skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That won't happen.

If the horse has to be euthanized, unless it happens far from vet care (say on a distant trail ride), it's going to be given a lethal dose of sedative. If it does happen far from care, then it'll be most likely shot in the head and the carcass burned or left for predators if it's not possible to dig a pit for it.

Source: live on a horse farm and have had to deal with weak or dead horses.
Not true. In order to make sure there isn't a run on their fake currency, they need to ensure that the balance tips towards buying bitcoin rather than cashing out holdings. If the price goes too low, people will start trying to convert tethers to real money, triggering a crash.
Why pump assets if you can't cash them out?
I wonder where Finland draws the line between "taxi" and "ride sharing" (stuff like the Waze commute thing).
Well, there is advantages in Android approach too: as far I remember in App Store there is no emulators thanks to the stricter policies of Apple, while Play Store have genuine emulators for tons of gaming consoles. And you can also sideload apps without needing of jailbreak, allowing the use of interesting apps that for some reason is not allowed in Play Store (for example, NewPipe, a alternative YouTube client with tons of extra features).
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What makes you (and others) think that citing three (or even half a dozen) examples constitutes some kind of refutation of the general rule?

There are somewhere over a billion web sites, dude. The number of those that are profitable with a subscription model (as opposed to being supported by advertising, or not being profitable at all) is a rounding error -- in the fourth or fifth decimal place.
"you should read this story"
Posts unclickable link

Edit: you fixed it, thanks
That's the allegation, or people legitimately bought tether. It's not clear which is true. Hence the investigation.
Before I respond I would like to say that this interaction is tremendously helpful for me. You obviously know what you're talking about, and I appreciate you taking the time to engage on this. If you don't mind, I'd like to learn more about who you are IRL. If you want to do that off-line my contact info is in my profile.

But to answer your question:

> at what point do we get one or the other as a result?

That is like asking "at what point does a blastocyst become a fully fledged human being?" There is no sharp dividing line between the quantum and the classical. There is not "point" at which the one transitions sharply to the other. There is a range beyond which the classical approximation is good enough for all practical purposes, but the physical world never "actually becomes" classical, just as gravity never "actually becomes" Newtonian.

> Cerf and Adami consider their model completely unrelated to Zurek's

I'm not sure that "completely unrelated" is a fair characterization. I think they would regard it as an "improvement". (But they are both still alive. We could ask them.)

BTW, you might want to read this:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...

and its precursor: http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/09/are-parallel-universes-re...

It may or may not answer any of your questions, but I would be very interested in your feedback either way. (And keep in mind that this was written for a lay audience.)
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No I didn't, HN mangled the text to italics and I did not spot it. Too late to edit. That's why lisp and C are in italics :) How do you make an asterisk in HN anyway?
I am not really well versed in Haskell debugging, but a thought..

Current debuggers are built around very imperative notion of program state. I have breakpoints, I can look at variables (state in a given time)..

What would debugging look like if we looked at it from the functional perspective?

For example, execution "filters" instead of breakpoints. What happens if this function receives value that satisfies certain condition? Instead of variable watches, give out a breakdown of the data passed in and out from the function. Etc.
I don't want to give details in public but it isn't something I could or would want to be involved in again for many reasons. The skills were specialized and honestly irrelevant to anything I could do online. I am starting from scratch.

I appreciate and understand your view but the "self learn a marketable skill" has never worked. I cannot compete with young, healthy people who are grinding away. Without some miracle/kindness/bespoke option I am lost. It's not negativity or cynicism even though it sounds so...its just truth proven over time. Even this post which initially gave me a tiny boost of hope thinking someone might do as you said and see it and have a solution is so far off the front few pages nobody but you will continue to see it.

Just learning to fish for a "special kind of fish that may or may not be available and I have to compete with better, stronger fishermen for" won't work. I'd need someone to teach me to fish and give me the opportunity to fish within my limits. That's honestly a pipe dream.
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The ebb and flow is kind of neat to watch.

(1) Load AOL and visit keyword "UBER" to get started requesting a car now!

(2) Type UBER into your web browser location bar then hit control-enter to visit http://UBER.com/ and get started requesting a car now!

(3) Load your app store and search for "UBER" to get started requesting a car now!
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My best friend is 8 years and counting with stage III (not sure about the sub-stage) ovarian. Both of you, hang in there!
That is an interesting question.

Digital "currency" is unregulated so the question is which law is violated.

If, in purchasing a tether, there is some underlying contract that says the tether is backed by a dollar, then you might claim a violation of the contract. You may have to look at the fine print. Who was the counter party? What were the terms? Who is on the hook for it? Is it an entity that is outside the US?

However, if there isn't such a contract and someone makes the claim, you might claim there was an implied contract. This is harder. Not being a lawyer, I won't even venture to guess how this would play out.

In the absence of those two, I don't know if you can claim there was a violation of the law.

Edit: There is one more law you can violate, and this is the obvious one: Fraud!

In the US it is fraud if:

- somebody misrepresents a material fact in order to obtain action or forbearance by another person,

- the other person relies upon the misrepresentation, and

- the other person suffers injury as a result of the act or forbearance taken in reliance upon the misrepresentation.

So now the question is where is the injury? Especially if they are able to sell of Bitcoin and actually back up the Tether?

Now it might be a question of: the buyer took a risk they had not intended on taking.
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Smaller screens can keep it full width. The iPad (in some previous iteration, don't know what it looks like now) already has notifications that don't span the whole width. Seems reasonable other large screen non-iPad devices might do the same thing.
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Could be the best buying opportunity of the year.

As someone involved in bitcoin since 2012, these cycles are pretty standard. It went from $1000 to around $250 iirc at one point and recovered. No reason it cant go from $20000 to $5000 and recover. It may take many years, but its not as if all crypto will die overnight.

I see crypto being big in the more distant future, 15-20 years away when many of the problems are sorted out. Everyone is focused on the extreme short term.
It's not a populist mesaure. You need this while you find a way to modernize agriculture practices so that the 60% who depend on farming won't have tough times.

Also, there's enough money for all these schemes while still maintaining a decent fiscal deficit. What has to be worked on is the delivery of these. For better or worse linking Aadhar to bank accounts and delivering the benefits directly into the bank accounts helped to certain extent.
Fine. Would lisp macros make sense in a language that isn't fully parenthesized?
Personally I've had the exact opposite experience with Spring Boot. To me it feels like they've basically had to metaprogram their way out of the limitations of both the language and the underlying APIs which are extremely verbose and obtuse. Every time Spring makes something more convenient, it also removes some static guarantees. Dependency injection issues fail at runtime instead of compile time, but that's not anywhere near the worst of it.

Autoconfiguration in particular seems nice at first but can cause all sorts of weird issues. I once had a situation where we added RabbitMQ, and some other JAR started trying to bind to a queue that didn't exist, but the framework was swallowing that exception and it took hours of screwing around in the debugger to figure out what was going on. That sort of thing simply doesn't happen with Go in my experience. Or probably Dropwizard, honestly.
Haskell hasn't solved GUI design, and it probably never will unless it comes up with a better way of modeling mutable state.
If it's newly created Tether, the theory requires them to decide they don't want to hold as much cryptocurrency, then successfully convert large holdings of cryptocurrency to real USD in their own bank account, then wire that USD to Tether's Taiwanese bank account so that they could buy USDT, an asset whose sole virtue is it being slightly easier to buy cryptocurrency with (on exchanges that aren't good at or able to handle dollars).

Which doesn't make sense period, never mind over the timescales discussed.
Cheers I might look at getting one then, as I had problems with my Pi's network connectivity being slow compared to a laptop's using the same ethernet over power line adapter.
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True, but the story still works if you add "and a bit extra for a rainy day."
I don't get why it's unclickable but it bothered me as well.
Will there come a time when Electron apps are considered native? I'm not being facetious here, just posing the question that if — say — the horrendous performance issues of Electron were ironed-out, or perhaps a similar standard that isn't such a mess, would you consider it less fake?
Is GRLC a joke/meme that just got out of hand?
> I kind of wanted to get into an argument about numbers, not an argument about what makes a valid argument

Then don't complain about people "making it about you".

> Because there are no valid arguments.

Well then, looks like we're all done here.

> They also don't calculate the benefit of early death and reach a price fairly close to neutral(1.1%-.1% of gdp).

If you leave out certain costs, you can indeed reach whatever conclusion you'd like.

> Thanks for asking.

Thanks for reminding me I have to check my reddit inbox.
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It's not just Bitcoin, it's every altcoin listed on that exchange, and the other two big Tether/USD exchanges (Poloniex and Bittrex).
> Doesn't this simply mean that when people were selling their virtual currencies, they chose to stall their money in Tether?

Correct, and that's precisely how Tether helps prop up the price. There is a limited amount of actual USD floating out there to buy up BTC. People selling BTC in exchange for USD will lower the price. However two current trends can eliminate those sell orders before they impact the price. They are:

* They may be convinced not to sell, that they should hodl (sic) instead. No sell order occurs.

* They may be convinced to accept USDT instead of USD. No USD selling pressure occurs since they are willing to accept an IOU.

So why does Tether keep printing more? It's an easy way to absorb a portion of the selling pressure that wasn't convinced to simply not sell.
If they say Tether is backed 1:1 by USD, and it's not (allegedly by a wide margin), then it's clearly fraud.
wow. The guardian promoting a cryptocurrency scam. I am speechless.

tl;dr: some oddball folks promoting a token for storing your social networking in a distributed ledger. they already have investors, but are still rebels, somehow.
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dead center, first row of their home page:

Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves. So 1 USD₮ is always equivalent to 1 USD.
If SQL deserves consideration for being "underrated", Datalog certainly does.

Compared to SQL, Datalog makes recursive queries very natural[1], making it good for manipulating graph-like structures. For example, here's reachability in a graph:

reaches(X,Y) :- edge(X,Y).
reaches(X,Z) :- edge(X,Y), reaches(Y,Z).

That was easy!

Variants of Datalog pop up in unexpected places. Datalog dialects are often used for implementing code analysers (e.g. Semmle). Datomic's product is a variety of Datalog with S-expression syntax. UC Berkeley has a Datalog-based research language called bloom (http://bloom-lang.net/faq/) aimed at implemented distributed systems. Datalog was also an influence on the recently-shuttered Eve (http://witheve.com/) project.

In its original form Datalog lacks aggregations, which is probably a big part of why it didn't catch on - aggregations are important! Still, some Datalog implementations add support for aggregations. Unlike SQL, Datalog never really became a standard; more an academic ideal than a practical tool. I think this is a shame.

While Datalog doesn't have a canonical practical implementation, in terms of impact on how people think about data query languages, I think it's an academic gem.

[1] SQL has recursive queries ("Recursive CTEs"), but they're neither widely used nor particularly well-supported in most SQL implementations - they're basically tacked on. This is partly because they're hard to optimize due to a lack of restrictions; with Recursive CTEs, SQL is Turing-complete. Datalog deliberately isn't, and there's a large literature on optimizing evaluation of recursive Datalog.
Respectfully, HN simply does not do jest very well.

Edit: See what I mean?
Skype launches as a snap
Many use it for many-to-many family chat:

Pictures from birthdays and everyday life to aunts/uncles and grandparents etc.

Many also use it for social/professional groups (again many-to-many) where it offers simplicity but also includes moderation features in "supergroups" that can have up to 100 000 users.

Lately I've also joined a few channels. Channels are one-to-many (or rather: one or a few-to-many)

As for why Telegram it is super easy to use, it seems well aligned with my interests in that it's owner already lost his previous company to authorities and seems obsessed with preventing that from happening again.

That said: if your life or professional life depends on strong crypto I'd think twice or more as certain bright and leading cryptographers seems to distrust/hate it.

(Anyone who needs that should think carefully anyways but Signal seems to be a good option that is also aligned with the users interests.

WhatsApp is often recommended as well and they also seem to have solid crypto but I actively avoid them as they've broken too many promises already and also has a owner that is not aligned with my interests.)
No. They will probably struggle enough with programming alone. There's nothing more frustration then not being able to finish your assignment because you've messed up your repository.
I don't like to pry, but since my father had rare inoperable non-metastatic brain lymphoma and I have genetic concerns, is he still alive? What is his prognosis? How did he tolerate the treatment? (My apologies if it's too personal to discuss.)
While I do love the 3.5mm jack (along with the 1/4", XLR, and pretty much any other analog audio connector known to man) it seems like it's redundant on modern smartphones and in the near future possibly laptops.

If everything is already going to have a USB C port, and USB C can handle audio transmission, then I see no reason to keep the 3.5mm around. Sure, there's an argument to be made about keeping the DAC inside the smartphone, but once we are out of the transition period, any pair of headphones you want will either be wireless, come with a dongle, or forgo the 3.5mm entirely and just have a USB C cable.

It would be nice if Apple would join the rest of the world (and their own Macbooks) by replacing lightning with USB C, but I think that will happen eventually.
This is actually very common, especially in "bulge" tier companies. My best friend interned at GS and has accepted a job there; apparently, all newly-hired analyst/traders bust their ass for the first 2 or 3 ish years before getting "hired away" by a better paying, less demanding company (typically in private equity, VC, asset management, etc). Same happens in the accounting industry.
We bootstrapped initially and later got some institutional funding. You'd ideally need some institutional funding from a local institution as they help arrange for visas, licenses, etc.

We did our best work in Qatar but there are early efforts in several other regional countries. The Arab embargos from this past summer really put a damper on that unfortunately. There is still hope, someone else is now running the effort and I hope it succeeds. Our top thing was real-time TB diagnosis for use at airports but we developed a number of other classifiers.
D uses the GC by default - it's not required. As for speed, it's the same as C++.
A lot of exchanges are using Tether to avoid coming in contact with USD. Most, if not all, of them have no banking access, so Tether is the only way they can pretend to trade in USD and still be safe from US banking regulations.
Nope! Smalltalk is a classy language. This is not regarded as classy language.
Even if you assume that crypto will be successful in 20 years, there is no reason to believe that Bitcoin will still be around.
As most people are saying a balance between open and closed space would be nice.

For me personally I find that the temperature of the room/building is important. At my office people continually turn up the thermostat to 75-80F.

Aside from that giving employees enough room to turn around in their chair is decently important in my opinion . In my current setup (I call it the sweat shop setup) I'm not able to turn around or get out of my chair without bumping into my co-worker behind me.

Lastly - one thing that happened at my office was the installation of over-head speakers (think department store style) that constantly streamed Pandora. Please don't do that as it's annoying.
Bitcoin could crash and never recover, but the tech and its descendants could indeed find uses in the future.

"Cryptocurrency is a massive bubble" and "cryptocurrency and the tech behind it is a major innovation in distributed systems and finance" can both be true.
The spaces at the start of the line make HN treat it as code: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
> nor it has any human capital that can help google [7]

You don't need very much skilled labor to run a data center. The data centers in South Carolina are running just fine.

If Aramco is putting any money into this, they are getting swindled.
Money in a bank account doesn't have serial numbers. In fact, less than 10% of money in circulation is cash.
Rust macros strike me as closely related to Scheme hygienic macros; is there a compare-n-contrast anywhere?
Germany had general health insurance even back then.
Often I play indie games from Steam.

Risk of Rain, Nuclear Throne, Towerfall, No Heros Here...
This is what I thought about too. So either they just thought screw it, let's make hay while the sun shines, the feds will never get us - or they are legit
Hey, so I "pivoted" my original idea of adding a comment section on any website ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931518 ) to a comment aggregator that puts the relevant Reddit, HackerNews, and Facebook comments on the current website with the push of a button.

I made this switch due to the "marketplace/chicken-and-egg" problem my original idea had. It just wasn't very useful without a big amount of comments already on there. With the new direction, I picked up HN users dudzik's and brownbat's suggestions as in the linked thread above. :)
It’s not abandoned but the new version requires an account on their cloud service. I’ve abandoned it now because of that.
> English names for everything

You mean like, AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean? Sure, it's English, but when you end up with a project with that many layers of needless abstraction, it's not going to be easily and quickly comprehensible by anyone who isn't already familiar with it.
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Yeah crypto will be big in the future, but Bitcoin (and all the current coins actually) : not sure...
Bitcoin is more like the million dollar homepage, except the homepage grows by a few pixels each day.

> its not as if all crypto will die overnight.

I think you'll be surprised.
Neither solve real world problems for folks in developed countries. In developing countries maybe there's a utility play but that's been getting undercut by the crazy fees and speculation.
Not necessarily. I don't believe Tether has the backing they claim. Given that though, the subpoena wasn't public yet and it is plausible clients may have been continuing to send Tether money during that time.
One of the claims here is that Bitfinex was somehow creating new Tether without a USD deposit. In other words, out of thin air. This Tether would then be exchanged for Bitcoin or other crypto, causing an artificial increase in demand for those coins, and causing their price to rise.
Following all of the negative press Signal has gotten recently, I feel it's unethical to let a Telegram post pass without a reminder that they don't even bother to encrypt group chats, and that there is still no proof whatsoever that their protocol is secure.
YES I WENT TO COLLEGE

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RHIZOME
Just like Dogecoin. First it was a joke, then it got serious.

But wrt Garlicoin, I think the creators know exactly what they are doing and use the gullible masses to make money by exploiting "memes".
What about FRP? I haven't tried it but in theory it very much reminds me of Qt (which I think today would be called "reactive"), and the Qt was probably the most pleasurable GUI toolkit to write in.

I think this has more to do with lack of polished UI editors (build tools) than with the language.