skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. A couple of months ago as an experiment, when I was quoted 100 Euros a night from booking.com for a modest hotel in a small town in Austria that I had stayed at previously for much less. I didn't make the booking through booking.com but walked over to the hotel when I get to town for an the spot booking and got the same room with breakfast included or 75 Euros a night.
Good article, and it’s one of a number I’ve seen in the last 30 days touching on whether or not there is a bubble, or a long-term decline on the horizon.

The problem with bubbles is people will call them as soon as things are overly valued by 200%, or even overly valued by 10x,20x, whatever. While those people might be right, bubbles have this incredible sustaining force to go on for years afterwards. There were lots of high-profile investors who were forced out of Wall Street in 1996 and 1997 for accurately calling a bubble, but under-estimating euphoria.

There was lots of talk 2 years about issues like this, but those never materialized. Who knows this time.

If anyone saw the controversy with Bodega a few days ago, that was a good sign of trouble. Why in the world are 10 year+ Googlers applying machine learning to VENDING MACHINES. There are thousands of fields they could have applied that to, many of which would have made them famous and declared geniuses if they could have gotten it to work. Their focus on vending machines though suggests that maybe AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to me (not long term but for now).
Yeah, from announcement of HTC to Taiwan's stock exchange,

Google buys HTC's Pixel team, license to HTC's IP, and a RF lab (Subsidiary of HTC) for 1.1 billion USD.
Try Expo at expo.io. It's similar to create-react-native-app but gives you a nice simple tool to preview your app.
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You're asserting that a 'three letter agency' convinced Intel to do this, and asserting it as factual. I'm not convinced that it is, and think market focus is more probable than nefarious agencies. Though, to be sure, those types of agencies would probably be willing to take advantage of this.

No, it seems more probable that they did this because their largest customers want centralized management at a low level. They want to be able to track and control assets, and to prevent asset loss. They, being the largest customers, control the features that Intel offers. It then makes no sense, financially, to make two versions of the CPU.

Unfortunately, the market for people who care is vanishingly small. Most people don't much care about privacy or security, other than to pay it lip service - if even that much. Prevalent is the idea that they've nothing to hide and, thus, nothing to fear.

So, without evidence that this was inspired by a three letter agency, I'm going to assume it is a financial decision. That seems much more reasonable and probable.

Do you have any evidence to prove three letter agency coercion? I'd expect it to be quite the news event, if you did.
I think Google wants the VR (HTV Vive) team.
On Amazon I usually just make sure they are a verified purchaser of the product before considering a review. Does Fakepost offer something beyond that for Amazon?

Yelp I understand though as I don't think there is anything like a "verified diner."
Pretty much every ICO is a securities offerings. (Don't let the talk about "utility tokens" fool you.) If you offer a security, there are applicable SEC rules. If you want to raise money from unaccredited investors, you have to follow "Reg CF" [1], which involves regulatory filings. Most startups raise money according to Reg D of the 1933 act [2]. Depending on how you advertise your offering, there are more or less strict rules and regulations. For example, if you ever publicly mention the offering, you'll have to verify your investor's accreditation (rule 506(b) vs. 506(c)).

All of this applies to any securities offering, including ICOs.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/rccomplianceguide-051...
[2]: https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-regdhtm.html

IANAL… this is not legal advice, etc. etc.
Google/HTC deal is official, Google to acquire part of HTC’s smartphone team
The answer would likely be AI risk. Then someone similar to this author will write an introduction to computer science that starts with a science fiction-esque warning of doom and gloom
Satellite internet is cheap enough that I'd consider the only good excuse to be a complete lack of power. And even that is becoming less true as solar drops in price.
Tracking illegal fishing over 1.4B square miles
None of these are really scientific breakthroughs but it shows HTC can be on the cutting edge of phone hardware.

To address what you mentioned:

* First LTE phone means they were ahead on hardware integration, testing, and price to get to market first.
* The Low-MP camera demonstrates that they saw the end of the highest-megapixel wars and the shift towards picture quality being subjective.
* BoomSound has certainly kicked off a trend, The iPhone 7 made a big deal (TV ads, etc) about its much louder dual speakers. Nobody before HTC cared about phone speakers.
For most events (at least in the US), you can only get tickets via TicketMaster. Venues sign an agreement with TM that forbids them selling tickets elsewhere. TM controls venue's entire ticket sale workflow, including inventory, printing and sending tickets, etc.

Going with another vendor is a gigantic undertaking, you would need to overhaul most of your processes. Most venues don't have the resources/bandwidth to pull that off.

And that's how TM stays a monopoly.

Source: used to work for a large venue.
Yeah, why would HTC agree to something like this? Sounds like Google got a hell of a deal getting to pick which engineers and IP they want without having to buy the whole company.
Ambitions, yes, but this is a company that has never once met its shipment target
Think this bodes well for AMD’s datacenter aspirations with next gen cloud being heavily AI focused (and GPU)? Also what about Musk’s Neuralink?
Https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/27/15077864/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-computer-interface-ai-cyborgs
> Why would Google acquire just a team from HTC?

IIRC, The license agreement[1] between HTC and APPLE will be voided if HTC is acquired by another company, maybe this strategy can avoid this situation.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2012/11/11HTC-and-Apple-Settl...
Hi, thanks for submitting. I'm the developer of the app! Happy to answer any questions

(I was going to write up a medium post about the technical side of building the app but haven't gotten a chance yet)
Thanks, didn't know there was a TIA guide. Would one consider 'X people bought this recently', or 'X people are looking at this now' to be an advertisement for the product, or just a statement unrelated to the actual product (what it is and/pr does, price)
Any bootstrapped currency will have a very high risk premium. That doesn't mean it doesn't behave like a currency
Please don't use code blocks for text quoting. They cause side scrolling which can be annoying in desktop browsers and nigh unreadable on mobile.

Common methods to quote text blocks on HN are to use a > prefix and/or asterisks to italicize the quoted text.
Larry Page not being the CEO of Google is somewhat pedantic… he's the CEO of Alphabet, formerly known as Google. Sundar Pichai is the CEO of formerly Google's Google division, now known as the only Google, reporting to Larry Page.
Sorry - I used '>' first but instinctively changed it to a block since HN didn't actually format it any differently. (And I use a Chrome extension to restyle HN, so code blocks don't have the issues you described.)
The classic example of where a trade secret works well is for the recipe (original) for coca-cola.
I’m waiting for the “cheap and cheerful” version that runs pictures through your Facebook account for face identification.

It will be interesting to see what happens.
Urbit has been around for a few years and has done nothing to clear up the confusion around it. I think at this point it is safe to say that any claims of Urbit being a revolutionary form of computing are hogwash.

This is probably similar to how Scientology got started. Nobody really believes in it, but are too afraid to strongly denounce it because they don't want to be the one who "doesn't get it." So they all just go along and get sucked further along down the rabbit hole. The difference between Scientology and Urbit is that Scientology managed to rope in a few celebrities and gained some sustaining mass. If Urbit wants to make it big, they should pay Zuckerberg and Musk to evangelize it, and then everyone will be falling all over themselves to be part of it.
If anyone reads the journals of the far-left, like The Baffler, Dissent, or Jacobin, I can tell you they view Trump more positively than Silicon Valley.

The Baffler in particular ran a scratching article about “protests” from Silicon Valley. Keep in mind this is an extremely liberal magazine that is the heir to the 1960’s New York intellectual scene.

The Baffler found this group called, I kid you not, “Boutique Activist Consultancy”, who spew such meaningless nonsense like “the next trigger for mass revolution will be a contagious mood that spreads throughout the world and human community”. This group, out of Berkeley, charges a mid-5 figure fee for such wisdom. They’ve since locked down most of their website, but you can find it, along with their self-published CreateSpace Amazon E-Book, here: http://activist.boutique

Basically it’s hard to believe any of the liberal beliefs coming out of the SF area anymore, more likely they exist simply as a means to protect wealth and corporations. Google has for years ratcheted up their donations to Republicans, while many VC’s are suspected to be Republicans in their own right.
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Yes, I would invest.
Current discussion, at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15300069
TL;DR, Google doesn't acquire HTC, they bought a team.
The bigger thing is the IP acquisition. That's largely why they grabbed Moto and then spun it out. With this they can skip the middle step.
The bigger problem in my mind (and I'm biased) is that these courses aren't designed to run together. They assume different knowledge and seemingly random levels of ability when you're taking them as one-offs. The hard part is mapping it all out and finding the holes. There's no continuity.
Switching out motherboards is not a simple ask. There's a ton of other issues that you'd have to test for on some non-trivial amount of existing vehicles with the old gen hardware. And some point you might get confident enough you won't see heat, power, or signal issues that you can justify a mass replacement of the hardware but it's not a quick and dirty swap.
Didn't we just read Google has invested $1.1B into self driving and a significant portion of that was paid to Levandowski?
Cute how silly it is.... :)
How to Convert Videos to 4K or UHD in 2017
The dystopian vision that Westerners have about China is pretty backward
> Where can you eat for less than $10 besides McDonald’s or a pizza place?

Depends on where you live. In New York, for example, it's incredibly easy to find good food for under $10, even for dinner.
It still exists and is still getting regular updates. I have a VM image that I sometimes play with. For what it is, I've found it functional and stable. I'm not really qualified to offer much more of an opinion than that.

Anyhow, grab your favorite VM software and give it a spin. There have been loads of changes to it. I do mean a lot of changes. You can even use Firefox with it.

It's on my to-do list to try it on bare metal. I understand it isn't too bad with regards to hardware compatibility. But, I've never tried it outside of a VM, with the exception of a friend having it on bare metal many years ago.
They have a monopoly just like Comcast.
I always take it to airplane mode to disable all, I don't think any company can risk that.
Ironically, 4 hours later, this story also currently on the front page was submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15299165
>"It's hard to quantify negative impact of future dealings, but it's even harder to say Booking.com should change their methods when the people aware enough to be annoyed continue to give them money"

Please tell me how to avoid the duopoly that is Booking.com(Priceline Group) and Expedia in Europe? Especially so when making new booking on short notice. Booking.com has maintained close to 60% market share:

http://www.hotrec.eu/newsroom/press-releases-1714/dominant-o...
I absolutely loath Booking.com's UX.

Whenever it's possible, I use something else, like HostelWorld.
Their interface is clean, to the point, and the reviews and ratings can actually be trusted.

I'm happy someone did this website. I just came back from a long trip and every time somebody asked me why I hate Booking.com, I pointed exactly to some of the points that were made there. The fake sense of urgency, the cluttered UI.
And the cherry on top: The fact they display the "total cost of all nights" in the results, instead of the per-night cost. That's not a misleading UX, it's just a bad UX decision.

But because of it's popularity amongst accommodation owners and travelers, its fall is unlikely.
Hmm... Is that actually helping some sort of goal you have? I'm struggling to understand what your objective would be.
Surely, I agree with you but in the same manner you have freak athletes at what point do you tell Lebron James, Ronaldo, etc that they are “much too skilled and talented” compared to others?

America’s poor are rich in comparison to other countries’ poor. It’s a perception problem, even for the citizens of UAE (forgetting the second class workers for a minute). There’s going to be the random citizen who only owns 3 Ferraris and a small penthouse in London, while some others have 20 cars and two mansions in London and NYC.

There will always be those with less.
Socket Programming in Ruby
Your site doesn't work with JS disabled.
Yes, the whole thing sounded illegal, so not all that surprising a result.
Much like acquisition.

From some local rumor (maybe from HTC's Taiwan employee, but not confirmed yet), Google won't acquire all team member, they want RD mostly, not the management people.

And google will have a internal interview for those RD to decide who can stay, then sign a two year work contract with them. so that's some different compare to other google employee.
I think that's the most sensible hypothesis. Whenever there is a nature vs nurture question, the answer is usually "it's both".
Does DDG learn from what people !g for?
Clicking it could easily turn the icon into a timer, sort of like how apps show download/install progress. It's WiFi Snoozing!
> Should you or my local gov have stopped me from this?

The government isn't stopping you from putting solar panels on the top of your RV, and it's regulation of structures through building codes is usually reasonable.
Google Analytics data is now streamed to BigQuery
I can.. it makes those buttons much more useful for the common case. e.g. this wifi network isn't working, disconnect.. and not forget to reconnect later. I did that often.

And also being hassled about location services not working, etc.

You can still actually disable both through the settings up, just not with the quick access.
Yeah at the end of the day it's just another programming language, and you can really get things done in any programming language.
My company has had a much better experience with FedEx than UPS. FedEx employees seem happier. Our driver owns his route and treats us like his personal customer. The UPS guys are nice too but tend to have that postal worker attitude and don't seem as happy. UPS loses more packages, though that seems to have improved. UPS support sucks and their API is even worse. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to pull my hair out while in a UPS call queue being transferred around between clueless front line reps. Their automatic billing has broken on us over the years to the point where we would have to call in to pay each invoice manually or start getting collections notices. They couldn't fix it and we had to just open a new account. This happened twice! FedEx support OTOH is excellent. While I'm greatful for the support of my friends at UPS, I greatly prefer to do business with FedEx.
> You can't, that's just the issue...

Do you judge me as a conscious being? If so, then you came to that conclusion by making some empirical observations.

What are those observations?

I'm not trying to explain consciousness here, I'm just trying to identify it.
It's worth an hours-long trip! Make sure you take the Metro; Arts et Metiers is a gorgeous station.

http://onesmallwindow.com/the-life/the-coolest-museum-in-par...
> Vim just takes longer for those tasks and gives worse overview/feedback on which they are/where they are/etc, including with the relevant plugins.

As I said, there are fast plugins for that task and slow plugins. Command-T and Ctrl-P are megafast because they are run as native binaries.
I guess I'd ask this question:

Is it ethical to want to bring in unaccredited investors to a market that's known for being scammy and overhyped?
I remember using Google Goggles for this back in 2011 or so.

The cool new thing is projecting the solution onto the paper and having it track correctly!
Or that he wants to be able to fail sometimes. If you aren't able to fail and keep going, you're never going to be able to push the boundaries.
> I also never look at reviews since my experience has found that reviews are useless to me. I think reviewers tend to care about things I don't, and have had excellent experiences at places with generally bad reviews.

This is the same with restaurant reviews on sites like Yelp. A restaurant that has 2.5 stars could have excellent, delicious food but are docked points because people who went there and reviewed cared more about the service than the food, or expected the service to be top notch at a place where great service isn't typically expected.
That's... a baffling claim.

Urbit is well documented, in easy-to-understand terminology, from low level, to high level:
https://urbit.org/docs/
https://urbit.org/docs/nock/definition/
https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/concepts/

The code is open source, under MIT license:
https://github.com/urbit/urbit

Heck, urbit even shows up to Hacker News semi-regularly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=urbit

What backs your claim they have done nothing to clear up the confusion about it?
I believe the reason is that abuse frequently comes from users who mask their identity by means of a VPN. It's a pretty logical position to make the VPN users demonstrate they are human and not some abusive script.

Yes, there are ways around it, but that doesn't negate the logic of Google's actions. Yes, you might be innocent, but Google doesn't have any way to know that.

If I were tasked with the same goals as Google, I'd probably do much the same.
I bought some Bitcoin for a family member as a gag gift recently thinking we could have some fun paying each other with Bitcoin for little things like household chores and whatnot. This was my first time using Bitcoin, and I was shocked to learn that it costs roughly $5 worth of Bitcoin to make a single transaction using Bitcoin! The fee is known as a "Bitcoin mining fee." I'm an open minded person and honestly believe d that Bitcoin might work prior to actually using it. However, after discovering the actual cost of using Bitcoin, it is clearly inferior to US Dollars in every way. Bitcoin is a scam, block chain is all hype, and everyone involved with Cryptomania is going to look silly when the music stops and someone has to eat the soggy biscuit.
> I'm not sure "centrist" is really a thing because I'm not sure voters fall on a simple left/right spectrum

"Centrist" is simply the idea of focusing on agreements, areas where there exists broad consensus, and leaving the other issues for later. Americans agree on many issues, but Congress focuses on where we disagree (job security I guess).

I'm not sure why you think there isn't a center in American politics... the media oversimplifies political discourse, but the center still exists in higher dimensions.
Sequence allocations occur globally and outside your transaction.

StagedJobs.where('id <= ?', job_batch.last).delete

This will end up deleting a job id that was reserved inside a transaction, meanwhile your enqueuer kicks off and fetches the jobs, then your transaction writes the job to staged_jobs table, just in time for enqueuer to delete it without ever queueing it.

You need to delete the specifically queued ids and not a numeric range.
>The benefit of working with typeclasses has always been the ability to see and abstract out patterns that occur through Functors, Applicatives, Monoids, et al.

Which leads to code that needs to be puzzled out, rather than code that flows naturally. 'What does [arbitrary-monad-operationM_] mean for SomeMonadTransformerStack again???' is all too common in my experience.

I really think that's false abstraction, like an 'object' superclass in OO languages.
I think that the stock market model encourages short-term thinking. I think everyone agrees with that.

Thankfully there's another option: just don't sell out. Stay private. You might not become a billionaire, but who really wants to be a billionaire anyway?
Hi yeldarb! This is a really neat app. I don't want to diminish your creation, so please don't think I'm trying to put you down with this question:

How much of this was just glue-code to integrate a few modules, vs. how much did you have to do from scratch?

I'm asking to try to get an idea to see if ARkit is within the reach of an average joe- sudoku solver code could be a copy/paste, digit recognition could be a copy/paste, and ARKit should provide you with some environment/location info.
The State of Being Stuck
Your arguments make sense that the attack capacity continues to advance on many fronts (of course, the easy exploits like social engineering still remain the most common exploits by far — in raw numbers and probably in terms of impact as well). I would argue though that the existence of advanced attack capability doesn’t mean that the securable surface area of computing functionality can’t also grow over time.

I can probably agree that none of apple’s actions have significantly affected the percentage of computing functionality used in society that is comprisable at low cost — however I do think that Apple can choose to act to (1) increase the average cost to compromise (2) expand the (incredibly small) set of functionality which is not trivial to compromse.

I don’t think that any truly expert 3-letter agencies can reasonably oppose those goals in a way that completely prevents them from advancing. I think it would be self-defeating for the NSA to implement something like a “security blocking sophon”[1] that permanently cripples the capacity of technology to become more trustworthy given how dependent are the societies in which these entities operate on trustworthiness being possible in some contexts ...

[1] (sophons are a concept from this novel — which I won’t spoil, great series!) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem
Sometimes the bad network is my network, for example when I’m standing in my driveway. It’s still close enough to pick up my wifi but it doesn’t actually load anything. Or my office Wi-Fi once I get down to the lobby, but before I leave the building. Good for you if this never happens, but it’s a real problem.
and Apple is going to sit back and say "Oh Wow- Didn't see that coming"?. Don't bet on it- Apple will claim violation of their agreement.
Something like how Google turns their web page background black on Earth day?