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As a Douglas Adams fan, I'm slightly disturbed by the first sentence.

"The dream of in-ear real-time translation goes back at least as far as Douglas Adams’s Babel Fish, a little alien that fits in a human ear, feeds on brain waves and, miraculously, excretes translations into the ear canal."

However according to the Guide, the Babel Fish not really excretes anything into the ear canal.

"It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them."

It makes me always sad, when journalists don't do their homework.
And this is why we have judges and juries.
I'm committing the cardinal sin of commenting before I'm done with the article, but whenever this discussion comes up, I feel like asking: why not both? Could it be that Bitcoin is currently overvalued and in a "bubble", but it or something like it still may have huge value and utility in the long run? The idea that the Bitcoin bubble is something more like the Dot Com bubble than Tulipomania seems plausible to me.
One difference is that twitter does not make money. Facebook is an exception in that it did not just grew, but it knew how to be profitable.

But other then that, I largely agree with you. The Facebook hate lately is weird.
I think this is a poor analogy. An argument/analogy like yours would allow me to say you trespassed with your eyeballs. That light travels one way or bytes another doesn't affect the spirit that you are looking at something that was made available to look at. Can I outlaw window shopping? My cafe is going to have a sign that says "If you are employed by a competing cafe and you don't close your eyes when walking by, I will attempt to have you jailed". Or I'll wait until they show a price comparison between their coffee and ours, then send a cease and desist to have them not look at my billboard anymore.
You know that LE will email you if a cert isn't automatically renewed, right?
It is kind of a UX curiosity. When people don't speak the same language, they are trained to have a third party "translator" to defer to. You speak, I watch you. Then I watch the translator. Then I speak, and so on.

That translator could be a person, a phone running Translate, a notepad you're drawing pictures on, whatever. The point is, you have something physical acting as the intermediary and so it's natural to direct your attention to it.

With the Pixel Buds, they're taking that physical manifestation away but the problem is under the hood nothing has changed. So you're still having this fragmented three-way conversation, but now there is no physical intermediary that makes it feel natural.
These statistics are as useful as the pre brexit and us presidency polls
Spoken like someone who has never done it and never will, with only the confidence that comes from total ignorance.
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One more percent and they'll have 'scientific consensus' /s
I disagree. The idea that a Macbook Pro does "not... meet the requirements of people that are actually professionals" inherently says "if you're a professional, you don't use a Mac", and inversely, "if you use a Mac, you're not a professional". There is no reason to make that statement unless you are looking to strictly define who is and who is not considered a professional in your opinion, and that definition most certainly leaves a lot of people out in the cold.

Now it might be a true statement that "if you're a professional video editor working with lots of files and 4k video, the Mac Pro doesn't meet your needs" or "if you're a professional data scientist working on cutting-edge machine learning with CUDA, the Mac Pro doesn't meet your needs".

But "professional" is a broad term. Very broad. It's hard to imagine a broader term. Even if we restricted that to "IT professional" or "professional programmer", it's still a very broad range of needs within that statement. And the Mac Pro lacks a very specific set of things that "professionals" may need, depending on their profession.

I'm willing to bet the number of professionals who need a Unix machine with a nice GUI that's well-supported by major software vendors and also well-supported by the manufacturer with retail stores (including tech support) in every city of any size far outweighs the number of professionals who need anything specific the Macbook Pro or Mac Pro are missing. Why, then, are they not considered "professionals"? And what other machine meets those very broadly applicable requirements?

Or how about this one? I need a Unix machine with a serial port and an Ethernet port for my job, and I also need the machine to be lightweight because I travel constantly, it needs to be able to be held with one hand as I'm standing in a datacenter, and I need long battery life because I can't carry a ton of cables through the datacenter as I'm moving around. What meets my needs as a professional? Sure, my needs are very specific... so are the needs of this hypothetical gold standard "professional" who needs what the Mac Pro doesn't have. I certainly don't need a powerful video card. Guess I'm not a professional, then?

It's the constant gatekeeping of "Mac(book) Pro computers aren't made for professionals because I made up my own definition of professional and you're not in it" that really grinds me the wrong way. I don't need to upgrade my RAM because by the time I need more, my work will just buy me a new one. Guess that means I'm not a professional?
Genius does not come from consensus. The economist who knows what bitcoin is is probably in the 4%.
Interesting question. Can the eradication/treatment of a disease be taken into account? Would think the wide-scale availability of vaccines for Polio/Small Pox/other various viruses etc coupled with antibiotic treatments for bacterial infections had an enormous impact on the last 100 years.
> Because the research shows that that is not the case

Please quote this research, you're just being obnoxious and I don't understand why. No such research can possibly exist, since it defies the most basic common sense.
When you say "entitlement", I hear "progressive wealth redistribution".

Government is the source of all wealth. So administering cashectomies is a fine way to mitigate hoarding.

Once our Ginni coefficient is dragged back into the "democracy promoting" realm, we can talk about liberal over reach.
FTA: "LinkedIn sent hiQ cease and desist letters warning that any future access of its website, even the public portions, were “without permission and without authorization” and thus violations of the CFAA."

They were formally told to leave the coffee shop and not return.
Unlike a young tech worker who isn't materially tied down to any location and can view all locations as equal, many people have strong ties to the bay area which serve to keep them there. Moving to Nebraska is pointless if all it does is make you worse off and that's the main point of my post and one you haven't addressed. Most of these families are in some crappy circumstances where they're at but moving would only make those circumstances worse - so let's not pretend there's options here that there aren't.
Well, there's already talk that Bitcoin is the biggest financial bubble in world history:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-12/its-official-bitcoi...
The poster is arguing that if you make a request from LinkedIn's website and it returns a "200" along with data, then you've accessed that data lawfully and LinkedIn has agreed to serve it to you; I tend to agree. If they don't want to provide data to hiQ, they should, well, stop providing data to hiQ.

There are many ways to do this short of claiming that hiQ doesn't have permission or authorization, an argument strikes me as wholly without merit. If the data is publicly available on the internet then how is permission or authorization required?
Who could have expected 4% of economists to be holding bitcoin already?
I presume the implication of calling it a bubble is that it will "burst".
When I started accepting online payments for simplyguest.com the percentage was less than 50%. Customers preferred to pay cash, but cash is difficult to manage, so I started pushing towards online payments. My cash collection this month was less than 2%. I am trying to avoid this as well.

As businesses realize cash is not easy to scale, and if they are ambitious enough, they will push their customers towards credit/debit cards and other scalable channels.
interactivity should move to a newer platform and the web should just be for brochure sites, articles and legacy stuff.

there should be a new platform that uses a new engine that's isn't backwards compatible.

It might be possible to do this soon with wasm+canvas, but then you have unused rendering engines (html/css) and it's recreated from the ground up.
> Ambra is being discontinued!

The article mentions the discontinuation of Aperta but nothing about Ambra?

https://plos.github.io/ambraproject/Developer-Overview.html

https://github.com/PLOS/ambra
I wish there was a "web security checklist" where if you ticked all the boxes, you can be pretty sure you have the well-known holes covered. This is why web frameworks are really useful, the decent ones get you way ahead in securing your application from the most common attacks. But if you self-bake, then you have to manage the entire complexity of the web platform.
In the coffee shop example, would this be like trying to sue someone who is banned from your shop from looking in the window at your price list? In this case, it's more like LinkedIn is attempting to get a PFA order, but I think they need to show abuse, not just looking in the window at the menu you posted on the window?
IMO, bitcoin is a commodity money, and history has moved on from those a long time ago. At most treat it like stock, and not as if it were money.
a lot less useful tbh
The one thing they aren't accounting for is that there really hasn't been anything like bitcoin. In most bubbles, eventually the whales start selling which triggers an avalanche, however bitcoin is distributed enough that this might not happen. Too many different people are interested in it doing well now. E.g. rich people in 3rd world countries, boy are they pumped for bitcoin.

I've mentioned it before, and I was kinda laughed at but I legit believe that certain economic truth need to be reevaluated for software and crypto. You know how at tech companies, the economics are different from other companies? I can imagine the same being the case for crypto.
Truly good sizing is a much more complex problem than can be solved through recommendation systems. You can get incrementally better at it, but nothing beats actually trying something on at the store. Problems that cannot be solved through recommendations alone include:

1) Body types that aren't average (all of our bodies are irregular, but some of us are more irregular than others). Clothes sizing are based on a average model of the human body.

2) Fabric interaction with body. Softer fabrics drape in different ways from more rigid fabrics. Also how loose or muscular your flesh is can affect fit if you're in the market for really slim fits (European style).

3) Non-representative snapshots: your measurements in the morning will differ from other times of day, and it will differ over the course of weeks and months, even if your diet is stable.

4) Shrinkage/expansion: depending on material, there is some shrinkage or expansion after the first wash/wear. Although this is mostly a known quantity and good clothiers account for this.

Really good bespoke tailors understand these principles, and make allowances for them as they build your clothing. Also they know to put elastic fabrics in the right places so the suit will still fit even after a large meal.

I think the one way we can get closer to a good fit while being remote is to have pop-up stations/kiosks where we can get multiple 3D scans of our body on separate occasions (kinda like how most bespoke tailors require at least 3 fittings). That still doesn't account for fabric-body interactions, but it gets us a lot closer than recommendation systems.

p.s. the other problem is cultural. Most Americans don't know or care quite as much about fit (because it's not as prized in the culture) as their European counterparts, so their data is going to be skewed slightly towards the left end of the competence curve.
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Yes. Internet stocks were in a bubble in the late 90's. It burst but the Internet turned out just fine. The question is, when the crypto bubble bursts, will Bitcoin recover, or will it be something else?
Problem with Facebook is the difficulty of keeping circles separated, resulting in a frequent unwillingness to post. I often am unclear whether a potentially triggering post intended for a limited group will end up being broadly distributed, so often just don't or find another site to converse on.
You know that thing Russia does where it's the successor state to the Soviet Union when it's convenient for them, and an entirely different entity when it's not? Yeah, that door swings both ways.

Assurances made to the Soviet Union expired with the Soviet Union. And--big surprise here--some former Soviet republics don't wish to be dominated by Russia again. Given the choice, they would prefer to be dominated by the US, the UK, France, and Germany. They might not make the trains run on time, or keep everyone employed, but they do keep the toilet paper on the shelves.
I don't believe there's a law requiring the honoring of the robots.txt file. People and services honor the file out of a sense of good manners, not a legal requirement.
>Just because the cafe on the corner has its door open and lets you stroll in off the street doesn't mean that the property owner doesn't retain the right to exclude people.

While I don't know about the EFF's overall argument, as an absolute statement I don't think you are correct here. In the USA at least, "Public Accommodations" (which your cafe example would be) are in fact subject to regulations that limit their ability to discriminate, require accommodations for the disabled, etc., and these apply regardless of whether it's public or private property. Something that is open to the general public is different in law then purely private property (private clubs and religious institutions are specifically excluded from federal law, but that's it). There are also going to be different expectations of privacy and default access levels.

Physical to digital analogies are often a poor match anyway, but in this case I'm not sure even if we accept one that it fully supports your point. Private property open to the public is not legally the same as purely private limited access property in terms of who it may exclude, when it may exclude, and why (as well as lots of other standards).
Everyone that I've talked to seems to be aware of the (seemingly) inevitable price drop, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them from buying in. Most people just assume they'll be able to sell what they have when the price drops before all the 'dumb' people have a chance to do the same.

They just assume they'll be the lucky ones. I don't think everyone can be the lucky ones though.

I think after this all calms down and a reasonable price is reached it'll be a bit safer to use as an actual currency. Pretty sure we were all saying that when bitcoin was around $200 though so maybe it won't ever settle.
Gold has a floor value though, sure it has a value above that based on being used as a store of wealth but the whole thing is predicated on the fact that gold is actually useful and has thousands of years of human history of being valued.
Tulipmania lasted 6 months. Bitcoin is now 8 years old.

Stop comparing Bitcoin to flowers. It's not even close to the same thing.
> transfer wealth

It works really well for that, for those cashing out.
Stratchery has a pretty laissez-faire attitude towards government regulation in general. He seems ok with the net neutrality repeal, for example.[1]

[1] https://stratechery.com/tag/net-neutrality/
What is a robot? Why is the User Agent even important? It's not a standardized value. I could send "User-Agent: ikeboy" and it's perfectly valid.
If there's 1 thing I've learned in the past 2 years, it's that experts can be deadly wrong (Trump being president, Brexit). They seem to be good at predicting things with known variables, but not with unknown unknowns.

I'm making a contrarian bet that experts are wrong this time as well (at least in the near term). People are jumping the gun, trying to look smart and predict the right outcome. The same people that never predicted bitcoin would be this popular. If I'm wrong, so be it, I'll lose a few % of my net wealth.
Seems to me international fiat currencies are the bigger, more pressing bubbles. But what do I know?

How many people know about QE, NIRP, or PPT?
I really don't think cryptocurrency in general is a going anywhere; I don't think this is even the tip of the iceberg in terms of where this is going to lead. There are reason however, why bitcoin specifically might bubble and collapse. The main issue being the fact that at the moment its not reasonable to use bitcoin as if it were money, with the prime cause (in my eyes) being the cost of transactions. I do think bitcoin will collapse (not any time soon), but I think the contents of that bubble will find themselves in other, technically more useful cryptos. Not being able to move bitcoin around with out these ridiculous transaction fees is why bitcoin will eventually collapse. Its not (as) useful as a store of value in its current form than a store of value that doesn't have acost for its use.
For that i have separate numeric only password in my bank which is different than my web login password. So bank is saving couple of bucks to reuse same weak password that can be stolen on web and then used by attacker to authenticate as me over the phone. What a crappy bank.
I am just happy that bank that I use is having all set better.
And in Atlanta I experience the opposite problem. Google Maps will limit searches to things close by, suggest alternates instead of exact matches, and routinely fails to find locations that I know exist forcing me to manually select them on the map.

Unlike NY, in Atlanta everything is a 30 minute drive so convenience is less about distance.
It's probably just whatever transit delay system your area is letting Google use. The delays are almost always accurate for me in San Diego
Google doesn't do voice to text on the phone, they use an online service. It would take a ginormous corpus of trained data and cpu to quickly process most of the ways people pronounce even one language.

Their conversational translation is voice based because typing back and forth on the phone takes too long. It works wonderfully when there is internet, but you're screwed if you're traveling without a data plan. Then you're forced to "learn a language" or "use hand signals" or "write things down" like some 20th century chump.
Cuba is lousy at a bunch of things, but it does quite well at disaster preparedness, diaster response, public health - generally anything where the main criterion is organizing people to do things.

Source: I worked with an NGO there for most of a year
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bitcoin will still have a sort of floor value for the various illegal things it was and is still use for.

Obviously though that is far far lower than what it is now.
You may be right. Facebook does a similar thing with ads, if you run a page/business, they heavily restrict who is going to see your posts. Unless, of course, you pay Facebook to display your posts as ads. Then everyone will see them... depending on how much you pay.
>you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
Duct tape and a hose, done.
I swear the similarity of phrasing with SystemD lovers makes me think theres more to systemd love than just "its not sysvinit"
No because that's not how computers work. Computers don't just emit radiation into the aether that anyone can capture. Accessing a website involves making a physical piece of property do something in response to your HTTP request.
Gotta love how the negative crypto articles rise to the top on HN immediately. What's not understood is that crypto is a way for the un-banked (1/3 of the people on earth who barely have clean water, toilets or telephones, yes telephones and that make $1/day) now have access and participation in a global trading platform. Disruption for the first time is happening to both VCs and traditional investment bankers and they are rekt. Be a contrarian.
You are right. War in Ukraine was started to kick out Shell out of natural gas field near to Sloviansk, which was able to fulfill needs of Ukraine and Europe, so Sloviansk was first target for Russian "insurgents".

AFAIK, the same reason holds for Syria: to stop Qatar attempt to reach Europe.
I think the contents of that bubble will fill another, more technically useful crypto. Something with 0 cost transaction fees.
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4% are Bitcoin owners :)
Usually the same number of economists forecast continued growth right before recession.
"Hill caves"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska#/media/File:...

You're an idiot.
F*ck, all those years down the drain!
Bitcoin is a bubble but that doesn’t mean that you can’t make money investing in it. All you need is someone else to be the “greater fool” to purchase it from you. Just don’t get stuck holding bitcoin when the bubble collapses.
On average, we are much better educated then in 1871 and spend waaay more time learning. So I doubt we are in that endless decline into itellectual laziness.
No, they were told to stop looking in the window. Can you ask someone not to look at the menu you posted in your sidewalk window? I don't think that'd hold up in court.
> 96% of Economists Say ‘Yes’

Oh God this means I was wrong... I should start buying bitcoin ASAP.
Wonderful article, read it like a blockbuster with a constants clicking in my brain. Every time I tried to impose some sort of sprints for myself and the team it always end in Friday superdense coding with a half task moving to the next sprint. Thank you for a great argumentation why precise estimation is a bullshit bingo, I tried to show to PM's that only a steepness of slope is important and managers can plan work without exact dev-hours, but without much success, your explanation is clear and easy to understand.
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How much is 5% of a company that is likely to be dead soon worth to you? After the pivot, all the work lies ahead. With a $1 million investment, you probably want to see the cap table if the 5% of a company likely to be dead is worth enough to proceed.

A few years ago, I made this: http://fumoney.kludgecode.com/default.aspx The caveat I would add now is a discount factor based on an assessment of a liquidity event. There are lots of high value startups that are not going with an IPO or any other event that allows employees to cash out. Manually adjusting the calculation can be done by multiplying the FU money field by 1.0/probabilityOfSuccessfulExist. Example multiply by 10 if the probability of the exit amount is 10%.

Good luck.
The unbanked have absolutely no use for a volatile pseudo-currency with transaction costs >$20
> I think if this worked as intended, no additional treatment is required.

It is correct if the therapy is targeting all stem cells. I have not understood clearly from the article but it seems the treatement is targeting "living cells". Once all your 'fixed' cells have been renewed you would need another round of treatement.
I saw an article of one economist comparing bitcoin to Lehman brothers and that it will burst just like Lehman did.

How are these two in any way similar?