skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
any of the many exchanges where you can convert coins to fiat?
Reservisor: A 1950s automated airline reservation system
given complete freedom, the EU would probably ban youtube from the EU entirely as it doesn't meet the minimum requirement of 30% EU created content

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/25/eu_pegs_homegrown_n...
> Ah, but what do you have to declare at the border?

depends on whether or not the security person likes you ;)
$3 TRILLION DOLLAR  GLOBAL BETTING INDUSTRY IS ABOUT TO GET DISRUPTED
What do you think about the idea of goalbonanza.com ? It offers fresh and new football betting experience by combining lottery like crowd betting on 10 possible football game final score outcomes where the crowd drives the potential returns, unlike traditional bookmakers and betting exchanges that offer unattractive odds and low returns. The bigger the crowd the bigger are the potential returns easily reaching six figures. In simple terms, imagine $100,000+ in returns on 1$ bet by successfully predicting the final score of a football game out of 10 possible outcomes. That is Goal Bonanza and much more.
Fyi... a guess about the "terms of service" being violated:

Author wrote:

>, I’d guess Google very much wants features that it thinks are essential for YouTube’s future growth included, stuff like subscriptions, next video recommendations, autoplay, and so on.

And similar excerpt from https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/google-pulls-youtube-from-am...:

>The Echo Show had displayed YouTube videos without integral features, from video recommendations to channel subscriptions.

For more context, the importance of the above "recommendation" features to Google in The Atlantic article and related HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14910125
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He's a clown, but he is a relatively self aware clown.

Someone gave me one of his books, the first part of the first chapter explains that "Mad Money" is money you can put aside after buying things like disability insurance and making sensible retirement investments (and having an emergency fund, and so on).
Arrests for crimes != crimes, as well.
Here's a New Yorker article about him: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/mr-money-musta...

I believe he has some rental income from properties he owns and he claims to only spend $25K or so per year, so the answer is probably closest to 1. His brand/blog does seem to be quite lucrative though. At this point, it would probably make more sense to limit the effort rather than shut anything down.
Or to more solid coins.

Or to buy actual assets like real estate with them.
>This fight started with Google

This is simply incorrect. You put out some facts about licensing Google apps but you apply this completely subjective line in front of it which makes it sound like Google actively did something. These licensing terms have been around for years and every company you can think of has agreed to the terms. They aren't that onerous.

This whole mess is entirely in Amazon's court. They made all of the decisions and made all of the moves. It's their call to do everything themselves and want to own every piece of the system. They weren't forced to. They want to.
From comments here, you can see the field of premium photography equipment is about to undergo some kind of massive disruptive consolidation and reorganization. Almost anyone who comments here is a prospective customer, yet we see so much fragmentation. Some customers just ask for a box with a great sensor, and plan to process the images elsewhere. Some ask for a retro-experience, or an open source photography platform, or an incremental improvement to existing products. Some ask for a high-end consumer experience like a Smartphone, or tighter smartphone integration. Maybe a smart equipment company would organize its products around those markets, instead of struggling to segment too finely using old concepts of cost and performance.

The traditional photography equipment business is in a world of trouble because, as others point out, software is replacing physics as well as the familiar mechanical human interface. This requires a lot of expensive software engineers and some computer science expertise, and the rate of change is only increasing now. For example consider how machine learning is affecting image processing, like this method of pixel-based image synthesis: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/pixelNN/. Having lost the low end, DSLR companies can't amortize the cost of ambitious engineering projects over any significant volume of inexpensive products. Agree with the article by Thom Hogan - if anything it doesn't go far enough to convey the extent to which top line camera companies are out of touch with how the digital world has changed.
> Guess who's excluded from all the restrictions Google is sliding into Android: Google Play Services.

Do you have a source for that? Because I'm pretty sure that's false. In fact, the Android 8.0 changelog even [explicitly says][1] that Play Services is affected by the new background location limitations:

> This behavior change affects all apps that receive location updates, including Google Play services.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8....
...and replacing them with cryptocurrency CEOs and HN and Reddit commenters whose economic experience is limited to googling the word “fiat” and talking points on free markets? Is that what you mean?

Occasionally people are listened to because they have something to offer, like, say, running one of the world’s largest investment banks. His remarks immediately made Bloomberg, CNBC, and so on, which is just free PR. From the head of Morgan Stanley. Who in the current world, and not the glorious future one you want, commands respect and attention. Talk about biting the hand throwing your passion a bone.

And what’s your plan to make Gorman and other investment banks irrelevant with cryptocurrency? You’re talking about something like, what? A third of the world economy? I made that number up, but it’s probably even more. Nobody will have financial planning services and investments in your cryptographic future? End capitalism? How should I explain what you want to the soybean farmer next door who needs an ag loan from one of those very banks to buffer crop loss from an imported Asian pest? The free market will figure it out, and the entire system of capital allocation we all know is fundamentally broken and useless? If only he mined Litecoin?

The single biggest thing holding crypto back is tone deaf arrogance like this from its biggest proponents. Slow down, buddy, you’ve successfully monetized files of bits. Completely disrupting the entire world economy and making banks irrelevant is a wee bit far fetched and even if it isn’t, should be approached with a little more caution than a lot of crypto folks give it. You’re talking about the (imperfect) global system that feeds billions of people and keeps them alive. Show it some respect; only hundreds of thousands of people, nigh, millions, worked on it before the engineers with vim showed up and declared they know better.

Cryptocurrency is good. Let’s be reasonable when discussing it.
Well, now Amazon has a reason to build a Youtube competitor. I'd be quite happy with more competition, in the hope that it would be possible, one day, to have a both-liberal-and-conservative-friendly platform. But I'm probably dreaming.
> I love Android (I've only had Android phones since my first smartphone), but battery efficiency is definitely not its strong suit, even on a clean install on a flagship phone.

Except your DSLR (probably) isn't trying to drive a 6" 570ppi display with a bunch of always-on wireless hardware constantly being used. That 3" 270ppi on my D5300 is consuming almost nothing by comparison, and my camera is also very aggressive at turning the screen off.

It's like when people reminisce about battery lives in their old Nokia phones and forget that they didn't stare at the screen for 5 hours a day surfing Facebook. As long as the camera manufacturer limits some background services and continues doing the same aggressive display management, it should be fine. Until the day Nikon lets you install Facebook on your camera, that is...
You're right, Shelf does have some of the Evernote functionality, I guess most notably the web clipper. What we focussed on is more of where Evernote falls short. Which in my opinion is good and easy collaboration across teams.

An advantage of Evernote for now is that Shelf doesn't have offline note-taking. What do you think, is this something hugely important to have?
This doesn’t really speak much to the “master” thing, but over the last few generations we have “financialized” (like securitised, but bigger) huge parts of the economy, and a lot of stuff that wasn’t really part of the economy in the past.

For example, health services are largely financialized via insurance. IE, you don’t directly buy health services, you buy insurance which buys health services. You don’t buy a house, you get a mortgage. You don’t support your parents (or colleagues) in their old age, you pay into pension or superannuation schemes. Education via student loans. Monthly expenses via credit card debt. Large ticket items via dealer finance. Public services via national debt…….Companies via private equity. Everything has a financial layer between payment and consumption.

Underlying a lot of this is a relatively simple fact that if debt is available, consumers (from 18 year olds to Finance Ministers) will take it. If loans are available for certain products, more of those products will be consumed.

Another (possibly evil) driver is that governments have chosen financialization as instruments for promoting stuff they want to promote. Need more corn? Crop insurance subsidies. Educate the masses? Subsidise student loans. Promote home ownership? Implicitly guarantee retail banks’ losses. Medical care for all? Tax free(subsidy) insurance. Flood problems? Flood insurance. Poverty? Microfinance.

So, banks got big. This has all sorts of weird effects.

One of the biggest problems in my opinion is the inflationary effect of this process. Real estate prices in many places are simply the amount that a bank is willing to lend buyers. If banks increase the amount a buyer can loan, house prices increase proportionally. IMO, the American healthcare saga is not really about ideology or competence or any of the stuff they talk about. The problem is that after 2-3 generations of wide scale subsidised financialization, prices & costs are so high.

My final thought is that part of the problem is the prominence of finance people in pubic decision making. They know finance. They believe in it. They use it to solve problems. They don’t see baks getting bigger as a problem. It’s kind of like the lawyer problem, who also have a lot of presence in politics. That means the legal field gets bigger all the time.
I think it would be a mistake to assume performance cannot improve.
I recently switched back to Windows Phone after several years on Android and I'm liking it a lot so far. I switched from a Samsung Galaxy S6 to an HP Elite x3. The app ecosystem is lacking but I have the apps I really need (Slack for work, WhatsApp and Telegram for messaging, LastPass) plus several nice to have apps. I find I don't want a lot of apps any more and would rather use the browser or cut them out completely.
> In September 2015, the multi-millionaire engineer at the heart of the patent and trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.”

I'm sure this is strictly on the up-and-up, but in the 70's this was a classic tax dodge that many folks tried. The problem was if you got caught in any inconsistencies where, for some purposes, you seemed to be acting as a regular business while representing yourself as a church to the govt.

> Way of the Future has not yet responded to requests for the forms it must submit annually to the Internal Revenue Service (and make publically available), as a non-profit religious corporation.

Is this true? All churches must make their IRS returns available?
AMDGPU DC Pull Request Submitted for Linux 4.15: Finally the New Display Stack
Maybe it's time for a net neutrality requirement for market dominant services such as YouTube. If a user has access to content, then the user is allowed to request that content via the agent of their choice. Thus, what hardware to use to watch YouTube would be the consumer's choice.
I agree with the spirit of what you say, but I think those requirements are too stringent. It's very difficult to get evidence before-the-fact for a lot of public policy type issues.

I think it would be better to be seek out and take heed of evidence, but not block things because of lack of prior evidence. What you need to be able to do is experiment -- try out policies -- and gather evidence from that. This will lead to some number of failed policies but ought to lead to better overall outcomes in the long-run.
The City of Boston’s High-Tech Plan to Tackle Income Inequality
The new trend is 'unlimited' vacation days, where nothing can impact you vacation time, because you have to fight with your manager for it.
Well it's a half trillion + market not a bad niche to be in
Yes. The price of Bitcoin was ~$600 12 months ago, ~990$ Jan 1st and it's now ~4080$. Trading should be compared against simply holding, otherwise what's the point?
> We see that a small percent of Tweets sent in Japanese have 140 characters (only 0.4%). But in English, a much higher percentage of Tweets have 140 characters (9%).

Took them 17 years to figure that one out?

> We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter

Okay
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Wow that’s out of left field.
He is talking about separate monolight on a boom or stand. Always on light rather than flash. He’s not talking about the LED on the phone
This link is 404ing at the moment: https://www.cloudflare.com/stream/

Linked from this page: https://www.cloudflare.com/performance/
I don't think they can deny entry (but do check the source for that), but I think it means they just made it explicit that they might dig into the "social" accounts and ask questions.

They (the government) probably already monitor and record stuff like that, but now are exposing it directly by asking related questions, say "You bought a pressure cooker, and a ball bearings last month, saw it on your Amazon account. What are you planning on doing with those".
I thin nginx+ is handled really well, a lot of new features find their way into the open source version and for most people that version is all they ever need.
Tech websites need to stop giving these projects coverage.

Why? There are people who want to know about this kind of thing.

This is not Atari... Atari is gone.

So?

Slapping licensed games and selling a shiny box with common internals is not novel and will not somehow grow a magical following.

Why do you think it needs a "magical following"? Isn't it enough that there's market demand for this box and they are serving that demand?
Search revenues (major) vs YouTube revenues (minor).

AWS revenues (minor) vs Store revenues (major) .

I'm not trying to defend Amazon or anything, but you really are comparing very different situations.
I'm going to use your comment to go on a bit of a rant. What is the purpose of your comment? Like, really. What are you trying to attain by stating what you did?

Your comment is pedantic and completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Derisive thing to say, perhaps, but this is classic HN. Miss the big picture for a useless little nugget that is of zero consequence.

For the current case, for example, a certain amount of a lot of those supposed "vices" that you listed are healthy. Greed and jealousy make you strive, ignorance give you peace of mind, rage is cathartic. So, OK, I'm guessing we both agree that there should be limits on such things. Scientology, bad. Cult involving biking to work, good.

"A very convenient one for him here". Huh?

Your comment just seems to be a portal into a conversation involving endless squabling about a topic that has nothing to do with MMM.
You don't even need a separate processor, grab one of the ARM SoCs with Big/Little cores, control the camera in bare-metal /hard real time in the little core, and keep Android on the big core(s). There's some low-level driver/hal type work to get that setup - but it isn't magic or even a particularly large investment of resources.
But all those Indians get out India as soon as they can. So maybe what is left in India isn't that good.
(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. God help you if you're a naturalized citizen in America today.)

AIUI, no, CBP cannot deny American citizens entry. They can confiscate your phone (and probably never have to return it) or arrest you, but either way they also need to let you in.

(Though if you're brown, and in certain areas, that arrest can pretty quickly turn into a summary deportation hearing where you have to prove your citizenship without access to lawyer or paperwork. In theory everyone involved would be in deep shit for an incident like that, but in practice they get presidential pardons.)

Also, this article isn't about CBP policy.
Firefox's reader mode is incredibly useful and a vision of a much better future.
It depends on the mood of their CEO.
Regarding the way social security numbers are used in the US. It’s the first thing you learn in security I’d say; don’t ever ever ever use identifiers as passwords.
From my perspective, its a novel little gaming computer with a neat industrial design and an Atari license. I don't see any reason the tech news shouldn't cover it unless they are inundated with higher interest news for the day.
Wow, thanks for sharing!
This collection helped us a lot. We really hope fellow makers will find it useful as well.

Also, we'd be glad to hear any feedback or thought you, folks, have.
> I think that it will go to like 20k in the next 4 years

Why like 20k (as opposed to like 100k or like 1k)?
Could not recent trends (not this one specifically) be construed that way?

For example, you can now run bash on Windows. What if Microsoft introduces extensions to bash that bash script writers would be tempted to use if they were targeting Windows? And if they implement it in such a way that they are not obliged to publish the source (or, they publish the source, but it calls into new Windows syscalls and so is useless on other platforms)? Now you've got windows bash and standard bash. The new features are genuinely useful, and windows bash flourishes. Then, five years later, they start breaking backward compatibility. People have to choose a side, and maybe they decide not to be compatible with standard bash anymore.

We might be at the point where Microsoft doesn't have the clout to do this, and for the moment I'm happy that you can run bash on Windows - but the millisecond that I see them introduce a single non-standard feature to bash that they don't contribute back under GPL or whatever, I will resume yelling loudly to anyone nearby about EEE.
Want to know what it does? A picture is worth a thousand words, so try squinting at these tiny screenshots on your mobile phone.
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AFAIK, A process isn't required to have a stack.
It's like how Fox News is "entertainment" so they can say whatever.
I got a ton of games I can play on Linux. Personally a HUGE win.

Just there is not a lot of Linux Desktop users though it appears we are around 3% now.
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I personally wouldn't care as much about that being on the camera if there was an instant and automatic way to transfer it to my phone (e.g. via bluetooth). I'd find it to be more useful that way.
In C++, null references are Very Bad, and they trigger undefined behavior: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4364536/is-null-referenc...

I don't think I've ever run into a null reference in the real world. I'm sure it happens, especially if people write "&*some_function_that_might_return_null()". But it shouldn't be a normal thing. There are lots of other issues with C++, but this has never been a major one in my experience.
Yes. .NET based startup, everything else is already .net core (containers + kubernetes on GKE) so we only have Windows for MSSQL.

Looking at migrating to Postgres but MSSQL in containers sounds great so far. Features are good with both databases but built-in graph, columnstore, hekaton, better backups, etc in MSSQL are strong temptations.
YouTube has a massive market share, I won't deny that. But it's far from a virtual monopoly. Even ignoring its numerous similar competitors like Vimeo, Metacafe and Daily Motion you still have Facebook.
I just wish they would sell mono cameras more (e.g. without the Bayer mask). Heck, I don't even need the camera. Just sell the chip and let companies like Atik, StarlightExpress and QHY pick them up.
Right but I'm hoping that in the future these figures might have less conflict of interests.
But no one knows when and if the music will stop. I'm not a huge crypto bull, but if you count Bitcoin + Ethereum, you're "only" looking at $90bn in market cap. There are at least several clear use cases now, unlike several years ago when it was all talk about revolution / anarchy / we're taking the power back to the people -- that nonsense.

Let's assume the technology has some value and Bitcoin could become a store of value at some point. I don't know if it will, but let's make the assumption. Then $90bn is a pittance, in comparison to the value of the global equities and gold market.

Apple is an $800bn company. Visa is a $250bn company. Mastercard $150bn. Facebook $480bn. And so on.

Crypto could very well become a $1-3-5tn market (again, I have no idea whether this will happen, and most of these ICOs look like garbage, but if either Bitcoin managed to become a store of value or Ethereum achieves a fraction of what they're trying to do, both will be very valuable). And if institutional money at some point enters the space, that will be (very) positive for the value of these things.

But even IF it's a bubble: the .com bubble wiped away $1.9tn in value. Crypto is at $100bn at the moment. The main currencies (Bitcoin + Ethereum, which account for 75% of crypto value) might very well go 10-20x again before any major breakdown occurs.

I've been on the fence multiple times: it's a bubble, it's not a bubble, and frankly, I have no idea. But the potential might be there at least, so it's probably a good idea to at least own some. The potential downside is: you lose your money. But the upside is 10 to 20x, which seems pretty good.
Their DNS changes are fast even when the site is not being proxied through CF.
Agreed. Govt should issue money or force issuance of money against productive endeavor not rentier activity. Plus tax labour, not land.

We have a total disaster mid-way through. This has to change.
Wait until you start getting the "we would like to send you and e-mail about X, but first can I verify some information" phone calls. I get about five per week. I too know that I am being massively unfair, but I have started just saying "Server Room", hearing them start to introduce themselves, saying "this is not a sales call line", and then hanging up. Totally unfair, but I'm to the point that I will probably just not pick up anything that I don't recognize on the caller id.
Yeah I agree with 20k in 3-5 years. That's conservative. John McAfee said $500k in 3-5 years! Would be nice. :D