X is not a 140,000 car. It starts much lower. You can similarly option up a 5 series to 100k. In any case, I prefer my Model S interiors 10x more than my X5 or Hyundai Santa Fe. Both of them have a 1000 buttons on the front dash with random functions which are hard to figure out. And let’s not get started about the iDrive or whatever it is in Hyundai. I love the clean minimalist interiors of Model S. Model 3 interior looks even better
Yes but what does surveillance have to do with bombings. Have they ever stopped 1 single bombing because they were filming regular people going by their business..?
"They created a credible white paper that, at the very least, tickled some of the neophilic nerves, and they had an active, if scammy, social media presence. That is literally all you need to run an ICO these days and they did exactly as expected.

Then the whole thing imploded. On the 28th the scam shut down, leaving a website containing a single word: penis."
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I think the point is that it’s not really about what the sheep want.
> There are important counter-trends to this -- like encryption and cryptocurrency ...

How does this translate to "they are about to launch their own coin"?
This pretty much sums it up:

The point is to build new decentralized protocols that will not be owned by any one central company, but will instead be the property of all of their users, who will fund their development by buying coins and who will then be rewarded by the increasing value and usefulness of those coins. This is not that. This is more like: WENN Digital will manage a centralized database of photo rights, and someone will stand off to the side shouting "blockchain!" occasionally when it seems like people's attention is drifting.

Also, that chart in the NYT with all the Kodak-colored little boxes and arrows is buzzword comedy gold. Blockchain leads to Tensorflow because why not!
I've seen it peak much higher on the list than 'the ocho'.
My wife and I are in the market for an EV, but the thing is, even the Model 3 is a bit big for a car to drive around the city and all the tiny cars I've looked at have rubbish batteries.

If Tesla did a small, two-seater city car, with an okay trunk and a decent battery I'd probably buy it.
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Sure, but I don't think the article really communicates the nuances of this very well. I imagine the article would be a lot longer if you hoped to communicate the details to an audience outside of China
>If this fails, it is quite possibly the last nail for Kodak..

The equivalent of the founder taking all the remaining company funds to Vegas and betting it all on black.
Separating bad actors and their crypto from good actors and their crypto is where were headed next. Lessons in due diligence apply to crypto just as with any other investment vehicle but it seems many have missed this. The crypto space is being refined, which is a good thing.
tectonic, ignition, matchbox?

Also CoreUpdate is based on Chrome and ChromeOS but it's the only os that integrated it nicely. Running CoreOS is way simpler to manage than most other distro's because of that fact.
"The broad public safety plan announced last year, which included an early version of the camera plan, discussed taking steps to “reduce the culture of permissiveness” in New Orleans."

That already happened to San Francisco. Coming next, the San Francisco Homeless Tracking System.[1]

[1] http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-ambitious-ho...
In 2009-ish China announced subsidies of basically half the cost of any large scale solar installations. The Chinese government has been giving solar companies below market rate loans. According to Scientific American China chipped in $47 Billion to build its solar industry.

This is, of course, in addition to the standard protectionist industry subsidies like the Joint Venture rules, subsidies on raw materials like steel, or transportation of such goods via rail, etc.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-china-is-domi...
No, I'm saying that when people on exchanges like Bitfinex "cash out" they're really getting freshly issued Tether that isn't backed by anything. It's fraud. The scam works as long as you can keep the price pumped up (new Tether issues seem to occur like clockwork during BTC sell offs), but if the price plunges they'll be insolvent in a hurry. Let's say they bought BTC with $100m of freshly minted USDT back when the price was $20,000 (round numbers are easier)... Instead of $100m in USD backing that issue they would now have ~$50m in BTC. Tough luck for anyone who wants to exchange their USDT for USD.

This would be something like a run on a bank, except without the FDIC to step in and make sure everyone gets their money out.

Accepting USDT is akin to giving Bitfinex an interest free loan with a high chance of default--no possible upside and lots of possible downside. No one should use any exchange that deals with USDT in any way.
That link doesn’t address my question. It says he works at SpaceX and he works at Tesla, not the nature of the work.
Avg tx fee has fallen quite a bit, as well as median. It's still far too high IMO, but it's closer to 5 bucks than 20 like it was a couple months ago.
That's all great. It isn't a hash, which by definition requires a hashing function applied to transform input data.
That's not entirely true.

That certainly is how we evolved, but somehow we evolved a consciousness that isn't purely a function of its inputs; people who are "locked in" remain conscious.

That was quite the trick...
Kraken allows wash trading (proof: https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/957757842852806657), so really untrustworthy.
Mathematica can definitely compute the derivatives if you fix the size of the matrix. This isn't very useful if you're trying to compute the derivative of an expression with arbitrary sized matrices.
Since that seems to be a popular excuse to start wars and otherwise-unacceptable laws, I doubt they're doing that.

Fear is pretty good for politicians.
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This is worrisome, mainly for one reason. Maybe one of the many ICOs might turn out to derail Facebook's centralised + ads approach. With this Facebook is basically attempting to prevent competition - or am I totally off?
Depends what you consider technology, I would say.

Plant and animal domestication. A heavy hand axe that gave homo erectus a more dangerous clank than a big ram? Fish traps? Hydraulic engineering?

Yuval Noah Harari puts the start around the same time as this article's modern brain, the palaeolithic revolution. The point at which cultural evolution takes over and replaces biological evolution as the driving force of change.

But yeah, we have a ton of wasted potential. Nutrition, education, information and (uncomfortably) inbreeding along with the many types of unavailable opportunities...
I thought, being on HN, this would be about offering a better PaaS product than AWS, but I could have been equally wrong if I'd guessed any of 10+ other industries too (How to beat Amazon at food delivery? Ticket sales? Music distribution? ...)
> There's no statistical link between cameras and crime prevention

Not saying you're wrong, but if you're right there are an awful lot of pointless security signs outside my neighbor's houses.
> They would still if we vocalized the other things...

What are those..?
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You should add a link in the resources section
Some of the worse points of this article:

1) "Bitcoin turns out to be a clunky, slow, costly means of payment". This is missing the phrase "right now". There is nothing inherent/unfixable in Bitcoin or competing cryptocurrencies that make them bad for payments in a technical sense (maybe in a exchange rate risk sense but that's not the claim being made). Yes Scaling, Speed, Security, and UX are issues, no those aren't insurmountable. One could easily say "dial up internet is a clunky way to watch videos"; yes and the technology will evolve.

2) No intrinsic values. I'm not sure that you need intrinsic value in a currency, only buy-in, and there are a lot of compelling reasons to buy-in.

3) It's a bubble. Provide your valuation model. I don't claim to know what the correct valuation is, but I'm not making a hard claim of bubble vs no bubble.

4) North Korea is potentially manipulating the market. Time to break out the boogymen! I don't doubt that NK is trying all measures of cyberscams / hacking / etc, but I really doubt that they have the capital or skill to meaningfully effect these high volume markets.

Don't get me wrong. There are massive problems and criticisms that can be leveled against Bitcoin et al, but this reads more as an "old man yells at clouds" kind of story.
I have a Hyundai and Model S. They don’t feel remotely similar. The Hyundai feels like a relic from the past and I only bought it in 2015
Most people would accept being able to see and interact with the world a prerequisite to consciousness. I understand this as an I/O problem. There must be continuous high-bandwidth input (visual, audio, tactical) as well as very detailed and dexterous output.

I wonder to what degree virtual realities can play the I/O function. I think for the next half century virtual realities will mostly operate at a lower level of detail then meatspace. Can a mind function well stuck in a lower detail world?

Alternatively, cybernetics could serve. You bring up a real concern, but it's a solvable problem.
Does the layout matter as long as you're consistent? Do the deep learning libraries presume that you're using a certain layout?
Can we fix the title? It should be "Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans?"

The current title makes no sense.
I'm not going to bat for them. I'm explaining the way i've reasoned about the situation. If you disagree with my reasoning, feel free to explain why. Here's the chain:

1. Bitfinex claims to offer wires to Taiwanese accounts.

2. Bitfinex does redeem Tether 1:1 for USD (nominally, within your Bitfinex account).

3. Bitfinex claims to wire that redeemed USD to any Taiwanese account without delay or haircut.

Now, given that, the price of Tether out to trade at 1:1 with USD. Which, for the most part, it does. If there were lots of Taiwanese customers unable to realize those wires, i'd expect we would hear some complaining from them. But we don't. Therefore it is my presumption that those wires are proceeding uninhibited.

If you have an alternative explanation of the facts, i'm happy to listen to it.
Just guessing: The idea that the current value in bitcoin comes from crypto-anarchists rather than people speculating.
I think the world should just start using board games as a currency. They have a lot of value to me, and I'd be rich under this new paradigm. Also, some of those board games are really hard to get ahold of, and they last a really long time (I own games that are 60+ years old, much older than most dollars in circulation last).

BTW, I agree with you. I'm just trying to convince the masses that this is a good idea.
I'm not trolling. Rather, I'd think you were trolling, considering the earlier comment where you thought I was calling him a spy for having participated in the Polish resistance.

Speaking of Pilecki, of course he thought he believed he was acting in the name of a legal government, but that's not what is being discussed here. The Soviets were correctly claiming him to be a foreign spy, since he was spying for a country which is foreign to the USSR, and treated him as such.

The question of which was the "real" Polish government is not in discussion, though you're repeatedly trying to derail the conversation towards that issue; my original comment was about the fact that the Soviets killed Pilecki by virtue of him being a spy, which was also common for other countries (unlike torture). Can we agree that the Soviets correctly viewed Pilecki as a foreign spy?