skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the founder and lead dev of Ethereum and Litecoin think they are both significantly overvalued.

Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum): https://mobile.twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/94085013791...

Charlie Lee (Litecoin): https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/940353265585160192

I've been bullish on crypto past few years but it's gone too far. I've flipped to bear until the tech catches up.
I really need someone to design a stand-alone pixelbud for hearing aids, speak translation. I really need it, and I'm willing to invest in anyone doing that.
Oh dear. I don't own any bitcoins, but I sure af don't trust the judgement of people who invent fantasy signal processing strategies like fibonacci retracement [1], support and resistance levels [2] and Elliott Waves [3].
Sincerely, a dude who does actual signal processing for stuff that has to work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_retracement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_and_resistance

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_wave_principle
5 tips for prototyping mobile search patterns
Spring is coming – ArangoDB meets Spring Data
Checking on a kid's whereabouts during an unusual event (snowy day) is hardly tantamount to "chaining" them or calling them 80 times a day.
Bitcoin might indeed be a bubble. But what about cryptocurrencies in general? I think that even these economist wouldn't be so sure if they'd been asked a broader question without pinpointing bitcoin.
It doesn't have to be a specific law. It is a rebuttal to a claim of "I had no idea I shouldn't have requested millions of pages from that site".

If you scrape a site that prohibits it in robots.txt, that should be considered notice that they don't want that, for whatever relevant law. (I don't know if this argument would hold up in court, IANAL.)
But the bitcoin mania has only been going on within the past year.
So the thing that looks less like the function composition I know from algebra is more idiomatic in FP and more pleasing to the FP cognoscenti? I fear my familiarity with FP may be even more deficient than I thought. I could understand writing f . g . h, but what we're talking about here is written more like Unix pipelines. In which case, I could forgive overloading the bitwise or operator, which is already left-associative. You could then do x | h | g | f.

Again, this is a purely aesthetic argument -- the intent of the library seems unclear to me from its syntax. If it's beautiful and clear to you, I'm not going to object to your using it. Aesthetics aside, I don't think there's anything wrong with this library.
>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).

Be very careful with those conclusions. In both cases the predictions were that the elections were very close. Trump winning the presidency when the best models we had gave him a 30% chance is not a failing of prediction at all.
I know what you mean, and in general I try to follow that advice. In the particular case of project management though, I'm frustrated by the huge amount of too-short and contradictory advice floating around on the Internet; adding one more unjustified summary to the pile doesn't help. So I think the extra details are important. And when you have that many details, the tangential expository fluff helps keep it interesting. I hope.

This is also why I didn't summarize everything at the top: that would encourage people to just read the top and stop there. They can do that with project management advice anywhere on the Internet. There's a place for that, but there's plenty of it already.

At least it's shorter than a book. :)
>Many diseases are as simple as your eyes being brown vs blue - you simply have or lack particular proteins.

I think the other half of this is the microbiome. I have been speaking to physicians about leaky gut recently and a great analogy is the protein genes are like a piano and the microbiome is like the musician.

As you suggest the genes/piano is sort of the hand you are dealt (you have the gene for certain disease or not), but the microbiome is what will typically unlock those diseases or not given the gene set. Another way of explaining this is that humans have about 20,000 genes, the most genes in any animal are about 35,000, and wheat has 164,000-334,000 genes. Obviously we are much more complex with the potential to carry many more diseases which physicians explained to m through humans having a microbiome.
I think the bigger problem with both is that they're tech demos rather than products.

I got to demo Google Glass at a tech meetup once. It wasn't the first release, so there had been time to work bugs out. It rapidly overheated after taking, and looking at a couple pictures, and the battery life was abysmal. It demonstrated several capabilities that will probably be included in useful products in the future, but it was essentially unusable.

I bet in a decade or so, smart glasses will take off. As soon as they're actually useful, the social resistance to them will get worn down.
Wait, so my 2014 13" rMBP won't be able to connect to it? A coworker has one and it looks amazing, I had it on my "if I win the lottery" list.
Long term, the price has increased exponentially. As expected. There have been a few bubbles, as well. And it's pretty clear, as you say, that it's currently in one now.
My bank actually gets this right. They very, very rarely call me, but when they do it's

"Hello, am I talking to Nick Lamb?"
"Yes, this is me"
"OK, I'm calling from Example Bank and our confirmatory password is Melons" [not the actual bank or password]
"Thanks, that checks out, what can I do for you?"

This happened because I had one of those conversations you're talking about, and they were like "Aha! We have something we can do for those situations, call us and set a password we can use" so I hung up and sure enough they've used that password ever since. I like it.

It's not a _good_ password, but hey, how many times does anyone try the wrong one? Literally never. So it's good enough.
Disney missed an opportunity to improve the world by shutting down Fox News or changing its editorial viewpoint to be more in line with their own and retiring th Murdoch’s completely from the news propaganda game.
I would be more willing to believe this if among many other things bitcoin price didn't rise so much. As it is, it is clearly mostly bought and not "traded" which suggest it is used as a store of value (or investment) and not currency.

It might be that cryptocoins will perform that role some time in the future, but this is not what is happening now.
Pinterest for the long game!

I've never understood the pseudo-ephemerality of instagram. Even if you save stuff, or like it, the interface makes it very difficult to recall stuff from more than a few days ago.
He's not saying the Flint crisis is more important/worse compared to Puerto Rico. He's observing that in Flint, an artificial catastrophe happened that humans know how to solve, and at least the US federal government has the resources to solve, but for some reason remains unsolved three+ years later. In Puerto Rico there was much larger scale, natural disaster, of which even the power supply repercussions alone have uncertain solutions.

edit:
I originally posted "He's not downplaying the Puerto Rican crisis," but changed my wording in case of confusion.
thank you! passing to the ML team!
Same thing could be said about sub-prime loans. Or really - anything. If you have this kind of "God-like knowledge", even gambling is a great idea.
I see your point but even on that - there are alternative blockchains, we could all just swap to litecoins and send it to zero.

If it were the only feasible crypto it would have some sort of floor I agree but factor in altcoins and it actually doesn't have any.
recently posted 1000 people who own 40% of the BTC market
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877838
tulips had existed for quite a long time before they became the object of a speculative bubble.
None of those methods have mainstream credibility in the academic economics/finance community.
I am not a lawyer and I do not have citations to back this up, but I suspect that, if you put up a billboard and then send cease and desist letters to people looking at it, or taking pictures of it, or whatever analogy to programs examining public web pages you like, then you would be laughed out of court.
As a long time member of movie chat I’m excited to see how this game works. I play movie trivia games with other MC members all the time in the forums, but perhaps this could be a new format for us. Also, the cash prizes sound interesting (although I have no idea how you’re going to make money doing this).
Can't download the PDF as well.
I couldn't resist.

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/895774914820546560
Ask HN: Without Net Neutrality, How Do My Servers Get Affected?
The internet in the USA could be doomed.

How would my servers (that are located in that country) would get affected by the loss of Net Neutrality? I've got some dedicated servers that are located there, plus some services running in Google Cloud.

Is it something I need to worry? Am I going to need to pay more monthly for these services?
I believe that the ads play a more central role than you give them credit for. If you are a for-profit company selling something your incentives are aligned in a specific way - you want to do everything you can to maximize sales... If you want to sell ads this means in general you want to understand and be able to target specific users because this seems to be what advertisers are interested in. So FB is designed in a way to maximize that. Now imagine you have a different org not focused on selling ads but actually trying to measure and optimize things like usefulness to the user/city/country/world. It would live in a totally different optimization landscape and look totally different (over time)!

FB could be very different from what it is today if different decisions had been made!
You must live in a constant state of fear. Akamai literally buys every up and coming CDN once they gain double digit market share. Limelight is the only real holdout, Fastly hasn't been hit by the Akamai lawyers yet (which is always step 1 in their playbook), and they are waiting for Cloudflare to collapse under their own business model.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/akamai-technologies/...
*Outlook and Apple Calendar
Oh, not every ordinance (or planning department directive) is "natural" or reasonable, of course. But zoning generically is a pretty well established and generally understood practice by this point - on par with the idea of "democracy", or for that matter, this business land "ownership" in the first place.

Or that is to say, "natural".
I would mock them too, they are clueless.
I would like that. A Google US competing against a Google Germany competing against a Google India etc for the global search market.
If you think of it as a currency probably yes and i assume that is what most of these people are assuming it to be. But Bitcoin and other alt coins have suddenly become a way to hoard something digitally. Pretty sure if everyone wants to cash out their bitcoin "portfolio's" there is gonna be a lot of long term and short term plummets. Overvalued ? Over Hyped ? Over Sold ? Over Everything ? Sure , but a Bubble ? Lets wait till it all goes down shall we ?
It's important to understand that the aim of systems isn't to predict things but to understand potential mechanisms.

The fact that certain scenarios that the Club of Rome anticipated seemed to not come true also unveiled new mechanisms to us.

Predictions can't be the benchmark, we are simply not advanced enough in the science for that.

Certainly the social sciences, like economics, should understand that best. Economics has hardly been able to predict anything.
iMessage launched app integrations a bit ago.
The above poster gave you an accurate interpretation of my position.

"Change what they're doing" is far more effective than the vast majority of any government policy position. If you continue to subsidize these people by taxing those on the upper-income brackets and redistributing the wealth, you will simply prolong the problem.

The issue is that SV is far too expensive to live in unless you work in tech, law, finance, etc. If you don't, you need to move to somewhere where you can actually lead at least a semi-comfortable life, and where you can put yourself and your family in a position to succeed.
How to Turn Your Traditional Marketing into ABM – Part 2
Ajit Pai's video promoting net neutrality repeal
$2400 for an extra 96 GiB of RAM is even worse.
What makes you think that those fantasy signal processing strategies were invented by (respectable) economists? Because they weren't.
The real question is how active are these people.
Curious what you mean by "tech company economics are different". Thanks
Access that does not require authentication should never be a crime. If LinkedIn wants the courts to intervene, they must require authentication for their data. If they also want Google to scrape their site, they must require Googlebot to authenticate itself.
Yes they announced that earlier this year.
I would advise you to read "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Taleb if you haven't already. events
Preach, fellow Atlantan!

I hadn't put it into words before, but the problem you describe hits home. I want a 20-30 minute radius of search results, not things limited to the nearest mile. That's worthless in Atlanta.
What, excluding the google doodles, appear to be made for preschoolers, and why?

Apple's (industrial) design is, if I used just two words, flat and alien. Apple's UIs and product logos are more colorful, but their physical products are almost without fail white or brushed aluminum, and foreboding.

Google uses color in its software, but if you take a look at google's physical products ("Google Home", "Google Pixel phone", etc.), you'll note that they're less colorful than their logos and software.

Curious what makes you think "preschoolers"?
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> You know how at tech companies, the economics are different from other companies?

People saying stuff like this is exactly what presaged the collapse of the “new economy” bubble in the late 90s.
Why is giving birth so hard? Revisiting the 'obstetrical dilemma'
So, I can't shine a flashlight in your store window to look at the menu in the middle of the night? I have to send photons into your "physical piece of property do something".
Is Netflix approaching monopoly?

If anything I've seen a ton of competition coming up from the likes of Amazon, HBO, and a billion smaller services.
That's textbook bubble behavior.

One caveat with Bitcoin is that the network is so slow (effectively just 3 transactions per second) that a crash would be spread out over time. If a panic starts you won't be able to get a slot to sell your bitcoins unless you pay an enormous transaction fee. It could be an interesting situation where the rich literally pay to get to the head of the line and avoid the crash.
Except that bitcoin transaction cost is what, $10 or $15 now? There's no way "unbanked" people will benefit from that, at all.
Believe it or not, tulip bulbs existed for a reaaaaaally long time before tulip mania. For the vast majority of Bitcoin's history, it has been known by virtually no-one outside of the tech circle, and its price was relatively stable/low [1]

[1] https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=10Y
How VC calculates valuation (2010)
Well, we still have that apocalyptic "derivatives bubble" hanging over our heads, which is estimated to be around $1.5-2 quadrillion (with a q). I don't think Bitcoin is competing in the same league.
> They seem to be good at predicting things with known variables, but not with unknown unknowns.

Exactly. 96% consensus on a guess is just as good as 99% or a 1%. It doesn't matter how many experts agree if they base their decision on unreliable information.
Again:

> your server replying 200 OK should implicitly be considered permission to access that resource

I do see your point and how you could disagree with my statement above. However, if the store owner forgets you next time and says "Come on in! Oh and here is a take-home menu with all our items and prices" but then calls the police to have you removed, there is a problem.

Now imagine said store owner actually owns several locations possibly even with different public names and doesn't want to serve said customer. They could provide a list of all addresses of stores they run explicitly banning permission. Otherwise, that customer walking into store B would need to be told again they would not be served at time of entry.

Assuming the CFAA C&D from LinkedIn does have legal standing here... If hiQ were using IP addresses and not DNS resolution to crawl, how would they know a particular IP is a LinkedIn resource they aren't allowed to access? Did the C&D provide all addresses they are not permitted to access?

My point is that its not black and white, and certainly not clear that this should be covered by the CFAA under "hacking".

Edit: You could also make the argument and analogy to a restraining order which places the responsibility for compliance on the banned party. However those don't just happen because one entity sends a letter to another entity, it needs to be explicitly granted via the legal process.
Every crash is preceded by people saying "It's different this time".

Edit: Fixed autocorrect goofery
The systems part is fine, but if I'm remembering this correctly, they assumed we could arbitrarily convert resources into other resources, which led to some wacky outcomes.
Google Trends 2017
Is there some legal/technical reason you couldn't encapsulate their APIs?
Why isn't that relevant? I live in a place with a similar geography, and I definitively find the results across the river helpful.
When you're trained to work with a translator, you're actually trained to not watch them - you keep eye contact with the other person the whole time and just listen to the translator, and it isn't a three-way conversation.
As a brown immigrant with family living in places like Dallas, Houston and st Louis I vouch for this. Even though I'm filthy rich compared to the poor woman the article talks about even I could instantly increase my quality of life by moving to st. Louis. I would consider this a huge downgrade from the bay area primarily since it's simply unsafe and hostile for someone with my "color". My family members who grew up in the Midwest grow up living in lowkey constant fear. So yeah moving might be a terrible downgrade for many non whites.
Actually, where I live, we don't have juries.
And when hiQ shows up looking homeless and accepts the gift of coffee, they are committing a crime?
Thanks, nice reference. The Wikipedia page has an amusing phrase: The Image is also well-known for defining a celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e...
Python has lambdas so you can still write:

foo.fold(lambda successResult: ..., lambda failResult: ...)

Even without that, returning a "foo" that has to be explicitly unwrapped makes for a safer API than having "foo" be sometimes a valid result and sometimes silently an error instead.
As an intern I wasn't even allowed a $500 credit card despite making well over the median wage. Imagine making much less? I'd be laughed out the building.
I don't see the problem. If waiting a little is such a big deal then you are in too much of a hurry already and/or too stressed out. Relax. Take it easy.
Bitcoin is modern gold. You can travel across borders with literally millions in your pocket without having to trust anyone. If you can’t see the value of that then you are being willfully ignorant.
Yes, that's what people think they can get out of startups. But having worked in both startups and large companies, I can say a few of those things aren't true.

Less bureaucracy, more building - Only if the founders give you autonomy. Lots of micromanagers in the startup world.

Working on something they believe in - When you're hired, they try to hook you with this line. But startups are not charities. The longer you work at one, the more cynical you get.

Flexibility (work from home, set own hours, etc) - In my experience, startups want you to work more than 40 hours a week, and expect you to check your email during your free time, in case something urgent comes up. You can call that flexibility, but it's not in the employee's favor.

I've found the rest of your points to be true, more or less.
But you had to take active steps to cause your physical piece of property to respond to HTTP requests...
Sean Snaith from UCF is quoted in the article calling bitcoin a tulip bubble.

Back in 2007 I watched his presentation in person where he said the U.S. would experience a "soft landing" and nothing major.

A few months later the stock market crashed 60%.

Economists are terrible at predictions.
I second your opinion about these goofy strategies. I have several friends and family members, who when they look at stock price charts see lots of patterns and think that you can analyze them using various kinds of simple formulas or rules and beat the market. This gets reinforced by people who have used these techniques "successfully" to make money. You usually don't hear from the sheepish retail investor who is losing 10% trying to swing trade; you hear from the few guys who got lucky. All of these approaches are just gambling with a pseudoscientific approach.
An interesting data point can be found at https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/938859025483141121

The author of that tweet (a researcher at a pension fund) polled his followers several times about whether they thought BTC was a bubble. The higher BTC's price, the fewer people believed it was a bubble.
If you adjust the zoom, doesn't it suggest a new search and then find the correct place? Seems to work for me.
I've seen a few estimates for what value Bitcoin would have if it did become a world currency (or suchlike), and they're all in the $500 000+ range. So the current price of around $20 000 is consistent with the theory that Bitcoin will succeed with probability 5% and go to zero with probability 95%. I don't think that's obviously wrong, so I'd say it's wrong to call it a bubble.

And even if Bitcoin does go to zero that still doesn't prove that we were in a bubble now. The market is already 95% sure that that's what's going to happen!
Having read a thousand rabid forum posts over the last week, I get the feeling people will hold for decades regardless of short term changes or regulation. They think there is unlimited upside as it eats into gold and fiat, so it's only rational told hold until the new world order comes and everyone in the world is using bitcoin. I'm hard pressed to disagree. But diversification is important. Best strategy I've seen so far is to take some bitcoin profit and put a chunk into altcoins and the rest into dividend producing equities.
From the article: "It is worse that Germans possess an inherent distrust of Silicon Valley firms so asking them to speak into a phone while you’re wearing earphones is an invitation for abuse."

Is this true? I've never been to Germany and don't know many Germans, but this seems surprising to me.
The problem is, that when Russia brought up those agreements pretty much everybody said "nu-uh, that did not happen, show me the agreements". When Russians mention that the agreement was verbal they are pretty much accused of lying. Now we have proof that the verbal agreement exists.
Tulipmania lasted 6 months. Bitcoin is now 8 years old.

Tulipmania includes the time it took for the belief that tulips were special and valuable to take hold, and the time it took for merchants to cross breed specific colors for the Dutch nobility. When you include the history behind the bubble and why it happened, tulipmania took decades.

That's not to say that Bitcoin will end the same way, but it is to say that bubbles don't start and end within 6 months.