skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think urbit started out as a pomo critique of modern academia and tech, with heavy jargon and wheel rebuilding. Then, some other people started taking it seriously. I’m not sure if that is the best or worst outcome for this kind of joke.
From my experience quality of USPS varies. Some employees are doing a superb job, but some just don't seem to give a f*k. I've seen mails delivered to wrong mailboxes, sometimes I've seen mail that is even from a different street. One time they marked item as delivered, before they actually did which made me worry it was stolen (fortunately the item was delivered 2 hours later).

Other time (more an issue for Amazon in that instance) they delivered item but never scanned it so an opportunist could claim that item was never delivered and there's no way to verify that.

As I said there are also good things. I really like that USPS doesn't artificially delay packages like UPS (if item could be delivered sooner, but was paid for 2 days delivery, they will hold it). I for example had a package delivered next day because it was shipped from a close place, even though the estimate was 3-5 days.
It's not investors who pursue short term gains at the expense of long term gains, it's management. CEOS/Boards/Top management practice share price manipulation to maximize the value of their own stock options. If you are CEO of a company and you have a big block of options vesting at years end, it's time to announce a buy back program to get the stock to pop, even if it's determinedly to building the long term value of the business.

If you want shareholders to act more like owners, allow them to be treated like owners. Currently the SEC's anti-raider rules prevent any shareholders from proposing board slates. Boards are picked by boards, insiders pick insiders. That's the real disconnect here.
When I read comments like yours, I get excited to read the n-gate.com coverage of the article. I can see it now:

>a hackernews decides to congratulate apple for being duplicitous
xenophobic undertone

It's another facet of gentrification. A restaurant owner may really love having a small, local clientele of regulars and a very good atmosphere due to that fact. Then one day he gets awarded a Michelin star and suddenly thousands of tourists descend on his place and swamp it with unwanted business. Is it xenophobic to suggest he might prefer to go back to the previous situation?
That link doesn't talk about support to a vote, just for independence
Vote-counting is easy now; just count party members and make a very few exceptions. How things have changed since LBJ's day, and not for the better.
Just because "everyone" agrees with something doesn't make it true.

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, etc, etc, are public businesses run for the long term best interests of their shareholders.
Does not having to join a network make a big difference for a worm considering the amount of wifi networks we share with large numbers of other people?
I'd prefer to keep the low-effort passive-aggressive insult posts to Reddit if possible.
Trading hours aren't an anachronism. As someone who trades cryptocurrencies, I frequently need to stay up well into the next morning if markets are moving. It never stops, sleeping is never completely safe. Trading hours make it human
Sure, you know better my political views than me.

Listen, there is more than the present status quo or independence, there a people that want less descentralization, there is people that want a federal state and there is people that wants a confederal state.

And a fucking lot of people support that others can decide want they want to be and, at the same time, doesn't agree whit their views.

I think people like you, that see this situation in balck and white and think that anyone that doesn't see like you is an independentist are part of the problem, no of the solution.
Actually the solving of the puzzle itself is just done with a simple recursive algorithm.

I trained a neural network to do the computer vision part to interpret the puzzles.

And there are a bunch of pre-trained networks built into iOS11's Vision API and ARKit that the app just uses black box.
Personally I think just enabling trading would not be a good idea. That said, I also want to do something similar to this. Securities laws in the 1st world are hopelessly out of date.

So I've looked in other jurisdictions but I've had huge problems finding the right country to do it in.

The last time I tried I got scammed by a Corporate Service Provider in the Isle of Mann that went out of business about a month after I sent them $$.

If anyone is looking for a co-founder in this space, and is interested in having a chat, email is in my profile.
> As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it.

Tell me more, NSA...
Most common RPC framework used throughout Baidu, brpc is opensourced right now
Coherent, self-contained platforms seem to always lose in the market, so it's not even clear that's a good goal to aim for. That's why I prefer Sandstorm; it provides an evolutionary path from normal Linux.

Getting back to your question, Blockstack is claiming to provide virtually the same personal cloud features as Urbit but it's only boiling half the ocean.
Last time I booked a room, I had leaking water everywhere in the room. Since I was alone and it was only for 1 night, I didn't bother to complain.

With that said, I will still book my rooms through Booking.com. But at least this article gave me some nice pointers to keep in mind in the future, like the "fine print".
All this explanation is great - as I said it would have improved the blog post to include some of that. I'm not arguing that it's not actually different this time. But I think they should have made the case in the blog post.
Efficiency is profit and is rewarded by the market. Therefore, humanistic single timezone centric trading hours are disincentivized, and because they are not required, they will eventually disappear. Therefore, I view them as an anachronism.
I'm not seeing anything on the blog that says the will or won't do that. So, I guess you can keep hoping, for now at least.

Edit: specifically, I don't see anything that indicates they won't distribute it more widely. Sorry for being unclear.
> Are they shipping?

Yes and no; it's a completely functional OS for which there are AFAICT no useful applications yet. You can absolutely run it, but there's no reason to run it other than to hack on it.
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Arg. I wish this article were more substantive, since it's an important topic. But there are no details.
The elliptic curve pairings that will be added to Metropolis will enable fully anonymous transactions as in Zcash. The zk-SNARKS that Zcash uses for currency transactions can be used for a wider variety of transactions in Ethereum. The elliptic curve tech will also enable things like the BLS signatures used by Dfinity.
It's not like your karma points are worth anything. Why does this bother you?
I would rather be easily exploitable so people realize how bad this is. The alternative is only governments/powerful corporations exploiting it forever without repercussions.
That also works with bookmark keywords in Firefox. The setting is in each bookmark's properties; it takes variables (I leave it to the reader to look up the syntax).
Actually I was just reflecting your examples, not citing things which the proposal would fix.
"Currently, an investor who owns one share for a month, or even a day, has the same voting power as someone who has owned a share for years. Mr. Ries wants what he calls “tourists” — short-term shareholders — to have less voting power than long-term shareholders, whom he calls “citizens of the republic.” Over time, shareholders of companies on the LTSE would gain more votes based on their length of ownership."

This is really a poorly thought out idea that's hugely counter-productive. You own your shares for 10 years and have mucho voting rights, but need to sell them. Now you have to sell them to someone who will get virtually no voting rights at the time of purchase. So all this does is make your shares way less valuable. It will end up creating "phantom sale" markets where you continue to serve as the shareholder of record, but agree to vote your mucho votes the way the purchaser wants you to.

The real problem isn't short term holders. The real problem is that shareholders aren't owners. The SEC won't let shareholders pick the boards of their own companies. Companies are owned by their managers now, and they are the short term thinkers using their incentive stock options to drive their decisions.
They absolutely do, with their own terms. Isn't an S-expression just a list? Isn't a method just a "member function", which is really just a function, which is really just a subroutine? Every language comes up with its own terms, especially for things that are a little different from previous work.

Urbit isn't trying to solve many new problems; it's trying to solve old problems in different ways. They just want to be able to talk about the constructs in their solutions.
Yes, you can enable both in Airplane mode. Just checked it
> Thiel reportedly doubled-down and immediately donated $1.25 million to Trump’s campaign

Can someone describe corruption and help me understand how it differs from this situation?
Since that article, Kadowaki's actually now listed as a 2-star Michelin restaurant.

Don't know what's happened since then, but I remember the name because it's the only Michelin restaurant I've ever dined in. Small world coming across it on HN!

For what it's worth, the staff was pleasant and welcomed us as foreigners, asking where we were visiting from. Kadowaki came by at the end of the meal to put the finishing touches on his signature dish, and was just as welcoming. Pricey though!
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iOS can be configured to automatically switch to LTE if it detects you’re on a low quality wifi connection. No need to turn off wifi for that.
It helps filter down the initial list of items you evaluate. For example, you might see two items with 1000 reviews and similar scores, but one of the items might have an inflated score due to review farming.
This seems like a reasonable time to do a shameless plug of a side project - finding which supplements worked and didn't over for me personally has been a huge PITA.

https://betterself.io/ - I'd love feedback!

I too also found Magnesium to be really helpful. But taking it with food made it much more effective.
ahh, sorry for the misunderstanding.

Does the network do well with handwriting, e.g. puzzles that have been half-solved?
Right, I get that. So I guess my question is: in what ways justifying new terminology are the approaches taken by Urbit different? And whether or not they're different enough from prior art to merit obscure new terms, are those differences worthwhile, or are they different for the sake of being different? Because not all of the last 30 odd years of systems and programming research was pointless.
I wish they’d also fix the problem of Apple Pencil draining when in bag with the iPad - it seems to think it’s being used and is trying to transmit to the iPad. I’ve been turning off Bluetooth to deal with this stupidity, now I have to turn on airplane mode to actually turn it off properly.
I keep it off because of exploits posted in this article.
https://elpais.com/diario/2007/07/05/espana/1183586424_85021...

http://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/politica/Estatuto-artic...

http://www.jlprieto.es/paradojas-constitucionales-sobre-el-e...
Trump was a private citizen at the time. That was a donation from Thiel to Trump presidential campaign. Corruption is mostly reservered for government favouritism.
Facebook link proxy https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/an-after-hours-company-visi...
I had the same suspicious impression of the domain name too --- I wonder what factors cause that, because it's clearly something not everyone has, and probably gained after years of web browsing. I think the two biggest things that stand out are:

- Has "security" in its name

- Has the current year

I can't explain exactly why I think those factors make it suspicious, however.
No offense taken, I even upvoted both corrections.
I'm a huge wget fan! It's the core tech inside my archiving tool: https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver
iOS doesn’t restrict the languages on its platform. Restrictions only come into play if you want to download code from the internet and run it.
It's not fantastic for me. I'd like to off wifi from the control screen.
> (3) You can still fully disable it by going into settings, but the quick-off is more like you expect.

For me, I expect off to be off. What annoys me about this change is that the on\off behaviour is now asymmetric. If I turn off Wi-Fi in Settings, I can turn it back on via Control Centre but I now can't turn it off via Control Centre.

My preference is always to leave Wi-Fi off, turn it on when I want to use it, and then turn it off when I'm finished. This change makes doing that slower and clumsier.
> not because they wanted in on the hardware business

I don't think that's true, see Project Ara [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
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Ever contacted your local postmaster? Every organization has rotten apples, but I’ve found USPS usually acts on complaints more frequently than UPS or FedEx.
Well I wasn't going to spill the beans just yet but if you promise to keep a secret.. working on that for v2 :)

Edit: Although so far I've learned that some people have VERY bad handwriting. I'm having a hard time sanitizing a dataset because I can't even tell what digit they were trying to write
> For the best experience on your iOS device, try to keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on.

For the best protection on any kind of device, try to keep unnecessary attack vectors turned off.
There was another thread on HN about this issue, wherein the author of iTerm2 immediately responded with a new release that fixes this issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15286956
> I'm not guessing when I provide that reason for the 2^32 bit address space. It's the official stated answer from the project itself.

Link? My understanding was that the official answer was "there should be about as many urbit addresses as adult humans so that they're too expensive to spam from, and if urbit is ever so wildly successful that we start running out, it won't be that hard to add more." (though I don't remember where I picked that up either)
The best piece I've read on that distinction was in The Economist. Along with clarifying what happened with those companies in that industry, I've carried with me to this day the lesson therein from Kodak—since its investment in digital photography paid off well in the short term—of how decisions can immediately look wise but ultimately be fatal.

http://www.economist.com/node/21542796
It's $4000 for the desktop system and $4700 for the workstation.

I'm not really sure where you got the $6500 figure.
Theory: only a system as esoteric as Urbit could generate the necessary asabiyyah to actually pull this off. It's not just a tech problem, it's also a social engineering problem. As in, how can you self-select for only the smartest, most dedicated people to build your system? Well, allow me to introduce you to Hoon https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/
The point of the donation was a bet, to receive government favoritism in the event of election. Is that non-obvious?
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I love USPS, my packages shipped through them arrive before noon every time, never damaged, and if something requires a signature my carrier(a) wait for more than 3 seconds for me to get to the door.
I often find myself going to Wikipedia to find out what the company is supposed to do.
I wonder, is a jigsaw always solved when you find a configuration with the least amount of high frequency energy?
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The engine designs could have been copied by someone not in the supply chain. They could be reversed engineered by simply purchasing one.

If your business can be copied by the people who actually make your products, you have no barriers to competition, and thats a terrible business.
I was very careful to remove any scripts loaded on the page, and I both disabled the FORM submitting and pointed it to localhost.

That being said, your concern is warranted, I think Cloudflare and browsers did the right thing by blocking my site. It served its purpose, and as of 4pm CT today I took it down and destroyed the droplet it was running on. I collected no analytics while it was running off Cloudflare, and kept no logs.

Hopefully Equifax doesn't sue me in the next few months.
Whoa there calm down, partner.
So, a billion dollars for about a 100 engineers.
I haven't seen that as the reason behind it (something about 4 billion planets being a good limit, maybe), and assumed it was hyperbole.

2^32 "houses", even if it was ideologically motivated, is a design decision that makes sense at first glance, is easily worked around (and was designed that way), and can be trivially changed. Some of Curtis' politics were visible in the Urbit first draft (naming galaxies after ancient rulers being the most egregious...), and both weren't important and have since been changed.

Thinking about it, 2^32 planets is one of the only weird design decisions that /would/ be ideologically motivated, other than the general dislike of Haskell or UNIX that birthed it. All of Hoon and the kernel are basically built from Nock first principles, which is both insane to read and amazing, and I'm not sure that you can say Curtis' ideology is the DNA of them. Urbit has tons of weird things in it that could make you drop it (like all of Hoon, even though most of it does make sense and is easy to learn, I promise! I'm not crazy!), but I don't think Curtis is the fatal flaw.
The arbitration didn't involve trade secret claims, which the lawsuit against Uber does. Instead, the arbitration involved poaching employees.[0] Poaching employees is child's play compared to stealing the LIDAR design.

Second, Judge Alsup referred the case the US attorney's office for criminal investigation. If convicted of intellectual property theft (and there's a lot of evidence about this), Anthony Levandowski could be end up in prison for a very long time.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/waymo-pursued-arbitration-...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/05/googles-fight-uber-takes-turn-...
While I have complaints about Google, UX isn't one of them. I can't think of a Google product that is really all that unintuitive, undiscoverable, or difficult to use.

Am I missing something? I guess it can be rather subjective, but I don't have any complaints about UX or UI.

I should add that I've been told I'm too forgiving of bad design, so this is a legitimate question. I really don't see anything wrong with the UX from any of their products that are in common use.

I did have occasion to use one of their search appliances and the UX wasn't bad, but the results were pretty terrible. Terrible results might qualify as bad UX, I guess?
This is how we shall benchmark that CPU.
> Spain is for all the spaniards. All have the same basic rights as the right to move freely inside the entire country, to work and live when they want inside its frontiers and to decide together about the destiny of their country. With logical exceptions (like requiring granted access to private areas); this super-basic concept is in use in all free and democratic countries of the world.

Think that has nothing to do with a part of an state voting their secession and not the whole country.

A question to all of the people that say that the whole country should vote.

What would you do if more than 70% of the population of a part of the state would be independent? Allow them the independence and start the negotiations or don't allow>
After tons of reports of Coinbase accounts being broken into they looked into it, replicated it and then reported it.

SMS isn't a secure nor authenticated transport and never has been. Avoid anything that uses SMS as a transport for secrets or phone numbers as auth.

It's not just SS7 vulns but also number portability.

afaik Coinbase is still using SMS as an optional second factor, while iCloud still only allows SMS.
And now it's taken down completely. No analytics were collected (post-cloudflare), and I kept no access logs.
Self driving truck in the bay area drives 2 hours in traffic
Here is the Vanity Fair article this piece references and recommends ("You can read the whole, absurd story here. Highly recommended.")

> "here" --> https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/donald-trump-peter-t...
Not a proper fix, but a workaround is to turn off Bluetooth then immediately turn it back on. This disconnects the Apple Pencil, which allows it to keep its charge (for weeks in my experience). With the new iOS update it sounds like you'll need to turn airplane mode on then off instead, which is a bit more annoying (but better than leaving airplane mode on the whole time).
I agree it’s better to display the “total cost of stay” in the search results, however that isn’t what Booking.com displays. As OP said they display the “total cost of all nights” which excludes taxes and cleaning/service fees.

A few weeks ago I stayed in an apartment in Austria which was €49 for one night, with a €45 cleaning fee... I thought that seemed a bit crazy (ok there were 7 of us, so still pretty good), but clicking through other results I saw all the properties in this area had similar fees. One had the same price per night and a €70 cleaning fee! I guess it’s a way to avoid taxes or such.
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lol chinks
Reminds me of the Nexus One when the power buttons failed left and right - both Google and HTC left many customers with expensive paperweights.
For years and years, packages shipped via FedEx would arrive at the house I grew up in beat to hell. Rarely to the point of damaging the goods inside, but not exactly confidence inspiring.
I just searched for a while and couldn't find it, so I must be mis-remembering. Edited.
My guess is that even if they built a bigger mesh, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Having a smaller mesh lets you explore applications a bit better.
A 32-bit planet is a tool, not a toy. Like a car, it's a device for a responsible and independent adult. There aren't 4 billion cars in the world, nor 4 billion independent adults.

If you aren't an independent adult, and you don't need or even shouldn't have unconditional digital freedom (no one's 8-year-old daughter needs unconditional digital freedom), a moon from someone else's planet is fine. (Even most of today's independent adults don't complain enough about being Facebook's moons.)

It's literally a bullet in their "objections" post.
> while iCloud still only allows SMS

? I’ve had 2FA turned on for my iCloud account for a while, any time I’ve needed to authorize a device I’ve had to approve it on my iMac or iOS device, it doesn’t use SMS.
Which is why basically every big corporation and donor donates to both side of the campaign. This is nothing new. Only difference is that here, Thiel donated to a candidate that didn't get many other big donations because it was presumed he had no chance of winning.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=5%20lessons%20I%20learned%20tr...

Kinda sad, really.
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