skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'punished' is not something needed. In a capitalistic society, I can simply choose not to use your service. But if you give me a way to get ahold of you, I'll give you a tracking number that was not delivered on time and a bogus status added. I wish it was the only time this has happened across the years.
Didn't quite work out for them last time… why will this be any different than Motorola?
Rumours of Theils maleavolence are greatly exaggerated. His bio better resembles a modern day Ross Perot, libertarian and all. Network analysis and data mining inteilligence toolsets were used in the intel comminity lkng before Palantir, same as mercenaries were vighting foreign wars ling before Blackwater. A real problem in government is lack of domain expetise in oversight. Heres a chance to have some of that if the article is correct.
Moldbug hates pomo though. Pretty sure the dude doesn't read anything that was written after the year 1900.
Lighting up large sections of highway causes massive light pollution (which not only is ugly, but is detrimental to nature) along with high energy consumption and maintenance costs for not all that much in safety benefit. I'm generally skeptical of the value of doing so for a long highway rather than just at interchanges/the like.

Belgium is one of the brightest spots on the planet because of their overuse of it (and that's an improvement from how bad it used to be): http://thismustbebelgium.com/belgium-spotted-space/
> Right, but you could do that with any P2P overlay network with any embeddable VM. Why use the very unorthodox one that Urbit came up with?

Urbit claims to be uncrackable. Not "secure when well-configured and patched regularly" uncrackable, but "Put one on an EC2 instance and tell the world there's 50 BTC inside it and come back in five years, or fifty, and your money will still be there" uncrackable.

That's its selling point - that you could run server apps on it (in some hypothetical future where someone has written some useful apps) and not have to be a part-time sysadmin like you would if you ran any sort of *nix server.

I'm not saying that's true, I'm just answering your question. More details on why they claim it to be that way here: https://urbit.org/blog/2017.5-frozen/
It's quite possibly related to 2017-5698.
I'm that guy. Sorry :(

I have the worst handwriting.

People are like, "Dude, wtf?" when I try to whiteboard stuff.
Mind the 75GB limit on AWS Lambda deployment packages
$10 million each. Google might think that is an ok deal for the right people. Google market cap ($650 billion) divided by number of engineers (~40k) is $16 million.
How SoftRam hoodwinked the world
Even worse. I went to a horrible, horrible hotel in Prague (which at the time was the #1 result, don't know if still is). My (obviously) bad review, while polite and with pictures attached, was ignored after 3 weeks in limbo. Not explicitly refused, no explanation. Just poof, never happened. And support is also ignoring my questions. All that being a "Genius" user. Unfortunately I don't have Twitter so no public-shaming-user-support.

Be careful with reviews. They might not be fake but certainly arbitrarily filtered.
> not all of the last 30 odd years of systems and programming research was pointless.

Indeed, which is why it's a shame our primary server OSes (Unix-likes) can't incorporate them. Urbit can.

As for what are the approaches different, there have been many words spilled over that, but here's a few examples to wit, most of which exist in one or two other systems, but aren't widely used:

- All events are transactions, down to the VM level. There's no concept of an event that left garbage around because power was cut or the machine was rebooted. You can always crash an event, making it as if it never happened.

- Single-level store. Never worry about ORM because your in-memory state never goes away (because all events are transactions).

- Persistent connections with exactly-once messaging. Disconnection is just seen as long latency.

- Strict, purely functional language with a strong type system but no Hindley-Milner (so you don't need category theory).

- Sane indentation for a functional language, known as "backstep".

- The file system is a typed revision control system, which allows intelligent diffs on types other than plain text.

Most, if not all, of these, have been described in research, but nobody's bothered to build a system with them.
Yup, that's what it seems like. Which means I was probably wrong. I believed, when announced, that they were interested in the VR hardware department.

Well, more like I hoped it would be the goal. I'd love good AR, which I see as being similar enough to VR. I also want it tied to some sort of big data along with ease of discoverability.

I'd like to be riding down the road, see a bridge, be able to identify the bridge, be able to see when it was constructed, be able to see the plans and capacity limits, see who did the construction, see if there were accidents during construction, and things like that. I'd like the same for buildings, airplanes, cars, etc...

So, Google married with VR would be a potential start to something I'd really like to see. Alas, I was wrong. I'm a bit disappointed, but not really surprised.
Do you honestly think preferences for using maps are based on anything else besides someone's familiarity with maps and the situational context? Gender doesn't matter.
I don't understand this claim of "overnight evolution" at all.

The family lines that survived the cold may have experienced the critical DNA mutation(s) anytime before the unprecedented cold. Do they have a means to measure exactly when those mutations occurred? Just because they manifested in response to this cold snap doesn't mean they didn't exist long before. Or did I miss something?
This should be the title of the post.
All good; validates that I'm at least on the right track! Had to pare back my ambitions quite a bit to get _something_ finished before the iOS11 launch.

I didn't expect the reception to be so enthusiastic for v1 tbh; but I guess I chose a good place to call it an "MVP"
That is not the Spanish coat of arms, it is the Guardia Civil coat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Guard_(Spain)
I'm very excited about google's future plans. Anyone else feel like this is their path towards competing with apple and samsung in the long run?
Gravity Could Be the Result of Random Quantum Fluctuations
Procatinator
There is no ME, if the ME can be turned off by a user. Users are not the real customers of a processor company, where their real customers buy more than 1 or 2 i7s.
Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm
A lot cheaper than Instagram.
you can approve login requests using notifications but you need at least one backup trusted phone number on your account

see step 2: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204915

"trusted phone number" is an oxymoron
I'd argue that writing is influential and can strengthens cognitive biases. If someone is poor and teetering on the edge of buying a luxury Apple watch they're going to be looking for that one shining article that goads them into doing it. When society accepts such influencers as role models and people to listen to / follow then we have a problem.
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"Government favoritism" is markedly different from the actual "leadership role in the newly elected government"
I'm oddly reminded of Asimov's "I, Robot", where the positronic brain was basically described as a silvery (platinum and iridium) device that Just Worked. And nobody knew why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronic_brain
I think I agree in part, though the framing of it in the Gizmodo piece that he seems "less" worried about Facebook is concerning. Google I get, Amazon sure, but why not Facebook? That seems like the most massive surveillance vector to ever exist and a company which might have a penchant for what's not too different from mind control.

Edit: after reading the Vanity Fair essay (which is much better than this Gizmodo thing) I'm I think more skeptical, though it's more explicitly stated that Facebook is viewed in a more nefarious light.
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Thank you for being forthcoming about all this. I don't mean to be a pain in your ass and I know your intentions are good. I hope this all ends up being a force for good and that things like the NYT coverage help avoid legal issues with Equifax. Good luck to you in that regard.

For the record, the favicon requests that went out after "submitting" your site's data did not appear to transmit any form data to that server. I just noticed that it'd be trivially easy to do that if someone else emulated this as a bad actor.

I think we can all agree that Equifax chose extremely poorly with a separate domain name, one that is just crassly phishy-sounding already, and opening itself up to actual bad actors.
>And I have no idea who cr4sh is

Check out http://blog.cr4.sh/
It doesn't bother the government when the middle class spend its hard earned money in gambling, sport events or entertainment. Somehow, there's suddenly a moral imperative to protect those poor sheep from doing as they please with their property. But, wait, only if their capital inflow will dilute the returns of established investors.

It's to protect the middle class of course, though one can only wonder why the blatant double standard. I have no idea!

The "accredited investor" regulations are a sham, an unfair and artificial barrier to entry that ought to be removed. Yes, some people will get abused. This might even create local instability. But, that is clearly the long-term optima. Those who lose money to scams can leave it to law enforcement to do their job. Others who invest more they can afford to lose into bad apples will learn that you should always hedge risk. As a whole, society gets smarter when it is allowed to make mistakes, even costly ones. Smarter and less fragile.
There are documentaries about the uber-rich foodies who treat these restaurants like Pokemon. Given the personalities involved, it doesn't surprise me that some chefs should actively want to shun them.
Yeah, why bother with any kind of personal ethics? If you don’t take the dirty money, someone else will always be found, so it might as well be you, right? I mean look around, those guys over there got away with literal war crimes.

For that matter, why should you let common law precedent or the rule of law prevent you from secretly funding third-party lawsuits as part of your personal revenge scheme? This is America and money should be able to do whatever it wants.

And oh, funding the campaign an openly white supremacist, brags-about-sexual-assualt, famous fraudster and charlatan with no credentials who is obviously unprepared and poorly suited temperamentally to be president? Hey, if the bet pays off there’s great personal upside, so who cares if it would be terrible for the society?
Nexus 5X bootlooped after 1.3 years of rather gentle use.

Replaced a 2013 Moto X that stopped receiving updates well before the 2 year mark, despite being bought when Google owned Moto and was promising timely and continuing updates.

I don't take anything from Google after Google Docs (now Drive, whatever) seriously. Well yeah, the self-driving cars, maybe... but that's not a released product yet, anyway. Which simply saves me the effort, for now, of considering how Google will flush that tech, if and when.
Maybe disable automatic joining of random networks? I don't use an iPhone, but I bet it has a setting for that. There's also the security implication of automatically joining unknown networks.

Will that help?
They are doing a better job - such announcements attract community attention and potentially lead to further funding.
In short - confidential payments.

A bit longer...

Normally when you send a payment with crypto currencies you leave a trace in the blockchain. i.e. other people can see which address is sending how much to where. This information is required so that the transaction can be validated by all nodes.

The zk-SNARK technology allows you to send a payment without revealing the who sent how much to where.
I hear Mexico allows you to actually own land.
> “Peter has indicated that if he takes the P.I.A.B. position he intends to take a comprehensive look at the U.S. intelligence community’s information-technology architecture. He is super-concerned about Amazon and Google”—and Facebook, less so.

Is that because he invested in Facebook early on?
Typical forced intention after fact.

To say Google not interested in hardware when they purchased Motorola is plain baseless.
Proper corruption typically includes:

* Lack of transparency. It's tough to be corrupt in plain sight.

* Payment to someone who currently possesses power -- not a public contribution to a political candidate seeking a new office of power.
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Addresses can be committed to the contract in exchange for sparks. The contract then holds those addresses, until someone burns a spark in exchange for them.

We're not sure exactly when or precisely how that market will get initialized — but you get the basic idea. Your star ownership will get mirrored in the contracts.
This piece is half an advert but it’s the best article I’ve found that plainly describes the issue:

https://www.telecomdefense.com/ss7-vulnerabilities/

TL;DR; The system that allows our phone networks to work together was designed decades ago with minimal security.
As another comment suggested, this is pretty much the Khan Academy model up to and including YouTube videos.

That said, Khan Academy's execution is positively ancient. Videos can certainly be more concise. Vi Hart's YouTube channel is a fantastic example of what constitutes (in my opinion) the upper bounds of concise YouTube educational videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart
I think that it would only take a startup selling a few really big names before the monopoly breaks.

Sell Taylor Swift on a different booking system that isn't pathological to users. A few other top shelf performers. Venues will be switching like there's no tomorrow to keep the top performers.

The tricky part of this is getting an audience with people like Taylor Swift. On the other hand, with people like Trent Reznor working for Apple, if you had an alternative that worked well and didn't suck, you could probably get some attention pretty quickly.

It's almost as though there is a market that needs to be disrupted. And all the elements are there.
When any company gets large enough they become a repository of technical failures and an acquirer of the same.

Unfortunately that ultimately matters little to stock value and market share.
I should have read your post more thoroughly, we're in agreement that not all expenditures have equal merit.

If you haven't done so already, make sure that your investing is tax-advantaged to the best of your abilities. I really put a lot of sweat into managing my Roth IRA and it was scary for a few years because there was no room for error in a portfolio that small but I've hit a few home runs and it's been enormously vindicating.

The children of those with low time-preference shall inherit the earth!

It better turn out like that. I kinda hide my financial situation from most people IRL - most of my peer group still has student debt and I could buy a house cash - but I accidentally mentioned that I want to celebrate my next hundred thousand with a used Prius and got a heated reaction. Oh well, some day I can just drive away from the haters on nothing but electric power.
Any mention of massive conflicts of interest with Palantir?
There are about 5 billion adults[0], and they don't all need separate planets. Married couples, for example, may not.

That's beside the point, though. Using scarcity to create value is not "extremely unconventional"; it's about the most ho-hum idea in Urbit. If you want a 128-bit address, you can use those in Urbit just fine. The only difference is that they don't have a default-positive reputation (where "reputation" is an abstract concept -- in practice, e.g. some channels wouldn't let 128-bit address post comments)

[0] https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/wor...
I'm sure the hardware was a bonus but at the time the purchase was primarily driven by the patents. Apple, Microsoft, Oracle , Cisco, and all the other big players have shed loads of patents for just about everything and uses them as counter measures against any potential litigation. Google at the time was lacking in such patents and was vulnerable. Motorola presented an opportunity with it's extensive cache of patents to level the playing field.
US grocery chains have no institutional expertise in building new offerings or generating demand for those offerings because the manufacturers do it for them. Manufacturers advertise the crap out of their products and rent shelf space from the grocery store to put them in front of consumers. Except for a few exceptions like Whole Foods, Wegmans, Market Basket, etc., grocery stores are pure logistics operations with no marketing capabilities.
> the most available first-class address in the system is in a 32 bit address space. Why? Not for efficiency, but because the authors believe there aren't and never will be 4 billion human beings on the planet worthy of having a first-class address in their system. This, by the way, is their actual response to the objection of an overlay network with 32 bit addressing.

One of the things they want is for identities to cost some nontrivial amount of money, about $10 or so. This mostly solves the spam problem because it's unlikely that spamming will get you $10 worth of value before you're blacklisted by your parent star and it refuses to route your packets.

Can you think of an identity count that would preserve moderate scarcity like this? Or would you have the address space be indefinitely mineable, kind of like bitcoin?
Evolution is the change in populations (allele frequency) over time, not the gene mutation itself. If 10% of the lizards in the article had this gene before the storm and the 90% without it died off then the frequency has gone from 10% to 100%, which is overnight evolution.
Reminds me of the lego sorting project, https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-the-software-side
That is such a cool story. Thank you for mentioning it.
If anyone is curious, the wheels that the parent poster is referring to are often called Mecanum wheels[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
He's on the board.
It's not really 'after the fact' if that's been the popular opinion since before the deal in 2011 though
As a practical note, on that curve, Zcash is about the limit in terms of complexity for what you can do practically with a SNARK. This is why ZCash is switching to a much faster construction and supporting curve which gives it a lot of room for interesting features. As Vitalik mentioned on twitter, however, that is a long way away for Ethereum.

Most applications of the pairing curve operations are probably going to be signatures and the like, not SNARKs for this reason.
He's definitely a libertarian although his definition of libertarian is completely malleable.
I’ve been subscribing to Blue Apron for about six weeks. Really enjoy it. It’s cut down on our food waste, healthier portioning (I love about 9 pounds) and I’m getting more diversity in my diet. Pre-planning your meals and grocery shopping takes a lot of time and mental work. This kind of cook-by-numbers approach takes away a lot of mental resistance that has you eating out more often. Plus, I’m learning a lot.
Personally, I find an explicit campaign contribution to be considerably less sleazy than paying a politician hundreds of thousands of dollars for "making a speech" (a very popular ruse with the Clintons, and now Obama). Less sleazy in that campaign funds have to be accounted for (i.e., actually spent on the campaign, or retained for a future campaign) while "speaking fees" can be spent any way you want.
You said the founder believes "there aren't and never will be" 4B people "worthy" of an urbit planet. I'm asking where you got that "never will be" part.

I think your reading of that bit you quoted is extremely uncharitable. I don't see where urbit is passing pronouncements on anyone's "worthiness". The way I read that quote is, "an urbit planet is server software, and there are way less than 4B people with a server to run it on."
> Those who lose money to scams can leave it to law enforcement to do their job

Law enforcement rarely resolves securities disputes. It requires lawyers teeing up the evidence for courts and regulators.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Don’t do mean things with securities.
The store will also have data that shows what items are frequently purchased together. With this, they can find out what meals are popular and market those to increase popularity. With additional monitoring, they can probably go so far as to individualize it and optimize for profit.

Of course, there are privacy concerns but I think we've established that people are quite willing to give up their privacy for a perceived benefit.
> for those without millions in the bank to seek higher risk/reward investments

I question whether those risk-reward blends are appropriate for those without substantial excess capital. The current limits are somewhat arbitrarily placed, I agree, but someone with $50,000 in savings probably shouldn't be investing in start-ups.
Also, if it was xenophobic. So what? Doesn't a businessman have the right to choose who to do business with?

I believe free trade is a good thing, but seems like many americans mistook free trade for gunboat diplomacy (see opening of Japan). In my understanding free trade is free as in free will: both parties voluntarily take part in the exchange of goods and services.

Also one can be patriotic in a way that he/she (no xe!) wants to preserve the cultural heritage, which is not only buildings and artifacts in museums, but also customs. Customs can be preserved by people sustaining them by continuously acting according to them. Local customs can be ruined pretty quickly via a huge influx of tourists.

Example: In my younger day I could see elderly people sitting in the small parks around playgrounds and children playing at some parts of the city. Now in these parts of the city what I can see is playgrounds have been closed. Public places have been closed, no elderly talking, playing chess on a summer afternoon. Instead there are "party tourists" littering, being loud and drunk an sometimes acting atrociously as early as 2pm on weekdays. A local custom (socialization of the locals) has been wiped by tourism. Slowly locals are freeing the "party district".

I can understand why one wants to avoid such situation (even as Michelin -tourists are not this troublesome, but starts a trend, which can even lead here). Is this xenophobic, then be so. I understand why people want to be xenophobic then.
> but why not Facebook?

Early investor, made him untold millions, tight with zucc, who's sacrificed personal capital to keep him on the board (despite his far-right politics).
Here’s every nuclear weapon in the US arsenal
> I think it would have made the blog post better to give some explanation for why Things Are Different This Time.

When they bought Motorola it was for patents, they absorbed the patents but kept the remainder of the business separate from Google. Eventually breaking it apart and selling it off.

This announcement doesn't sound like they are acquiring then entirety of HTC but rather a team within HTC. And that the team is joining Google, not remaining a separate entity.

So things are different because they're acquiring a part of HTC and folding it into their organization for the explicit purpose of furthering their hardware pursuits. Not just buying up the whole company for it's patents and selling off the remainder.
SS7 Vulnerabilities