skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently started using WakaTime to track my programming and it's an improvement over what I've used before (RescueTime). I know what you mean though, I want to somehow track my "state" which means a combination of things like:

- Working
- Working on X project
- At home
- Sleeping
- Eating
- Driving
- With Someone
- With brother
- With friend X
- With Mom
- etc...
- Drinking coffee
- etc.

Most of these things are somewhat doable with data that is already out there. If I'm in the same location as my brother (as determined by our phones) it probably means I'm in the state "With brother". This data is already floating in the interwebs but it's somehow hard to get considering it's just four numbers.

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Seems to be coming back online for us now.
I think it's obvious that he's just pumping bitcoin
I think there are two main drivers of price increase in 2018:

- me-too buyers drawn by the huge 2017 increases

- investors that have a mandate to seek out high-risk investments for a certain %age of their portfolio, and are gradually overcoming technical and regulatory barriers ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/bitcoin-e... )

For a decrease

- MtGox style failure of a company holding a lot of coins

- crypto-diversification as other projects get stronger
We don't know enough to know whether it's possible. If it is, we don't know enough to know what approach to follow to get there.

Is it worth spending effort to plan for it? Maybe some. But if we don't know what approach to follow to get there, we don't know what it's capabilities and limitations will be. That means we don't know what we have to plan for. Any planning will therefore be either very speculative or very abstract.

I wouldn't start pouring effort into planning for it, as if were the most important problem in the world...
I can't speak to HIPAA, but medical data is covered by the EU's new GDPR framework.
What really underlies this issue is whether you think Bitcoin is over or undervalued. Griffin leads off saying this is a bubble understanding that the people at Blomberg already believe this.

Without a real justification for why Griffin values Bitcoin at less than the current market price this article is nothing but fluff.

Of course if it is a bubble, this is a bad thing for those invested in Bitcoin. That is not up for debate. If it does burst, there will be plenty of tears, but the value of the entire Bitcoin ecosystem is still tiny compared to classic commodities like gold or real estate.

I have seen several articles here on HN recently that have seem to all confirm that Bitcoin is a bubble, but I haven't read anything that dives into the real substance behind the claim that Bitcoin is overvalued.

I understand the scaling issues, but I am confident that something like the lightning network can solve those. I don't believe that all transactions can be on-chain as this would make running a full-node and verification of the entire chain very difficult over time.
Most of the people I talk with have no idea about the risks involved and they cannot time the market.
Oh nice, maybe they'll do some A/B testing since there not bothered by those pesky ethics regulations. Who needs those anyway? I mean, just swing people moods, informally diagnose them, and profit by selling the data. Free healthcare, brought to you buy the capitalism system!
I think the biggest benefit though, is name recognition. When people think of crypto, they think Bitcoin. That's the biggest issues Litecoin and Ethereum have now.
PayPal is a US centric general solution for handling worldwide payments. It kind of works worldwide, but is painful/inconvenient for many in some countries. If those countries are major sources of business, it's probably worth making it easier for the customers to spend money. Payment processing is a pain, but it's not that hard to integrate, maybe a few weeks of dedicated engineering plus ocassional maintenance and an account rep to deal with issues/problematic payments. This is big when you're a small company and getting paid is clearly important, but not a central focus of your product; it's not so big when you've got thousands of employees and brokering payments is a key part of your business.
automated high frequency trading also does the important work of eliminating the question "Which exchange should I buy AAPL at?"

HFT is mostly ultra-fast arbitrage programs, and the benefit of using them far outweighs the downsides.

Maybe the problem is not with HFT but in the industry as a whole
Anecdotal opinion ahead, but from someone who's been an avid user since 2010-12-ish (in a variety of scenes but mostly in illustration).

Personally, it's felt like a death of a thousand cuts. Tumblr was a gift to people who wanted one place to share "fandom" material whether it be fanart, fic, various graphics - basically a great place to land when livejournal/dreamwidth started going, and as someplace a little more personal and "warm" than twitter. There's been an ongoing harassment problem in recent years (similar to what twitter is facing) that didn't help, and tumblr's user base feels more anti-corp than most social media platforms, so the Yahoo buyout probably hurt it worse than usual. Pair that with the invasive advertisement "tweaks" (the algorithm-based feed was a nasty change for small creators like myself; it's not something that a third-party extension like xkit can get rid of easily) and the rise of alternatives like mastodon - and they've got a problem.

I still think tumblr has a lot of potential - it's still my favorite platform for the "fandom" scene and as an amazingly versatile platform for illustration/animation portfolios (ie a cleaner version of blogspot) - but I'm not optimistic these days.
File coin requires you to be an accredited investor.

Grandmas and Joe smoes are not being scammed. You can only lose money from file coin if you are in the top 1% already, and therefore probably don't need the government to protect you.
What would be cool is if someone could build a GAN based on the Facebook AI training set to spit out comments that would be indicative of certain moods. This capability would be great for autistic people trying to react appropriately in social situations... or an AI chatbot trying to act human.
Builder Pattern revisited
Good sense of humor there :)
> If it’s to survive long term yes. It does have to be valued as for than an investment vehicle.

Question: On what principles do you base this assertion?
It is how markets use prices as signals to decide what to produce and deliver efficiently. If the pricing of the good if ISP performance is actually hidden from the end consumer, then it muddies the customer valuation of both the game as a product, as well as an ISP as a product. By linking the prices of both in a hidden way, consumers don't have an effective way to make clear product choices which in turn signal to a company that it is producing the right thing (or the wrong thing). If the signals aren't clear, then the market becomes less efficient. The game company is no longer competes or is fully focused to make a good game, and the ISP is no longer competing to produce better network access.
You usually pay a 3-5% premium over spot to a reputable coin dealer to buy gold coins, and you are paid spot when you sell them. With Bitcoin, you usually pay 2-4% transaction fees to get your fiat into an exchange, 0.25% fees per trade, and 2-4% transaction fees to get your fiat out of an exchange.

I'm actually a little surprised that local coin shops haven't gotten into the cryptocurrency market.
I so wish people would stop abusing the term AI. This is an application that employs heuristics upon scanned data and then executes events. By that definition half of everything written in JavaScript is AI.
While I agree with you, I thought I would be pendantic and point out there are not enough people in the world for there likely to be anyone with an IQ of 200. IQ is normalised to a mean of 100 and a SD of 15 - 200 is 6.67 SD above the mean.
I don't think its a slippery slope - its more like the gaping precipice. Within a few generations, we will have members of society who believe such extreme manipulation is the norm. Well, its already here, anyway - but at what cost will we expose future generations to our idiotic, un-tested, software systems!!

Perhaps the only answer is to stop using the freakin' social web, but .. really .. how can we do that?

This is almost, really, the last straw, Facebook!
It is not completely unexplored. We already turned a superintelligence loose to create thinking machines (von Neumann and the von Neumann architecture). The only data point to date indicates that doing so doesn't lead to an intelligence explosion.
I care about performance in my phone too, so where can I buy an Intel phone?

The truth is that my phone doesn't have to be the fastest; it just has to be fast enough in balance with other factors important to me (size, battery life, etc).

And the same goes with my laptop. I currently have an MBP with an i7 processor, and I'm a web developer - it's overkill. I also play games with it now and then, but it's clear that the iGPU is the bottleneck there and not the processor. Very rarely do I do heavy compiling or video encoding or other CPU-maxing tasks on this thing.

So would I trade the i7 for an A-series plus a couple more hours of battery life and/or a lower (or at least not further increased, damn it Apple) price? Yes, I would take that trade, and probably never suffer for it.
How about a neural network model predicting where the player will be in one second, and center the camera there?

That lets the player see where they're going.

The network would have the local game map (including enemys positions and velocities), together with a few seconds of player history as input. It could be trained on beta users.
Cooking. I cook my own meals in order to eat healthy, but the cooking itself is incredibly tedious.
you can do both with cash
That's certainly one big reason why they're popular. Many of the most popular uses for cryptocurrencies are strictly illegal.
I’m not saying that fat shaming is good, I’m saying that it is tolerated by gamers when you are not percieved to be part of some feminist media conspiracy and the reaction to journalists who are percieved to be “not real gamers” is disproportionate.
> It's probably true

Is it though ....?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
Be cause the incentives are not ethically nor morally guided.
the article does not mention how a possible intervention would look like; if they don't report a user with suicidal posts to the authorities then facebook will be sued by relatives of those who put an end to their lives; if they do report it then they will be sued by privacy advocates. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
True, and the illiquidity of gold is part of what makes it a great store of value.

Bitcoin will certainly survive, at least, as a niche alternative for short-term storage (easy transactions) and/or those in physical danger (decentralized and without a physical existence).
Came up at family gathering over Thanksgiving. The masses know about it because of its massive increase in value and are all afraid that they are missing out.
$XIV
Mkay so to compare start from the same form, vegetal by example. Or sun.
Cost and ease of transaction.

Difficult to steal or confiscate.

Confidence of transaction completion in a low trust environment.

I'm sure there are more but those are three off the top of my head.
No, because you do not own data you submit to Facebook. It is their data and they can do anything they want with it. If you find that disgusting then don't give data to Facebook.
storage of value, information integrity, speed - If you don't see obvious utility with cryptocurrency then you haven't done enough/very little research.

Why would ycombinator backed REQ try to replace Paypal with crypto technology if there wasn't fundamental value in the tech?
Did you read literally the first 2 sentences of the article?
> You can't rewind a meeting or a lecture. You can't pause to think. You can't review the text in the middle.

I disagree about meetings. I often ask to repeat a pivotal discourse in a multi-party meeting simply to emphasize it's being understood by all participants.

Also notes help to structure the meeting so you don't take 1hr to discuss 30m of content. I prefer to share my notes on screen (either as email minutes I'm taking or preferably something collaborative like Google Sheets). Notes, well used, can keep everyone on the same page. If the agenda is prepared in advance, it can turn a 1hr ramble-fest that achieves nothing into a concise 10m confirmation session.
"Life is 80% maintenance" so I would automate that. (Have I read this on Spielberg's Taken, episode 5?)
Absurd sure, but it jibes well with the related sentiment of paying everything in cash for a short interval of time to physically feel the "pinch" of paying for things that come too casually using a credit card.

It's a pretty crazy notion that our employers are the unpaid tax collectors of the government. This is precisely why the government fought all the movement toward 1099 contract work since then there were effectively more employers to juggle and more likely to not be able to collect as effortlessly as with few large employers.
> Those examples have cleary less benefit for society then the dumbest investment strategy

They also carry less risk. Few people who "lose their shirt" say "oh well, I didn't do my diligence." Instead, they blame the system. Their anger becomes political capital. Moreover, inept investment combined with leverage can decimate an economy in a way frivolous personal spending does not.

If you want to learn about why these regulations appeared, in more or less similar form, many times independently across the world, start by reading on the history of free banking, the Panic of 1907, the post World War I securities market and the debates surrounding the Securities and Exchange Acts of '33 and '34.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice.
> Why do we allow people to spend 2M$ on a Car or 6k$ on a bag?

Soviet Union famously regulated this very well. These luxury goods were only available to accredited investors aka the Party elite.

It seems to me that back then this behavior was condemned by the people of the Land of the Free.
It should have been first but hey, nice to see any progress on this.
> But achieving it is a wet dream for a business.

I don't know about that. Businesses depend on manipulating our emotions in order to get us to buy stuff.
I keep hearing about how cryptocurrencies are a revolution and the "Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History" and all I have in response is that it appears to be nothing more than yet another transfer of wealth in the wealthy elite's favor. The wealthy get wealthier, while those not wealthy may get a few crumbs to placate them (10x returns on 6 - 8 figures investments + funding to build massive scale ASIC/GPU farms versus 10x returns on 3 - 4 figure investments and no ability to generate meaningful returns via personal mining).

Business as usual.
> an ARM laptop exclusively running iOS

So an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard? Apple already sells those!
Aren't sports supposed to be challenging?

Elephant hunters should be required to use low caliber revolvers, so the elephant has a better chance of killing them.
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Not as much as you'd think. The US stock market is 39% of all publicly traded stocks. The US market is bigger than the next 8 countries put together. [1] This is in part due to the US's stringent regulations on stock market listings and accounting for publicly held firms. The more transparent and effective the market, the safer it is for investors to put their money in.

[1] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/CM.MKT.LCAP.CD/r...
pumping bitcoin, lol - you don't get it.
I believe the intention is the former; the Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest known sets of written laws, and almost half of it deals with contracts.
Well, the real question to me is do we think of people who live in Wyoming as "Wyomingers" and those in CA as Californians? I don't think so. We just think of everyone in the USA as Americans. So why should it be that some Americans (those who live in Wyoming) having outsized voting power over national laws? A minority of Americans is controlling the country via the methods I mentioned. It doesn't seem to be working out very well. We need to make sure that the majority of Americans have veto power over things like electing Donald Trump, the current tax bill, the attempts to end Obamacare.
Dead mens' comments, live on .. in some database. Or text file. Use the Source!
Laundry and dishes. Put them onto a little conveyor belt that goes somewhere. Everything gets cleaned, sanitized, pressed, dry cleaned, etc. The next day, everything appears back in my closet & cabinets.
From the past tense in that post, I'd guess this may have been a few years ago. Today, the white-hot realestate market means living expenses are much higher.

At $120K, you're looking at a tax rate of close to 30%, which puts the usable figure at $80K or so. You want to maximize your 401(K), so your salary goes down to $65K, which is about $5K/mo. A decent 3BR with good schools (Cupertino) will run about $3500/mo (1), which leaves $1500/mo for everything else. Not doable, unfortunately.

(1) https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/d/1500-off-move-in-book...
Best friend in condition like Locked-In-Syndrome improving, but needs help
The problem is not people spending money on "worthless/ frivolous" things.

Investor protection are about Fraud protection. NOT, because it is good or bad to spend money on something.

If you spend 2 Million dollars on a car, you are getting exactly what you were sold. If you buy a lottery ticket, you are getting exactly the odds that were promised to you.

But investments are a different story. Someone is trying to promise you that your investment will go up. They are making claims that they cannot guarantee.

That is why investments are regulated.
I know what Wall Street is
These days it's probably possible to use a buffer in the asmjs/WASM side and generate the image data there, only exporting back to the JS side after the job is complete. That should significantly cut down on the overhead.
Talking sense into people.

After that finding consensus in large groups of people.
It's not like we've never seen a logistic supply issue before. If they just said linear as a lowside and did a high side based on saturation at some chosen level we'd have a bracketing. But instead they tick a pessimal box, and then pundits use it and planners use it as gospel for setting finance and risk rates. It's insane planning..
Co-ops disintegrate when the people involved can't agree on the way to spend the money. Fights break out, trust declines, and eventually the co-op breaks up in a series of acrimonious disputes (oftentimes including lawsuits and/or shady behavior).

So far, this seems a common failure mode for ICOs as well. So yeah, like co-ops.
Since I see a lot of people posting that there is no legitimate use case for Bitcoin, let me point out that the global remittance market is over $500 billion per year. Being able to cheaply and easily move money between countries is a huge need, and bitcoin is good at that. This isn't even touching grey-area financial services like evading capital controls, routing around artificially pegged currencies (ie what's happening Argentina), etc. This isn't to say that there isn't a big ugly correction coming, but it's not accurate to say that Bitcoin has no value/purpose.
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Banker says banking alternatives are not good. Color me surprised.
I really doubt that. It's definitely a thing that people parrot around, but it's not likely to make up more than 5% of the actual use.

Transacting in cash USD is still the preferred currency of the cartels.
I am open to being wrong, but I agree. I think that this is might be a good thing as far as lessening the stigma surrounding magic mushrooms, but I feel as though there needs to be a better reason than "I’m at a loss at what to do politically, but the only thing I feel like we could do is get psilocybin into more people’s hands.”
If it follows the trajectory of marijuana, it starts with clinical use and destigmatization. People who wouldn't normally support legalization or even decriminalization can and will be convinced by anecdotes and articles about safe, controlled, and therapeutic use. It happened with MJ, it can happen again.

That being said, safe, controlled use is especially important for powerfully psychoactive substances. Make no mistake--psilocybin is much more powerful than THC. While I support use of psilocybin and the aim of the petition and its authors, I recognize the essential role that medical marijuana played in winning hearts and minds of John Q. Public.

If you feel the same way, check out the work done by the Heffter Research Institute (http://heffter.org/) They've funded many studies on the effectiveness of psilocybin (disclosure: I know the founder).
It's not a balancing piece, it's a balanced piece. Abolishing the Senate would leave only the House, the balanced piece.
Very cool to hear that you've found success doing this. Any resources you'd recommend for someone just getting started? What tools / platforms / APIs do you use?
If only accredited investors can buy FileCoin then only accredited investors can access the storage market. This does not seem feasible!

And, indeed, it isn’t. FileCoin has only done a pre-sale so far, selling securities (SAFTs) to accredited investors. They haven’t explained (afaik) how the tokens will be issued and make their way into the hands of the public. That’s why I was curious to see Grundfest citing them.
They could even name it Centris or something like that - to indicate it's in the middle of their offering. On a serious note, try a hackintosh in the mean time. It's not difficult at all.
I sentence you to penance for your heresy.

Please watch "Soylent Green" and "The Matrix" and come back with a good reason for why corporations should be allowed to commercialise death services.

k'thxbai.
Those things screamed. We made the M68k → PPC jump with a 7100, and I used to sit there just opening and closing windows in awe of how fast it was.
Great, I'll keep accumulating and you can stay away so I can accumulate at a cheaper price.

I highly suggest you do a little more research. This is a transfer of wealth on scale that I haven't seen in my lifetime.

I'm not a wealthy elite. I'm getting wealthier.
that's why i said midwest. its not as big as SF but I live Downtown in a 120,000+ area

i know its expensive out there in the Bay but its still my $70k/year vs his $120k/year
One amusing one springs to mind: an image thumbnailer on a website for a very popular all-girl band. It was "smart" and cropped images to the right aspect ratio based on entropy in the image. In practice, this manifested itself as a foot fetish – if a photo included feet, it would centre the thumbnail on the feet almost every time. The gallery index pages looked quite odd.
It may have been tolerated by some gamers but that's not a reason to tolerate it. So maybe that article was the straw that broke the camel's back.

The very fact that you compared that article to fat shaming should show you that the article was "gamer shaming".
I'm with ya. Hopefully something like Cleanly or Rinse is available where you are. They will wash/dry/fold/iron but won't put it away just yet and you also have to collect it, put it in a bag and give wait for them to pick it up.
Tester worked a later shift (noon to 8pm) and was running scenarios. Got a really odd error that made contracted pricing incorrect. Developer came in the next morning and ran the scenario just fine. Tester repeated the scenario at 6:30PM and got the same error. Both thought the other was nuts and this went on for a week. Found out it was an interaction issue when using the time (UDT) to get the current market date.

Lesson: if anything goes wrong at night but not during the morning, look at all the date code.