skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which turns out to be a highly marketable feature for "blockchains" to organisations who actually have money to pay for this. e.g., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-blockchain-accenture... Remember, in this context we're talking about business use, not cryptocurrency use.
I have a different perspective on all this. Alibaba, recently did something with VR[1][2] Shopping and had good success with it (in China). I think, Amazon might simply be trying to experiment with it to see if it works outside of China. And for this, of course, they need a platform to build on, just like they did with AWS.

I'm also quite curious to know how all this turns out. If we'll be seeing "Total Recall" style ads around us, thanks to Amazon, Google and Facebook, then in which case, we're screwed.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/28/alibaba-vr-sh...

[2] http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/07/18/alibaba-merges-online...
Addressed in the article: on each hand, you have 4x3 finger segments plus the thumb to point them out. The actual issue is why we don't speak Esperanto, why the UK drives on the left, and the USA uses miles: network effects.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhAD9BTTW8
U.S. government once wanted to plan false flag attacks with Soviet aircraft
If enough people won't tolerate price discrimination, there's money to be made if a store will pledge not to do it.

But if there's only one walk-out supermarket available, and it does price discriminate, and it's not too outrageous, I'm in. Waiting in line for checkout is very bothersome for me, and I like my job very much, so I'll pay more than my hourly rate at work to get out of each hour of line.

(extra bothersome if there's untargeted marketing blaring through some speakers while I wait, 1984-style. But I already avoid those supermarkets)

Nobody likes price discrimination, but there are advantages. Poor people pay much, much less. It's ironic that we're always coming up with inefficient measures full of collateral damage to ease thing up on the poor, but we'll rail against price discrimination like it's Salem.
> of course they can make their man of the year whoever the like now, including Trump and other controversial people

Can't beat their historical picks, Hitler and Stalin (twice), both of which met the original goal of the award: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15785040
Show HN: JBluecut – blue light filter app in android
I would buy more Bitcoin.

The world needs a censorship-resistant digital vault to store wealth. Bitcoin is basically a very cheap "Swiss bank account as a service" for the world's unbanked.

Some use cases I can think off the top of my head:

(1) You are from Syria and need to flee war and escape into Europe – however bank transfers into Europe are almost impossible if you are a common Syrian. Bitcoin allows you to take your wealth with you, in your brain, as you escape across the border, by just memorising your twelve word private key.

(2) You are from Venezuela or Zimbabwe – The government has issued capital controls and is devaluing currency by the day. You transfer your wealth into Bitcoin in order to offset capital erosion due to hyper-inflation. When the situation stabilises, you transfer your Bitcoin back into fiat.

(3) You are Saudi billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal. The government freezes all your assets in a political coup. If you have a portion of your wealth in Bitcoin, you could protect them from government expropriation and anonymously transfer them to associates or family members abroad.

I truly believe that Bitcoin will serve the unbanked of the world. We're not there yet, but these are very early days for crypto.

Sorry for the long winded response, I get excited when talking about BTC.
so... we have reached the pinnacle of CSS front end design, only to discover its another word for Tables.... /s
Ask HN: Let's save some bandwidth (autoplay video)
Dear Web,

Let's not auto-play videos in mute. No one cares, no one bothers. Saving bandwidth is a first gesture of saving resources (cpu/power/memory/mobile-data/bandwidth).
> “It’s equivalent to 216 Empire State Buildings being blown into the sky,” Palumbi says.

> the armada of sunken warships, including the USS Saratoga, an aircraft carrier the length of a Manhattan avenue block that lies on the lagoon’s bottom.

Ughh, More "Journalist-SI units of measurement." Would it kill him to actually describe the mass displaced in kg or lb, and say the actual length of the warship? I get that he's trying to to dumb down measurements so they are understandable to people who don't know what pounds and feet are, but by using Manhattan-specific units, he even fails for people outside of NYC. Further, he's using one of his JSI units incorrectly: "Empire State Building" is typically used as a unit of height rather than mass. So much fail, avoidable by just using standard units of measurement!
> large tax incentives for charitable activities

People misunderstand how these work. You don't get money by giving away money. What happens is that the charity gets the money as if it were pre-tax, that's all.

(Trying to get the money back into the company from the charity after you've got the tax break is fraud)
Plus the fact that Vitalik seems genuinely interested in the development of the underlying technology and isn't too fussed about making more money than he already has. An example of this is offering to fund Ethereum infrastructure projects from his own pocket because he was seeing what was happening with ICO money: https://www.ethnews.com/vitalik-buterin-responds-to-raiden-i...
It is.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-get...
Or perhaps an abacus :)
> These are the physical limitations of classical computation

Classical computation (i.e. the Turing machine) is a mathematical model, and isn’t bound by the physical limitations you imagine. In particular, a Turing machine (which, after all, requires an infinite tape) is already not physically possible.
The differences in IQ can be explained by other factors other than genetic.

e.g:

- dietary iodine affects your IQ positively

- exposure to lead (e.g: leaded fuel emissions), arsenic (e.g: from water) and pollution at a large affects your IQ negatively
Ethereum is not a currency though. It's a decentralised platform to build apps on, like the App Store. ETH is the oil that pays for the decentralised processing resources used by said apps that are run on the platform.

A platform that isn't finished needs a leader, and I would say Ethereum needs a leader a lot more than Bitcoin. If all development on Bitcoin would stop tomorrow, it would still keep running and have a potential future as digital gold. If all development on Ethereum would stop tomorrow, it would most likely fail as a project. The value proposition is very different.

Also, since oil isn't very useful without something to use it in (a car, plane, other use cases), it actually makes perfect sense (to me).

ETH could very well also become a functional currency once the supply gets capped in a future hard fork. But for now, it's more oil than currency.
Currently my implementation only has 1 VPN endpoint per 'location' so the other devices still need to get their IP some way else (DHCP/router advertisement). Since my network is not that large layer2 is doable and i'm trying to see where I hit practical limits.
Instead of being a VPN it is a virtual network device. It creates a private virtual ipv6 network. It acts like being on a local network, so all devices inside that network are visible. Software defined networking and all that. Quite impressive.
While I agree that the article is not very convincing, it's not far fetched that automating technologies may have an impact on employment rate.

Self-driving trucks and cars are likely to completely change the job landscape, and truck drivers are not going to switch job overnight.

But yes, you're right, politics play a big part, so do monetary policies, and culture (as in: it's more acceptable to be jobless in some cultures than in others).
Hah. If face book did that it would enjoy the same fate as media firms around the world - entire worlds of fact checkers, staffing costs, HR costs - and their profitability would evapirate.
Introducing  React Final Form: Subscription-Based Form Management for React
Seems very much like Gravitational Teleport -
https://gravitational.com/teleport/
It's a single threaded process pool that uses asyncio to efficiently manage the local and remote workers.
I personally think we don't need many of the stuff we have right now. Sometimes we are just making stuff more complex in order to "create" something.
> I'm baffled that psych studies have to be referenced for people to see the obvious

A lot of "the obvious" is wrong. Studies can help us determine whether it's actually right or wrong.

Pretty much any bit of knowledge we've accumulated over the centuries contradicts things that people thought were "obvious".

As an aside, I'm kinda amazed how common this "what's the point of studying something that's obvious" attitude is. You hear it anytime there's any research done on something that people take as "obvious".
An article about AI revolution and we still having problems keeping a database alive. Isn't that a bit ironic?
> West Midlands Police crime reduction team, said: "To protect against this type of theft, owners can use an additional tested and Thatcham-approved steering lock to cover the entire steering wheel

We've come full circle. Tech has advanced so much that you need a physical lock to backup your technical lock.

Reminds me of the rubber hose method. Trouble decrypting his 2048 bits of encryption? Just whack him with a rubber hose til he gives you the password. [xkcd ref]
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Connecting to this system, I feel like a futuristic alien, stationed outside Earth, with hundreds of millions of times more capacity on his lap, taking a curious interest in the precious few bytes on this primitive system he's observing, and doing it all casually before breakfast.
The 24hr volume for bitcoin is currently at 6.2 B.

Selling 10 MM of bitcoin in a day would not affect price very much. Looking at the largest American exchange (6% of daily btc volume), GDAX, a 10 MM market sell order would drop the price to around 9400 USD from 9750 USD currently.

Selling 100 MM of bitcoin in a day would affect the price significantly. Looking at GDAX, a 100 MM market sell order would drop the price to around 7000 USD from 9750 USD currently. Although this would be arbed pretty quickly and I would think that it would recover to maybe 8500 USD.
> If it turned out that race was the most accurate attribute for a particular situation, it would be nonsensical ignore it.

Only if you are optimizing for prediction accuracy. If you want to optimize for something like "justice" or "citizen wellbeing" then you might want to come to a different conclusion
I don't think there is a very sharp distinction between results oriented R&D and "basic research". In the article, IBM's deep blue is dismissed as a dead-end victory but apparently alphago is not? Why? They both seem identical to me in goals and research methodology.

On a side note, I cannot wait for general super intelligence. It cannot come soon enough. I'm tired of being poor and stuck in a fucking rut, and contemplating my death in a few short decades.
We also drive on the left in Australia. It was arbitrary which side to drive on since neither left nor right is superior. Miles vs km on the other hand...
Ethereum's selling point has always been its advanced features making more complex applications possible, and its Achilles heel has always been that extra complexity is probably not actually a desirable feature here. Think about the endless problems with buggy smart contracts, even for things as simple as multi-signature wallets which Bitcoin can do in a straightforward way.
This article is off in so many dimensions.

Fundamental research is not less active, but it's happening in different places (e.g. the Google Brain team). Find the most profitable companies and you'll find the research.

And to suggest a computer Go player, taught in a few days, is a "marginal improvement" over decades of "AI research": as my kids say, "wut?"

If anything, today's deep learning driven AI is a prime example of how fundamental research can work (neural networks were considered research "fringy" by many until about 10 years ago).
Gets the clicks.
They actually dont since a lit of fundamental research has no market application. Its knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Interval Tesearch cut their "to market realization" from 10 down to 3 years. Fundamental researchbis not the same as r&d. Countries and civilizations have an interest in those.
like not wearing seat belts?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhNwcaEwHI
;) even muslims enjoy pork. not every one of the millions of muslims worldwide is devout and follows all the rules ;) there's definitely niche markets in muslim countries
"I think it's relatively easy to set up a charity to do your basic research for you, and reap the tax benefits?"

That would likely qualify as tax fraud.
Video demo how Android Malware spreads through Google Play and how to remove it
I'm much happier with 4 small screens than a big one. 4 screens means I can do 4 x full screens rather than having to arrange my windows in a big sandbox. I also prefer having them in a long row, rather than 2x2, I put the code on one side and emails on the other, so that I don't see notifications when I code...
Virtual shopping malls via VR and better product information through AR.
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I pay in BtC. The card provider does the conversion automatically - but I, personally, pay in BtC. I have nothing to do with US$.
Time is unique in that the articles are written by the editors, not the writers. It has a culture that is amenable to manipulation by the owners.

My guess is that it’s a platform to inject fringe-y stuff into the national conversation with a fading mainstream brand. It probably still has pull with old people.
Real-Time Facial Performance Capture with iPhone X
As alluded to above, “Strong CT” confusingly refers to several very similar, yet different, concepts. I think this is throwing people off. Quantum computers will almost certainly not disprove the CTD principle [1], which is also known as “Strong CT”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93...
Seeing comments like yours today on this Bloomberg piece is quite reassuring.

I technically count as a "minority" and I have no other way of phrasing this: it is extremely irritating to see companies push for diversity by hiring based on skin colour or gender.

Luckily, I live in a country that strongly opposes these kinds of policies, so I get to feel proud of my (very modest) achievements in this field.

To see these students and other minorities never being able to experience that feeling makes me quite sad.
CSS Grid Garden [0] is an interactive and playful way to learn CSS grid, I highly recommend it. It's from the same author as Flexbox Froggy [1].

[0] http://cssgridgarden.com/

[1] http://flexboxfroggy.com/
`constexpr` is implicitly `inline`: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/inline
Because you pick the president on who he might put on the FCC place alone.
Most people rely on common sense when they travel - don't do drugs, don't steal, don't engage in physical fights, etc. And in my eyes, that's the only way. Are you saying you read the millions of laws of the country whenever you travel somewhere? Laws that may not even be available in English.

Tell me, which countries have you visited throughout your life, and what does the law state regarding staying at an AirBNB residence at each of these countries? Would be great if you could provide official source as well, I mean it sounds like it's very easy for you to look it up, so I assume you don't mind. If you don't want to reveal your travel history, then you can use this list: Germany, France, Iceland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, Cambodia, Japan.
Static building, as mentioned by others, also works for Rust. Portier builds this way:

https://github.com/portier/portier-broker/blob/master/Docker...

This uses the awesome clux/muslrust Docker image as a build environment, then copies the result into a new ‘from scratch’ layer.
Why? They both seem identical to me in goals and research methodology.

In theory taking the work done on AlphaGo (and more importantly AlphaGo Zero) and generalizing it to non-Go related problems should be a lot easier than taking the work done on deep blue and generalizing to non chess related problem.
Unless building a base image... doesn’t this just take away from the benefits of using docker? If I understand one of the primary goals of containers it to: create an isolated environment with quotas and restrictions to the underlying OS by using Linux namespaces and cgroups. However one of the great things about docker is that I can do FROM ubuntu and then anywhere I run my container I now have my app running in an OS that I’m comfortable with. So I can always run bash inside the container and apt-get whatever I need and debug it/experiment etc...

I understand the problem with docker image sizes. I worked at a company where we had a ~1GB image and our CI tool didn’t support caching of docker images so it would take a good 15 minutes to do a build every time. But when we were faced with the option of using another smaller OS, like alpine, we decided not do it because we would give up a lot of flexibility that the OS was providing us.

If you’re running a statically linked binary produced by go and that’s all you want on your pretty much empty image, why not just scp the file and run it manually under a cgroup? Or good ol choot/jails/zones?
Monitor legs on each side drive me crazy, because that's where my mouse wants to go. There's no mouse in this picture.
Writing code in the “Zone”, tips for being productive at work
It doesn't really matter which is superior or if there even is a superior option - the inertia of the existing system is large enough to prevent a change (The Swedish had a driving side switch at the very last moment it was feasible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H ). If the imperial-to-metric switch is hard, how harder would it be to change a whole counting system that's embedded in much of the culture?
I’d look into Monero and Zcash. Allow my wealth to be truly private.
If you read the article, or even just the beginning of it, instead of just relying on the headline then I think you'll be less confused.
It is strange to read this, remembering how Microsoft has been lambasted time and again for doing so many interesting things with Microsoft Research and hardly ever taking any of them to the product stage. Is Microsoft unique in it's too much R and not enough D approach?
Languages and cultures are such a fascinating thing. How can Polish and Norwegian come up with the same expression, without a shared, common ancestry and the countries not being direct neighbours.
If the point is to create a real currency which lasts longer than a single person's lifetime, the problem of leadership and succession will have to be solved one way or another. A BFDL can only remain in charge for so long.
IOTA Network Struggles Due to Lack of Full Nodes
Mayan language survives in Champaign, poses challenge in immigration court
But but... MAH USER RETENTION!! </marketing drone>
I don't know why you say that. I think Jamon Iberico is rated higher than Italian hams, but perhaps that's just an exception. The types Italian wines and food that are popular abroad might be more diverse compared to Spanish.

I'm always amazed by the quality, price and diversity of the food in Spain. One of the reasons I like skiing there.
PWAs do exactly what you propose, but desktop support is kinda low: https://caniuse.com/#feat=web-app-manifest
Ask HN: Are there any reports or statistics the popularity of Windows 10 S?
It's obviously not going to be higher than Edge's market share, since it's locked to that browser.

I'm wondering if there's any point in targeting this edition, especially since upgrading to Pro is free and easy.

Is there any data available?
Thanks :) Can you elaborate on what you mean by improvising a collection of sounds? Do you mean building a library of musical building blocks and putting them together ad hoc?
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How we accidentally became cloud migrators
This has a lot of of similarities with the german Freifunk[0] initiative. Although the philosophy is different. (They work as WISP and let people sign up for the service. Freifunk distributes APs that anyone can plug into their internet connection and provide Freifunk connectivity in their street. Anyone can connect to it).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk
>Are you suggesting he provides a bigger reward for work as time goes on, thereby providing more currency later in the piece?

Yes.

The minting design Satoshi choose merely granted a few users the majority of the supply for the least amount of work. They can then horde and hope to sell at a profit to late adopters.

>That would be counter-intuitive to the idea of bitcoin as a fixed store of wealth

No, the total supply remains the same. Distribution and production is the issue. The linear curve should align to match the energy and work input, assuming that is representative of additional users joining the network.

Fixed store of wealth is even more difficult to achieve, as users must trust the design to be desirable.
It's in the list (with pros and cons).
There is also https://github.com/rverton/webanalyze which is a Go port of Wappalyzer. It makes use of the Wappalyzer apps.json definition file.
I find that dancing with someone who can lead or follow well, and/or dancing with someone who expresses happiness while dancing even when there are stumbles and mistakes, is much more wonderful than beauty.

There are many other types of dancing besides with a partner and "dancing lonely just to get sweaty." Line dancing doesn't have a partner - everyone dances the same pattern. There are also group dances like Scottish country dance or medieval dancing where the entire group ends up making complicated figures.

Flamenco is a dance which needs no partner, where the goal is not just to get sweaty.
> France doesn't "protect" Champagne

Oh, but they do. This goes a lot beyond simple geographical "truth in advertising", and is indeed a lot more similar to a trademark. As you mention, it's not enough for a wine to be produced in the region of Champagne to be allowed to be called Champagne, it has to be produced within very narrow parameters. Jamon Iberico is indeed protected, and again, there's quite a bit more going into this than ham produced on the Iberian peninsula. It's more pronounced with feta cheese, which does not have a geography in the name, yet have to be made in particular areas of Greece.

This is not to say this is bad, trademarks are generally a good thing, but let's not pretend there aren't strong protection-motives at play.

(As an aside, the process also sometimes backfires and inhibits innovation as in the case of "super-Tuscans", some fantastic wines produced in Tuscany, but not qualifying under the Chianti protection, and instead was released as table wine, ie. the lowest classification, while Chianti had languished as a profoundly mediocre product.)
The big question this fails to ask is: full employment of what kind? Recent research has found that nearly all of the net job growth is in "alternative work", meaning temporary jobs, contract workers, freelancers, etc: https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...

Now think about the kind of innovation that companies like Uber and Deliveroo represent. While ostensibly they might be tech companies, in reality their business models revolve around a workforce of contractors who lack employment benefits and job stability. Their innovation is primarily in making more people work for less and take on all the risk.