skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannot speak for OP, but for me, personally, it is the type of things I use VR for that exhausts me. I mostly use it for games, which requires standing and moving around (depending on the game, it can be quite a bit). So I mostly get physically exhausted and sweaty, which prompts me to take the headset off. No motion sickness or eye strain on my end. In fact, my eyes feel way more strained after looking at a computer monitor than after VR.
What prevents Coinbase to go offshore then ?
There's a long story behind this.

One of the fundamentals of Islam is to worship Allah alone, and only ask help from Allah alone. The second part is extremely difficult - it's easy to just assume that wealth comes from clever financial planning, hard work, or that knowledge comes from a mentor. But this is egoistic. Especially when you've gone moderately rich off a crazy gamble, you're more likely to dismiss God's role in answering prayers.

The story was that someone proposed a startup with some sinful attributes. Think of it as sort of like working for Playboy - you can justify to yourself that you're just taking a supporting role, more interested in the tech, the culture, the articles, could do some good with the money, etc, etc. But the core purpose is still sinful.

The plan seemed foolproof. There were contingencies. If the plan failed, I'd still make $X. If it failed really hard, I could bring the code I wrote back to another startup I was a director of.

But everything went wrong. The team was horribly incompetent, and couldn't dedicate any time. My backup plans fell apart. People who I trusted backed out. The whole thing was depressing, and I found it hard to get any work done, despite my best efforts and ability.

I went in thinking that I had the resources and experience to no longer need to rely on God (or luck), and was proven wrong.
Then my answer is "no. I don't." And nobody else does either. You are probably the only person in the whole world who does this, or close enough to be a rounding error. :)
My understanding is they're still investment property. So probably more like a stock split. IOW, there wasn't a sale and a re-buy. You had 1000 shares of bitcoin and now you have 2000 shares, some of which are in bitcoin-A and some of with are in bitcoin-B.

As to the cost you would probably assume the Day-1 value after the split for the new coins. The price of the split of the old coins should have been reflected in the price.
(I guess we've hit the depth limit so I'll reply to my own comment.)

It's a loose collective called Classical Revolution, plays 1st & 3rd & 5th Mondays, been going since 2006. I'm only there occasionally these days; I might show up August 19. Starts at "8:30", often actually later, goes till 11:30.

The evening typically starts with a group that actually rehearsed and then devolves rapidly into the closest thing you can have to a jam session when you're playing notes off a page. Whoever shows up decides what to play on the fly from our collective piles of sheet music. It's a risky format—some nights are great, some less so. :)
Protip : never try to hide your shortcomings. Embrace criticsm and scrutiny. If you do it right, these instances should only help you become a better team and build better products. How you respond to scrutiny pretty much gives an idea of how you handle yourself when the going gets tough, and comments such as these just don't inspire confidence.
I agree with this post for the most part.

MS Excel when they switched to the ribbon UI was a huge problem for existing users.

I have had certain software running with antiquated UIs, but I keep them in place as users know how to use them. They have enough on their plates that they do not want to have to learn something new and deal with the cognitive overload.

If the old way works, they will stick with it, as long as it gets the job done.
Understood. I see your point and will not post on the topic again until something worth the intellectual curiosity arises.

Regards
Looks like this effort is not in that overview.
It can. Basically a repeatable machine can be made accurate by calibration. It doesn't have to be accurate to start with. If it's not repeatable (i.e. won't hold its calibration) then yeah, it won't ;) But accuracy != repeatability. I've worked on precision machinery (1um accuracy) and we used calibration techniques.
To be accurate, there are many heat waves, and it has not been established that this one in particular is in any way caused by global climate change. The best you could say is that global climate change causes more heat waves, and this heat wave is part of a trend of increasing number and severity.

It would be like saying that because increased wealth inequality drives increased crime, that every single crime report should have boilerplate at the end saying that this crime was caused by wealth inequality.

In contrast, there's only one Houthi group, and they are Iran linked, so that is a much more accurate contextualization.
> A surprise pay raise, catering lunches, taking them to an offsite

I don't think any of those things will increase team productivity at all.

Mentoring and training and encouraging learning new things and constantly giving new challenges and expanding responsibility and tying company financial success directly to employee paychecks, are the kind of investments that can improve a team's performance.
Anyone know what the status is for mainline linux support for the rockchip used in this? Last I checked things like USB3 didn't work in mainline and am wondering if things have improved.
Just get a private jet everybody...
I also didn't quite understand the landing page. Enter a new dimension can be applied to anything. Scrolling further we find some VR brands, but the title made that clear already. Then your eyes are drawn to the moving game covers. So are they making an app store? Scrolling further, we find "Designed from the Virtual Ground Up". Ha-ha I see what they did there. And then comes the footer.

Only now that I go back through it more slowly to write it up, I find this small text just before the end: "designed to tackle all of the new opportunities (and challenges) that come with browsing in VR". Oh it's a browser! Only after typing the comment about how I scrolled through the whole page and didn't find a meaningful statement, I noticed a line of text hidden between headlines and moving pictures that should have been the title.
Microsoft gives in to employee pressure, suspends political contributions
According to the IRS news release, and posts in r/bitcoin, what they're getting are Letter 6173, Letter 6174 or Letter 6174-A

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-has-begun-sending-letters-t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/chupoe/irs_we_have...

https://www.irsmind.com/audits/irs-begins-targeting-taxpayer...

> Letter 6174– this is a soft notice informing the taxpayer that there is a likelihood that they did not report their virtual currency transactions. The notice asks them to check their return and, if necessary, file an amended return to correct the misreporting. The taxpayer is not required to respond to the notice and the IRS intends not to follow up on these notices. In short, this is information only to the taxpayer and education on how they comply.

> Letter 6174-A– this is a “not so soft notice” from the IRS. As in Letter 6174, this letter tells the taxpayer that there is potential misreporting of virtual currency transactions. However, this notices states that the IRS may follow-up with future enforcement action. Again, no response is required if the taxpayer believes that they are in compliance. Taxpayers who receive this notice should be aware that they have been put on “notice” that they have been identified as a noncompliant taxpayer for potential future enforcement.

> The last notice requires a response – Letter 6173. This notice requests a response from the taxpayer about the alleged noncompliance. The letter provides instructions on responding to the IRS. The IRS intends to follow up on these responses to determine if the taxpayer is in compliance.
I'm not a lawyer or accountant but I'm fairly sure if someone pays you in cryptocurrency (or beer or gift cards or frozen shrimp or anything else) you owe taxes on the dollar value of that cryptocurrency in the year that you earn it, and of course if no withholding was taken out of it by the one who paid you you also probably owe quarterly estimated taxes.

I can't tell if you're acknowledging this, or if I am mistaken about this but I don't think you can legally avoid income taxes by being paid in kind. My understanding is if you're a US citizen you have to pay Uncle Sam on everything you earn not just every dollar. Otherwise we'd all just take our paychecks in krugerands.
(Oh, I guess there's a delay on being able to reply? See above.)
Rent (and "owner occupied rents") are a part of the bundle used in calculating the CPI.

The owner occupied rent is a calculation of what the rent would be if the owner had paid rent on the house they own. For some background on this:

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/pu...
Coinbase didn't "report" these account holders, they were given a subpoena to turn it over.
Raspberry Pi Rival Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Laptop
This is why most people don’t buy hamburgers with securities and why you’re gonna have a bad time come tax season.
I haven't read Kill Decision, but I have read The Martian, so I'll answer in that vein.

I don't think The Martian is realistic, or even a good predictor of anything. Now, there may be an expedition to Mars in future, but AFAICT there's really no good reasoning for it. What's your argument for an expedition to Mars?

EDIT: I just wanted to add: You and I -- humans that we are -- only remember the hits, i.e. the predictions that turned out to be true. There are a lot or predictions (sci fi novels, etc.) that turn out to not be true and are thus forgotten. QED
Who needs em? Everyone ;)
How would you sell bug fixes? "Hi grincho, how would you like an update for X feature where we fix Y bugs for Z dollars?" Most people would respond by asking why they have to pay more money for things that should be working in the first place. It'll become hard to know whether a developer is fixing new bugs or whether they just wrote some buggy software knowing they'll get more money by selling bug fixes separately rather than writing it correctly in the first place.
Agree. Dogs need daily, consistent companionship. If you can't give that to them, you shouldn't have a dog.
Why do people think Sprint is so bad, and what does that say about our cellular market? It looks like I can get 5 lines for $150/month, with a 50GB soft-cap and 50GB of hotspot. That's less than half of what I pay for Verizon.

Such a lower-cost alternative should be able to attract customers in droves. Why can't Sprint?
I just looked up Apple's Security White Paper and it explains that the Bluetooth LE signal only includes a "short identity hash", and then the receiving device responds with its own identity info, and then the sending device establishes a peer-to-peer WiFi connection and sends its "long identity hash", which the receiver then uses to confirm that it knows the recipient before responding with its own "long identity hash".

Which it to say, it sounds like you only get partial information about the sender prior to identifying yourself and establishing a direct connection. So you cannot passively identify the exact phone number of an unknown sender.

The "short identity hash" itself it says is "created based on the email addresses and phone numbers associated with the user’s Apple ID", though I have to assume that it's independently hashing each piece of info because if you hash the whole set, then the receiver would have to know the whole set, which would be a problem (my device knows more email addresses for me than any of my friends do).
At the very worst it is a blight on the environment.

27kWh of energy burned per transaction, with a maximum scaling limit on the order of 5 or 6 transactions per second. If everybody in the world used Bitcoin, then you'd be entitled to your one transaction every few decades.
Black wealth had nothing to do with the dot com bust. How would it? Black wealth - what there was of it - was not in the stock market it was in housing. Also, a very small percentage of Black people were in tech.

There are a lot of historical reasons for the lack of Black wealth. But it had nothing to do with dot com boom or bust.

Just so my post won’t veer off into me either being called racist because I am stating facts or being accused of “not understanding the Black condition”. I am Black.
Really want to pull the trigger on this, the Privacy Switches to disable camera, mic, wifi at the firmware level appealed to me. If you search around you'll find a video the creator made demo'ing skipless 1080p/4k video playback. However, it's probably prudent to wait for some of the initial bugs to get ironed out first.

They also claim to be making no profit off of these.
I feel ya. Back in grade school I had a cherished pile of 5.25″ Apple ][ floppies that I kept games and art on.

However, it's for the best. The old must make way for the new.
Even standalone headsets seem to be a crapshoot. It "runs" on my Lenovo Mirage, for example, but (last I checked) it's pretty crashy.
Honest question because I don't know how cargo works.

How would a package management system for C++ work?

Would there be a centralized repository containing shared objects, static objects, and header files of all the packages? Who would pay for the hosting? How would you track which libraries are compatible with which compilers/OSes/architectures?

Seems like at this point it would be a herculean effort to create cpppm because of how fragmented the compilers/support is across systems. And so it would be a broken piece of garbage so people wouldn't use it.
You don't have to feel old! Unless you had to razor blade a cutout in a single sided 5.25" floppy so you could write to the back...
Attrition is a thing. You have to always be hiring, or very ready to hire, anyway.

Also accidentally hiring the wrong people can be devastating. It's better to identify and get rid of bad hires right away.
Nice, I'll try to come by on August 19.
It's a SBC so its power draw isn't that high. The question of course is mainly what the power requirements of the screen is.
Except you literally do. 370,000 active personnel and not a single soul more, in accordance with the 2+4 treaty of 1990.
How do we know the common ancestor had better socials skills than chimps?
Neolithic 1%ers and their elite lake front Crannogs...
So that would probably hold true with bitcoin since the IRS sees bitcoin as an "investment property" more akin to stocks and bonds.
Where things get bad is when you buy a coin, it goes up 10x, at the beginning of the next tax year you sell and buy some other coin, it goes down to where you bought the first coin, and now instead of being where you started, you owe 2-4x..
So literally pay investors so they can get richer without risk?

"A legal mandate requires these funds to generate 7.5% returns, and when they fail to do so, taxpayers foot the bill." - it sounds like it would be much cheaper for taxpayers to pay pension funds directly, instead of paying all investors, and hoping some of that money finds its way to pensions.

Actually, let me get back to "by reducing interest rates you are incentivizing risky behavior". Phrased this way, it sounds obvious that 'of course you should try to reduce risky behavior'. But risky behavior of what? Is a car manufacturer going to take more risks because of low interest rates? No - they make a profit from selling cars. Same for farming, mining, pharma, advertising... literally every industry, except the purely financial ones. So... are we just paying tax money to bankers, and getting nothing in return? Because they convinced us that if their profits were any lower, they'd start taking so many risks banking would collapse (instead of more prudent banks emerging)?
Some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472175
> You measure software engineering performance by their dev ops skills?

Absolutely! That is the "dev" in dev ops.

I think there are few things that increases the productivity of a dev team more than improved processes.

> Why is knowing where the log files are, and knowing how to do complicated test setups for your specific environment a performance measure.

Because if you don't know those things you are much less helpful to your product team.
Cyberattack that caused an electricity blackout
With whole exome sequencing now at 500 USD, personally I will start by testing myself and my partner for hereditary diseases before having kids.
In a similar vein, I really like Comic Neue http://comicneue.com/
the good ones will soon become managers of managers, and then managers of managers of managers.

Perhaps the most successful managers (sometimes) are the best at pushing their own agendas and making themselves look good, as your comments may imply. I’m sure the Peter principle comes into effect here when that is the case. The best managers in the most functional organizations must align more with your final comment.
It could be useful, but at least a bit of funny, if cross-platform apps would offer every platform flavor for every platform. So you would have, for example, a Linux, a macOS and a Windows option for each platform. A 3x3 matrix of options. Also quite a hard problem and a maintenance nightmare.
You first have to define the opposing party. Are you speaking of the slaves or of the other humans who oppose slavery? Because remember, part of the justification is that slaves and unborn babies are not fully human, and thus cannot be the opposing party.
So the real question is, what exchange can I use as an American that doesn't report to the IRS?
Cheap Speakers Sound Great in a Proper Enclosure
If the wrights had taken Da Vinci's design and rebuilt the invention without understanding why it failed the first time, absolutely.
Ask HN: Should I start as sole proprietorship or LLC?
I am setting up one person business. Should I register my business as sole proprietor or LLC.
I think so. I grew up surrounded by WW2 vets that had seen lots of combat and lived through the Great Depression. They were good men but they were pretty hardened people.
You can imagine you are converting BTC to dollars right before purchase. If you had 1 BTC worth $1000 at the beginning of the year and then 6 months later (when it was worth $1500) bought something with it - you earned $500 in capital gains. (Not saying this is the current law, but that method seems to make sense)
Nope, I don’t care. In fact I wish I grew less facial hair so I didn’t need to trim at all.

Losing the hair on top of my head, though...
I've noticed a lot of articles linking to medium.com lately. Is there a special way that you are all reading these (through the paywall) or do you all have subscriptions?
Wish they would let you donate an additional amount if its not making a profit. I want to see them build more things. I kept wanting the former model but they never got back to me on it. I put my email several times.
You're only argumenting your own ideas here. What mass exposure are you talking about and eyeballs? I posted an update on a subject of the hour. Also, the main article I posted was derived from Bloomberg, and Bloomberg has no political agenda in Chinese affairs. Secondly, I have no political agenda in posting about the state of Hong Kong's affairs. You should be mindful of your words and claims that have no substantial grounds. My reposting was not a political push but a trigger to see why the flagging is not stopping. Dang has explained it already and I completely get his point, and agree to stop posting on it. You on the other hand, should refrain from emotionally arguing your points.

Regards,
I had the Sprint plan. I liked it. Hard for the average person to get on it though. You would have to pay full price for the phone and then activate it (while switching your old phone number over) and you couldn't do that in store. If you bought say a new Apple phone at full price and wanted to finance it through Apple/Citizen One, Apple would make you activate first which if you chose Sprint would invalidate your BYOD plan. That was a mess to resolve. And it was even more painful if you had multiple lines. So you had to be pretty savvy to get onto that $0 plan... which means those that did are also savvy enough to switch to something else if they are price sensitive.

That being said I expect with the merger that prices will go up. Maybe we could get some MVNO deregulation or something.
Interesting comment to read on HN where a lot of people want their software to be free too. :) Just sayin'..

But yeah, I get your point.. its super annoying when people do those things or when they say "you must have a nice camera" instead of complimenting your skills.
> but if I post in various startup communities I get told I'm spamming them even when I'm just asking to for thoughts or wanting to talk about my project.

IMHO, startup communities are the worst. Most of the great startups I know avoid those communities, and are usually already a part of 500 Startups or YC.

It's also really common in these communities to post nothing of value. Everyone asks for opinions, takes a month to post a landing page, talks about an upcoming huge launch, repeats this once a month.

As a result, they get very jaded and cynical, the exact opposite of what entrepreneurs should be.
Counterpoint: Was generally seen as the best word processor unless you had to use it with an RTL language.

In other words, it was perfect for (WORLD.population - 500mm)

What's bloat for you may be an essential need for your fellow worder.

#funfacts:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-boosts-languages-pro...

https://caniuse.com/#search=dir
Plenty of offshore exchanges. People use coinbase because it's working within the US system.
I upvoted it as it was interesting to me.
So there's this:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/02/climate-chan...
and
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-weather-climate/cl...

You'd think that would count as evidence.

And for the Houthi one, is it relevant to post every single time they're mentioned? Note that non-Western media doesn't consider it important (look at Chinese, Russian or even Al Jazeera).
Ever since users could open multiple tabs at once and web pages could be active in the background, along with everything else that's running on the machine in the first place.

If single-core is all that's important, why are AMD and Intel coming out with multi-core chips at all and why are people buying them if they don't see any improvement?
Did you have access to those other websites traffic statistics and revenue numbers?
Obviously I was disputing it.

You do know that Gavin McInnes wife is an Indian right and he started the proud boys as a joke? Do do know that right?

I wouldn't believe everything you read from those sources. The SPLC just had to apologise and pay 3.3 million to Maajid Nawas because they called him Islamophobic and he is a Muslim. Maajid Nawas was suing them for deformation in the UK.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/06/18/splc-statement-reg...
Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-Technical Audience [pdf]
I'm not sure the burden is on the individual unless they recognize receipt of the cryptocurrency. If someone mails you $100 and you discard it I don't think you owe taxes on it. Same for air drops and forks like Bitcoin gold.

Bitcoin cash, if you acknowledged receipt of it, is exactly like earning $266 and must be reported, at least that's what tax experts noted at the time: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/08/04/ho...
Paywall? All I get is a popup that I click X on to make it go away.