skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "service mesh" space is starting to take off now with the rise of Kubernetes and containers.

Bouyant made LinkerD and now Conduit: https://buoyant.io/

Lyft created Envoy: https://www.envoyproxy.io

Istio uses Envoy for more functionality in K8S: https://istio.io
The drawback for me is the reboot factor. Needing to close down and reboot to the other OS. I could switch from Final Cut to Premiere. I'd have to learn a whole new tool, but that isn't a horrible task. I have tried VM's, but in this case, my VM's no longer run due to the "month 13 issue".
It also assumes the cost of providing service is zero....
All this cryptocurrency talk has inspired me to understand the innerworkings of exchanges -- so how does a company like Coinbase scale to meet the demands of new customers? Surely they're not the first company to deal with this problem.
This is all true, but of course there will always be a few missing features that seem so obvious and useful that you wonder why they still don't have them.

For me it's one or two announcements of the actual destination address at the end of the drive. If it's not an address I'm familiar with and not a business with a sign out front, by the time I get there I've usually forgotten the street number!

But when I arrive all I hear is "your destination is on the right."

It would be so great if the last two announcements were:

"Your destination, 123 Main Street, will be on the right in 800 feet."

"Your destination, 123 Main Street, is on the right."
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They are registered as money transmitters in just about every state, not sure what the legal implications of that are exactly, but I doubt the regulatory bodies will just let it slip. If there is any suspicion of "fraud", then you don't need SEC (or USDA, lol) - the local police department and FBI are generally good enough.

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/licenses?locale=en-US
Or with lighting from different angles - different time of day.
I'm honestly amazed that these clauses are legal in the US.

There are certain rights which now cannot renounce in many countries -- the right to sue someone [in court] for sexual harassment is one of them (or any criminal activity really).

These "Forced Arbitration" sound really odd TBH. I understand that businesses might want to settle things behind closed doors, but this sort of things sound like too much.
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You would be just shocked at the “cult of virginity” in places as far from Abrahamic traditions as Japan.
It's a bit of a hack but I run Waze in the background when I'm doing navigation via Google Maps. It'll play a sound at me when I exceed the speed limit and it'll warn me about upcoming road hazards (and cops!).
BTC and BCH share the same ancestry. You bought both years ago. Like a heisencoin.
This sounds like the multi-armed bandit problem...

No need for fancy ML here - it's a thoroughly understood mathematical problem...

Unless of course you're using parameters of the user (browser, purchase history, interests, favourite pet, etc.)...?
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My 6S+ was also literally unusable after the iOS11 update. 5 second hangs on some actions, jittery scrolling.

It improved after a few weeks. Not sure if it was an .x update that fixed it, or maybe it needed time to reindex (?) but it's fine now.
How does any company prohibit anything?
Household solar is very popular at least.

I think many Australians would appreciate that we are in a good position to exploit solar potential, but pitched as part of the green/renewable solution, it's quickly tied into tribal politics and people get a bit silly.
This is what bothers me the most. Coinbase previously had indicated only withdrawals would be enabled by Jan 1st, which means they'd have a form where you could claim your BCH and have it sent to your private wallet address.

Somehow this turned into "Actually we'll allow full trading. And surprise! We're not even going to tell you about it despite working on it for months, we'll just unleash it on a random Tuesday evening."
Good point, the map is not the territory and the cars are engaging with the territory.

Another interesting thing to consider, should there be widespread use of autonomous vehicles is the absolutely massive deployment of digital sensors that would entail, and who would use this data and to what ends? It would basically be realtime Streetview.
It can mean different things, no? For example, a team was switching to git from a different vcs. Devs who actually gave a crap then researched best practices and wrote up an internal how-to for everyone else to follow. Not because they were "business owners" or told by the management, but just because they knew there would be total chaos if they didn't. Other people - who somewhat cared - followed the internal manual. Finally, people who should be fired started shitting right into master without reading anything on git, internal or otherwise.
In my mind, the first set of devs really acted like owners here. Nobody exploited them, or even pushed them to overwork, they just knew to do the right thing.
Let me give the experiment more time, it’s only been a few thousand miles, but so far I’ve found it in SF Bay Area to be equally as good. And I prefer it’s design to google maps or waze.

Did you try recently or in the 2011 debut debacle era? Honestly for the longest time it was in my junk folder due to bad early experiences.
Apple Maps automatically tracks my parking location. Have to do that manually in GMaps.
this move by coinbase will prompt the gov to regulate trading cryptocurrency, which will lead to further legitimization of cryptocurrency..
I believe it doesn't. All the miners will just ignore the transactions that don't have a large enough fee attached.
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Have you tried Sylpheed [1]? Sadly not well known but very mature.

[1] https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
Waze data does show up in Google Maps. If you click on one of the hazards or whatnot in Google Maps, it'll often say it was reported via Waze.
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I've been an apple maps user since day 0 - and other than a sometime annoying inability to FIND an address - its been remarkably reliable for me - even driving to places in the middle of nowhere - YMMV though - if you live in a different place, your luck may vary significantly.

I'm also not someone who gets lost easy either however, and learned how to navigate pre-GPS - so again, YMMV.
Has anybody sued already? That seems like a huge issue.
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To offer a counterpoint, I decided to start alternating
between Apple Maps and Google Maps a few months ago and — so far — I haven’t been led astray by Apple Maps. I do live in L.A., however, which is probably among the best case scenarios for Apple Maps at the moment.

Google does have the better product, but for the most part I can see Apple Maps being at least “good enough” for my use, much the same way that Safari, for me at least, is “good enough” compared to Chrome. Unfortunately, anecdotes of Apple Maps underperforming are all too common, and I think Apple needs to keep investing (and probably a lot) if they intend to win users over.
so what you're telling me... is that this is good for Bitcoin?
I am sure they could make an iPhone with replaceable batteries. I actually wouldn't mind paying $100 every 18-24 months for a genuine iPhone battery replacement if the perf and battery life is restored with that. But of course they won't.

If iPhone X lasted 5 years with the same perf and battery life with two $100 battery replacements, I would happily shell out $1200 for it. But I know it won't last more than 2 years (like almost every other phone at this point), and then the math doesn't work out for me.
I wonder if they are using a technique similar to pix2pix (https://github.com/phillipi/pix2pix) under the hood to turn satellite images into structure depth maps.
Google Maps has sent me astray a few times as well. Strangely, I've had the worst experience with GM in the Bay area.

Going to the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Google Maps sent me to a trailhead parking lot instead of the visitor's center. And for a small business near the Bay Model, GM directions stopped about half a mile away, and the map pin was on top of the Bay Model building.
For insider trading on the US equities or options markets, the SEC has surveillance tools that flag unusual short term gains around corporate actions, and then check if any of the counterparties are insiders or related to insiders via marriage, etc.

Don't think anything on that level is being done in the cryptocurrency space.

Obviously a company has to trust its employees to a certain degree but it is certainly easier to conceal cryptocurrency holdings compared to a holdings of a traditional security.
If that's inherently oppressive then it's not much of a leap to say that disagreement, categorization and even existence is inherently oppressive. Which makes oppression a good thing.
The vehicle should be using its maps as a general guide, not as some kind of ground truth.

Not to sound like a jerk, but I would be shocked if there were anyone working on this that was not pursuing things in this way. It just seems kind of obvious that you can't have some big hunk of metal rolling around, following some abstracted track from a map, without "looking" where it is going.
I’d like to see a dual 24 hour movement, for local and GMT time. I have a Glyceine Airman, but it has only a single 24 hour hand. They made one at one time, and they are pretty rare.
Google Maps doesn't work well at all on one of my Macs. In Safari, the 2D view works, but the 3D view doesn't work. In Chrome, the satellite tiles are all black (but the roads are visible). In Firefox, the satellite and roads are both black.

It's the same (and most recent) version of all these browsers as my other Mac, where it works fine. How does one debug this? I've tried googling (ha) for every combination of words I can imagine. Google's tech support seems basically nonexistent, for their free services.

Or I can just open Maps.app, and it always works. The data isn't as good but it's not terrible, and at least the basics work fine. I'm not a heavy maps user so that's good enough for me.
Most likely referring to the one by Gabriel Weinberg.
I'll admit it has been a while but it was more recently than 2011.
Nopal is the name of the “pads” (stems) of the cactus. Tuna is the name of the fruit. Nopalito just means “little nopal”.
The problem in Singapore is that Apple (or whoever they contract this to) hasn't updated major parts of the city in several years - Go take a look at Maxwell Road near the Singapore Chinese Cultural Center connecting to Central Blvd from Straits Blvd - that road hasn't been there since 2015 (at least, maybe longer) - but Apple Still says that it exists and uses it for directions.

Maps are one area where Apple has a "meh, good enough" attitude, but Google really seems to want to really bring the next level of quality.
That doesn't accomplish my goal,. I don't want to hide, I want to ruin the data collected by making it innacurate and useless

EDIT: Judging from the low quality of online marketing, it isn't hard to do.
You gotta start somewhere. Write quality content and the viewers will hopefully come.
> Would you be free of Facebook?

Are you kidding?

The source code for the full toolset would reveal how they analyze their data, what they find relevant (even merely based on which types of tools exist and which don't), how access is defined for various categories of employees to access that data, differences between what they claim about those capabilities and the actual infrastructure, problems they've had which they've attempted to fix in changes to the code, how they set prices to sell access to advertisers, how their frameworks to respond to lawful requests for user data from government agencies work (hell, even inferences about which government agencies they respond to), whether or not they've made serious attempts to curb the fake news problem, a full understanding of the ways in which they track people who don't have a facebook account across the web, and probably a whole host of other enlightening details about their entire operation.

I'm sure there are people who can make quite accurate guesses about how all of that probably works without looking directly at the code. But if the Snowden leaks tell us anything it's that a handful of security specialists being able to deduce something is completely different that a critical mass of programmers being unable to deny that a problem exists. Access to that code would certainly give developers of FLOSS privacy/security software a better idea of how to protect their users' privacy.
With their cash pile, they could surely expand, considering the long term returns on such expansion of computing power. Maybe Apple just dosent see the need to improve or dosent see any revenue potential with Maps.
I stopped using Google Maps on the desktop a while back because it would kill a octo-core AMD system with 12GB of RAM in Chrome. Bing Maps might not be better as a map, but the best map is the one that loads and lets you scroll, right?

I switch to Apple Maps on mobile when Google stopped letting me search for directions without signing in.

Incredible piece of technology, destroyed by real bad product decisions.
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Testing needs some labeled dataset. Is there some good site to find publicly available datasets ?
There's a fairly steady stream of posts here about data/privacy/etc. It's easy to pillory companies for violating privacy rules in various ways or mishandling data. However, given that data can't be reliably anonymized and that a lot of things that happen in public have simply never been systematically recorded in the past, there are a lot of fundamental questions over what sorts of data should be recorded when they provide legitimate value to users.

As a hypothetical, what if autonomous driving is seen to depend on what many would see as invasive data collection and monitoring? Should it be permitted? That's a hypothetical, but I don't think there's an obvious answer to the question as posed.
Because he is lying when he said the wait time is only 8-10 years. It is actually more than 100 years.

But, no immigration attorney will ever say that truth to the H1B visa holders from India. I had asked this exact same question to my company attorney 10 years ago and the answer was exact same, wait for 5-10 years.

There are around ~70k software engineer coming to US from India, and everyone of them is told the same lie by their attorneys.

While most of these folks from India wait for their green card for rest of their life, attorneys make a fortune renewing their H1B every year.
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Niantic switched Pokémon Go and Ingress over to using OpenStreetMap as the base map last week.

That's one way OSM can compete with Google, it is available for the low price of attribution. Pokémon players have quite some interest in improving OSM.

OSM can also end up with data for things that Google doesn't find interesting. Google doesn't have the nice walking path/bike trail in a local park that I added to OSM several years ago.
Yes. The number of bitcoins increases roughly linearly over time and will continue to do so for another few years. At that time, the bitcoin protocol will need to change or there will be no new bitcoins circulating. This leads to almost endless deflation, as long as bitcoin doesn't change from its current structure.

There really is no asset "there" when talking about Bitcoin. Bitcoin acts purely technically and can be traded that way. Unless Bitcoin's structure changes the price will either continue to rise as a trend, or it will crash forever. Long positions and scalpers do great with Bitcoin.
It isn't any different. In "the old days" chances were high you even could just login with that e-mail account you already had, not only with gmail but with some other larger providers as well.
Can someone tell me as a consumer what benefit those chips provide?

It’s slower and security isn’t my problem because fraud is covered by the CC company. So I still don’t get what the benefit is or how our heads are above sand now?
"Store of value" here means "investment", but people are trying to keep the veneer of currency definition. And of course it's a highly speculative investment, although whose wild volatility contains a rare spice cherished by asset managers, "high alpha", meaning that it is not related to the broader markets. In musical terms, Bitcoin sings its own song, or dances to its own beat.

To diversify, as modern portfolio theory prescribes, investors seek assets whose prices don't change in relation to other prices, are uncorrelated. In today's world, most markets are highly correlated with each other, they are almost like separate instruments playing in a huge symphony.

But not Bitcoin. Not for now. Bitcoin moves according to bitcoin.

If bitcoin becomes more and more like "digital gold" and loses some of the volatility, however, it will also start to act more and more like physical gold on the world markets. Gold moves as a safe haven asset, and so will Bitcoin, and thereby lose its status as an investment uncorrelated to the broader markets.

If you're involved in trading, you can pretty much be given a single market quote like the S&P or gold, and generally guess the direction and possibly the amount of price changes in many or most other world markets, unless there were events specific to one or another market. Usually if gold went up, for example, the Japanese yen also gained. These relationships change over time, but they are very pronounced. You can ask maybe three questions and generally extrapolate what happened over the entire world except for cases where a local event in India caused its bourse to move independently, or for example a weather event moved an agricultural commodity. Even real estate does not escape the bonds of market correlation.

But... Bitcoin. Without a very large move in other assets, I doubt a well-versed market participant could tell you what happened to Bitcoin without hearing about Bitcoin itself (or maybe Ethereum...). To repeat myself, I believe this will change if BTC becomes established as a "store of value", it will join the symphony, but for that reason it will also lose its great appeal to institutional investors -- its uncorrelated quality, "pure alpha" as one well-known asset manager recently termed it (where alpha is independent returns and beta is benchmarked correlated returns).

So, with its volatility, Bitcoin is maybe being thought of by institutional investors as a kind of extreme spice that can add a bit of diversified risk into their larger stew. Just dab will do ya. But as more dabs are added, the "alpha" quality will wear off and it will begin to move more and more like plain old gold. Maybe less lustrous...

So maybe in investment terms as well, Bitcoin might have a scaling problem.
> The same people that the lawmakers believe aren't able to make their own decisions about which services are good or bad for them are, yet, able to determine that these regulations will be beneficial.

That's a valid argument in a perfectly transparent world with even negotiating power. But companies are opaque or change their handling of data (that one is the basis of this story!) and there's a race to the bottom where most options are severely lacking in privacy.

And these regulations are a very minor impingement on free contract-making. You can still give up privacy, you just can't give it up irrevocably.
I always figured such comments were primarily made to allow additional reading, for those interested.
dropped back to normal level, some people made some money....
> But humans don't work like that.

Sure they do. There are three options, just like there are in court. We punish the accused, or we punish the accuser for lying, or we don't punish either of them.

Not punishing anyone is what we do when we don't have convincing evidence one way or the other. That's just consistency -- you don't punish the accused without proof just like you don't punish the accuser without proof.

When there is no way to know the truth, it's completely valid to do nothing.
I block ads, analytics and 3rd party fonts. Almost every site works just fine.
CMOS image sensors have lots of per pixel variation due to errors in the manufacturing processes. Examples are the "dark current", which causes patterns sometimes in images. Thats corrected for in software by all modern cameras.

99.5% accurate suggests successfully isolating 8 bits of device-specific data from a couple of megabytes of image data.

It is no surprise whatsoever that the basic corrections done on the images leave behind at least 8 bits of entropy.
Or, as a much more probable alternative, the whole blockchain fad dies out as it should. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. It is cumbersome, slow, and an absolutely ginormous energy pig. The only thing it is good for is speculation and giving a particular type of libertarian an-cap a hardon. It is useless for mainstream anything.
People who were watching closely had about 3 days notice. a BCH check box briefly appeared in their API key configuration tool a couple days ago and screen shots of it were posted on reddit. Anyone who didn't think Coinbase wasn't going to enable BCH trading was either in denial or not paying attention.
Apple is actually paying for Google's capacity.

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-stra...
I'm assuming a lot here but there is always the chance that your door-to-door post man or woman went to deliver any generic piece of mail to your old address only to find out you no longer lived there. I'm fairly sure there is a mechanism in place where a post man or post office can set a recipient as "moved" or "moving" to let the entire postal system know that until that recipients new address is figured out that no mail should be going to the old address.

That said the cynic in me won't allow the positive optimist within me to win this one. While I do believe there to be many wonderful postal workers I am going to assume that corporate greed is winning out over the kindness and caring of the human heart in this specific situation :(
In the Midwest, Google isn't that great either. On a site I run I often have automatically-generated links to Google Maps where my software puts the business name and then the street address into a Google Maps search and half the time it fails. But if I just put the address without the business name, it brings me to the right spot.

Driving to my grandparents house until two or three years ago, Google would route you off a paved highway down an impassable two-track road only to bring you back around to the highway later.

When you're up against that kind of technology, Apple Maps doesn't seem so painful.
Yes !

Each time justin writes a blog post, I feel like a cartographer for a couple of minutes.

I love the attention he puts to the evolution of mapping services.

The only better thing would be the same blog as a post mortem from Google where they discuss the reasoning, design and tech behind these changes.
The direction capabilities is what makes me use google maps more, it’s just more reliable in general and gives better routes. Sometimes Apple would give these really dumb routes. I would say ‘why would you do that?’