skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understanding putting a 'bookmark' on something (add to a shopping list), but food/groceries I don't think makes sense unless you're ordering something _highly_ regular with no customization potential and you it's 100% clear how it's going to get to you (timeline, costs). It makes sense for Dominos, but do I really trust it to get the 0% yogurt who's brand I forget in the exact size I want, for which if you ask me the # of ounces I'll look at you blankly?

Also keep in mind it's not a 'conversation' interface... it's query/answer. It also doesn't allow me to do multiple things at once, so if I were to inspect my fridge and order a bunch at once it'd go like this:

Me: "Alexa"

Alexa: "<ding>"

Me: "Order a honey crisp apple medium sized"

Alexa: ".... ok ordering you a medium sized honey crisp apple"

Me: "Alexa"

Alexa: "<ding>"

Me: "Order peanut butter ummmmmm norm-"

Alexa: "... what kind of peanut butter do you want? You can say <18 options>"

... it's a pretty crap experience compared to instacart on your phone, which is worse than instacart on your desktop, which is worse than being inside the grocery store on your way home from work.
House prices look like they're continuing their 30-year boom in my area. Oh that's right, they took them out of inflation statistics in 1983.

How's education costing these days, anyway? Healthcare?
For how long is it considered ok to sit on an offer?
I'm glad you brought up the stock market. Insider trading laws exist in the US and most developed countries, precisely because information symmetry is important to the functioning of equities markets.

EDIT: Don't take my word for it. Look at the SEC web site's description of their purpose. Excerpt (emphasis mine): "To achieve this, the SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public. This provides a common pool of knowledge for all investors to use to judge for themselves whether to buy, sell, or hold a particular security. Only through the steady flow of timely, comprehensive, and accurate information can people make sound investment decisions."
I spent time in a remote village in Western Nepal back in 2009. During the 70's, the Peace Corp had installed 2 hydro generators to provide electricity for the village. Over time the generators broke down, and no outside notice was given, or request for assistance. My understanding from conversations with some of villagers was that the prevailing attitude was "alas, such is life", and they wen't back to no electricity. They had no electricity in 2009, but people seemed content enough.
Chrome is the client side of Google's play to control both client and server on the "Open Web" and, more broadly, to own the surveillance economy.
Coinbase Hit 10M Users – Struggles to Keep Up
This is one of the functions of the Chevy Volt - "...its internal combustion engine powers an electric generator to extend the vehicle's range as needed. When the engine is running it may be periodically mechanically linked (by a clutch) to a planetary gear set, and hence the output drive axle, to improve energy efficiency." -- from wikipedia page on the Volt
Seems like a great opportunity for them to migrate to the web. None of the examples provided seem to require features that aren't available in all major browsers.

The web is open and accessible! I find it incredibly frustrating when random services expect me to install their shitty mobile app. I don't want to use any walled garden if I can avoid it.

I'd view this as a small victory for the web.3
Your offer expires in 2 days.
Tech pays more than Wall Street today. People are just jealous.
I don't have a strong opinion either way about Apple's stance, but why do these restaurants need an app at all? You can do online ordering and Apple Pay with a website.

If the companies had tied their fate to the web instead of the App Store they wouldn't have this problem.

I'm usually pro native apps for things I use every day but I'm not going to keep an app on my phone for a restaurant.
There is one term that is guaranteed to get you closed.

In legalese it is called "structuring" - where people do multiple transfers of under $10k each in order to try to avoid the banks reporting them. It is a federal crime. People go to jail for that.

Coinbase wants no part of that. They already are fighting the IRS about turning over records.

(And the truth is that banks now report nearly everything; certainly anything more than $3000 so people that do this can be easily caught. And they DO sometimes go to jail.)

Example: https://thebitcoin.pub/t/coinbase-closed-my-account-for-unkn...

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If you haven't done that then it is probably just a glitch. Try their support.
They have no legal right to keep your money without a warrant.

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Meanwhile, they are also having technical problems.

Here is what is happening to them:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@steembusiness/coinbase-hit-10-m...

"Coinbase Hits 10 Million Users - Struggles To Keep Up"
I'd be very curious to see these discussions also take into account the road situation in countries other than those in Europe and the US. I've heard many a tale of driving conditions in—just for example—the dense urban areas of India that would turn this assumption completely on its head.
Gold and gems can't be instantaneously and safely transacted over the internet.

Name-calling cryptocurrencies "primitive" when they're clearly not doesn't lend a lot of weight to your argument.
The context: MtGox is currently going through a bankruptcy proceeding in Japan. The complaint right now is that the creditors i.e. people who had accounts with positive BTC balances when MtGox declared bankruptcy will be repaid in JPY, according to the price of their BTC balance when MtGox declared bankruptcy in 2014. Since then, the value of BTC has obviously increased quite a lot, so much so that MtGox can actually use its remaining BTC assets to repay those creditors, leaving plenty of BTC to pay the shareholders.

In other words, even if you think Bitcoin acts as a "store of value," that still does not make it "money" according to the law. You can have 1BTC or 100BTC, but the law is only concerned with the monetary (i.e. fiat currency) value at some particular time (not necessarily right now).
But not from fuel use...
It's a standard mag stripe card that draws from a Bitcoin account and can be used anywhere. They're quite common.
And a keyboard that doesn't feel like I'm typing on a rock. And inverted T arrow keys
> Think of a world in which you cannot collect taxes

That's the problem. That's exactly what is already happening. The rich already don't pay tax, and neither do the corporations they control. The only thing that is being changed is that the oversight of the masses is now being removed, because banks can no longer be trusted to look after the interests of their clients over the interests of the state.

I suspect the only viable taxes in future will be consumption taxes, property taxes, and estate taxes. If ya wanna eat, ya pay tax. If ya wanna buy something, ya pay tax. If ya wanna live somewhere, ya pay tax. If ya die, your assets are divided, the state collects its portion, and then everyone goes on their merry way again. It's no surprise that these are resisted, because they are the only taxes that are effective against wealthy people.
By copy, I think he meant the writing of the page, copywriting. Please pursue the below links, you may find them helpful. I also recommend redesigning the site to be little more visually appealing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469889

https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/10-ux-copywriting-tips-for-d...

https://medium.com/talking-microcopy-writing-ux/go-to-guide-...
I suspect this works in a homogeneous culture where everyone has the same concepts of queues, taking turns, and aversion to line cutting. But in a heterogenous culture with a mix of people who prioritize self over taking turns and regularly ignore queues, this would quickly become a disaster.
I totally made a living on Patreon. In fact, I supported a team of four people and additional contractors to boot.

The trick is to be making porn.
It was hack day at shopify today, was thinking this was a project from that
>Kidane had alleged that the wrongdoing was transnational. The court rejected that as an exception to the FSIA, saying that Ethiopia would still have immunity unless the wrongful act – the “tort” – took place entirely in the US.

So you can commit "wrongful acts" if you make sure you commit at least a part of the act outside US soil?
Am I the only one curious as to what the cool song was?
I completely agree with your first 2 paragraphs. I am furious with Fb dropping support for basic phones - and this is making WA "yet another messaging app" in pursuit of crowding out Snapchat.

> Thus the judgement that it was $19B of mis-allocated capital from a larger viewpoint. We apparently disagree on this point.

I almost agree, only I believe there's more nuance to this. Fb was never going to invest $19B in fusion power, so to say it was mis-allocated feels wrong. The only reason it spent so much was that WhatsApp was a potential existential threat to Fb. This was the point I was attempting to put across, abeit poorly - that a scrappy company that manages to achieve fusion would be an existential threat to energy companies and would be worth billions for that reason alone.
But.... beer is delicious. In fact, I kind of feel like one right now.
Yes, bitcoin is better than gold in that it's virtual and can be transferred over the internet.
But that doesn't change the fact that it's a store of value like gold is, and not a currency.

> Name-calling cryptocurrencies "primitive"

I called gold primitive as a currency. And made an argument for bitcoin (specifically) being similar to gold.

Edit: btw, gold 500 years ago had the same exact property of bitcoin today: it was immediately transferable to anybody you were in contact with and could buy goods from. That didn't make it better.
Hopefully we don't get rid of the 'Bridge Out Ahead' signs.
Funny enough, I had a hard time reading that because the word choice is different from what I'm used to.
It's closer to a commodity than a currency: fixed supply. In fact, the IRS is treating BTC as a commodity, to be valued, for tax purposes.
It can't prove it any better than than anything else can bridge the is-ought gap. I agree that markets can't exist without money, but I think historical evidence suggests that they will create money in order to exist. Almost every society in human history has developed a monetary system; either one based around a commodity as simple as camels, bullion or sea shells, or backed by fiat.
Ergo : Don't trust banks.
I imagine that if AOl had known the value of a browser back when they spun Netscape out, they would have made a different decision.

Given Mozilla’s revenue and market share, it means Chrome is a multi billion dollar product.
An ambient information source doesn't bug me, even if it has to actively fetch the data. An example would be my phone's weather report feature. I actually have it retrieve weather for multiple locations: where I usually am, and areas where various family members live.
Introduction to Local, Interpretable, Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME)
There's an argument that Satoshi is Nick Szabo, the person who invented the term 'smart contract'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract

> The phrase "smart contracts" was coined by Nick Szabo in 1996, and reworked over several years. Szabo's first publication, "Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Free Markets" was published in Extropy #16,[3] and then later reworked as "Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks."[4]
Suppose I might as well configure my browser to use that pattern, instead of going directly to Google search, too. That would make it a bit more convenient to remember.
Phishing with EV SSL certificates
Why did you put "jailed" in quotation marks? Was he not actually jailed?
They are trying to crowd source the data: https://voice.mozilla.org
Oh, that idea. It got a lot of press in the 1990s when some town in France tried it. When Redwood City rebuilt their downtown, "Theater Way", in front of the movie theaters, was built with a curb on one side and no curb on the other.[1] Restaurants along both sides were allowed to expand onto the sidewalk and beyond.

The result was a mess. Cars too close to restaurant tables with no barrier. Heavy planters were put in place. That helped some. Finally, traffic was blocked off at both ends, and it became entirely a pedestrian area. As a pedestrian area, it works well. But no one can be dropped off right in front of the theater.

[1] http://citydesigncollective.com/urban-design-services/street...
Do we know if Satoshi lurks around hacker news and is having a chuckle reading the comments here?
And so it may be bound by your country's laws, and by the laws of all the other countries where it also exists on hard drives, even if they are contradictory, it's potentially a legal nightmare. The current official bitcoin position on this appears to be to stick one's fingers in one's ears an go "La la la I can't hear you"
It takes three minutes to learn the rules of the game go. Of course it takes years of concerted effort for a human to know how to play it well.
Yup. Somewhat counterintuitively, rereading is the least effective retention method.
Well, the same author from the link I gave happens to have also written a book on that very topic that you might find interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
I think NSA would have foreseen the inevitability of FPGA and ASIC miners and chosen a better proof-of-work function than SHA-2.
The transparency might be a turn-off for individuals. Some artists on Patreon choose to hide the amount they receive altogether.
You do know that trend isn’t sustainable, right? Bitcoin evangelists in 2017 seem to love talking about the rate of increase in price as if increasing in value by 300% every couple of months is a built-in feature.
... and it takes literally three seconds to change your default search provided from google to any of the eight or so provided search engine, and a few more seconds to change it to any search engine at all.
IOW you are not paying with BTC, you are selling BTC for some fiat currency and using the proceeds to make the payment.
Beyond nutrient deficiency it seems there may also be effects on teeth straightness from bottle feeding (chronically sucking on many types of baby bottles changes infant mouth shape) and from not chewing enough hard foods as a child. The cavities thing is mostly about sugar and to a lesser extent other processed food.

As for myopia the effect is probably due to some combination of lack of very bright light exposure and a infrequent need to focus far away or too much time spent focusing close without breaks. As you say the solution is to spend more time outdoors as a child, and alternate relatively shorter sessions of desk/screen work with more active interludes, making sure to glance around the room with some frequency.
He (and all the rest of them) dont understand the modern economy. It's like banging your head against a wall.

You explain the importance of monetary policy, why the gold standard is problematic, why this means Bitcoin will not replace modern currencies, yet they don't really hear. They just don't like "The System" and want to subvert it.

Bitcoin is great, but it will not change 'the system'. It is a novel and ingenious asset, nothing more.
Does anyone else have better success with SoundHound? I feel like their product is much better.
Advice for new Ph.D. students (2013)
At a certain tier, much of this is false.

Instant results? Very possible, so many sites are so poorly configured, a sitewide metarewrite and a single indexing request ( and other means to coax googlebot to visit )can put a site from barely indexed to first for hundreds of terms.

Good keyword research can identify openings in the search market with literally no competition.

Social signals? A matter of priority, there are quite a few audiences where social should have a low priority compared to other channels. Ready to run a Facebook contest for Std testing? Mobile drug testing, Funeral Homes?

I still see people with attractive,expensive sites where the last web agency never turned off sitewide no index after launching a WordPress site. For Global brands!

The author's crash course was insufficient to be giving advice.

How is UX/engagement measured. What metrics? How can you influence those metrics?

Cheap content? Are all topics expensive? General reading levels are pretty low and the global market offers many opportunities.

In spirit it all holds true ... But these type of banal observations don't scratch the surface of what is possible and How things are done

4 to 9 months! For my team, that would mean a client has paid between 8 and 30k before I can even show returns?

I've made sales in hours .. literal hours after launch. So much fluff in SEO thought.
They probably have technology related to voice recognition that makes it valuable.

Surprised I haven't seen anyone mention this angle yet.
The category here is not "phones", but app stores. Apple is certainly a monopoly there - evidence lies in the averse effects on the bottom line of not on the app store.
My comment was meant as a reply to bigbugbag below, not the original question. Not sure what happened there.
Except all 4+ SSR and framework teams have been working on this technology for years and put a lot of thought and design into it, so it's not so randomly sloppy that the one client SPA will need duplicate testing suites just to prerender HTML serverside.
Typically the referrals are paid pretty well, from my experience most people in a BigCo will refer anyone with a pulse as long as it's not to their direct team.

I wouldn't even bother going to a conference for this, just find someone on LinkedIn who is a 2nd connection, InMail them (no need for an intro), mention your shared connection and that you're looking for a referral for [job spec link] at their company.
>Then you will never be employed, because that describes virtually every software project at a for-profit company.

I have had 8 years doing software dev (at a for-profit company) most of them as software development director in command of a 15+ people team, thus, I reaffirm what I said: Newbies should be trained first, and only afterwards included in the projects, and that's what I made sure happened on the team, under my command.

They deserve to be trained first, in an environment where they can make mistakes freely until they feel confident.
I'll check it out. Thank you.
It really is horribly slow now - and not just in the way that you describe. Previously, I could load the podcasts app, and tap the top item in the unplayed list, and it would begin playing the entire list. Now there isn't a way to do that. Instead that tap opens the list of podcasts for that show, and then I have to tap the podcast again to select it, and once again to play it. And it only plays podcasts for that show! As far as I can tell there isn't a way to play all of the unplayed episodes I am subscribed to.

I moved to Overcast.
...the same would apply if I had promised to pay you in BTC and then failed to make that payment. This is not really about trusting banks.
I like the concept, but I'm not a fan of the execution. To be blunt, it comes off as very half-assed. The pages shown in the blog post look like first- or second-round drafts, not final revisions.

I'm sure this took a lot of work, and I applaud the authors for completing and publishing the book. However, in my experience, a product will always take a lot of work, but a good product will take a lot lot lot of work!
Nice work, David Chaum!
Since you're running in AWS, is there any particular reason you're not using Parameter Store?
That was a very enjoyable circular anecdote.
That is absolutely excellent work - the very best of DL. Keep crushing it, Lyrebird team.
Thanks for sharing this.

I learned to program when I was very young. One thing sticks out to me about the strategy of the first person I learned from. He explained to me just how complicated our actions, as humans, really are. Want to make a PB&J Sandwich? Think about how many micro-steps are involved in that process! Everything from small wrist movements to understanding how to navigate the refrigerator define such an everyday, common task. He then described how we can transpose those types of actions and objects to programs. This quickly led to an understanding of concepts like conditionals and loops for repetitive tasks.

I think that approach is well-suited for children learning to program. Avoid jargon, start with fundamental concepts, connect the concepts to experiences the child understands.

I hope to see more attempts at children's books which stroke the curiosity of the budding programmer.
I have to wonder if today's instant and constant news cycle will end up being a brief anomaly, once the technology to literally create "fake news" is a bit more powerful and accessible. Will journalism require much more verification, or will the torrent of crap just become uncontrollable?
Looks pretty good. Their example video sounds terrible and robotic, seemingly by design.

Would the best approach to actually deceiving the viewer be a voice impressionist paired with this technique?
Blockchains are pretty lit. Here's another implementation in Node for comparsion.

https://github.com/lhartikk/naivechain
So then why not just email the keys to yourself and leave them in your inbox?
Review: Plato’s ‘Friendly Orange Glow’
Yes this does dynamic nets, the model is the same as PyTorch, you build a graph for each input(s). I think Cortex is in the Keras-style of model (only layer abstractions and not "dynamic" in the sense we talk about neural nets) and isn't dynamic, but I could be missing something. The examples seem to all be in that mold: https://github.com/thinktopic/cortex/blob/master/examples/ca...
> It may just be that we don't have the right tools at this point.

The real reason is that the solution to this problem isn't valuable to most people that have the resources to pay for a solution. Most bugs aren't caused by issues in the C compiler.

There are many technically challenging, interesting problems that face a similar predicament. The people who solve them will generally find some way to tie them back to reality.
And importantly, what percent of the creators are actually putting in 5/10/20/40 hours a week, before we start comparing to minimum wage?
There is also a free product that can do it better http://rr-project.org/
> The major downside to this is the used market.

Yeah Google I believe unintentionally really messed up the used market for people that want to flash. You can tell the difference by installing an app or going under developer options from what I have gathered https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/163706#181321
>Haskell people would say "its the same thing!"

Haskell can get away with this because it is a pure language. If you have `f a b`, you do not really care when f gets evaluated (or, at least, when you do care currying is generally not what makes figuring it out difficult). Even without currying, Haskell makes it difficult to know when a function is evaluated.