skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I agree here. Those are definitely real issues that you've highlighted, but they're not because of crypto currency.

There's no reason that a crypto-exchange cannot be as secure as a bank (or more), and that governments cannot insure crypto deposits up to some value. Those are purely problems for regulators/governments, which have been relatively slow to adapt legislation.

The problems you highlight are real, and can be good reasons to favour traditional currencies, but they're also easy problems to solve - the thinking has already been done once for traditional currencies and the solutions for crypto are mostly identical.
Does it meet Facebook's terms of service? [1]

I don't ask because I care whether or not it does on some moral grounds. I ask because history is full of apps that circumvented platform structure and then were gone because they were deemed to have violated the platform's terms of service. Some of them were successful before they were gone, though most weren't.

The reason I ask is because an off-platform product with a dependency on Facebook is unlikely survive long/medium term. Long/medium term survival almost certainly will require an entirely off-platform solution. My advice is to build something minimal and quickly and make your users aware of it. Promote it as a feature, so that when Facebook shuts you down, you have a replacement in place.

Good luck.

[1]: Almost certainly, no. If there's a loop hole that you can argue, you'll be arguing it after being shut down. And Facebook can change the TOS anyway.
Some of us tech workers might be poorer than you think.

Foreign investment in housing is also putting upward pressure on cost of living.

As with most things, the problem is more complex.
Fair enough. We all have different definitions of the words "friend" and "keep in touch".

I have some friends who live too far away to visit that I do set some time aside to have an occasional video chat with.
> "However effective a gadget is, it will fail if it makes its user feel like a chump."

Google Glass suffered from this problem too, IMO.
NAND SSDs have stopped improving.

Smaller lithography processes impact write cycles negatively.

The write cycles shrink faster than the capacity grows.

The same applies to storing multiple bits within a single cell via multiple voltage levels.
MLC, TLC and QLC all require more accurate voltage measurements which become less and less reliable as the voltage drops with each write.

The only remaining way to increase capacity without downsides is by adding more layers.

After that there is no option other than switching away from NAND.
I've found too often that by the time I figure out it doesn't fit and needs to be exchanged, other sizes are sold out. It's doubly annoying because I either have to eat the cost of an item which doesn't fit or eat the cost of sending it back and losing the discount they give you for keeping everything.

I like stitchfix quite a bit, but I'm starting to become a bit disillusioned after seeing the small bag of clothes dropped at the Salvation Army which didn't fit or I didn't like and which it was cheaper to keep than return. At least I have a mortgage and this itemize deductions, so I can write those clothes off my taxes!
Snapchat launches augmented reality developer platform Lens Studio
Why must it be either / or?
Add an alert box that will send an email and sms notification if price drops a certain value. That will be super useful. Great work (y)
So, those that cannot afford to live in SF: hill caves.
Schiller told Gruber "it is, by definition, a modular system":

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
There seems to be quite a contrast between how Cuba and Puerto Rico recovered from hurricanes this season.
Wow, that sounds like a really boring game.
Why would they have a problem with that? Your Facebook love doesn’t contradict the statement.
I’m personally excited for the crossover potential. The marvel comics were full of crossovers, writing standalone movies kinda does the source material a disservice imho.

In terms of quality, Disney seems to be doing the best job when it comes to super hero movies. If one company was to have the movie rights to all the marvel characters I’d say Disney is the best option.
As someone who has recently taken an interest in machine learning and AI, this deck is much appreciated.
Israeli PM: Bitcoin Could Replace Banks
Systemd is a huge improvement for sure. There's some effort involved in understanding new things, and this is one which has ultimately made our lives much easier. I say this as someone who maintains the OS for a large AWS deployment and has made the effort the understand it rather than run away in irrational fear.
Its the other way aournd.
Thanks, will think about that!
It seems to me that, given tech-side developments in the entertainment industry, increased density on the content side makes perfect sense. I'd be more concerned about a pair of CDNs merging than a pair of movie houses.
Interesting! He was last night's final Jeopardy:

In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude”
It's hard to think of "next" because the most prolific crypto-currency is still the first one. Having said that, look at the ones that businesses are pouring money into...BTC, ETH, FileCoin. For BTC and ETH, you could follow the buzz for a while but now you have to be leery of market manipulation. If you play them, play for the long game. FileCoin is new but had a massive fundraising round. Expect it to go places.
This could be huge. Hemophilia is one of the most expensive diseases to treat out there. I worked with a client that provides software to hemophilia clinics, and while modern factor drugs have made it so that sufferers can live relatively normal lives, it's still a very challenging disease with many long term complications.
This article has some more details on their plans. Apparently they're looking to launch as a secondary payload on something like a falcon 9:

http://spacenews.com/japanese-lunar-exploration-company-ispa...

I'm not sure if launching as a secondary decreases costs. They do have two missions planned apparently, after which they hope to start generating revenue by carrying up to 30kg of customer payload to the moon per launch.
Is Disney planning to start their own Netflix-like service or are they planning to just open the online Disney store where it will only have Disney content. The latter doesn't seem like a proper Netflix competitor.

Netflix serves more than their own home-grown content.
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Everyone's definition of "good movies" differs, and that's excellent. I, for one, consider the average MCU movie to be a step above even very good movies like Logan and some of the recent X-Men titles.

From a geek standpoint, I can't wait for these universes to be merged.
It's not impossible to stop most though. and Hacks like sony, equifax, linkedin and many others are the result of what should be criminal negligence. I.e. not encrypting sensitive personally-identifiable information.

instead of investing in securing their customer data these companies pad their bottom line. so yes, they should be held accountable for failing to follow basic industry-standard data protection practices.
I see you hit upon the same critique that Marx has of the German Social Democratic Platform. There's no such thing as fair distribution, there's only class war. Prepare to be rinsed.
>> The biggest problem is "I received this product in exchange for a fair and honest review" bullshit. Is Amazon doing anything to stop that?

Those are legacy reviews. You're not allowed to do that anymore [source: I used to write incentived reviews]. Amazon has deleted a lot of reviews like that with their new rule changes.

The problem is not "I received this product in exchange for a fair and honest review" -- that statement is a result of Amazon's old rules, which required disclosure. This is not very different from a product getting a Vine review (I was also a Vine reviewer for a time). Vine reviews tend to skew to the positive side in spite of Amazon telling reviewers to be honest (but to be fair, most of the Vine stuff I was getting were indeed good products).

Not all reviewers who used that boilerplate disclosure statement were dishonest reviewers (I would like to think I was honest, but everyone's entitled their own perspective).

In my case - I didn't accept everything that was offered to me, just stuff that looked like it was decent quality that I thought I would like. I reviewed everything in the context of their selling price. Most of the stuff I got sold for cheap, and were surprisingly good for that price. The higher the price of the product, the more critical I was. I'm not going to review a $20 fitness band with the same critical eye as a $300 band, because in general, you do get what you pay for.

The required disclosure of "I received this product in exchange for a fair and honest review" is actually useful, because it's a signal to review readers that the review is incentivized. What companies are doing now is getting reviewers to buy the products to get "Verified Purchaser" status and paying them back via PayPal. That has made it MUCH worse than before, because people assume that a Verified Purchase review is safe.

Having said all of that, Amazon does have its fair share of shady reviewers. Most of the reviewers who were higher ranked than me were still getting free review products after the rule changes. The main difference was that they were no longer disclosing that fact. I could tell who they were because of the products they were reviewing often mapped to offers I was getting from companies wanting me to do the Paypal workaround.

The weirdest thing that happened after the rule change and my incentivized reviews were wiped was that my reviewer ranking went up significantly.
In terms of enforcement, I don't think it would be that hard. There are only a handful of ISPs. Manufacturers can either (1) build their own OS's or (2) refuse to do business with any ISP who doesn't implement net neutrality or (3) risk being sued.

Branching is possible but would be a headache for them to maintain.

I don't think this would completely stop them, but I do think it would give some of the organizations fighting for net neutrality another legal avenue to make it a headache for an ISP to go against net neutrality.

(Obviously I'm not a legal expert, just a frustrated developer who is sick of feeling powerless in this fight)
When I went in a couple of months ago to do the same thing (_slightly_ more complicated situation - I had two accounts but only one SIM card and had topped up the wrong account), the store manager told me he couldn't help me and handed me their store phone dialled to their call centre (!).

The man on the other end of the phone was totally unable to solve my problem and in the end just gave me £10 of free credit on the account I'd meant to top up. He didn't ask for any ID or verification at any point, except for the serial number on the SIM card. It was a pretty bizarre customer service experience.
Nice interesting, will look at that!
...You just listed five. Although you are right, there are currently six. (Universal is the other one.)
If NASA hasn't made it back to the moon for decades and all it takes is $90M, they are doing something seriously wrong.
This is a really good observation. I ponder a lot on UX of new products and have to accept I didn’t think of this before. But I do expect Google to have realised this problem in their user testing (if it involved non techies at all). Pixel buds feels like a product rushed to market (because they had to remove the headphone jack?) and not well thought out/implemented.
In theory Communism is rule by the proletariat, monopolistic Capitalism is rule by a very few super-rich shareholders/owners. They seem like markedly different situations to me.

Can you explain further?
If endocrinology was the most talked-about, hyped, and invested-in form of medicine I think it would be fair. DL is where an enormous amount of AI growth and progress is.
You can ad extra fields to protobufs just fine, they just need to be added to the end of the definition.
Accepting robots + humans takes more resources than only accepting humans.

Your arguments about revenue are website-dependant and it's the website owner who is in the best position to decide whether robots are good for them or not (and plenty of sites don't ban bots in their robots.txt). In this case, the company that ran the bots is directly competing with Linkedin's products that sell aggregated data to employers and such, and linkedin clearly decided it's not going to lead to more revenue for them.
Yes, same problem, and what's worse is that the Right to Shelter laws specifically governing the city forbid it from applying any type of requirements to be checked beforehand for emergency shelter eligibility. No need to prove residence, lack of income, etc. You show up at the social services offices, city is mandated to find housing for you that night for up to the limit (I think 30 days) by which time you either have to prove eligibility for long term homeless shelter entry, or else you can get back on the same line for the emergency shelter again. Brilliant system.

NYC has 10% of the entire USA's homeless population. Significantly more if you count the (probably large) percentage of the 635,000 or so in public housing who will almost never be able to afford even rent-stabilized apartments, and it is estimated that another 50% of that number live in that public housing off-lease.

About 10% - 15% of NYC homeless are formally listed as last address "outside NYC". But that likely vastly undercounts, because people might have had a relative or friend where they crashed for a few months, weeks... just long enough to get addresses for a few ids/bills to be switched over.

There simply isn't any more cheap land with good public transit infrastructure for new low cost housing, a huge low-skilled (often illegal) immigrant population, and no one wants to face reality.
These Guys Want to Lend You Money Against Your Bitcoin
The issue is much more subtle than the blacksmith compaining about the automaker.

A simplified version goes something like: Social media feeds are controlled by computer algorithms (AI) and the psychological, social, and political effects of social media are, at best, poorly understood and may, at worst, run counter to the long term goals of the humans building and using those systems.

Also, because these systems are generally autonomous (complex-ish AI), systems which do run counter to the goals of society may be doing so without the intention of the systems' builders.

This was covered here on HN a few days ago [0] and the featured video by Zeynep Tufecki is clear and accessible (23 mins). [1]

Another compelling analysis into the unexpected negative effects of AI in social media (in the domain of YouTube children's videos) is James Bridle's "Something is wrong on the internet" which was featured on HN back in November of this year. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15891014
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15891014
[2] https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

EDIT: word order
They tried - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

The findings were 110% correct. The ultimate settled "remedy" was a joke.
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I genuinely do, occasionally. Which reminds me, I went through this goofy dictionary.com slideshow of "great slang from the '90s we should bring back!" and quite a few of them I did not recognize as the least bit dated. Kind of an alienating experience.
Yup, same with Snapchat spectacles! Although Spectacles did try to play with the coolness factor at least.
This was a very disappointing article for me, as Ben didn’t really do the type of forward looking analysis that he did in the past for other topics. He didn’t do the depth of analysis that he spent a year on with respect to Uber, for example.

Declaring concern about the loss of ISP neutrality is choosing to pretend that the people who control ISPs won’t make rational decisions.

If you ran Comcast, why wouldn’t you make it easier for NBC properties? Why would Comcast behave differently than MSN or AOL did in the dialup days?

The pro-net neutrality folks are motivated by self interest. But keep in mind that there are many of them. Think about why that is — you have a competitive marketplace.

The anti-net neutrality folks are all in positions to extract tolls and “sell shovels” to ISPs.

In my opinion, ISPs have consolidated and enjoy the ability to work in a low/no competition market. They should not be given the privilege of rent-seeking and inflating the cost of services that deliver value to the consumer. They are a utility. If they don’t want to be treated that way, they need to be compelled to allow competitors access to local loops.
Pretty easy to assess if you google for some basic employment information (at least for the US). [1]

Doing so results in seeing that a sociology degree from an expensive school means you'll basically never be able to pay off the loan.

Get an engineering degree from a state school, and the interest rate almost doesn't matter. (yes, of course the interest rate matters - I'm just being a bit cheeky in the comparison.)

[1] This is literally the first link under google when searching for "starting salaries by major":
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/07/02/the-colle...
MeSchup: A Platform for Programming Interconnected Smart Things
With the substantial limitation that the source must be "legal", i.e. you can't copy something from a torrent for example since it is likely the uploader didn't put it here legally.

Also I think this is a European law.
It's another important data point in tracking the zeitgeist of the American State involving its failure to effectively operate as one.
Glad to have been of service!
Zoning is not natural, the way the law of gravity, or even the idea of liberty, is natural.

Zoning is invented by people, as you correctly noticed, to balance several trade-offs. Maybe in 1950s it was adequate; since 2000s, the balance of trade-offs has shifted drastically.

Maybe it's time to rebalance things. The problem is that those who profited form it most (the old realty owners), due to that very fact, can also afford to spend most resources (as in time, money, and lobbying efforts) to resist it.
They'd have to then avoid anticompetitive attention due to owning ESPN, though.
Add Udacity's DLF ND to the mix and do all 3 of them, they are all a bit different. Udacity's one has the inventor of GANs doing lectures there, so it's pretty top notch as well.
Love the concept Jim. Been a moviechat member since you started the site in february. Looking forward to genius. Hopefully it's more movie questions and less math lol.
This N64 Zelda Breath of the Wild is surely the rarest one you will ever seen
Anyone got a TL;DR on their practical recommendations?
TL;DR thanks. ++good writing advice
There is a difference between public property and private property that is made available to the public. 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. And if the property owner revokes your permission, then going onto the property again can be a crime (trespass).[1]

Servers are no different. The Internet isn't an abstraction--it's just pieces of private property connected together (servers, routers, switches). When you make an HTTP request, you're accessing a piece of private property. The owner of that property has every right to decide not to let you do so.
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Part of the point of UBI is to confront this "if you don't work, you can't eat" attitude head-on, and change it to one where all citizens deserve a certain amount of money (however small, to start) just for being people who stay out of trouble.

It's an uphill battle to be sure.
So far nothing (google,ddg,this website). I'm not even sure it was recorded at this point.

I should email the website team directly they probably know.

ps: mail sent
Sure, if you completely ignore human cognition, physiology. Scratch that. You have to deny the real world, physical reality, cause and effect.

The medium is the message.
What a fantastic gateway to show how gene therapy can completely resolve diseases. Many diseases are as simple as your eyes being brown vs blue - you simply have or lack particular proteins.

I couldn’t find it on a cursory reading, does anyone know what vector they used to achieve liver sinusoidal cell specificity? My understanding is that many gene therapy studies have used blood cells, which can be pulled out of the body prior to gene therapy, the advances in viral vectors may be just as empowering as the therapy itself. Imagine, in all the irony, getting “vaccines” as a child via viral vectors against common causes of poor health local to your birthplace. An enjoyable quote from a Paul Berg which holds true, of course - “Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant”.
Where I live in Colorado, we see active preventive measures on pubic, government owned lands as opposed to very little mitigation on large swaths of private lands.
> In other words, UBI is somewhat binary in nature: either you have it, or you don't. It doesn't scale down beyond a certain point.

Then we're better off without it. It would be completely naive to try to roll it out in full scale without knowing the potential impact. Not worth taking the risk.
I think there’s some way to get a hardware token from Chase (no idea who you’d call about that) but you’re right, that part annoys me.
Email, text messages, the telephone, and a million other similar services?

I will point out that the parent seems to be referring to the posts that people make to no specific recipient. That is not keeping contact with your friends, this is watching your friend make an appearance on TV, so to speak. Admittedly neat the first time you see it, but the novelty quickly fades when they are "on TV" every day.

Yes, Facebook Messenger and Groups do actually provide a decent service for keeping contact with friends around the world. You can absolutely use Facebook in that way, but, from the perspective of business longevity and health, does it really provide more than similar services that do the same?

Personally, I'm not sure the network effects are as strong when talking about friends keeping in contact with each other. If I want to check in with a close friend who lives abroad, it is not a huge barrier to ask for their phone number or email address. And chances are I already have that information.

The one value proposition that Facebook does have, in my option, is that it is the internet's "telephone book". For acquaintances that you want to contact and have to look them up to find them, it is a pretty good bet that you will find them on Facebook. But there is also plenty of competition here as well, such as Linkedin, which seems to embrace the "telephone book" concept even more so than Facebook.
This usually looks like homelessness. I think the OP doesn't admit any more charitable interpretation. If you think "change what they're doing" is a cogent policy position, then I don't know what to do with you
So what are the next movie franchises to get Disney-ized, like they did to Star Wars? All the super hero stuff, I get, but that's not the only thing that 21st Century makes is it?