skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, according to our tax code, they deserve to not pay taxes on money that they give to a 501(c)(3) rather than spending on consumption or investment to enrich themselves with. To withhold the tax benefits on money no longer owned by the taxpayer until a secondary party has disposed of those gifts in a manner that meets some arbitrary criteria of "having helped people" is impractical to impossible.

If you give money directly to a charity, but that money sits in the charity's bank account, should you pay taxes on the gift until the charity has demonstrated that they spent your dollars to provide medicine to a poor child? What if they spend those dollars repainting their offices - should you pay taxes on those dollars that you contributed which they didn't spend on helping people?

When money is contributed to a DAF, one of two things happens with it: it remains in the stewardship of the DAF, or it is disbursed to an eligible charitable organization. The contributor can't change their mind and take that money back later; the money is committed to charitable organizations, either now or at some indeterminate point in the future. The point of ownership change of that money is the most reasonable and enforceable point to consider the change in taxability of those dollars. You contend that this money "doesn't actually get used to help people", and that's true today, but it's not particularly useful to say that's true of that money in perpetuity; the only "out" for those funds is charitable disbursal or attrition to management fees. The lack of distribution now should not be confused for a lack of distribution ever.

Framing DAF contributions as a means for the rich to protect their wealth by dodging taxes is bad math at best. What incentive do you think there is for a wealthy person to contribute to a DAF rather than to a charity directly? What do they gain from doing so?
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. Wikipedia

The major news outlets for the most part did not dispute his facts, just used former cia reporters to discredit his conclusions. Which led to Gary Webb "committing suicide" by shooting himself twice in the head with a revolver
Not sure what to think of this. Google & FB have internal frameworks and/or hackathons to encourage their own people to come up with ideas. After all the failed attempts of Snap (glasses, the redesign etc) to come up with some key new ideas, poor IPO, layoffs and other bad news, this seems to be a clear signal that screams: “we don’t have the smartest people working at our company. We need your ideas to save our future.”
How can I get motivated again? :D
How can I make it fun again?
Uh, yes, you can steal. Just because the vault is open at a bank doesn't mean that you can walk in, take the money and leave, and then claim that it's yours because they didn't lock the door.

When you send money to an exchange, there's an understanding that the money now belongs to the exchange. The exchange waits 6 confirmations to ensure that the money is not easily stolen, but the money legally belongs to the exchange as soon as the transaction is sent.

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Also, a 51% attack doesn't give you control over the cryptocurrency. You still have to follow the rules of the system, you can't print extra money from thin air, you can't spend money you don't control, the most you can do is change the ordering of the transactions that have happened on the system. And a lot of times, those transactions have block height or block id dependencies, which means you are even limited in your power to do that.

A 51% attacker is not God. They have a limited set of actions they can take, and while certain forms of stealing are included in that set of actions, it's overall a pretty limited set of things that you can do.
Because the first 90% was enjoyable and the second 90% is no fun. The places a mind can wander when provided a blank canvas are infinitely more vast than an already painted one.
There is absolutely no chance that bitfinex and/or Tether will be acquired by any legitimate institution, much less Coinbase. They are far to steeped in fraudulent behaviour to ever go legitimate without regulatory punishment.
Love the examples! This couldn't have come at a better time in my career.
Windows is looking more and more appealing, at least. Maybe Apple will just say to-hell-with-it and start selling MacBooks with Windows preinstalled. If Microsoft got the Linux subsystem fleshed out, I'd buy one.
This point should be made more often. It also supports the ethereum and EOS use case, a general purpose computing blockchain and distributed vm, it allows smaller utility coins to be backed by the same size network as the eth token and ecosystem, something they would never do on their own. The token's security is proportional to it's network size. Fragmentation of the already small subset of people capable of running blockchain nodes that actually do run nodes is great for innovation but bad for network security and confidence.
The nice thing about this function was that it was local -- it didn't transmit your thoughts to some outside entity for evaluation. Can't remember if you could tweak the criteria by which it calculated the peppers but whatever, this is the essence of having control over your technology.
Yep. That's where I ended up. What a great way to get an introduction to a really neat concept.
You're overlooking Chrome OS (with open source equivalent Chromium OS). While it might not be ready for pro-level production, it certainly is a revolutionary lightweight OS that's gaining more and more traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS
Disney Stickman: Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robot
I do live in the US as a solo freelance developer.

You can't write off food in most cases, and if you happen to work from home, you can write off some of your home office (based on square feet), assuming you have a separate work room from where you sleep.

For example, you can't just buy $300 / month in groceries and expect to be able to write all of that off because you happen to eat 3 meals during "work hours".

Sure if you goto a tech meetup once in a while and eat dinner out, you could write that off, but that's an outlier situation (at least for me).

Having your employer match a retirement fund + benefits + not having to pay both halves of social security is a lot more money saved than being able to write off buying a computer, cell phone or a couple of meals.
Also, how much can a mass arrest further someones career...
> There's a hidden cost of trust there, though, which vanishes with bitcoin

With fiat, I at least have some idea who I am trusting, and if my trust is betrayed, I have some idea who to work with others to organize to work to inflict punishment. And, the people involved are aware of that.

With crypto, I have to trust an anonymous network of people that I have only distant and indirect indications aren't, in overwhelming majority, mutually cooperating agents of a single potentially adverse party, and no idea of who to go after if my trust is betrayed. And the people involved know that, too.
It is not by design, it is a known weakness. The intent behind the actions also matters and it would be known to the malicious miner that to take these coins from exchanges would result in a loss to the exchange. So it would be illegal.

If however the miner maintained 51% + network share and then wrote some code to create new coins and adopted that code and mined blocks awarding himself 1000 coins for each block, he could legitimately do that and then sell those coins. Of course this could lead to the price dropping as soon as people realised what was happening and likely to happen before the attacker could send enough coins to an exchange to make the same sort of profit as in the situation in the article.
I think the argument is that by doing a 51% attack you undermine the market value so you never get the rewards. This makes sense, but only for the leading crypto coin. As we see here today, you can 51% attack smaller coins, which should imply an increase in the value of Bitcoin from consolidation.
re: offtopic: A lower quality hero is loaded first for me, then after a half second the high quality loads.
there was a paper recently caching sparse radiance results and using ML to predict important paths from that. I believe the latest version of Octane might do something like that if you read between the lines of their marketing guff.
You cannot mine all kinds of coins at same time, so why not be honest in one network and hit and run in another?
Assuming the counterparty is an idiot and accepts your huge payment with a very low amount of confirmations.
There is justification for GMOs regardless. The justifications are simply more or less strong depending on the market climate.
Argument list too long!
I'm in zone 2, I have 76 Mbit vdsl, in reality it's 40-50 Mbit on good days. Virgin is not available in the building.
Un My case it was 2015.
I was struggling with a 28GB CSV file that i needed to cut grabbing only 5 columns.

Tried spark on my laptop: waste if time. After 4h I killed al processes because it didn't read 25% of the file yet.

Same for hadoop, python and pandas, and a shiny new tool from google whose name I forgot long time ago.

Finally I installed cygwin con My laptop and 20 minutes later 'cut' gave me the results file I needded.
Okay I have to say this and it needs to be said right now:

Their website design has been and remains just as awful as their mobile experience. What matters most, if not the only thing of value at Yelp, is their data and nothing else.

In my not so humble opinion they have never, ever had an enticing UX or product beyond basic reviews. Ever.
On Firefox try View > Page Style > No Style.
I think that Jacques Mattheij has some thoughts about this that you can think about it in the abstractions that he gives. Note that IANAL and YMMV.

EDIT: Also Jacques is not a Lawyer either.

1: https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria
It's the "hip" thing to do.

Sure, if you're really good with React and prefer that environment, you can use it to build static sites, or a framework like Gatsby to even make it efficient... but this site is 4 pages and requires no JS at all. I could make this thing in about 30 minutes using notepad.
The chap I was replying to mentioned that something would cost him "£300", not "€300". It's a reasonably safe bet that he's in the UK.
> Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, which results in some biologically driven differences on average between men and women.

the precision with which you said that is key. you can say things about populations that are not necessarily true of many, or even most, of the individuals in the population.

as a human, i can run, but how would you define running for a given cell? cells don't run, but a specific collection and configuration of cells can. other collections of cells can swim. still others do both.
Kids don't need constant attention.
you could check out http://www.c64js.com/ its github is https://github.com/mborgbrant/c64js
Startup Communities by Brad Feld Book Review
Dwivedi is brute force. It’s just a sampling strategy.
Bitcoin Gold has a director of communications?
> I bet a lot of those go to rewards.

This is the kind of thing you should know off the top of your head if you're interested in competing with them.
Yeah. I think that kind of thing can work in certain circumstances. Definitely I've seen the dictatorial design approach be quite successful -- at least short term. It's pretty awful for the participants, though. Normally your best talent leaves. I'm less convinced about the framework approach. I've never actually seen it work well. Normally the design is just not flexible enough and something breaks pretty badly. Of course, there is a limit to the number of projects you can see in your lifetime, so I could well be missing something :-)
Why not? Circle (US based) bought Poloniex which is one of the biggest Tether exchanges.

If you're Coinbase and you get to buy Bitfinex/Tether at a firesale price + pay some fines to the SEC if needed, why not?
The team behind Cardano is proving their algorithms. I think they have even proven Bitcoin in the process, of proving their own algos.

I guess this is why one would like proofs, and proglangs that can (to some extend) incorporate the proofs/laws so your code is checked against them.
There's only immutable List in Scala. Seq or Map would be better examples (they actually come in three versions).
The Weather Network (Pelmorex) also serves the US

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/

https://www.pelmorex.com/en/
On the other hand, there will be people who have a vested interest in preventing such attacks. If you own a lot of BTC, a successful attack can drastically lower the value of your assets, so it makes sense to deploy some of that capital to secure the network. And of course this goes even more so for business in the crypto space that rely on BTC remaining secure.

One example of this sort of behavior is in mining. We tend to think of miners as being selfish to a fault, and to some degree, that's true. But sometimes miners have the opportunity to mine empty blocks (a form of attack), and refrain from doing so, because it would harm the ecosystem as a whole and jeopardize their long-term profitability.
> the money also seeps back into our overheated real-estate market through casino money laundering

That's actually not likely how they launder the money. Money laundering regulations in Canada say that large sums of money cashed out an casinos are reported to Fintrac[0], who datamine and analyze that stuff pretty extensively. My knowledge of their capabilities is over a decade old (internship way back), but even then they would catch on if you were moving millions of dollars per year through a casino.

Your bank also reports any large transactions or international money transfers- anything over $10k, and that number doesn't adjust with inflation afaik. They have a lot of data and they have built some pretty big cases out of it.

[0]http://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/re-ed/casinos-eng.asp
This crosses into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Defining Continuous Deployment Goals
I think it's meant to be more like visual/interactive novels
> Before smartphones usually, you'd make up conversation, smalltalk, even if you didn't want to talk or had anything interesting to say.

Also, before smartphones, people were smoking to have something in their hands.
It seems like the author likes Java quite a bit. Kotlin, not being Java, seems to be his primary complaint. Take his first point - Kotlin allows variable shadowing. He doesn't say why it's bad or how it caused a bug, he just says that Java doesn't support it and he doesn't like it.

Everyone is entitled to their opponion. But, this article doesn't seem to have much of a point. It would be like if I wrote and article about how I preferred cherry popsicles to grape popsicles. That my opponion and I'm entitled to it. But, I don't know why I'd want to be publish a blog post about it or why anyone else should read it or care.
You just need to master a few commands:

Find (take a look at -exec option)

Cut (or awk)

Sed (for simple text/string substitutions)

Xargs

Dd (that beast can do charset transtation from ASCII to EBCDIC to use in mainframes and can also wipe disks)

And bash of course :)
What a lot of people in the thread seem to be missing is that when you receive a huge payment you can require a higher amount of confirmations to accept it. High enough that it would make the 51% attack unprofitable.
I'm well aware of Chrome OS. It's great for casual use, but to my knowledge it's really not a reasonable development platform. Generally speaking, developers want/need:

- A fully-accessible file system

- A bash command line

- Tool support. Repositories, code runtimes, compilers, IDE's, etc.

I know there are some all-in-one web-based IDE's that you can work in, which are interesting, but I've yet to see one that could act as a full replacement for professional, native tools. And most of those don't support anything other than web development.
The Opium Wars began when the Chinese confiscated the British drug contraband (but property to the British) and lit a bonfire with them, as the opium trade was illegal. There is no comparison.
I m not missing that part, because it hasn't happened yet. Imaginary injuries don't have evidentiary value, regardless of their potential possibility; thus it would be improper for a court to pronounce upon them - that's what legislators are for.

You're overlooking the fact that requiring Twitter to retroactively alter its own terms of service once it provided services to the government would be a violation of the takings clause. In your hypothetical example, it's more likely that a court would enjoin the government official from use of the company with the overly restrictive ToS for official business, rather than forcing the firm to alter its policy.
> but I want a table with the name of the crypto currency in one column, and the cost in USD to launch an attack in another column.

Doesn't the cost depend on who you assume the attacker is? The required hashing power doesn't have the same acquisition and operating costs for all potential attackers.
It's not even remotely complex. Property was taken.
Zuul: Proven open-source continuous integration/continuous delivery
And also about the "Why do you want to work for this company?" question: don't presume that I do. What I do want is learn more about you (feel free to ask me what caused that, though), and if I find you interested I might even want to work for you. But you need to sell the company first.

Companies too often assume that a) applicants know everything about them, and b) are keen to work there from the beginning. But hiring is a two-way street, and the candidates -- especially the best ones, and especially in IT -- can often afford to shop around before deciding which offer to accept.
The author is a rising star.
>Checkout the popularity of React, it's proliferation into the marketplace, and it's use on production environments.

How is this a valid methodology to picking a framework for your web product for your new business / project? If the idea is to reduce training/recruiting/onboarding costs and sacrifice domain-specificity to attempt to utterly commoditize your developers, I can sort of understand that reasoning at larger scales. I just don't understand why a new business/project would choose this weird circumstantial path for new development initiatives.

I also don't understand why I can't seem to get any React enthusiasts to explain to me the business value prop of using React for a _new_ business started today. I'm only guessing that there are elements of cost reduction in training/onboarding/continuing education, but nobody will even go as far as admitting that much of it, let alone give a decent technical reason for using React.

Does all of this really just boil down to "It's javascript, and I know javascript. And not only that, but it's React, and I've used React before to work on this website that I thought was pretty cool, so I might as well just use React again because so many other people use it."?

I don't even think that is that bad of a business reason, I just don't get why people are so cagey about it and try to invent weird technical reasons for why your enterprise document store needs to have a reactive, fully-fledged javascript application running in the client browser just to show a document and expose basic CRUD actions.
My first OS X machine was an iBook G4 purchased in 2005. At the time I was rather tickled that, out of the box, it was still able to run (some) 17 year old classic Mac OS software from 1988.

Today I have software on my machine that's barely 5 years old and will stop working when 32-bit support is dropped. It will be the largest backward-compatibility purge in Mac history.
I like to think of myself as a lower-quality hero
> No. You never had to look after your children except out of a desire not to be a maximally neglectful parent, either out of sense of duty or desire to avoid adverse social consequences. That hasn't changed.

This is my main point. It has changed. If you leave your young child at home and go to work, you are criminally neglectful. If you stay at home and read your phone but otherwise ignore them, you are not criminally neglectful.
In 2002 it was straight up amazing.
Two stars; wasn't a harmonious interaction.
Ha! I did the same for my BSc thesis: On-device route planning from GTFS data for Budapest’s public transport network

iOS used to kill processes above 50 megs of RAM usage. Good times!
Not if it destroys the credibility of a rival coin, which I suspect could be the case here. Many in the "real Bitcoin" community call Bitcoin Cash a fraud because its existence reveals the specious value of their "real" cryptocurrency.

Executing a double spend attack on Bitcoin Cash would be a massive success for Bitcoin owners. Same goes for Bitcoin Gold.

You could even create a mining pool/network - let's call it CoinFucker - where every now and then the pool's resources were diverted to attack a rival coin. Doing so damages that coin's reputation, and in doing so reduces the competition. This would be a great way for the majority of mining/computational power to squash would-be rivals.
It's being able to automatically resize a window to one half of the screen or the other. Typically this can be done by dragging it to the sides, or by a keyboard shortcut (usually Windows Key + Left/Right Arrow).

No doubt it would be easy to provide a disable option; just because it annoys you doesn't mean it shouldn't be implemented.
You sign up to the Alipay/Wepay services using a bank card. Money is transferred from the card to the payment account using the transfer credit interface in the app.
Incredibly bad product most likely caused by bad management and engineering culture, bad UX, lack of focus on user and zero desire to provide any value rather than earn money is probably some of the reasons.
China is not going to care. Their complete obliviousness to privacy has made a lot of their machine learning projects move ahead at a breathtaking pace. I was at a presentation by a Chinese surveillance camera company last year and the amount of automated behaviors they can recognize that allow automatic crime detection, etc. is astounding! All the data processing will probably end up running through China as Chinese courts will ignore any GDPR violation fines for local companies, etc.
Those should already have fallen. Gross human incompantance/perverse incentives to use science as a blackbox for prosecution
Maybe, but the reasons why can be flipped on food, though with more difficulty.

Namely stuff done to the supplement at the point of production which makes it appear to be something it's not. For instance, with respect to protein supplementation, a number of protein powders a couple years back were accused of fudging the numbers by pumping up the nitrogen count using cheaper amino acids, so rather than getting strictly whey protein, you were getting whey protein cut with cheap non-essential amino acids like creatine, glutamine, cysteine, glycine, etc.

Then there's contaminants to worry about, as I remember reading something about heavy metals making it's way into whey from China or something.

Technically they can do similar things with cuts of meat, but I imagine that's more difficult to get away with unless it's processed meat.

That being said, I still buy the cheap bottom shelf whey protein from walmart to make up for dietary deficits when I'm too lazy to cook beans or something.