skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument did not exist with BTC at two- and three-digit price levels. Instead BTC was advertised as useful for (a) microtransactions on the Web, such as paying Web publishers or e-mail recipients (21.co second business model), (b) buying a drink at the trendy neighborhood coffee shop that accepted BTC, (c) transacting with strangers on sites like Silk Road, (d) buying stuff from Newegg, Overstock and ever-expanding universe of e-commerce shops accepting BTC, (e) international money transfers and remittances, where fees historically have been quite high.

All of that activity has died down due to better ROI on hoarding (whoever spent 2,739 BTC on this house must have quite a buyer’s remorse by now https://www.wsj.com/articles/lake-tahoe-property-sells-for-1...) and high transaction fees. The only argument one reads nowadays online is based on the bigger fool theory - buy now, sell later, pocket the profit.

You’re right that fiat currency has little of intrinsic value, but nobody with large enough wealth treats it as such. People might have 1-, 3-, 6-, 12-month cash cushions but (outside of people on ForEx forums) nobody is entertaining an idea of selling everything and investing in a large bag of GBP or CAD. Or telling their friends to buy NZD because it’s bound to go big.

Fiat currency is a plain transaction medium that people are quick to diversify from once they have accummulated decent amount of it to cover the everyday stuff. And those other investment mechanisms generally do have intrinsic, or backstop, value.
I haven't used Coinbase in years but isn't their only real problem that they don't seem to be hiring support staff as fast as they seem to need to?
As a potentially marketable concept (if not necessarily an actually useful product), blockchain for visual data might not be such a bad idea. With the recent advent of AI-modified videos such as deepfakes, blockchain validation has been brought up as a solution to prove the authenticity of videos.

https://www.metafilter.com/172026/AI-Generated-Fake-Revenge-...

Forget copyrights, market this as a way to address Fake News.
You guys can fight how to turn your money hungry insurance companies into decent "patient caring" entities or you can do like the rest of the developed countries and adopt a basic single payer system where everybody pays for everybody and if you so which you can still purchase the best private health insurance for a couple hundred bucks a month.

Example:

For my wife and I, one insurance company has quoted us $AU600 a month for the top of the line health insurance with no deductible and very little waiting periods.

Also if we decide to not go down that road, we can go to the doctor and the hospital for free without any worries about money.

How about that?
Got a good link? This stuff is interesting.
As an Emacs diehard, I'll be quite tempted to give this a spin once the plug-in model integrates nicely with some Lisp implementation (e.g. SBCL), and someone sets up a repository along the lines of Emacs Lisp Package Archive (ELPA). Cool project!
Now I know where Emperor Norton's Boozeland gets its name. Thanks!

Reference: https://www.yelp.com/biz/emperor-nortons-boozeland-san-franc...
Wow, point for point this is what we've built at gun ( https://github.com/amark/gun ).

- You only store the data you are subscribed to, which if it is your data, it is automatically stored in localStorage and if you run a Electron/React-Native app, is also backed up on your harddrive, and optionally you can have it backup to any server you run. This is particularly true with the P2P identity system: https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi...

- This data can only be decrypted by the app if the user happens to use that app. The app doesn't have any special server, it is just some front-end logic, for instance, see this 4min interactive tutorial: https://scrimba.com/c/c2gBgt4

- The interface literally is just query, where that query is represented in HTML (or GraphQL at https://github.com/brysgo/graphql-gun ) with automatic 2-way binding based off of `name` attributes, like so: https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/examples/contact/in...

Ruben, if you happen to see this shoot me an email (check my HN profile)! I also know Dmitri as well! Great article! :)
KODAKCoin ICO only offered to “accredited investors”
Many of them are MLMs but I'm referring to the ones that are not, the ones that actually using the crypto capital for true innovation.
Kickstart with Web Bluetooth (Boilerplate)
Do they actually fail when not underinflated, not overloaded, and not driven above the speed limit?

0.2% of these tyres have failed. I can completely believe that far more than 0.2% of tyres are driven overspeed, underinflated or overloaded in their lifetime.

I can't really blame a tyre company for making a tyre which fails when used outside it's advertised specifications.
Yeah because we all know how much of a problem those fake EC2 instances have become.
well, by the many years part I would assume it's not a bad idea then and there's no value add from the blockchain so guess they are late to that party as well.

Kodak finally decides they aren't going to be late for once and this is what they choose to get in on. Classic
A quick D&B search on CoreOS, Inc. shows revenues of ~$550,000 [1], which means at $250m acquisition price, RH paid ~454X revenues..!

[1] http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/company-search.ht...
Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals
Do you want Tether to be audited and regulated like the fractional reserves of a bank? I'd sure find it entertaining while it lasts.

This is also moving the goalposts, because they claim that Tether is fully backed, not fractionally. Changing their story there would involve admitting to a billion-plus-dollar fraud.
That patent was filed in 2009, and appears to be a copy of a 2007 paper http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.570... with no novel contributions, and no overlap in authorship.
Sorry for the late response, I just saw this. I'm currently in a group chat with two other close friends. We were originally using GroupMe, but I convinced them to switch and register on my server (after I made sure that it was working reliably myself).

At the moment, it's the only messaging platform that I use. I use regular texts to talk to everyone else.

In my case, I don't need everyone to be invested into the network for it to be worth it. I'd say that around 95% of my daily communications are in the one Matrix group chat, so I've reduced my reliance on centralized services quite a bit.

I've set a general long term goal for myself to gain more control over my own data. The first step was purchasing my own domain and migrating away from Gmail. This is just another small step.
That's not true. Almost every person I know in my generation is working hard to buy a piece of land in a rural community.
This story is inherently about a purchase and all that needs to be added is "for $250M".
Why would anyone buy your tethers with usd?
sup polvi
Atomic (or at least OStree) predates ContainerLinux by quite a bit.

Also Atomic is more than just an OS; it's a system of reliable upgrades / versions switching. So it's got something in common with NixOS.
In the bond market (especially cat bonds, which insure against long tail risks like earthquakes), they have a phrase for this: "YBGIBG". It means, "you'll be gone, I'll be gone."
I tried a couple times, but it was slow as mud.
One of the best tools I have used with something like this is emacs's tramp-mode. It just works when you connect to another host.
This article is garbage by the third sentence. Only "evidence" Khufu built the pyramid is the forged cartouche in the "relieving chamber" of the "King's chamber." The entire history is predicated on its supposed authenticity.
> A foreign bank can hold USD without any US oversight

If they hold it as hard cash, practically, sure. If they want to be allowed to send or receive wires and generally not get sanctioned by the United States, no. The U.S. Treasury claims international jurisdiction over U.S. dollars [1].

[1] https://cblr.columbia.edu/the-u-s-jurisdiction-over-transfer...
It started off as an implementation of TrustZone but has likely diverged significantly from it since. In any case 64bit ARM had architectural features to support the implementation if such technology. Doing so on 32 bit ARM would have been a huge amount of work, and really not feasible.
D'oh! I have given the game away! I was just idly speculating about green shoots in the ICO jungle. However, my earlier brain fart is quite funny when described by yourself - 'self replicating carbon recapture device' - have you patented that or is it just a trademark that is protected by copyright law for 70 years?

Other words - 'windfall'. 'Guaranteed windfall every autumn!' 'Growth'. Really all the metaphors for business things work humorously - 'short selling'...
Okay fair point, my emacs experience is limited to installing spacemacs once while procrastinating.
> Not really. In fact, Medicare is responsible for most of the current billing system, not private insurers.

Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurers, and the need for all of them to coordinate between each other all contribute significantly.

The need for all of them to sometimes coordinate with non-healthcare payers (e.g., property and casualty insurers) for some claims also adds some complications.
I use tmux with iTerm regularly, and it's my killer feature in iTerm.

I don't think there's much benefit to using tmux integration for a local shell, other than possibly long-lasting sessions that will survive iTerm itself crashing (and maybe you logging out? I'm not sure), which isn't enough of a problem for me to have to work around.

The awesome benefit for me is when using a remote tmux. Tmux integration works over SSH, so thanks to this I can have native-looking tabs and windows that are actually terminals on a remote machine. And if I get disconnected (frequent, with a laptop, as I'm moving around), I can reconnect and get all the remote windows just fine.

Gone are all the usual tmux C-b prefixes to managing windows, non-integrated scrolling, etc. Everything behaves like a normal iTerm window. I can even split/move panes like normal iTerm panes (though that crashed iTerm until about a year ago).

I have the following alias defined:

ssh -t elf.example.com /opt/local/bin/tmux -u -CC attach

The -t is the SSH option to force pseudo-terminal allocation, which some versions of ssh fail to do when passing a command (in this case tmux) rather than starting a shell.

I'm specifying the /opt/local/bin version of tmux, because that's an updated one I've installed from MacPorts. Unfortunately Apple continues to bundle old versions of tmux in macOS, and last I checked the one that was bundled didn't actually support the Control Channel required by iTerm integration.

-u is a tmux option to force it in Unicode mode, required by iTerm's Tmux integration

-CC tells tmux to start a control channel and disable echo (required by iTerm's tmux integration)

`attach` attaches to the default session that I created prior.
Look how many fools buy stocks at all time highs, buy penny stocks without any DD, play options without understanding the fundamentals of option trading, and then there are just degenerate gamblers who go to the casinos.

There will always be losers and for good reason. ROFL
Goodyear was selling them directly to RV manufacturers as the OEM tire for popular models. It's hard to believe they either didn't know they were going to be used on RVs, or did but were upfront about the risks.
So, for example: should the government provide free LASIK for everyone who wants it, or should they make it outright illegal to even pay for LASIK out of pocket? What about vasectomies? Abortions? What if it's something my doctor and I agree would be a good course of treatment, but the health care bureaucrats don't agree with?
I only do fixed bid projects (plus expenses). In my experience, clients want to know up front what they'll be paying (or a very tight range, with expenses). Hourly, they get nervous they'll end up with The Never-ending Project, it's impact on their budget, and start haggling over hourly rate vs project value.
What Are JAX-RS Annotations? (Part 3)
5-Year-Olds Work Farm Machinery, and Injuries Follow
99% of buyers care about a cars exterior. Otherwise the Pontiac Aztek would be a bestseller...
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It's not that Medicare is simple, it's not. It's that there are thousands of private insurance companies each holding thousands of lines of insurance each with their own set of rules comparably complex to Medicare.

They are actually overlapping problems, since some of those private lines are Medicare Part C or D plans (and some are Medicaid managed care plans, and some are both Medicare Part C and Medicaid managed care plans.)
Nobody has ever redeemed a Tether [1], and there are a lot of people pointing that out.

[1] If you're a green-name who's skimmed up to here and you're about to say "but Kraken", I am not talking about selling Tether to someone else.
I realize this is an op-ed, but a good op-ed will still be based on well researched facts, otherwise the opinion is naive and useless. This reads like Krugman read a shitty blog from some 12 year old who doesn't know how to do independant research and simply copied some terribly uninformed social media arguments.

For example, the US Dollar is valuable not because that's the only accepted currency for paying taxes but because it's the only currency that nearly every retailer in the country accepts.

> much actual Bitcoin use seems to involve drugs, sex and other black-market goods

There's a big difference between bitcoin use in general and bitcoin use on the dark web. You can't cite an article about bitcoin use on the dark web as a source for how all bitcoin is used. That's like saying hot dogs are only sold at baseball stadiums when your source is just about hot dog sales at baseball stadiums.

I could go on but I think it's fair to say there is no need -- Krugman has gone full retard.
Great question, We provide only physical Gold and Silver (no paper certificates). All deliveries are insured and ship right to your door via UPS or FedEx. You will receive an order notification as soon as your payment is confirmed and provided a tracking link as soon as your items ships, generally within 48 hours. We are a Registered Delaware C-Corp and compliant with all AML/KYC requirements.
Having to verify 'n' times is a core part of why Bitcoin is time consuming to process transactions and also why it's hard to fix.

It's not also sufficient for a technology to say 'maybe something awesome will be invented to make this useful' in order for us to consider the base tech useful.

Maybe in the future we will discover a fantastic use for mud that allows us to travel faster than the speed of light. Until then, telling people how awesome mud is and that everyone should mine some mud, is just absurd.

Bitcoin is modern day mud. Maybe in the future Lightning or some tech will solve the problems it has. But right now it's useless.
> when those bitcoins would be converted in real $ money

Maybe never, because they might be converted to €, ¥ or ₽ among many others.
Even if they made an entirely rational calculation of the risk and the expected costs, they likely wouldn't have anticipated an increase in highway speed limits. Whatever failure rate you assume would likely be tied to whatever typical highway driving speed you expected, and a 10 mph increase might really mess that up. Also, the real world is not like the lab - tires may wear faster in real-life use than in tests.
Easy solution: don't buy anything from their marketplace - only buy things shipped and sold by them directly. My personal rule of thumb anyway.
I’d say it’s the opposite as an die hard tmux-user. I don’t really use the integration since I’m more comfortable with my terminal in full screen and my own tmux config. The integration services seems more appropriate for someone who doesn’t already have their tmux-bindings and workflow stamped into muscle memory but rather just want the benefits of detaching their terminal sessions from their terminal application while retaining iterm native tabs, windows and panes.

I’ve tried out the integration mode a few times but it just doesn’t fit my workflow (often switching sessions, highly customized tmux configuration, etc).
Well, there's more than just self-employment tax that you are paying as a freelancer. There's also state and local taxes to consider. Depending on where you reside, your county may collect taxes on gross receipts or collect property taxes on office furniture/equipment. Furthermore, you will really want to have some form of business insurance (like errors and omissions) on hand as well as your own health insurance and retirement fund. All of this will come out of your pocket and needs to be considered when determining an hourly rate to charge.
Identical twins handily prove that copying a brain still produces different people.

It’s true for siamese twins, and it’d be just as true for cloned genetic stem cells 3D printed from a snapshot of the exact cellular structure of your brain from a moment in time, transplanted into your body.

If I copy your brain, you won’t be inside it, even if it’s effectively you, as far as anyone else can tell.

So, I can comfort myself with a replica of each dead parent. But the parents that raised me, those people are dead. They won’t be there to see me sharing christmas with their atomic-precision duplicates.

Virtual simulations aren’t people, aren’t human beings, no matter fidelity of the simulation. Maybe you can hold a conversation with a hologram, but then what?

Would one expect to experience what it feels like to become and persist as a haptic-enabled hologram? Pretty sure that’s a bogus concept, turtles on down.
Child experts: Just say 'no' to Facebook’s kids app
wow. He can't see the future. After working with blockchain smart contracts for 6 months I'm certain he's wrong. Even if it crash's this year cool things will come.
Happy for the team, sad for the product. I've always wondered how long they would survive for. I was actually afraid they would go out of business.
This is a good move for CoreOS and Red Hat, I think.

I've thought for a while that the platform market would shake out and be left with one and at most two winners. Previously we saw Deis fold into Microsoft and now CoreOS into Red Hat.

I expect that Docker will run independently for another few years before their investors realise it's time to push for an acquisition exit, but it's unclear by whom. I figure Heptio will go to one of Red Hat, Google or Microsoft.

As for CoreOS's technologies, my guess is that Red Hat will be gently herding Tectonic and Container Linux users to OpenShift and RHEL respectively. About the only products I expect to survive fully intact would be Quay and etcd.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we compete with Red Hat and Docker. So read my remarks with whatever mix of skepticism and mirth you think is appropriate.
Why do they accept it though? Because they pay taxes in it.

UK retailers mostly don't accept USD even though it's the global reserve currency? Why. Because they'd have to change it back into GBP to pay tax on the profit they just made.

> There's a big difference between bitcoin use in general and bitcoin use on the dark web

At a time when multiple retailers are switching away from BTC, it seems more reasonable. In any case there's no study saying most of it isn't the dark web stuff.

> I could go on but I think it's fair to say there is no need

I disagree, most of your points are poor.
Could we use any direction for pixel removal, rather than only vertical or horizontal ?
Very thoughtful and educated response. I couldn't have envisioned a better answer when I decided to ask that question.
She could have changed professions and become a fisherman or maybe bought a boat house.
You can search the Panama Papers here: https://offshoreleaks.icij.org
The tokens are trading over 10X higher than the ICO price (2.60 in the first hour).
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/filecoin/

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"a model 3 is something like $40k-50k (realistically)"

The currently "available" versions start at $44K, and features (seriously, paying $1k for 'non-black' paint?) can easily push that to over $60K.
> completely full of shit from day one

The CNBC and American Banker articles don't read like completely full of shit.

The company's crimes consist of not registering with the SEC, the FDIC or the Texas banking regulator and putting the word "bank" in their name which is against the law if they're not a registered bank. They also lied in press releases.

I wouldn't trust my money with these guys, but I'd say their crimes are roughly equivalent to Uber systematically misleading regulators and law enforcement, ignoring laws in countless cities and countries, criminal bribery, theft of intellectual property, etc.

The point is that firearms didn't get aimed at Uber employees, but when you challenge banks you get night raids, loaded weapons and black Suburbans.
Federal tax credit will soon go away. I doubt in this political climate that it will be renewed.
Gold had little value in the beginning. Diamonds only recently started to get value. Van Goghs paintings had no value until his death. Thats how value work. Its messy and thats ok, long term will prove individual assets valuable or not.
How does this compare to Vue?
> Yes, the Red Army committed war crimes. But it is important to consider that the morale of their troops begged for war crimes far worse than those committed.

Sorry, mate, even in your broad context, your trying to justify mass rapes this way can't possibly stand given the present days' values.

Wars to that scale do not happen nowadays, but similar suffering and low morale is encountered in "smaller" warzones, yet the scale of rapes isn't relatively comparable.

Given the various wars my father and I witnessed in the Balkans and throughout the world, I'd say discipline (thus, education) matters more than morale.
> For example, the US Dollar is valuable not because that's the only accepted currency for paying taxes but because it's the only currency that nearly every retailer in the country accepts.

The former is a significant part of the reason for the latter.

> There's a big difference between bitcoin use in general and bitcoin use on the dark web.

There's clearly a difference, but if a large share of the non-speculative trade is on the dark web, Krugman’s statement you criticize remains correct.

> I could go on but I think it's fair to say there is no need -- Krugman has gone full retard.

You have decidedly failed to make that case.
DJB is not an authority on abbreviations. They are decided colloquially.
I hope they become nice people with teeth. Wimpy nice people get the snot kicked out of them.
Summary: 1 year and $300k to put a metal container in your back yard.
Amazon actually has uses for the money. Managers in most firms are so scared of failure that their best idea is to buy back their own shares because it makes the next quarter EPS easier to beat. Few companies are investing in plant/equipment like Amazon.
Strava’s data lets anyone see names and heart rates of people on military bases
There's no technical reason you shouldn't be able to happily scroll through (and edit) a 15MB json file; and search for an arbitrary string should take ~10ms (ballpark from playing around with ripgrep just now), certainly not slow enough to merit big up front indexing costs.
Amazon mixes marketplace and Amazon sourced products. If you buy an Amazon sourced item they might ship you the marketplace version.