skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with the cutting losses, but we see these patterns all the time with bitcoin. Big chance it will be up to old levels in 4 days. The long-term sentiment for bitcoin is very bullish (or at least that's my opinion). Cutting losses is not a very logical strategy for long positions in bitcoin imho.
It's the runtime environment that provides that. And GC's for C are pretty easy to come by :)
Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not critiquing the use of low entropy passphrases (though if very low then they become useless) - as I said in my blog post:

... a passphrase is most useful if you can remember it and use it. While having 100 bits of entropy is something nice to shoot for, one has to look at their threat models and decide if it’s worth it. Is having a passphrase 8 words long really the price you pay to keep hackers out of your lolcats.rus account? Maybe yes, maybe no. The truth is, for most web accounts, 100 bits of entropy is overkill.

My point is that there is no advantage of relying on a passphrase you don't know the entropy for, since it's usually lower than what you thought, and there are methods of generating memorable passphrases that you can actually measure the entropy.

I guess I just don't understand why one would ever let their security rely on the incompetence of a potential attacker, instead of relying on the math, when they're both basically just as easy.
Perhaps it's a parody?

Compare to something like this:

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/06/the-best-spinach-...

We've all seen and suffered through these, and the Upworthy/Buzzfeed crapstylebook dictates that the thesis be held out as long as possible.
So... you pick out one joke you don't like and presume that no one else should like the show? Right... so you don't like it. Who cares? I certainly don't. I like it. There, I cancelled out your dislike.
I really love that you referred to 'sounds' as 'rumors'. Birds spreading natural rumors really make me smile.
I have a question about using this. In the SAFE Primer it states:

"The table below sets forth a comparison between the Standard Preferred and the SAFE Preferred, as each would be described in the company’s certificate of incorporation:"

Reading the SAFE it mentions "SAFE Preferred Stock" and seems to partially define it. Does this mean you must have "SAFE Preferred stock" defined in your articles of incorporation to use a SAFE, or can the SAFE stand alone?
To the cost argument: to say "it would be hard to manage efficiently" makes it looks like most first-world countries don't already have a massively successful income tax collection program of some kind. They do. Tax rates could be set so anyone at the minimum income wouldn't pay; anyone at that level to "middle class" (or whatever) would pay back part of it in taxes; and anyone above a certain level would pay back more than the minimum income. Would some people be taking home less overall? Yeah, sure. Same as any other welfare service.

As for the idea that people won't work anymore and society would crumble - people like xboxes and new iphones and clothes and nice cars and even feeling productive. I tend to believe they'll keep working. Some will stop, sure. They're the same people who don't work now or are criminals.
i don't know from your high horse, but from down here, erlang satisfies my needs for badly written hacks just fine.

more so that all implementations have a in memory DB so i don't even have to bother with that as i would have with php... so yeah, installing yaws and writting <h1>hello world</h1><erl>...</erl> is as PHPish as it gets for quick web prototypes.
The problem is that at some point any rational trader will want to cash out at least some profits. This swings are showing how little it takes to tank the price. The less liquidity there is, the more academic the trading price is.
It's a network sitcom... seriously, a network sitcom... I know I don't care for the opinions of people who base their beliefs on pop culture. You should give it a try.

And the parent wasn't trying to deny anyone their right to free speech, yeesh. He is just annoyed by those who feel the need to tell others what they should and should not like.
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Eric Jonas here, former CEO of Prior Knowledge, cofounder of Navia, etc. etc. [and obviously not speaking for my employer] Tristan is right, our tech was based on CrossCat, a model originally developed in Josh Tenenbaum's lab at MIT. We fundamentally believe that structured probabilistic models are the future -- this is very much the direction that my latest research has taken, for example.

The reality is that almost any model that lets you build up a good joint density estimate of the data can be useful for this sort of tabular data. CrossCat assumes that your joint factors in to several independent factors -- that is, p(x, y, z, w) = p(x, y) p(z, w), for example. Of course, because it's a dirichlet process of dirichlet processes, all that's learned from the data. But that's not always the best approach, there are others, and it will be fun to see what else comes out of the research community.

And Tristan's also right that this is not always a great fit for your data -- if it's graph based, or if your data are super-high-dimensional, or whatever, it's not a perfect fit. But it is a good start.

For a great review of the Dirichlet Process/CRP, the Indian Buffet Process, and other probability distributions over infinite structures, I highly recommend this great tech report from Zoubin and Tom:

http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/pdf/GriGha11.pdf
The Elixir macros aren't built on homoiconicity though.

Reducers aren't really intended for processing lists, they're best for processing vectors and trees.
A discount without a cap is certainly better than a discount with a cap from the founder's perspective, but the investors and founders are still at odds because a founder would want the valuation at conversion to be as high as possible so that the new investor's dollars are converted at the lowest equity stake possible. But when that happens, the early investors dollars are worth a lot less in terms of equity in the company. The early investors would still want the valuation of the company to be as low as possible during the conversion event so that they get more equity for their early dollars... even with the discount.

The only real way to keep the early investors and founders exactly on the same page with regards to increases in valuation is to have the early investors convert as early as possible, or in other words, an ordinary equity / Series A style round. But this is something early founders are trying to avoid because of the uncertainty of the company value, the cost of the legal work, and requirements involved once you have third party investors.
I imagine it's true in the sense that they were able to find at least two companies somehow related to technology that would say such a thing.
Is all manipulation bad? Ever worked harder because there was a deadline coming up? Or a bonus? Or a funding round?
Nope. Very difficult to pick and choose vaccines. Hello, drug-resistant pertussis [1]. Wish we could leave that one out and not make things worse in the future. Also, really wish I could choose just measles and mumps and not rubella. Rubella is a non-issue for most people [2].

The other issue at hand is that drug companies make a pretty penny if everyone gets Hep B at birth "just to be safe." Motivations become difficult to pull apart and people become suspicious. Exhibit B. The chicken pox vaccine, who's addition to the vaccine cocktail at birth no doubt helps Merck's bottom line, despite the fact that one does is only effective for five years and even at the height of protection afforded, you are still likely to contract varicella, but with lessened symptoms [3].

1: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/6/12-0091_article.htm
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubella#Prognosis
3: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/varicella-vaccine/pages/introdu...
I certainly agree - I've been in situations where I've made about $850 per month and did especially fine if I pooled my money among others.
If you've built a simple web app, this is only a few hours of work. You'll spend more time handling the operational stuff like setting up DNS/Apache/EC2/WSGI.

If this is your first app, I'd expect around a week as you figure out routing, templating, orms.. If you were using Rails, maybe 2 days? This would be very similar to any of the intro project/tutorials.

Goodluck, though I have some advice: there are bigger problems to solve as a developer, this isn't one of them. This (and most web projects) are simply web forms that interact with a DB. It is no engineering feat.
This guy is now using the same excuse that he used on day 1 (the team are on holiday so I can't make specific replies). It's just a joke. 4GB of ROM and 4GB of RAM? The iPhone 5S has 1GB of RAM, what the hell would you need with the rest?

At least he's removed some of his claims (it is waterproof, oops now it's not; the screen is 1080p - with a 250 x 250 screen? WTF?). His last update focuses on the money going to software development (basically, the watch is the cheap Chinese Z3 watch that we bought in bulk from alibaba.com, but the apps are different).

He is just full of shit and avoids all the questions that he knows the answers to (the ones that he doesn't want to reveal publicly).

From the 'my account was hacked' spamming to the bullshit on his own website (want to make a quick buck? I'll show you how) his is a scam, 100%.
Seems silly that is was a first come first serve basis for recruiting.
For anyone unfamiliar with the author, she has close ties with the Koch brothers so remember that while reading the article.

EDIT: You can read more about her at http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/.
All my passwords are randomly generated, I set the minimum at 30 characters. My most important passwords are 40 to 50 characters.

If you're using the printable ascii characters with fully random selection, that's 6.55 bits of entropy per character, for a total of 196.5 bits of entropy over 30 characters. For anything over 20 characters (=131 bits of entropy if randomly selected), you're implying that there is someone out there who can bruteforce the keyspace of AES (128 bits in the most common case), but can't install a keylogger on your system.
the above said, the easy of use of yaws is what makes me reticent to even start to play with elixir. i'd be very pissed it i like it but had to go back to plain erl for web prototypes.
unfortunately, i think its usually death.
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Cost can be dealt with by making it a negative income tax. That way not everyone is getting the full amount. People that are already making money only get a little from the system, whereas truly poor people get more. The new tax would be set just enough that it pays for itself. It probably wouldn't start at an amount that replaces current systems like welfare, but even $3,000 would help considerably towards evening out wealth inequality.

"People not working" is a good thing IMO, because many jobs have/are being automated and we can actually support people not having to work. The market rate for labor is pretty low. Things like the minimum wage prop it up even further from what the market rate would be. A lot of people not working would not actually cost the economy that much.

And as I said, the minimum income would probably start at a low amount, so people would still have a large incentive to work for the time being.
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Politicians, non-profits, charities, and the like all typically argue that in order to get the best talent for the job, they have to offer competitive enough rates to ensure they even get a look-in compared to big companies.

There is an argument (not saying it is the right one) that there are substantial risks associated with reporting criminals, and there can be substantial benefits to working with them instead. So surely any rate has to be high enough to ensure it is considered an option?

Of course, that then gives the question - what is that lower bound?
yeah. nothing like light gray on light gray to make my day...
Outbidding organized crime is an insane idea.
>"At any given point, a minimum-wage job may be very unattractive compared with spending more time with your family. But over the long run, it’s very hard to get a “good” job if you have been living on a basic income rather than working; employers do not like the signal sent by resume gaps."

If a guaranteed income does in fact provide enough of the labor force with an incentive to drop out as an alternative, then it seems likely that employers would have to stop thinking of resume gaps as an indicator.

Which, really, would be win-win, because my guess is that resume gaps are possibly less helpful in evaluating a candidate than most of the rest of the usual cargo cult surrounding hiring.
That's not it. The issue is that "means testing" a basic income results in an effectively negative marginal tax rate for those below the means-testing line. The argument is that this is a strong disincentive to attempt to climb out of dependency.
Like I said, I'm waiting for it to go to $2000 before I sell but maybe $1300 for a quick profit.

Merrill Lynch appraised it at $1300:
http://www.ibtimes.com/bitcoin-worth-1300-merrill-lynchs-cas...

I agree with you about no government being able to ban bitcoin. It's unstoppable.
Hi, I'm one of the lead developers on the project. It's a relatively young project, so keep an eye out for lots of substantial releases over the next few months.

So far, we have been focusing on smaller dataset sizes, such as 10,000 rows by 100 columns, but everything scales linearly (both query processing and offline inference) so you could use it for larger datasets too. The current version is all in memory, though, so you're limited there.

Right now you must import data from csv, so no images, and you must do all preprocessing of your data before loading it in. We hope to add more and more of this kind of functionality in later releases. I'd love to hear suggestions! I recommend trying out the VM installation if you want to quickly play around with it.
"Less incentive to work"

Yes! And more incentive to start a company!

That's why big-corps/govts that employ a lot of low-wagers don't like this idea;

and small-self-owned, small-hi-tech-govt, and potential biz starters without access to funding tend to like it.

The level of the guaranteed income can be "low", thereby leaving "some" incentive to work.

I like the fairness, low-overhead and the sigma-reduction of this method of wealth re-distribution very much. This method is not directly/economically benefiting the 1% -- sure, I agree on that. But it helps _a lot_ of people to live more comfortable and puts pressure on good labour conditions from the bottom up.

Go Switzerland; please lead the way on this one -- it hope and predict it to be a great experiment!

Edit: typo.
logic, math and linguistics.
Sorry, DenisM. Investors in the Silicon Valley find notes very acceptable. It is not only YC companies that raise early money on notes, many other companies do too. Notes may be the most popular in SV, but I am sure that investors in other places use them as well. I think maybe you just got unlucky.
I'm coming around to believe that the most promising, direct method of implementing equitable wealth redistribution is through cryptocurrency. Probably not just yet, but within the upcoming generations of protocols; the change in philosophy away from a competitive/speculative, gold-like asset is in part foreshadowed by the growing popularity of proof-of-stake. In Nextcoin[0], for example, mining no longer exists.

There are a lot of ways to model a currency so that rebalancing of wealth from richer accounts to poorer ones is a smooth, gradual, automatic process. And the software to do it, and the marketing campaign to popularize it, can be put together much more quickly and cheaply than ramming it through the existing political system.

All of which isn't to say that the political process is dead; but there is potential for a revision of government's duties, where software can do the job instead of a bureaucracy.

[0] http://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,104.0.html
I don't see traditional aircraft taking off from a submerged submarine any time soon. That would seem to be an alternative advantage to offset the cost.
You still end up with about a $2000bn net cost even after taking social security into account.
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ER visits.

Seriously. An ER is required by law to treat anyone who comes in. If you really can't pay, go to the ER.

Some argue this is why healthcare costs so much because ERs have to be paid for.
I bought my first 0.1 bitcoin last night when BTC was at ~$986 so not a warm welcome. Thankfully, it's only 0.1. Definitely won't be selling any time soon.
Thank you, it was nothing, I'm glad you found it useful. I've been helped a lot by people on HN as well, I'm happy to return the favor whenever I can :) .

If you ever visit Uruguay, message me and I'll be glad to meet you :)
And this is what I'm talking about. It's pure pseudo-science at this point and everyone involved has an emotional attachment to the cause.

"Those assholes who don't vaccinate ... "

"Those assholes who require me to vaccinate ... "

We're all gonna die of something, and damned if most of the time it will have been somewhat preventable. Surely declining vaccination is not the greatest negligent act someone in a developed country can choose (hello, texting and fucking driving).
Did you read the article? It isn't about what Apple is paying.
None of these people "fear" any of these people, but if you correct for the words I actually used, I stand by my previous assertion and believe you're simply wrong. It's pretty straightforward to work out what YC has that VCs need, and how little VCs have that YC needs.

Once again, we're having this pointless conversation because you argued upthread that Paul Graham is so terrified of venture capitalists that he represses you on Hacker News to appease them, so angry are they at your mean comments about them.
Funny, I already had the idea she was on that "side" of the game when I read it. :)
The Difference per "exchange" are interesting. A buy at https://www.coinmama.com/ is still over $1050

A buy at https://www.mtgox.com/ is $750

That's not quite but really close to 50% more than MtGox.
Nope. You don't have an extralegal investigator with unlimited powers to interfere with your business.

If you have alternative facts, you should present them.
Opening a window is counter-productive if it's smoggy outside, even if you're okay with dealing with the current temperature out there.
Couldn't this just all be someone dumping a huge amount of their Bitcoins to convert it to real $?

Same thing can happen when someone who owns a lot of stock in a company lets go of a huge amount of stocks in a company all at once..
It definitely does exclude Social Security, which as a program amounts to ~$750 billion a year. And Medicare and Medicaid, which amount to another $600 or $700 billion.

Combine them and the $600 billion on income security, and you get about $2 trillion, which is enough to fund a huge chunk of it.

I don't understand the how McArdle thinks that $12,000 per year is too austere for most people to live comfortably on and simultaneously decries how it will make many people drop out of the workforce. She should address what (many) advocates of it want.

Political concerns are, of course, another question.
It will be nice to give everyone a basic income when robots have automated away all the jobs, but what do we do this decade?

Don't be lazy. If you think basic income is feasible with state and city assistance, run the numbers for San Francisco and California. Otherwise one side has numbers and you have idle, unquantified speculation.
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I wonder if you are searching for something about SEO, if you should just always go with the first result.
I would think someone would have been able to figure out who is behind this by ascertaining who registered the domainname mentioned in the article. It is, practically speaking, impossible to have an anonymously registered .com domainnname. Identities of .com registrar customers, as well as those who are authorized to process .com registrations, can be "hidden" from the public, but they do exist in at least one database, or several. And even the mere threat of litigation is usually enough to get the requested information released.

Why even use a clever dommainname? An IP address would work just as well.
The SAFE Preferred Stock would be whatever you end up calling it in the charter - for example, Series AA (just something to differentiate it from the preferred stock being issued to the new money investors). So no, you would not actually call it "SAFE Preferred Stock" in your COI. Does that make sense?
> because many jobs have/are being automated and we can actually support people not having to work.

Nicely put... I just want to dream on to this thought for a few minutes before I go on with my life :)
The tiny division of Baidu which "quit" accepting Bitcoin (and was the only part of Baidu which ever accepted BTC) was tiny. Think 1/10,000th of Baidu.
Basic income can't be a drop-in replacement for federal health care programs, because to get equivalent care you'd either need considerably more basic income or some other mechanism for providing health care. The most generous assumption from an accounting perspective is probably that the US adopts, wholesale, the Canadian medical system with equivalent per-capita costs borne by the federal government.
A decent compromise might be to build space for (plastic?) pots into the desk, so you still have your plants right there (with the stability benefits, etc) without the maintenance bother of hydroponics.
What this helps most with is the processes/tedium involved to create a site location and get it up and running online in the simplist way and by doing everything via the user interface.

This is a DIY tool so you can press a button to [Create Website] -> Website live!
News flash, you do have a right to homeschool your child.

Why wouldn't you abort a fetus if you knew it was going to be a fiscally bad decision as it would need help to breath it's entire life. We don't need loafers that can't function on their own.
I use floppy disks. To load programs on my CNC machine running NT 4. Its pre-USB. Not everything can be easily upgraded.