skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hui, I really hope, that once I will buy a house, the whole automation thing/IoT will be standardized. And I controll everything with one app, tied to the (small) house server.

And the new owner just gets control over the system and controll everything. No cloud/account nightmare like described here ...
AWS Lambda to support Go
Indeed you would- trading on the foreign exchange market, as it's called, works much the same way as trading on the stock market. How taxes work for it are apparently specialized and complicated (see https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/09/forex-taxatio...), but you would definitely get taxed.
They do have a small moat in the short term; the network of drivers, brand recognition they've built up (even w/ the bad press), the large codebase they have by now, and the amount of capital to start such a business from scratch is not insignificant.

However, you are right to bring up autonomous cars. I always thought it amusing that Kalanick et al were so anxious to bet the house on autonomous cars, when in fact, they are the company's greatest existential threat long-term. Once those cars are readily available and street-legal, there's nothing stopping Enterprise or Avis or the automakers themselves from becoming overnight competitors.

And once drivers are taken out of the picture, ride prices will plummet. Margins will also thin because of the likely extreme competitiveness of this market. I would not want to be an Uber investor that's for sure. In theory, the "winner" will be whoever scales the most (i.e. has the most capital to put into their fleet) and has the most effective marketing. In practice, prices may be close enough that people will rent car X because they like brand/model Y better.

If I were on Uber's board, I would advise against trying to win that war which they will lose once/if the automakers get in on it, and instead get creative about how to conquer the market in a more niche way.

Someone is going to have to program self-driving ambulances :)
Bitstamp is only good for those who are in Europe.
> I know at lease two people that transferred their money in to BTC before filing for bankruptcy to side their assets.

That.. wouldn't accomplish anything. Not by itself. The other side will ask for discovery of financial records, ask for and receive discovery of exchange record (or, if it's cash withdraws for localbitcoins, demand plausible receipts for what it was used for, which will then be investigated). Outside a total fabrication of a false history of losses, involving probably multiple accounts of self-perjury and external help and a lot of luck, I don't see that actually working, and the risk of ending up in jail for a looong period of time is massive.

Source: I've worked an actual divorce case involving bitcoin.

> Hopefully laws can put in place for proper taxation.

There's no need for new laws here. It's entirely covered by existing laws regarding the appreciation of value to capital gains property, with published IRS rules. There's actually not a lot of uncertainty here.
Exactly, IPFS allows data storage and retrieval for Dapps to also be done through a decentralized network. That's the whole point of a D-app, not falling back on someone's central servers. The performance and scalability limitations of Ethereum make it virtually unusable as a database, application data definitely needs to be taken off-chain.

Also, the IPFS system contains IPNS, which allows users to host mutable content. Rather than navigating to the hash of a file, you're retrieving what's been signed by the publisher's key. So it's more flexible than just static content.
Presumably you mean "second party", because the concept here is that there is no middleman. EDIT: to clarify, I'm sure there are cryptographic solutions which prevent an escrow agent from doing anything beyond releasing the funds. A system of escrow that involved total trust in the third party escrow service would be an extremely basic proposition. I'd have to research it but it seems like a protocol probably exists; maybe part of the techniques to which you referred. Still, both parties in the transaction count on the escrow service, which is the trust I am talking about.

The example system you mention, which involves having faith in (for example) a courier's delivery notification service, seems to me underline the ubiquitous implicit relationships of trust we implicitly rely on currently, generally being of the form "individual trusts institution/infrastructure".

It hardly needs saying that cypherpunks don't like that unreciprocated trust, or even deny its importance to their own security.
Most token sales are like this. There is no difference from the equity markets in this regard, except its WAY more liquid, WAY faster route to liquidity, AND there is no dilution.

Sorry private equity, step to the left.
Sorry egalitarian peons, take what you can get.
I wasn't aware of it. It's still OTP, so many of my points from the other comment apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818474

Still, it might be a nice incremental improvement.
> but comparison shopping sites didn't violate any guidelines

most comparsion shopping sites were anoying and did get ranked for everything I wanted to buy.
I.e. "buy television" gave you 1. amazon, 2-6. comparsion sites.

If I wanted to compare televisions I would've entered "compare televisions pricing", etc.
Sure, if you have nine people helping you.
And to clang's libc++.

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2017-11/msg00113.html
Why Soundcloud and instagram company size is so different?
Soeaking of consumer apps - Soundcoud has roughly 900 employee, Instagram had 18 employees at the time of acquisition. Why do companies hire employee for on such a scale, when other companies get similar things done for lesser employees. 900 vs 18. Do consumer apps need to have hundreds of employees to be successful? how come plenty of fish managed to get acquired for 450million with only one full time founder/employee?
Perhaps more immediately significant is virtually all states have constitutional requirements for short-term balance of operating budgets, and often strict constitutionsl rules on approval and use of debt financing, while the federal government has neither.

Fist currency in principal allows monetizing budgets (either in general or debt specifically), but this is avoided in practice (and one reason for independent central banks is to provide confidence that political actors will not engage in monetization.)
Mostly, I don't care about home automation. I don't care so much about the previous owner removing the components, because I'm sure that I can do it when I move in. Anything that can be set up for remote access is at least being disconnected, if not removed entirely.
Yep; lived in the Bay for 3 years, and then now in Portland. I've not even come close to what I was making there. They just don't do equity here, and that puts you way the hell behind.
> Uber's solution to every problem - throw money and see it disappear

Arguably, that has been their growth plan: Throw investor money at unprofitable business, and watch the competition disappear. Is it a sort of network-effect asset bubble?
how about kdb, the time series in memory db, long history in financial services
All those inequalities you cite are paradoxically the consequence of the vast increase of wealth and services accessible to everyone.

The retirement insecurity is a consequence to lifetime expectancy having increased vastly beyond retirement age. The health care bills ? You couldn't even get them before, as all the healthcare one could expect was penicillin, aspirine, bandages and hot soup. Housing ? People would live with their parents until and even after they married. Now people can afford to move out and divorce.

Social behaviour and expectations have changed to fill in the opportunities offered by newfound wealth, driven by the search for longer life and higher social status.
until the miners are convinced otherwise

bit like the central banks
Have you written up your experiences in a blog post or talk or something?

I'm on the same boat right now, was asked to build a POC in Amazon Lex, an Alexa Skill, Microsoft LUIS, Wit.ai and Dialogflow.

So far I've gotten to LUIS and Lex/Alexa, I'm glad to read Dialogflow is better :) (had high hopes for it)
"This is what happened" is just an inefficient use of words, not really harmful. There's not anything meaningful you could append in five words. It didn't save or kill his business, nothing so dramatic.

"You'll never believe what happened" is clickbait. "This is what happened" is about on par with an extraneous comma.
the problem many praising blockchain minus bitcoin people forget, is that blockchain strength (distributed reconciliation) is possible only because of incentive (sth you get in exchange for doing all the etahashes per second).

The moment you take incentive (bitcoin) out of the equation, whole blockchain will lose its strenght.

You can not take out greed^H^H^Hincentive out of the picture.

p.s. this is black and white written in bitcoin whitepaper.
Lanchester's laws
Ethereum uses essentially the same consensus algorithm for lots of things besides currencies.
The more interesting question is whether or not Coinbase will do the responsible thing, and provide its American users with the right tax forms to report their net gains/losses/sales.

I have a feeling that they'll leave the users holding that bag. Move fast, break things, crowdsource all compliance costs to your users.

I, for one, wouldn't know the first thing about filing to the IRS that I spent $250 to buy BTC in Feb 2016, and then spent $27.43 of BTC to buy a widget in May 2017, and then cashed out the other $1,530 into my bank account in November 2017.

How many of Coinbase's users do?
But you can't help if others put a high value on it. It's kind of the definition of the market that others put a value on it.

If anything, you did the ICO the "right" way, even if I didn't like the fact that you excluded it to official investors. But that's an issue with the SEC laws as the way they're written - not you or jbenet.

My biggest hope is that you all continue working on both, IPFS core, and Filecoin. And secondarily, reduce memory footprint with IPFS itself. It's still gobbley - cause I'd like to be able to get a /bt/mac/ node available for serving locally via BTLE.
High school chemistry partner. We never dated in high school and ended up running into each other later in college. That's when we started dating. We've been married now for 27 years.
being presented with an "ENTER CREDIT CARD NUMBER NOW" prompt is quite a large barrier to entry
Fwiw Travis Kalnick isn't selling.
Looks like a clear case of dubious copyright claims OR that they got the free stock images and music from a website that actually didn't have the correct rights for the media?

This is a case that free stock footage and audio from the internet will get you in trouble even though you did everything right on your end. The channel maybe was penalized for what a website did?

http://climatestate.com/2017/03/11/great-list-of-dubious-cop...
Compare the rate for both of those aggregated over the last 5 years to the previous 5 years.
Ask HN: What to do if I know Python but love the idea of Rails?
Let me start by saying I am familiar with all of the options and am not looking for any recommendations to "just use django". I know all about django and, imo, it still falls really short of what rails provides. A solid system (rack::attack) for throttling, a built in jobs and storage system that doesn't rely on a 3rd party library, ERB > django template language, Capybara is amazing, built in asset pipeline, etc, etc.

Basically I love everything about the idea of rails and what it provides. I only care about web applications and it is basically as close as anyone can get to having so many bases covered all under one roof and humongous community support to boot.

My problem is: I know python. I think python. I cannot for the life of me grock ruby or rails and I just can't seem to stick with trying to understand it when I could just be trying to get stuff done with what I already know. But I'm not happy with the solutions on the what-i-know side of the fence so I'm conflicted to the point of stagnation here.

I think I just needed to vent a little but I'm really hoping someone out there has had a similar experience and could offer some insight.

Thanks for reading.
It could be also not about sowing discord but that failure itself is the goal in some cases.

What is said many times doesn't correspond to the real agenda. Take healthcare. Possibly a good number of politicians who crow about the evils of Obamacare really don't want it to fail. Otherwise it's going to cost their local districts money even though it's (conceptually) wildly unpopular with the constituency. So gosh darn it, they are trying really hard to overturn that evil communist plot but the pesky Democrats just keep blocking them at every turn!

With Trump who knows. He is a wildcard. It's hard to say what the real agenda is but it's probably not what he is verbalizing. Or if it is he isn't a real politician yet :)
Exactly. 99% percent (or more) of Uber users are completely fine with Uber, possibly see Uber as a positive addition to their lives, and if they have any qualms with the company, they are related to specific incidences of bad service or pricing vis-a-vis local competitors rather than any political matters.
Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears.

Even Google Docs is susceptible to the hacker news effect.
It's pretty frustrating to see something that has an easily accessible value (M MBs stored for N seconds consuming X bandwidth) is denominated in the same way that all the other cryptocurrencies are denominated in, as a deflationary good that encourages speculation. If you want to create some token that scale with the value of the system, that's fine, but don't force your users to price their contacts in something that is untethered from the thing they are trying to buy.

What I'd do instead is allow people to store random data to mint new MBseconds at a fractional rate and then the cost of a new contract is trivial. If you want someone to store 1GB for a day the cost of that is well known. The price of storage constantly drops, but the price of a deflationary good that is actually desired will continue to rise. This encurages contact churn.

If you want to have a token that scales with the value of the network/product then just create tokens that generate MBseconds proportional to the fees paid.
> I don't think advertisers care about the impartiality of the results, so long as their ads are getting eyeballs/clicks

Agreed completely. But users will (eventually) run away if they do not perceive the search as efficient. There are now options in search. People use google exactly because they consider results good enough. If googling "photos from X" starts returning most pictures from Google-associated resorts and this gets coverage from first tier news agencies Google will see non-negligible defections.

I also do not think Google is likely to do aggressive search filtering, not because this is "not right" but for pure self preservation -- aggressive filtering would be cutting the branch they sit on.
Copy-paste trap!
Want!
Maybe if you're in senior management.

Frontline devs or middle management? Honestly they're some of the best talent in the valley esp if they joined in 2014 when Uber was the top destination ($19B valuation timeframe)
You completely undermined your whole point with your last sentence.

I get that Lightsail isn't intuitive, but what could be more simpler or easier to comprehend than Relational Database Service or Simple Storage Service?
What a shitty website, it does load without any warnings but it is a fully blank page with zero texts or images... then after a while you realize you need to disable any ad blocking extension for this one to load for real.
Even for married couples!
High school "typing" class.*

(The following year, they changed the name to keyboarding. My pet dinosaur attended the elopement.)

* Ex spouse, technically.
Its worth pointing out that when you spend Bitcoin (or other currency), that is the same as selling it.

I don't know what you mean by "use it for life"- yes, you can hold onto Bitcoin (or gold or whatever) and not get taxed, but as long as its sitting under your mattress it doesn't do you any good regardless. There's no way to use the value to get anything else without getting taxed.
It has auto-hibernation so I think it would be cheaper.
Alexa for Business lets you build your own private custom skills for your workplace, your employees, or your customers to use. You can make these skills available only to your shared Alexa devices, and your enrolled users. Alexa for Business provides an additional set of APIs that provide information about device location, which lets you add context to your skills.

This is huge! This is the corner we needed to turn to be able to make really useful skills for the enterprise.

I'm pumped for this!
What inferencing does it offer to RDF?

How would I bolt on an inference engine to this if none is offered, i.e. to provide OWL:RL?
> Are the Clintons off-limits

Umm, no. Not off limits. But also not relevant, for the same reason I didn't bring up George W. Bush and his administration. Your pivoting of this discussion into one of my personal opinions about the Clintons is super revealing.

I truly don't know what it has to do with anything, but it appears you're trying to catch me personally in some kind of contradiction? Even if I were holding contradictory views about these matters (I don't think I am), what relevance does that have to the factuality of there being enough suspicion around the 2016 election and actors within Trump's campagin to warrant an investigation?
Looks like the easy Fed money made it into consumers' pockets after all.
I am using ipfs at work for something unrelated to filecoin. From our experience in the last months, the speed of ipfs development and the responsiveness of the developers has picked up markedly since the filecoin ICO.

Since filecoin is going to be built on top of ipfs, there is a pretty big incentive to make it solid.
No, we've always assumed that it's just waiting for the trigger word. But wasn't there that murder case where the police wanted recordings from the victim's Echo and they got them?

I don't remember the specifics.

Everyone here is absolutely right about "why are you complaining when you carry a phone" etc. Yes it's also risky. It's just such a bizarre normal we're in nowadays.
If you just want enough siacoin to become a host I can probably send some over. I already have some and haven't gotten around to hosting yet.
> What lack of oversight is he talking about? It's open-source!

"Oversight" refers to a regulatory authority's ability to supervise and intervene as necessary, not transparency of process.
Didn't they say in the end that c9.io will continue to work?
Once upon a time, IBM branch offices ruled the computing world
TensorFlow Distributions
I love WordPress but you're right... it can be a PITA when it comes to security, not to mention a host of other issues.

I, too, have been looking for alternatives for certain projects, and while I can't specifically recommend any yet, as far as keeping WordPress secure goes I've always found that folks who consistently run into issues always seem to either choose poorly when it comes to basic security (i.e. crappy passwords, only ever using the Admin user, etc.) OR they haven't done any basic WordPress security hardening.

WordPress has a decent intro to making itself more secure here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress, but if you just look up "wordpress hardening" in your search engine of choice you'll find a ton of resources to get you going.
Reliability at Scale: Engineering an Uneventful New Year’s Eve
I swore never to use CSS in JS, here are 6 reasons why I was wrong (2016)
All recent employees (within the last 2 years+) are on RSUs, not options.

Option exercise price is 409A price, not the preferred price per share.

These two things make it highly unlikely that any option holder is truly under water.
24h volume of bitcoin was 9.8B. Just how big of a holding are you talking about?
The reason you need to buy some Siacoin in order to become a host is simple - you need collateral in case you fail to fulfill your hosting contracts - collateral of more than the value of those hosting contacts themselves. Turn off or not, that seems to be the only reasonable way to achieve private hosting contracts to me
More like responder willfully ignored the larger critique on competitiveness and chose to attempt to narrow the conversation to a discussion of rent-seeking, assumably because they felt they might stand a better chance at refuting the smaller claim. Sadly that didn't pan.
From 10k and Beyond: Discussing Crypto Currencies
Their revenues are in the billions per year, and so their investors would be looking for new revenues in the billions. The assumption that there's an untapped multi-billion dollar market for logistics software that they could quickly dominate - quickly enough to avoid running out of money - seems unwarranted.
https://lineage.microg.org

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416

supported devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices
Tenta Browser Now Includes HTTPS Everywhere
Who’s Hot, Who’s Not on Bitcoin – List of Bulls and Bears
OP talked about "Blockchain" not bitcoin specifically (which has more limited use cases, but that's not relevant to this thread)
This was one of the most enjoyable talks I have watched! Passion, modesty, useless and genius.
HTTP/2 and GRPC – The Next Generation of Microservices Interactions
EFF Demands Information About Secretive Government Tattoo Recognition Technology
I use Sleep Cycle for my alarm clock, which uses the microphone to listen to your sleep and wake you up when it's a good time and you're ready for it. My bedside charging cable has been malfunctioning the past few days, so my phone has been running off the battery all night while doing this. Despite this, my battery only drops a small amount between when I turn the alarm on and when I wake up.
The QC alone makes Uber’s business model viable. Holding drivers accountable with ratings makes Uber worthwhile at a premium over regular cabs, and significantly expanded the market. The only real risk at that point would be Lyft, the company that started the price war in the first place.

Uber may or may not be subsidizing fares, but they’re also spending tons of money on engineering and product development, both on their existing product and in an attempt to develop self-driving cars. That’s growth.
They all sound like great code names for a project in development, but doesn't amazon have a marketing team? A name that means something would be great. Sagemaker? I don't want to make sage. I just moved away from sage.
largest bitcoin miners can't attack blockchains whose proof of work algorithm is ASIC resistant or just a completely different calculation algorithm.

Monero is a one good example (feasible only on GPU and CPU, probably needs some R&D for ASICs with memory). litecoin is BTC-ASIC resistant with ASICs tailored for litecoin are coming.
This is a bit naive in a world where the address and search bars in browsers have merged, and many physical adverts don't even feature a website address any more, just search keywords.
My source is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM-gFU74UzA. This could possibly be false.
We ban accounts that continue to violate the guidelines like this. Would you mind posting civilly and substantively instead of name calling?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nice landing page. I personally find I can mostly just do this stuff with css and the inspector. It's not difficult enough to justify paying money for a prettier sol'n.