skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
other author here, no ICO investments. We're actually working for many years on a similar system, non-profit non-ICO based. We know this scientific area a bit (see my other comment).
And bitcoinjewelry.com seems to be taken -- somebody's already on the case. I'm not looking forward to it.
I'm giving this a try, using Seafile for synchronization with encryption instead of the app's own system. As an extra, I can self host it and I can revert any changes if I need to.
> as the ride-hailing leader struggled to fend off competition, legal challenges and regulatory scrutiny

A good read on this topic calling these business Regulatory Entrepreneurship :

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2741987
I'm enjoying the Probability for Everyone post. I'm also quickly reminded how complex the notion used in Probability Theory is. Lowercase, uppercase, script uppercase, double struck uppercase, and Greek uppercase all have specific meanings (sometimes multiple meaning), and they get held together with the set theory symbols. It's even worse since some people use different characters for inconsequential things, and then there's situations (online forums) where the notation can't be used and substitutes are made, I even recall some books using bold letters which made note taking a real hassle.
> Ten years later, he's broke

Sounds like bad planning (or a lot of bad luck).
Just as an anecdote, met a recent state school grad who said he arrived on campus as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, tried to get into campus activism, and his fellow activists and teachers scared him so much that he's now not sure where he stands politically.

Obviously I can't verify this, but for example he had a professor who actively taught that nations are a completely artificial social construct, and as such all immigration policies of any sort are illegitimate and harmful.

France was brought up as a particular example. Also, this view point was not up for classroom debate -- you would get a bad grade if you deviated from this in homework essays.

I think true liberalism is not just having a general set of 'progressive' values, but also being open to dissenting opinions and facing them honestly and openly. That doesn't mean agreeing with those opinions, but it does mean being exposed to them and debating them.

What we see on campuses today doesn't sound like liberalism to me, but a reactionary movement that aims to protect an orthodoxy composed of generally liberal viewpoints not by engaging in debate, but by preemptively shaming and denouncing anyone who disagrees.

Even if you believe liberal viewpoints are generally correct, nobody has a total monopoly on Truth.
I don't think they're under that misunderstanding. However, they correctly believe that they are the hook which pulls in viewers - the product - to sell to advertisers.

Take away those hooks by removing their incentive to post videos, and you pull in fewer viewers, resulting in fewer ad sales to YouTube's customers.

Sadly, the most affected are those who cover niche categories, which means YouTube can afford to fuck it up and not feel any significant pain. (Yes, I consider 90% loss in revenue for their bait, err, content creators to be worthy of the phrase "fucking it up").
Are Uber's costs really in the tech space? It's a complex tech operation for sure, but I wouldn't have thought they could make up much of the 1.5bn USD if they fired a bunch of developers. These bulk of these costs must be in marketing, customer acquisition and discounted fares, right?
Youtube not providing extra promotion for content is different from Comcast charging extra to even access that content.
Starting a business isn't for everybody, but not for the reason you stated. You're making the mistake of believing the VC hype. You don't need and probably shouldn't seek funding until you can articulate a need. So suggesting that you can't start a business because you won't get funded when you don't actually have any need for funding is absurd.

Starting a business isn't for everybody because it's a lot of stressful work. You have to wake up early and stay up late laying the foundation while your friends or spouse or kids or work are vying for your attention. You have to scrape together your savings or max out a couple credit cards to actually launch your product. Once you start hiring you are responsible for putting food on other people's tables. And even once you start making money, you have no idea what you're doing pretty much every step of the way.

If you actually do want to start a business, just fucking sit down and do it. There are a ton of profitable, bootstraped SaaS companies out there. Build a product, pay for the first couple months of hosting out of pocket, bill yearly, profit. (Notice "get funded" isn't a required step.) Complaining that VCs probably won't love you is just an excuse to take the path of least resistance and stay mediocre.
That’s certainly possible, however I suspect many of them just keep watching their money go up (at least for now). If really motivated you can find other ways to sell like LocalBitcoins, it’s just not as convenient as pressing the “sell” button.
Better use up Uber credits I guess. Uber gc's are selling at 80%-90%, not sure if default risk is properly priced in, lol.
the waymo case will certainly take some time to play out, wont it? I'm assuming year(s), but that's just a guess.
I think that jewelry should have a property of showing off, so hidden private key wouldn't work that well. You need to have some mechanism how to show status. And that nicety factor was driven mostly by women decorum.
Agree. There is actually a pre-existing, low-tech solution to 90% of these issues: Use a Public Notary to verify identity.

Company sends document with unique barcode to person they are trying to verify. Person takes to local UPS store and has public notary verify that person signing document really is "John Q Smith". Person sends back doc, with notary stamp and recordation number showing licensed person has authenticated.

This way your actual ID never leaves your possession.
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those with OCD-ish tendencies best hope they never lose any customers then.
To be clear, once we understand the principles behind the neocortex, only then it will make sense to ask questions about the importance of oscillations or how it relates to asynchronous vs synchronous systems, and many more phenomenon we have observed but do not really understand.

Without an underlying theory to tie it all together, it's difficult to make sense of it.

I personally think that oscillations are more likely to be an emergent property which is a common theme in nature.
I've dealt with it in the state fire code for Massachusetts and Maryland. I believe it is also in the New York and New Jersey code books. I'm unsure of other states but, it is a relatively recent adoption in all of the aforementioned states and I expect that it will be common in nearly all states soon.

If it seems to be a bit much just be glad you aren't in Massachusetts where they are currently trying to get arc flash rated 110V breakers added as a requirement to the electric code.
How much of this went back upstream to improve KVM itself? Or is all of the nitro work just special sauce on top that they're not required to share?
They have only picked up development speed in the last 5-8 years or so. There was the previous ten years where things were largely stagnant. They used their market position to scoop up everything industrial design. Hell, they even bought EagleCad.
Right, but the headline isn't "you covered this up", it's "it looks like you covered this up*. The omitted part ("on the surface") doesn't seem to significant alter the statement to me, does it?
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Wow, I would certainly have assumed that if they show ads, they must share the revenue.
I meant "doodle" as a light-hearted--almost facetious--compliment. I do consider it art. Really interesting art. Maybe zalgo isn't the best word either but there are people who make hand crafted deliberate "zalgo art" and it was the closest digital analogy that came to mind short. Like I said I think it's really really cool. It's amazingly sophisticated art and what really entertained me about viewing it was that it evoked thoughts of high school word scribbles taken to and entirely new level. I've never seen calligraphy juxtaposed with the real wild things that inspire a given instance of it.
I'm assuming you set up your site in webmaster tools[0]? If there is a problem, it should report it to you.

Besides that, there is not much on your site that is of value as to why Google would link to it. It just links to your other projects other sites that you are on. If I do a google search for your name + "spinda", your Github, Twitter, and Keybase entries come up. Then search result #12 or so is your website. I'd say Google is actually doing this right, as it's giving users a direct link to the sites of "value", while your meta-link site may not be as much value to people. Google would rather have people get directly to useful, than having to click through to other sites first.

Now, if you had something on your site that was changing (a blog or something), it may be ranked higher. But as of now, I don't see why Google would put it high up in the rankings.

[0] https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
This page is very silly, it basically says 'men get to do what they want when they want'. I like how the longest rule is about being 'single-minded', which is basically just an excuse for not taking part in all facets of your relationship.

Here is another perspective which you may find equally dumb:

https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/

Note that this comic is coming from a totally female perspective (scary!) but it really applies either way. For instance, in my marriage I am the one who feels like the chore-czar, while my wife is the one who tends to feel like the planning-czar. If we both realize this and try to meet in the middle it makes things go a lot more smoothly.
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You are completely wrong.

What you eat is a personal choice, such as smoking is personal choice. Regardless of societal norms, it is still a personal choice.

Not every issue in society requires a victim. Victim for example is someone who was raped because they didn't have a choice in the manner. Going to the store, and choosing which items to purchase does not equate to a victim. Just because a large portion of society makes poor choices does not equate to a large portion of society being victims.

If all of society jumped off a bridge, are they all victims?
It's no different than buying the same stock at different prices, and then selling at other prices. Either the software has to keep track or you have to keep track manually.
A heart made of candy hearts is not a fractal – but it's still pretty cool
USD out minus USD in
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I used Streisand for a while and I can confirm, that it works very well in China. VPN galore.
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It's not a script, but you can use Algolia search bar :)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...
Uber's endgame has been making an Uber of everything (e.g. Uber eats), i.e. a platform for the so-called 'sharing economy.' They obtain this by network effects. That and self-driving cars, I don't know. They're basically an R&D operation funded by investors. It may or may not pan out.
Nested encryption doesn't change anything. The nested encryption scheme would have to be perfect as well, which is also a bad assumption.

Even if you assume your crypto scheme is perfect you are still giving adversaries unlimited access to brute force your key.

For security conscious parties (corp, gov, mostly) encryption is a failsafe when other layers of physical security fail. No one is trusting encryption to be their sole means of securing their data.

Not to mention that if you put data on an untrusted system you lose the ability to track break attempts and detect breaches if they do occur.
Right, but if you wrote "With all these cold winters, it looks like the earth isn't warming."

Wouldn't that pass more-or-less the same message? I don't see how the omission is significant, let alone "pretty misleading".
I don't think Bitcoin was designed as a scheme, but it's effectively been turned into an MLM scheme and a brilliant one at that.

I'm trying to hire a PR firm for a project and I've come across a handful of firms that have been hired to promote BTC.

Think about that for a minute: if BTC is distributed - then who on earth is paying massive $$$ for PR firms to be hustling BTC in the press? Massive BTC owners - that's who.

Also problematic is so many in the press reporting on it have positions in BTC they are not disclosing (although this might be changing).

And every owner of BTC seems to be a willing (or unwitting) participant in the propagandization simply by commenting it up on the various boards and chats around the internet.

It's an amazing phenom - the intersection of cool tech, the internet - and age old ponzi/pyramid schemes.

And it has not even yet hit mainstream - most readers here might think BTC is 'old hat' but it takes a long time for things to hit mainstreet - and even after they hit mainstreet USA, it takes a while to hit 'mainstreet globally'. Remember: when all your friends were on Facebook? It tooks several years for 'everyone in the world' to be on it.

The barrier to growth is that it is quite tricky to buy - my Mother is on Facebook and she will never by BTC unless there are some real changes - though I can see a 3rd party creating a solution.

Do you know Glen Beck's scammy 'buy gold from us' commercials, where people buy gold in coin format basically at 20% above market value?

The 'buy Gold' phenom used to hustle gold does well among those 'end of the world / I don't trust the government types' - the same people who buy 'end of the world seeds' (from Glen Beck as well!) - and BTC fits in perfectly with this narrative.

So - get ready for 'Glenn Beck supported Bitcoin Wallet' - then it will get really big, possibly go global. And then, who knows.

So many interesting outcomes: if there is too much noise about it being used in organized crime I can see a Scandinavian country banning it, with talk of EU banning it ... the US could move quickly to do something. On some level - this will actually strengthen BTC among the 'anti government' crowd.

For it to lose price, there kind of has to be a systematic reason for it to do so - and kind of a panic. Once the press starts touting 'BTC Crash' - you can be sure it will happen - though there are enough massive, institutional holders that it won't likely go to zero.

I think it will be around for a long while though - my guess is that there is some kind of crash at some point, but not to zero, some governments clamp down, and then people over a long period of time just stop talking about it and using it.
It's not that nuts when you consider how high the stakes are for some people. In the U.S. one high stakes dichotomy can be summed as such: killing people by taking away affordable healthcare vs. killing people before they've had a chance at life. Killing people is such an important issue to many people that any other issues they have are minuscule in comparison, especially when it's likely that both sides have their dirt.

Disclaimer: I in no one way support the U.S. political system and would definitely support a system with more transparency so that, the people with significant unremedied skeletons in their closet, have no chance of making it to consideration for office.
I don't see enough data to parse the claim about the IRS ignoring the wealthy, but the second seems to be false, here are some sources:

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-examination-cov...

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-civil-penalties...

The vast majority of audits are of those making > 1,000,000 in income, and the average enforcement is more than $10,000.

Even with a few mega-enforcements to skew the numbers, the "bulk" of enforcement can't be against low income people, they don't owe enough to make the math work out.
How are white supremacists a "fringe", when you have a US President who openly supports and defends them? Who spreads their propaganda to his 40 million Twitter followers?

You can argue about to what extent his views are shared within the wider conservative movement, but when the conservative movement's democratically chosen leader supports an ideology like this, it is clearly not a "fringe".
I'm not making an argument about the rightness of any action. GP suggested that there exist

> ...advertisers who operate on the assumption that the users see Google searches as mostly efficient and impartial.

I do not believe that is factually accurate. I think advertisers don't have a compelling reason to care whether or not searches are impartial for the reasons I expressed.
Well, bitcoin is actually solving a real world problem, unlike diamond. Seems way too much effort and thinking for a ponzi, I mean the result is actually groundbreaking work.
Perhaps it is the American right-wing moving further right, but I am more inclined to believe the American left is moving farther left: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/why-ame...

Take for example this speech by Bill Clinton in 1995: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4654597/bill-clinton-illegal-...: "That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."

To think that this was a speech by a Democrat president about 20 years ago is unfathomable to the left today.
The interesting legacy corollary here is that it's completely bog standard for home security systems to be left in place when a house is sold.

I say this because the systems that ADT, etc sell these days are largely made up of white labeled COTS Z-Wave sensors with the security panel just being a hub and interface to the Z-Wave network.

The house I moved into this past year is covered by sensors for an old ADT system that are useless to me, and I've been slowly removing them and replacing them with equivalent Z-Wave e.g., door and motion sensors as I get to it. Whenever I move, I'll take the hub with me. Any sensors that get left behind would be almost entirely equivalent to an old security system being left in the house except for the fact that they'd be pairable with any system the new owner decides to put in place since they're actually standards based.
No, there's no legislation where I live which prevents competition. What's preventing competition is the tremendous up-front costs (laying fiber or copper), combined with the near-certainty of being under-cut by the incumbents are what really block competition. Who would invest millions into expanding services with the guarantee of failure?

Sure, the under-cutting is temporarily good for the consumers, but once the new player has been bankrupted, the prices go right back up.

We've seen it before; we'll see it again.
I honestly think the original vision was something similar to Amazon: bleed money when they are an online bookstore, make it all back when they swing for the fences and go for replacing all of retail. Likewise, Uber might lose money as a taxi service, but the idea would be to make it back in self-driving tech that replaces all transportation with 5 lanes of self-driving Ubers zipping about in all directions.

The problem is that 2017 seems like a major hiccup in this vision. The original visionary is gone. There's been some issues with self-driving technology. Lyft wasn't a huge problem when they were small and had no self-driving tech, now they are much bigger and have a viable self-driving tech partner in Ford... and so on.

It'll be interesting to see if this is actually the case, and, if they are off track enough, how they might change the way they operate.
What's interesting is that this is the exact attitude that the article is critical of. One persons perceived closed mindedness should not preclude them from sharing and refining their ideas in an academic setting, and being accepted as a member of the academic society.
Some random tips for PRC:

-download wechat. You can pretty much do everything from that app (chat, pay for things, order cars etc).
-most young people in tier 1 cities speak decent English. The biggest challenge for me is taxi drivers, who often have limited proficiency. Solution is to either use Didi (ride hailing app) or carry a copy of your hotel’s address in Chinese to show the driver.
-if you’re not staying in a major hotel, make sure you register with the local police department (major hotels do this for you when you check in). Failure to do so can result in your getting denied entry to PRC in the future.

-VPNs are now illegal in most of PRC so keep that in mind, but the laws may be different for foreigners. The last time I was there I found that if I roamed on my US cell phone service in a major city, I bypassed the firewall without needing a VPN. YMMV.
It was never a gray area in the United States. Anything you can own is an asset and you owe taxes against it. This is true of things you buy as well. If you buy two rare Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and the value appreciates, and you sell them for a higher price, you owe tax on the profit. The same is true for bitcoin.

You also can't get around this by simply bartering your assets. Once the asset leaves your hand or control -- be it bitcoins or Yu-Gi-Oh cards -- you owe tax on the difference in the price you paid (valued in USD) and the price it was worth at barter time. It is your responsibility to fairly make this valuation.

This is not rocket science... the IRS website and the published tax codes explain this in great depth.
I would think that if it blocks outside signals from getting in, it would have to also block inside signals from getting out, because Maxwell's equations work equally well regardless of what direction time moves.

Imagine a charge inside a Faraday cage. You wiggle it around, causing electromagnetic waves. If those were not blocked, they would cause various charges outside the cage to wiggle around. Call this experiment #1.

That should mean that if instead of wiggling the inside charge around, you had wiggled all the outside charges around in the same pattern that experiment #1 caused them to wiggle in, the result should be the inside charge wiggling the same way you wiggled it in experiment #2.
Buying a stock or Bitcoin is not taxable. Selling an appreciated stock or asset is taxable. If you bought 100 Bitcoin for $900 each in January and sell it for $9000 each in December, you owe the federal government 39.6% x ($9000 - $900) * 100 bitcoins
That's just a question of recognizable design and enough marketing spend, i.e. branding.

It's well known that people pay a major premium for things solely because they have words printed on them like "Calvin Klein", "Guess?" or "YSL". Jewelry branding is actually easier to make visually recognizable than clothes.
The thing about them is technically they are not. But - they can be used as schemes. And that's what makes them powerful as schemes - the veneer of credibility that actual bad actors can hide behind. Which taints the good actors.
You're looking for something automatable that will generate you money while being based on a third party's open source code?
Exactly. The only thing that keeps me coming back to Uber is their lower cost. And sometimes when $COMPANY is paying I don't even care about that. If I'm at a taxi stand why not take the taxi in front of me.

In economic terms the switching cost for the consumer is low. Really low. I'm not locked in and Uber is not Amazon that is spending their runway on capital investment. They're spending their capital on paying drivers who will leave once they start getting paid more somewhere else.

The best bet for Uber right now would be to close up shop, return the money to their investors, and cease business.