skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentive would be to get tokens that they in theory could exchange for money on exchanges. The token's value would be determined by the free market, or by the incentives they talk about in the article:
> "...such as a share of KodakOne’s revenue and access to a “marketplace” that will allow them to spend their KodakCoins on camera equipment, studios for photo shoots, and travel expenses."
This article is talking at the wrong level about Amazon. They're not an ecommerce company anymore. They're an infrastructure provider that cannibalises its ecosystem just slowly enough that nobody panics.

Start a business, run it on AWS, do well, they have all your systems metadata and using that can replicate your business. Rinse, repeat. Then there's Lambda and Greengrass... ha

We're the Eloi, AWS are the Morlocks.

You can't beat the Morlocks with a 'community' play, and the only way 'going niche' will help you is that you'll be too small to pay attention to.

[Edit]

To make my comment less negative...

To beat Amazon you need to get ahead of them on a game they don't already own (or have the capacity to catch up on) and establish yourself as the dominant market in that space. E.g. there's an interesting company in London calle Synthace for example who are building a compiler for pharmacueticals. You write code that defines a manufacturing process and it makes the drugs for you. If they can provide commoditised pharma-as-a-service and evolve a healthy enough ecosystem to build up some value, Amazon will find it hard to replicate and either try to acquire or hunt elsewhere.

Yeah it's a bleak view. It's not going to change either because China's ascendance will mean Amazon is the US's strongest buffer against Alibaba, so unlikely to get broken up even it achieves monopoly position.
There is a difference between understanding the content (e.g. ICO) and understanding what happens a few weeks after the content is interacted with (e.g. someone runs off with the money). The first is doable, the second requires prescience.
To be fair, this isn't the first time this quote been dredged up from the past to be used against him as it pertains to Bitcoin.[1]

So while it's fun to pile onto Krugman once in a while, since cryptocurrencies are more closely related to monetary and economic concepts, he clearly feels more confident about this particular assertion.

Whether he's right remains to be seen.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-inte...
Travel time seems to get folks worked up so I have never charged for it. However, I generally spend the time on a flight reviewing client documents and so on: billable activity. For some reason I don't like the idea of charging different rates for different kinds of time but I suppose my approach works out roughly the same as yours in the end.

The only instance where I tried to charge for travel time was an engagement where I had to travel to Atlanta to do a very small amount of work for a very big law firm. Since it was going to take me a day to get there and a day to return, to do at best one day's work, I said I needed to charge for my travel time. They informed me that lawyers NEVER charge for travel time (assertion mostly disputed by my lawyer friends, but...whatever) and so they couldn't bill my travel time back to their clients. They said however that they could consider a higher rate for my billed time. This discussion went on for a while with the end result I billed them at something like 3X my regular rate but no travel time. They thought this was just fine.

Together we beat a patent troll so I probably would have done the work for free ;)
Stumbled across this the other day — life-saver. Very well-designed
A large problem with this system I can see is it doesn't help those who either 1) don't work there or 2) want to switch jobs. This merely pushes back on health insurance companies which is great but it doesn't fix the general issues that occur when access to healthcare is tied to employment.
You're right! It's absolutely possible to tell the difference. And when it's known, bad behavior can be punished and good behavior rewarded.

What do you think it takes to tell this difference with a high degree of reliability (>4 nines) at scale (>1000/s)? How about in an environment where people are strongly incentivized to find and exploit the weaknesses of your approach? Is it just maybe possible that this might not quite be handwave-it-away trivial? Facebook has had a shocking level of success in cutting down spam with their investments in punishing bad behavior and rewarding good behaviour.

Thank you for your thoughts. You're completely correct! It's possible to tell the difference, and rewarding good behavior will drive out bad actors.
Except they didn't say anything until provoked, and even then they lied.
We have a few smart capable devs (mobile/full stack/etc) who would be happy to help your clients :) email in profile
What's interesting is that they thought to look at Strava to see who had ridden there during the time period of interest. You'd need to think "let's see who cycled", and come up with a way of querying strava, such as demanding the list of people who cycled there. If Strava gets checked, then except for the special case of a witness saying "I saw someone suspicious on a bike", they'd have already checked Waze, apple find friends, etc
Adblockers, publicly and repeatedly calling them out as much as possible. Blockers for hitting them where it hurts and calling them out to try and force their tactics into daylight. Someone else in the thread mentioned a tactic they employed of calling up the company and asking to speak to the CEO/whoever felt the need to contact them so urgently. Put the onus back on them as much as possible.

In terms of our less astute friends, education and patience I guess. The idea of digital privacy has been eroded pretty far and advertisers have successfully pushed the idea that it's completely fine to give it all up and let them harass us as much as they want for the digital equivalent of shiny rocks, so we're facing a long uphill battle there.
Side note, but I really think pre-existing conditions should be covered by welfare, not private corporations who have the requirement of turning a profit.
That's everyone on my team right now. We're also all on Sierra still because High Sierra breaks things for us.
Another very interesting characteristic of the arm instruction set is that MOV and AND have their opposite op (MVN and BIC).

That means you can write MOV, r0, #-1 (equivalent to #0xFFFFFFFF) and the assembler will emit a MVN r0, #0 to fulfill your needs. This increases the number of constants that can be directly assigned.
Ah, I see the miscommunication now. To me, native apps are those that have access to the kernel, as opposed to web apps or bytecode.
> How often are people actively selected to practice empathy or kindness on a national level?

How much of this is highly empathetic people opting out?

I was an emotional wreck for close to a month when I had to layoff half my team.

And in the grand scheme of things I'm not particularly empathetic and laying people off is nothing compared to the choices made at a national level.
Interesting!

I am still (scientifically) curious what the explanation for this is. Perhaps paying more indeed does something in their minds, or perhaps it does something in yours and you deliver slightly more or go the extra mile. Or some of both.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=D%5B%7Bx%5E2,+x%5E3%7D....
I took delivery of the Model 3 a couple weeks ago. IMO it’s going to be a phenomenal car even with just the base model (ie no autopilot, no leather, no larger battery.) I suggest test driving when able to see what I’m talking about. The instant torque, the balance and stability of the car. It’s just a fun driving experience. Coupled with the safety of the car and the integrated infotainment/controls in the large screen, there’s no car can compare.

So the base model really is 35k. If you’re in California, you get 2500 tax credit + 7500 federal. That’s 25k + tax. Sure it’s not something everyone can afford but definitely not in the expensive luxury toy range. IMO it’s more in the “deal of a lifetime” category than the “expensive luxury toy” category.
Well, your quote seems to be writing off Bitcoin, not cryptocurrencies in general... but I don't understand this logic that keeps being put out.

The most powerful government in the world with long established laws and multiple powerful institutions guarantees USD as "legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."[0] and has been stable for decades, if not centuries.

The concept of cryptocurrencies didn't exist 10 years ago and bitcoin hasn't been stable for more than a few years, probably only months and is guaranteed by a computer network controlled primarily by machines running in China[1].

If a solar flare brings down the internet, all cryptocurrencies are immediately worthless, and that's assuming they'll ever be widely accepted for goods and services. So long as the US government is functional USD will be accepted for all goods in services.

That is the difference in "intrinsic value", as far as I see it.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5103

[1] https://blockchain.info/pools
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Were the people being billed out at 200/hr making 50/hr?
I'm not sure, I don't mean to imply any wrongdoing with any certainty, only to give pause to people who blindly believe that they are helping.

But, what about cultures that, for example, believe that pain is integral to the human experience? Or possibly those that believe that humans are better off having suffered some amount in their youth? These ideals are inconsistent even among the developed world[1].

I guess the question is, are we wrong in assuming that our ideals regarding medicine and necessity for treatment are universal? And if we are, are we wrong in stepping in and attempting to improve quality of life according to our first world notions? Then there's the question of whether we really have made things better in, say, much of Africa over the last few decades.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372
On many dev jobs you get one meal and free coffee/drinks provided, and furniture gets less worn out if you spend half a day out of the house - also you probably don't need to invest in good (and expensive) office chair, perhaps you don't need any office furniture at all (desk, lamp, bookcases, whatnot). It's a lot of small things that can amount to a lot when summed up...
True. It's only a rule of thumb. I guess I'd aim for 3X if I could. 4X seems quite high --- perhaps justified in the context of some business relationships (e.g. client gets to invoke you on short notice, preempting other clients' work).
Germany, Italy, and Soviet Russia, at the very least, suffered from the narcissism of their respective dictators.
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I believe you would enjoy building a developer's tool startup. The only problem is that developers are a hard consumer niche to get revenue from. Not impossible, but harder than, say B2B.

I am building myself a SaaS product with the same goal of a significant monthly revenue, but no explosive growth. If you want we can exchange ideas on how to find a good product to build and how to build it (from a business point of view). My contact is in my profile.

Good luck!
> Bitcoin, by contrast, has no intrinsic value at all.

The idea of intrinsic value should die. It's fundamentally a complete misunderstanding of what value is based on.
FIAT currency and Bitcoin have value as long as people believe it has value.

Value isn't some objective criteria it's a highly subjective one, what one considers valuable another might not. depending on what we are talking about, you can then add some more solid criteria such as utility, scarcity, trust in the future and so on. Depending on what context value is to be understood in you get various fluctuations in price and then finally you have some exchange between two parties where the price is agreed.
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Is this a bug in GCC?
> What's the point of seeing if someone knows data structures and algorithms they won't be using if they can't write a web application that interfaces with a SQL database without doing queries in a for loop?

Isn't this the basic architecture of a node js "event loop" Cms that gets content from a rdbms? ;-)

# pseudo code
While new_user_request
query_db with request parameters

I know it's not what you meant, you meant do the above, rather than:

# pseudo code
While new_user_request
query_db for user data
query_db for session data

For parameter,
user_data,
session_data
query_db with each item
that's more or less what happens when you go and get a loan or a mortgage from the bank
When I first started some time last year, I wasn't sure what "USDT" was but I didn't care terribly because a) it's easier to calculate things mentally versus the BTC worth of a coin which looks like .000003456 which is a nightmare to picture; b) I trusted the exchange.

So yeah, I'd absolutely smack the exchanges for passively perpetuating a fraud which has been talked about for months now.
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> That's one of the most absurd and dangerous arguments I've ever heard.

Really? So, have you ever read any government propaganda from the watergate era? E.g. Nixon's famous quote "If the president does it, it's not illegal."

> Yes, their crimes could be more heinous

And that's precisely why they should not expect privacy. Again, it's not the 99% of those that are good like Bill Gates is now. It's the 1% of those that aren't.
I am not really sure how this is decentralized. Users still depend on your service to be operational in order, no? Then that is not decentralized. Is it the data really decentralizrd then? The infrastructure piece doesn’t seem to be, which makes decentralization existence questionable since, unless the data can be used else where, the data itself is useless.

Also when you say data is completely owned by thr user, how are you able to recommend? How do you help your engine to improved? In the end you do need the data. Spotify trains their customer dataset annoymously, which most companies do when they are doing training. So I don’t how this project is any more putting user in control. It’s very vague to me - are you suggesting privacy is honored? That’s what “user is in control” means - I can either share or not share, but what value do you get then?
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What are you claiming is the agreed upon date?
> US dollar has no intrinsic value other than the fact that it is the required currency for paying US taxes

That's extrinsic value. A pretty simple test you can apply to figure this out: would the value still exist if you were all alone on a desert island? Food has intrinsic value, you'd still value food in this case because you still need to eat. Dollars do not, they're no good without another entity to give them to. Same for bitcoin. Mostly the same for gold although there are some uses of gold as a metal.

So bitcoin is a bubble, in that it has no intrinsic value, and the same is true of dollars. The important question is which of these bubbles is going to burst first.
In a homogeneous mixture, at some scale, you can still find clumping - after all, if the elements of the mixture are randomly distributed, why wouldn't you? Whereas, in a hyperuniform mixture, there is no clumping.

A computer-scientific analogy would be sequences of random numbers. A sequences of bits can be perfectly random and still contain a hundred zeroes in a row. Whereas if you had a sequences of a billion bits which never had a run of a hundred zeroes, you could be pretty sure that it wasn't random.

You can measure this with metrics like the Ripley K:

http://wiki.landscapetoolbox.org/doku.php/spatial_analysis_m...

Before i was a programmer, i was a cell biologist. A colleague was studying CCR5, a cell-surface receptor that is involved in HIV entry into cells. She used electron microscopy with a rather tricky "rip-off" preparation [1] to look at the spatial distribution of CCR5 in cell membranes. One of the things she observed was that the receptors were remarkably evenly spaced. Being slightly more computationally inclined than her, i did some reading, came across the Ripley K metric, and wrote some Python scripts to analyse the distribution of receptors in her images. Lo and behold, they were indeed dispersed, suggesting that there was some cellular mechanism pushing the receptors apart. It turned out that the spacing wasn't actually very interesting to her, it was just a curiosity she'd noticed, so it was a complete waste of time really. Anyway, that was back in 2005. I'm glad these chicken eyeball bods have finally caught up, but it doesn't seem like a massive revelation.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1906908
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An excellent book which covers this topic is Permutation City by Greg Egan (1994). If we can clone all of you (physical characteristics, brain, memories, personality) into a simulation, what are all the implications?

In it, a perfect replica of a person is scanned, and when it boots up, it continues it's existence from the time of the scan. Hacking on the model is possible, so you can avoid certain memories, update "physical" appearance, etc.

Given how prevalent virtualization has become recently, I thought it was a fairly modern book. I was surprised to find out it came out in the nineties, and not only has it held up well, it would be considered visionary even if it had been published yesterday.
It isn't for a lack of "a Shenzhen". Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York etc. is the Shenzhen of the US. They are all home of massive growth industries. That this doesn't sustain or lead to (what could be summarized as) widespread prosperity is, well, the problem.
While matrix derivatives are important, there is also a lot of other math in DL papers. In particular, a lot of the probability side concerns expectations, KL divergences, entropy, etc., which are all defined in terms of integrals or sums. You need undergraduate-level probability background.
Is it permissionless? Sounds like a RightsShare-like scheme to me.
It's ridiculous; surely they could have made tons of money with USDT legally if they'd just been less greedy:

- Create Tether out of thin air

- Sell it to people for $1USD each

- Put that USD in a bank account to earn interest

Hell, there's probably still an opening for someone else to do it right.

- Create MyTetheredCrypto out of thin air

- Convince people & exchanges to accept it ???

- Sell it for $1USD each

- Unlike Tether, let your company be checked and audited frequently

- Get rich off the interest
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Is it really replacing better products? If those products were better, I'd be interested in using them.

Instead, Google gets me the same results, quicker, 99% of the time.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. It seems I need to do a bit more research before I advocate others projects, sorry about that. :)
It would make them "bitcoin rich". They still would need to convert to USD at some point. Which, if their buying and holding is what drove the price higher, would subsequently crash the price.
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If a solar flare brings down the internet (presumably you mean via EMP), the amount of USD wealth that would be lost would be equally if not more catastrophic, because most of it is not kept in physical bills, but in 1's and 0's on computer systems as well.

"In fact, economists estimate that only 8 percent of the world's currency exists as physical cash. The rest exists only on a computer hard drive, in electronic bank accounts around the world."
https://money.howstuffworks.com/currency6.htm

Edit: Looks like the percentage is a bit higher if you're talking just USD.

"All told, anyone looking for all of the U.S. dollars in the world in July 2013 could expect to find approximately $10.5 trillion in existence, using the M2 money supply definition. If you just want to count actual notes and coins, there are about U.S. $1.2 trillion floating around the globe."

https://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-wor...
Yet also the thrill of the unexplored goes away when one doesn't bother to explore.
There are a number of legitimate ICOs, unfortunately there are many more scammy ones. Quantstamp is an example of a legitimate one out of Y Combinator.
Except, for some reason, ARM's new 64-bit ISA, which has 32-bit instructions only. I wonder how long before they release a "Thumb-64" extension...
Well, Tesla's whole deal is applying the software startup mindset to manufacturing, right?
This is a dumb article
And they say there's no money in open source... ;-)

Anyone want to wager that MS buys Canonical?
The end result of this is that Google has more money than you, but this is true any time you are competing against a large company with more than one line of business.
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Thank you, that's a good thread. I see Kakoune is mentioned. Will have to check back later on.
Status isn't actually using Matrix in its own tech - they seem to be getting on great with their own React Native / ClojureScript / Whisper/PSS stack :)
> the more you sell, the more tires blow up in the wild; the more tires that blow up, the more injured & dead. The more injured & dead - the more likely you are to get caught

In this case the outcome was pretty straightforward. Tires were literally coming apart at the seams. I'd wager that oftentimes product failures are less obvious. Maybe a certain tire exhibits unexpected sliding on certain types of pothole filler. We probably identify 0% of product failures that don't follow a human recognizable pattern.

Some of these accounts probably unfold according to a "Breaking Bad" progression. Skylar never would have gotten involved in criminal activity except that her husband was already knee deep in it when she found out. A great deal of her rationale was keeping someone else from getting in trouble.
> My understanding is Bitfinex will take your USD and convert to USDT which you can then use to buy crypto.

So, who is selling BTC for USDT and why? Who is selling so many BTCs for USDT that they have to print 100 million USDT every other week?

I'd really like to understand that (see also my parallel discussion).
> they have all your systems metadata

My first thought is this is a very big claim. It sounds like they are “stealing”. They ask what customers want and then build new services based on customers’ reqursts and what could win more customers. Sure they know what their customers do when the customers interact with an account mamager, but we can say the same about every business out there then.

Also, AWS is only part of what makes Amazon profitable. Amazon is interested in making itself indispensable, by connecting dots, from online shopping to healthcare to home automation.
There's a vast difference between permanent blanket surveillance of a public location and incidental witnessing of events in a public location.

It's like the availability of mugshots. Decades ago, they were also public documents, so in that sense nothing has changed. But now that they are so much more accessible, vile businesses now retrieve mugshots in bulk and publish them online in order to shake down people who have been arrested.
Robberies at British banks have fallen by over 90% in last 2 decades and one of the reasons quoted are CCTVs. Of course, cameras by themselves are not enough, they can only be a part of the solution, together with the police and community efforts.