skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to have thought about this and answers a question on it here (at about 1hr8mins in): https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBlockchain/videos/200606982...

His answer is a bit hand wavy though (or maybe I'm just being slow).
>>Digital banking became a way of life atleast in the urban India.

People did some PayTM when they had no cash.

These days if you ask them for a digital transaction, they smile at you gently and ask you trade in cash.

I can't even remember the last time I used cards/PayTM to buy anything near my home. Even for online buying I use cash on delivery, where I pay through cash. Have to, as my mom or dad have to receive the package at home.

Structural reforms are way harder in India than people are thinking. Trust me, Indians care only to optimize for personal gains, and personal gains ONLY. Everything else comes secondary. You can use a hammer and smash approach. People have their own timelines as to what you do.

Nobody here is in a hurry to sign up for your world disruption scheme.
The best combustion cars are still ahead of us, just like the best mechanical keyboards, vinyl turntables, and mechanical watches have turned out to be.

The truth is that most of us are commuting around in econoboxes already, desperately searching for some form of distraction in the form of music or podcast. We're not forming some spiritual connection with a machine and the road, we're yelling at the bozo who can't commit to a lane.

There will be better econoboxes for when those are appropriate, and there will be more vehicles that are a better expression of our personality. I'm looking forward to both.
That’s not the only scenario to experience driving.
I thought more the Wall-e dystopia, which fills me with great sadness.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/3/36/John-...
We need a law that requires things work out of the box and can work while not connected to the net. Bonus points for requiring off switches for the "smart" features.

A similar pet peeve of mine is that the huge infotainment screens on modern cars cannot be turned off the majority of the time. Only in the VW Golf I rented did it actually have a way to shut the whole thing down.
You should avoid citing that page; it's not credible. A specific instance that I know of is Sebewaing Light and Power in Michigan. They built out a publicly owned fiber network that now has over 500 of 1700 residents as customers as of June and will break even in 2018, earlier than expected, whereas your site claims there are only 150 customers. That site was created by Taxpayers Protection Alliance which a Koch front group.
But are you, as the customer, ok with having a personal relationship with a banker? Also, in a court of law, how would you define personal relationship?
I had a CEO like this. "Hopefully we can afford pay rises next year", he said.

Fuck you, you live in a nice house, drive a nice car and drink expensive drinks, and I can barely afford to live a comfortable lifestyle.
As someone who went to top school/s but didn't major in CS (or business) and has trouble making friends, I certainly wish that credential was all it took. Then the playing field would almost be more accessible and meritocratic than it actually is. But presumably there's further layers of segregation and inaccessibility within those institutions.
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What if having born to rich parents is correlated with genetic disposition to higher intelligence and risk taking? Evolution endows offspring of successful parents with successful traits. From an evolutionary perspective, the findings are totally expected.
Well we’re weirdly obsessed with aliens; why wouldn’t aliens be weirdly obsessed with us?
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That's what really gets me.

There was a case not far from where I live where a driver turning right mowed down a 4-year-old child walking with his grandmother on a CROSSWALK. He wasn't running or anything like that, just crossing the street. The child died. They didn't even charge the driver. Fucking ridiculous. It was 100% the driver's fault. New York Times published an article written by the child's mother who questioned the logic of first of all call it an accident and second of all how the driver wasn't charged with anything, not even reckless driving.
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I think that's a funny example because he's on record saying that if you're not rich, it's your own fault. Which is of course absurd, just thought it was a funny coincidence given my question and your reply.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8377924

edit: Apparently, Alibaba put out a statement saying that this oped with the tone-deaf statement was not written by Jack Ma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378020
More like getting started in a dev environment; I want to play with a technology on a laptop or my home compute machine sometimes before venturing into production or recommending it to clients.
In the valley you go can grow funding w/o having a business.
Out of curiosity, how many years was the transition between horse and automobile? I would bet this will be the same. I don't think it's driven by technology, I think it's driven by human sociocultural inertia or whatever the right term is to describe when we irrationally latch on to things.
It'll work for the more than 80% of the USA that's urban, and a lot of places around the world.

After AVs are adopted in cities their prices will come down, and rural people that need cars will just have their own.
I've had the same experience. I'd select the cheapest possible chicken breast from Whole Foods and they replace it with air chilled, free range chicken breast. The difference in cost was quite significant per pound.
Everyone's OK with the govt having a full and complete list of where you have spent every minute of every day, who you visited, etc.?
Non-paywalled article: http://archive.is/0Ja6H
Very interesting concerns about URLs! I've looked into better ways of addressing recently too, but coming from different problem spaces:

1. how to decouple content from location, i.e. location-addressing vs. content-addressing
2. how to accept more network connection constructions than what URLs permit (proxying, domain fronting, tunnels, etc.)

> We could also imagine a new URL syntax, with fewer and less ambiguous syntactic meta-characters.

That's part of what we're attempting for network addressing with the multiaddr format: https://github.com/multiformats/multiaddr - If the author of the article is reading here, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

We're going with encapsulation and a posix filesystem compatible plan9-ish syntax and approach there. multiaddr describes the semantics of networking namespaces, and then various content systems bring their own namespaces. IPFS brings the /ipfs and /ipns namespaces for its content.
It's more complicated than just a fork. Differently than the previous hard fork that split blockchains and created Bitcoin Cash, SegWit2X didn't offer replay protection, which means it was basically like a self-inflicted 51% attack [1], orchestrated by the core devs and other proponents.

The fact that is was called off gave temporary relief to the markets. It's hard to predict what will happen now, but at least it avoided tanking the market next week (for now).

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-bogeyman-cometh-segwit2x-5...
It also stands to reason that the children of wealthy parents are also taught how to handle money, etc. See the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Kiyosaki. It's really too bad that public schools teach nothing about accounting, finance, the time value of money, the basics of how business operates, stock market fundamentals, taxes, etc. They graduate kids who are wholly unequipped to function in a free market economy.
You should! You see that market cap!
Ask HN: Are ad-blockers accounted for in # of "impressions"?
I have a small business and I sometimes advertise my business on social media. The cost of these ads is often based on "impressions" rather than click. "Impressions" means how many people saw the ad.

My question is, how does that work if people are using ad-blockers? If someone doesn't see the ad because they've blocked it, does that still count as an "Impression"? Do social media websites have a way to guarantee that an ad was actually seen rather than blocked?

I haven't seen anyone ask this question anywhere yet, and I think it's an important question with regards to the future of advertising on the internet. I also want to know if I'm wasting money.
It’s not clear what you’re saying. Are you implying that the chinese don’t build with anything but concrete? That’s still an absolutely ridiculous amount of concrete to pour. Or, it’s not actually clear if you disagree with the thesis so much as the argument.
I would assume that you would not get an impression if your ad content was never loaded which most ad blockers would prevent (AFAIK)
Yup, if you want to hit the big time, you have to try, and try, and try again and again and again, and never give up. This is what I'm repeatedly told. Trying again is expensive though.
To extend the metaphor even further, sometimes the ones with the money spend so much winning the prize that they could have simply bought it outright.
True, I would love for some alternatives such as plaidml. However, I can't seem to fathom that Plaidml will be a worthy alternative to lets say Tensorflow or Pytorch or Caffe. I hope I am proven wrong.
This is one of those Why would you even do that? followed by Oh well...sorry for asking, totally got it article.

I really applaud such curiosity.
Hey you had a really good post that was remarkably unpretentious and straightforward. Ugh I think of all the questions on Quora like “What books should I read to become a huge success / be the best digital marketer!”.

So first I would look at anything by Henry Petroski. The “Invention of Design” and “Pushing The Limits” are pretty inspiring.

A trend I notice is that a lot of great books are published before 1990, specifically in the years 1950-1990. I think this was because there was enough knowledge to make great material, but the bloodsucking consultants hadn’t descended on the publishing industry yet to fashion themselves into a “thought leader” by writing a book of extremely questionable value.

Some more titles are (only 1 published after 1990):

- A Clockwork Muse by Martindale
- The Art of a Scientific Investigation by Beveridge
- Consilience by Wilson
- The Act of Creation by Koestler

Finally I would recommend “Notebooks of the Mind”. Don’t know why I just thought of it but it’s the best book of the bunch I recommended.
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> [...] the sentence "VCs want to see revenue and customers or prestige" is completely reasonable.

It's reasonable when prestige is earned through individual achievements. But most of the time it's earned through affiliation. Complete outsiders can succeed, certainly - but the bar is much higher for them.
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Also, it is important to consider the ownership of these things now. This scheme that Lutz envisions must be state-owned and controlled. We cannot trust Uber and Lyft, or any other monopolist with it.
It very much looks like off the shelf 16:10 touch panel. I've been told that the center display is even mounted to the dashboard with what essentially is 100mm VESA mount.
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Don't see anyone complaining about Uber and Lyft and Google and Apple knowing their whereabouts...
Really appreciate you taking the time to write this.

I agree that blame misses the point and also that doctors need to bear some weight of responsibility when dishing out opioids.

Hope the best for you...
I respect and trust my founders, but I also believe The Machine can corrupt amd manipulate anyone. At a certain point I wrote off all my stock options as a free lottery ticket, and have valued them at $0 in my big picture life ledger. I work for a combination of money today and love for what I do, but not for the promise of ritches one day.

There's always a chance I'm being foolish or paranoid, but this approach is the safest.
On the other side though, if Joe is protected againstany fraud (as he is with credit cards) what's to prevent Joe from GIVING his identifying info to someone and then claiming identity theft? Or just buying stuff and claiming identity theft?

I would think that each new account or transcation should generate a notification to Joe and he should be able to reverse them within a certain amount of time.

Joe could make it so that his device ignores notifications about transactions made by his own device, and only hear about other ones.
Awesome update as usual. I hope git submodule support can make it into the next release!
I will actually answer your question, because Equifax has already explained:

One guy was supposed to install the update, but forgot for some reason. Everything was his fault.

Did you expect anything else from a company so incompetent? With a paltry $3b/year, they can't be expected to pay for more than one person to install updates.
Only just been introduced to Heinlein. Interesting fellow.
For most of us that is the experience without exception...I live in the DC metro area (Baltimore to be specific), I dread even the slightest need to get into my car because I know it will easily eat up all my time. A 5 minute errand can easily become a 2 hour ordeal because of traffic.

Go anywhere around the beltway and see cars in every side street and back alley (never mind actual roads)..you literally cannot leave your driveway on some of these streets during rush hour.
It's not really a well designed study and it's one that hasn't replicated well.

But people still love bringing it up, especially here on HN where people seem to think they know better than the experts on everything to do with medicine.
Do you know that the Sentinel Islanders aren't as crazy as they seem? The vast majority of hunter-gatherer societies are quickly wiped out when agricultural ones show up. This isn't even something that only happened in the distant past. Even today, in Brazil, farmers massacre natives for their land.

Why do we need so much land? Don't we have enough? But our numbers have grown exponentially. And even though we don't need that much land at the moment, there's still some small positive economic value to more land. And so the natives lose.

A similar thing applies to civilizations. The universe only seems big until you factor in exponential growth. Even if humanity could travel a fraction of the speed of light. Give us a few hundred thousand years, and we would settle and overpopulate every planet in this galaxy. And be on our way to the next one.

There are other reasons aliens would want to stop us. If they value human life at all, they might have completely alien moral systems and want to impose them on us. Human society is pretty awful with lots of suffering. No moral aliens would leave us alone to our own devices. But do we really want to get stuck being ruled over by them forever with no autonomy?

If they don't value human life, we are really screwed. In the future we could expand and advance and become a threat to them. It costs them nothing to exterminate us and prevents any future conflicts or costs we might cause them. So why not?
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Yea, it doesn’t take long working a kitchen or bar to see how fast you can bleed money, employees, reputation—you really have to enjoy the work. You’re going to to into debt, you’re not going to get vacation, you’ll have constant employee turnover and drama (mood issues? Drug issues? Both common in a kitchen.), you have to do shady shit to pass inspection (throw the food out and hit the lights to scare the mice, the inspector is in the lobby!), you’re battling bitter customers who find your food fine but can’t get your accent so they give you a two star yelp review and call you rude—it’s fucking endless.

That said, the community is to die for. I can’t recall ever being close to my coworkers in that way since moving into tech. Nothing tastes as sweet as a cigarette, liquor, and stories after your shift. Kind of necessary with the hours you work!
Heck no, Ireland was going gangbusters in the later part of those 200 years! [0] It's what came shortly after -- around 1845 -- that erased all the progress.

> No matter what degree of culpability should be assigned to Britain, the consequences of the famine to Ireland are indisputable: it broke the nation in half. At a million or more fatalities, it was one of the deadliest famines in history, in terms of percentage of population lost. A similar famine in the United States today would kill almost forty million people. Only the famine of 1918-22 in the Soviet Union may have been worse.

> Within a decade of the blight another two million fled Ireland. Many more followed in subsequent decades, inexorably driving its population down. The nation never regained its footing. As late as the 1960s its population was half what it had been in 1840.

> Today Ireland has the melancholy distinction of being the only nation in Europe, and perhaps the world, to have fewer people within the same boundaries than it did more than 150 years ago.

-- Transcribed from the book "1493" by Charles C. Mann.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IrelandEuropePopulat...
The brewpub was not part of the original sale, but the owner sold it to ABI in Feb of 2016: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/oak-park/news/ct-goose...
More appalling to me is if they can shut down the "modules" (as the article calls autonomous vehicles) to quell protests, contain undesirables, or otherwise limit freedom of movement.
ah yes, the freedom of imposing immense inefficiencies and externalities (read: pollution, congestion, industry lobbying against any sort of mass transit) upon everyone else around you, in exchange for feeling good.
I am not sure everyone here knows about Raja. He is a talent at a totally different level. Big loss for AMD. AMD should have done all it could to keep him.
https://github.com/troy-west/thimble
Post scarcity? Where, when, and for who? Our current economic models don't work for that unfortunately.

Edit: I should add there are a couple post scarcity instances in recent history. Establishment of America, and post WW2. These also coincided with the least income inequality. But those periods don't last.
Why would a standard browser trust that certificate?
>If it's the safest and best in your opinion,

While being a poor translation of what I wrote, based on facts you are completely incorrect.

Just tell me what you are for.

I am using statistics. Do I need to cite sources for you to believe that this is the safest and most prosperous time in the history of humanity?
Covered under : "whatever it will be then" ?
Why not just

map { validate(ipRegex, $) } listOfStrings
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Nobody's saying your deathsport hobby is going to be made illegal, but you'll be outclassed by robots on the public thoroughfares, and possibly priced out of the artisinal motorcar market as the buyers dwindle.

> Driving is not statistically dangerous

Humanity is notoriously bad at making decisions regarding small probabilities, and tradeoffs between risk and money. We know that people give wildly different answers to the questions "how much would you pay to reduce your annual risk of death by X%" vs "how much would you charge to take on an additional annual risk of death of X%?" despite those being more or less mathematically identical. People have the freedom to make stupid, inconsistent choices of course, but that doesn't make them smart or consistent. Just freely chosen.

> 2,596,993 people die every year in the US. That number cannot really be changed. People have to die of something.

That's really, really not the case. Yes, all who live must die, eventually. But there's no conservation of annual human death that means that eradicating smallpox means an equivalent number of people die of choking on pretzels annually. I figure the proper number to track is not percentages, or minimorts, but average longevity.
This actually sounds a bit scary, and I hope doesn't become reality, since it might turn out to be like termites --- given how much we rely on plastics, the damage caused by an inadvertent release or application could be severe.

Also, polyethylene is one of the simplest plastics and can be recycled quite effectively; so the real problem is getting people to reuse and recycle, and not disposal. Much of it comes from petroleum sources so a nontrivial amount of energy was already spent in its production too.
It's not about validity and it isn't making a claim that it's wrong to use the resources given to you.

It's simply saying that capital is more important than people think.

Business and entrepreneurship is honestly worse than religion. Thousands of garbage blogs saying "don't give up" is the key to everything. Self help books, videos of motivational navy seal speeches, "following your passion." When the reality is most of them simply had access to capital. I would imagine most entrepreneurs are hard workers already or are already motivated. But capital is what really matters.
Thanks for writing this...really appreciate it.

Hope the best for you...
I don't disagree with the assessment you make, but still... It all sounds pretty cool.
If you're interested this is a really in depth article about beer consolidation:

(via the way back machine since now it's paywalled(?))

https://web.archive.org/web/20150903212722/http://www.busine...
> Shouldn't they be able to take advantage of it since I worked for it and gave it to them?

I don't think anyone is suggesting that they shouldn't.

> does [their advantage] make it less valid?

Less admirable, maybe. I'm not sure what you mean here by 'valid'.
Trammel Hudson's vector display and oscilloscope tagged articles are worth a look as well: https://trmm.net/Category:Vector_display

Also the hostile treatment he got from the MAME developers is kind of amusing: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/483
I think I have 2 RealMe accounts, and they're linked to different services, I have no idea which ones though. I'm not really sure what's up with them. The only government service I really use online is the IRD, who don't even use RealMe, they have their own login system.

NZTA don't even bother, and just require your drivers license number and version, which is useless security, I could change ownership of anybodies car, just to be a dick, or possibly even to steal a car.

RealMe is a RealMess. I find it's usually easier to just ring up the relevant department that requires me to login to RealMe.
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Ask yourself are you doing this because it's needed, or because you know how to do it. Many programmers would rather rationalise "we need feature X" and then sit there and code, because they like coding, they know how to do it, and the alternative activity (e.g. Marketing or talking to customers) is harder, has more unknowns, and they're uncomfortable with the uneasiness of the unknown.

This was my problem for a long time, and I was in denial about it and over-emphasised the importance of features so I could code instead of sell.

But once I accepted it as a fault in myself, I could compensate for it, then I actually started making money.

I see this a LOT in my friends
I used to play with a tektronix vector scan display at university in 1979. it was connected to a Dec-10 for specialist use. It was almost always free because people hated the non-refresh default operational mode. I found that as long as I somehow mentally treated it as a 2-column ASR33 typed-output device, and did page refresh by hand, it was ok to work on (the two page thing was just weird. it folded output down two halves of the display)

Its debug-demo mode was uber-cool. you could plot sine waves to your hearts content. I had a lot of fun on that.
Segwit2x Cancelled – Bitcoin Reaches a New All Time High