skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you seriously saying that competing in the Olympics is not impressive?

Less impressive because they're rich, sure, I'm with you. It makes it easier. But dismissing it as not a good delimiter and not inspiring is pretty ridiculous.
Is it weird that the first thing we see in a new product unveiling isn't the product?

I'm having trouble thinking of other, decent reveals that would choose this marketing angle.
You call it "sabotaging", I call it "enhancing monetization powers". Either way, it's sabotaging the public's access.
Challenger: President Reagan's Challenger Disaster Speech
I used Hyperdia.com while in Japan
HN isn't a generic news site. Nor is it a site for the discussion of all social topics. Many people are here because of that, but it appears that you want something different.
Accelerated by us, and about to consume us whole.
Rogressive Disclosure UX: how to design for a wider audience
Which extension do you use in Emacs to get the symbols?
Is the coummunity droping flow?
Nice. I never had a DECstation. I started on Alpha clusters. They were cool. I'm kind of excited about the x64 port. The hobby license will hopefully still exist and I can setup some VM's.
Ah right, the complaining about moderation card plus the projecting card. You mistake jealousy for seeing something in its relevant context & circumstances.

A tennis player who reaches exactly the same goal as another one (e.g. winning a grand slam) yet without rich parents is more impressive. Their circumstances gave them a harder time in life within the sport, and outside of it. Think of material, training costs, quality of life (that goes far!), etc etc. There's some sports which are simply elitist while others are more free for all due to lower barrier of entry.

Speculating with Bitcoin, including starting a business around such speculation in order to stimulate your speculation (huh-huh, sounds less brilliant than it is now) requires savings. If you got 100M USD and you spend 100k (0,1%) on speculation there's virtually nothing you will lose. Because even if that 100k evaporates, you're still a multi-millionaire. Compare that to a poor, hard working woman from Bangladesh who's making our Nike shoes so Bob can win his grand slams. She can only speculate with say a dollar, and that's a huge cut in her budget which she'll feel for time to come. Oh wait, she doesn't even have a computer to start with. Even if she did, 0,1% of her entire savings is still essentially nothing cause like the vast majority of people on earth she either cannot afford to spend that 0,1% or it isn't much so doesn't yield much. Like, she can't even afford fee costs with that. So much for this world-wide cryptocurrency called Bitcoin.

The fact is that the vast majority of people on earth, and even the vast majority of people in rich countries such as the United States cannot afford to speculate with large sums of money. And if they did, they'd be belly up if their speculating would go wrong.

These factors make their achievements a lot less impressive. Note that I'm not saying "unimpressive"; (and I'll repeat once more): I am saying a lot less impressive. Subtle difference.

And fuck being reliant on luck. That is a silly excuse from losers which I heard in gaming all the time (the other one is "not having their day"). Skill is what matters. Good players work around bad luck turning the odds in their favor. They end up with a good long-term ratio or track record. Provided the playing field is equal. The playing field in life is not equal. Some people are born rich, and that gives them an ample amount of chances to score in life. The Winklevoss Twins are a perfect example of that, and that makes them a boring example. The life stories of personae who became rich and famous via hard work and who wasn't rich to start with, like J.K. Rowling, are much more inspiring for the general population.

People are trying their luck all the time in the lottery. They're losing, but false hope keeps that "game" alive. By ignoring the circumstances of the Winklevoss brothers whilst articulating their successes, you're doing the same. Please stop it.

(And that's a post written without going much into the problem of speculation regarding Bitcoin, ignoring issues like Mt. Gox and Tether.)
For better or worse that is how it works.

And its not just with start ups. People who are more closer to work, generally tend to maximize returns for themselves above those are who are away from it.

This is true even in Big companies. Most product managers I know barely contribute anything to the product, most of the times its the engineers doing all the work and the product manager is just there to provide the validation 'This looks fine to me'.

There is a good reason why carpenters, plumbers, drivers, <skilled_worker> generally do better on the longer run than the supervisor ever does.
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It's like how Apple managed to pass off Apple Pay as a huge innovation because the US has such outdated payment processing infrastructure. When I go to the states chip & pin is still considered exotic - I'm signing a receipt about 50% of the time. Meanwhile Canada has had "tap to pay" credit cards since at least 2009 [1].

[1] https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/contactless-payments-set-to-t...
Something like adnauseam ?

https://adnauseam.io/
Just put a backing LCD in the line of sight so it can darken. And project on top of that. I think it is possible to solve.
In regards to preempting state laws, did Congress forget about the 10th Amendment? I know they tend to skirt around it in law school according to my colleagues who are all attorneys.
Because it's the third highest market capped coin.
Probably. It is a very interesting case study in corporate culture and corporate viability. Unless the culture changes, it seems difficult to believe that they can stay operational. it is also interesting to watch something with that much inertia slowing down by inches.
Cool idea haha. I'd guess it'd probably get messed up from lack of air and/or too much exposure to radiation or something though.
It's funny you say that, I grew up with that very system for decades before streaming became a thing. We had multiple choices of entertainment to watch on TV for completely free. Yes, that's right! Completely free!

The only cost was the TV and the time to watch commercials.
> Most people never change default settings of software they install so "opt-in" may as well not have a way to "opt-out" except as a scapegoat to say you can.

You might as well just blame the browser vendor for not having a built-in ad blocker, URL rewriter (Google search results), not disabling 3rd party cookies or whatever else the flavour of the month in abusing-features-for-tracking is.

The people who never look into the settings probably didn't install the ad blocker themselves in the first place...
invest in their known publicly-traded investors (google. others?). figure out who manufactures the more expensive pieces of silicon (or optics?) in the device, invest in them.
I soon realized you'd have to be looking through something for this. You wouldn't be looking at something a la VR (pair of 2D displays with shortened focal length), it would add something to existing light but do so close to your eye. Early demo videos (actual product, not just faked-up CGI) tried to downplay the "through something" but still indicated it was.

We're not going to have tables projecting images into the air above & being seen from the side, any time soon. (Though I do have a crazy idea about making that work...)
At least in Linux's case, there isn't really much desire to converge into a single "best" system. Partly because "best" is somewhat subjective, but also because the kind of person who cares enough about open source to put that kind of effort into it is already pretty far on one side of the ideology/practicality divide. And that's before the parties interested in monetization get involved.
There isn't a Democratic primary in California, their system is ridiculous. All candidates are in the primary, the top two are on the ballot. Last election had two Democrats against each other, one of them got 19% of the primary vote. Getting Feinstein off the ballot is nearly impossible.
>> click on this link in your email to start watching

How would that work with my Roku?
Maybe the critically endangered species are not competitive with humans so they're cute and nice, while the species that thrive are competitive with humans so they're ugly, dirty and scary?
Well, Magic Leap have given no indication that they have solved that problem.
Why does that matter? There's a lot of distrust for both parties, from both sides at the moment. That seems like a good time for a 3rd party to come on in.
See this

https://mises.org/library/death-m3-fifth-anniversary

And

https://www.garynorth.com/public/6538.cfm

TLDR:

The end of the first link provides a response from Bernanke which says that the public would still have access to the data but the fed won’t aggregate it and report it. What the OECD does is the aggregation and reporting based on the raw fed data.

The second link provides why the M3 was useless to begin with.
Juices, Bras and E-Cigs: This Is What Those Companies Were Doing Before Crypto
An introduction to Joplin, an open source Evernote alternative
"States' rights" is a racist dog whistle. Nothing more.
How about the famous Apple Macintosh 1984 promo?
Oh, also, Russ Olsen does a wonderful talk about the moon landing and the engineering involved:

https://youtu.be/4Sso4HtvJsw
Put in plain terms since minimum wage in the US labor market is $7.35, $1 USD is “worth” hiring a worker for about 1/7 of an hour. This means that for 1/7th of an hour you can get some “stuff” done. For instance you could hire someone for 1/7th of an hour to pick 2 apples from your Apple tree so you can have apples with dinner.

So really you could say that $1 USD is “worth” 2 apples.

This is whole example is so contrived to arrive at a simple point.

If we follow your point then the difficulty adds some degree of inflation to the price. I might mine x amount of BTC for y amount of power (hashes) but tomorrow I will be able to mine x-t for y power. This means today's bitcoin is more valuable than tomorrow's bitcoin.

There was an awesome derivative allowing people to bet on which might have clarified this difference but sadly it is gone.
Limits to arbitrage, same reason GBTC the bitcoin trust trades at 100% premium.
Cool, thanks to both of you for the quick report and fix!
I said they would have to be changing the world to be getting all this investor support. This does not change the world. Not even close.
I agree with the sentiment that there's nothing to choose between the parties when it comes to favoring intellectual and moral consistency in governance over whatever will keep a given party's officials, appointees, and elected representatives in their jobs. But cheap, contemptuous condescension adds nothing to the conversation. The temptation is strong at times, I know. But please try not to succumb to it.
> "The CEO has said that one unidentified channel owner had 30,000 simultaneous streams from a single account."

This is more about bad implementation (and possibly design) than anything else, then. ALL of the other online services I've worked on have had a reasonable and enforced policy here. It's not that hard to do (there are harder corner cases if you do allow customers to do things like family sharing, but it's still not rocket surgery).
Wow, man. Talk about back seat driving. Why do you think that they have spent over a decade refactoring the operating system into smaller components that can be installed and updated independently? What about peer-to-peer updating and all of the updates that not only don't require a reboot but don't require any user intervention whatsoever?

Something that is an "anti-feature" to you is someone else's (in the case of windows, several million someone else's) every day must have.
Can you give a few examples of it not making sense practically? I understand the reasoning behind patents and copyright, but in practice they are abused and at this point almost dead anyways.
I think he left Apple over a year and a half ago. But yeah, his observations about Apple Maps are particularly well informed. http://www.tested.com/tech/573368-brief-comparing-digital-ca...
IANAL, but only consideration is a common law thing, and is not required in the majority of EU countries, provided that I recall correctly.
Did anyone not expect this? For example, I believe they may add Ripple next so I have made moves into Ripple knowing the price will spike if they add support. What's to prevent Coinbase employees to do the same?
Bitcoin mining is an energy arbitrage. The value of bitcoin once generated is about demand for moving cash-like instruments while bypassing capital controls.
Why would you use ghostery which was a tool to study people who want to black ads so they can be better served ads ?

Why would you use adblock which is outdated when ublock origin has been available for a while ?

It's strange that you take extra steps to block ads and tracker but peruse facebook whose sole purpose is tracking and profiling you and your family, friends, acquaintances through you.
I think this is why Docker is so darn useful.

Once you embrace it, using Python 2.x or 3.x on Windows (or MacOS, or Linux) involves changing 1 line in 1 file and you're pretty much done. Each app you develop can also use whatever version you want with total isolation.

There's no Windows hoops to jump through or virtual environments to create.
Or it will give investors confidence that private space flight is viable?
I disagree that the regular employees are innocent here. You support the company you work for. Most employees there could easily get jobs elsewhere. Sure, they forfeit options, but they stop powering truly one of the worst companies we have seen in some time. Not to mention the sexual harassment and bad work environment, which is at least partially on rank and file employees.

I have no sympathy for well-off workers more or less choosing to work for shitty companies and supporting them in a complicit manner. We have ethical duties to work for companies that make a positive impact when we have realistic options. If there are no options and you're doing the job for reasonable comfort of life that you can't get elsewhere, different story. I don't think most employees at Uber fall into that category.
He mentions about JavaScript libraries and reCaptcha, "As I have set up uMatrix in my browser, this cost me some extra time to finish registration." So basically, prepare to be annoyed.

Considering reCaptcha has some tasks that look suspiciously like "help train who-knows-whose neural net to identify the bombing targets in this satellite image," it could also be an ethical choice for some people.
I wouldn't be surprised. I am kind of surprised that we haven't heard rumbling already but with all the moves Disney has made maybe they are afraid of drawing too much attention to themselves and will wait.
From the article:

"The chief executive officer of Charter Communications Inc., which sells cable TV under the Spectrum name, is leading an industrywide effort to crack down on password sharing."

Seems to me the cable companies are heavily involved. Which makes sense because they would like to sell the cable TV access just as much as the Internet access. If customers only need streaming and no cable TV then I would imagine they would stand to lose quite a bit of revenue.
Almost every Sunday morning I put my kayak at mere.digests.undergo. I could say "at the 8th line bridge North of West Montrose, ON, Canada" or I could say at "43.624987N, 80.447249W" or I could say let's meet at OLC "86MXJHG3+247" or "JHF3+X4 Inverhaugh". Yeah - some of the clones sound funny but not useful in real world social interaction.
Yes, I think so. 'just start a company and make money' is exceptionally non-trivial. 'just' is usually used to infer the subject is easy. "It's not hard; just do it!"

That type of phrasing can also be used sarcastically or meanly, so people may have interpreted it that way. "Why can't you do this? Just make it work!"
Because it's not a pendulum.

Net neutrality was how the internet worked de facto from its inception through approximately the end of the dial-up days. It wasn't necessary to impose net neutrality de jure until home broadband was widespread and capable of eating into traditional cable TV revenue. It wasn't necessary to regulate net neutrality for DSL carriers back when local loop unbundling applied to them. But between 2000 and 2010, the net neutrality situation got worse than it ever had been, the regulatory efforts from 2010 to 2015 were half-assed at best, and the 2015 regulations weren't in place long enough to even establish enough judicial precedent to tell whether they could work long-term.

Partisan control of Congress definitely swings back and forth semi-regularly, but that's not what the history of net neutrality looks like.
There is absolute hard evidence that they have faked videos that do not represent the reality of their product. They have a video where they show 100 people watching the Magic Leap effects without wearing any googles. With today's announcement that video is a very clear fake without any attempt to make it resemble a final or even in-development product.

Their videos are fake and do not show what they are building. The product might be neat, I don't know. We do know that they lie in their videos to get attention.

I have been an avid Magic Leap supporter for years. I told everyone I know about them and showed all my friends their videos. I've been gushing about them for years. All based on a lie. All my love and attention for them has been because they told us they were building a system for you to have AR without goggles. LIES. ALL LIES.

Boycott Magic Leap for life.
It could be a misunderstanding on my part. I thought the distances were distances from my location, maybe they were the length of the hike, which would have made more sense. My search was "Brooktondale, NY"
> It is seen as a part of infrastructure.

If that's the case, why aren't taxi businesses owned by the public? What makes taxi services different than water, sewer and municipal bus systems?

We have taxi services monopolizing entire markets just like ISPs (http://dailysignal.com/2016/10/19/taxi-monopolies-hurt-oppor...). These "Technically public but actually privately owned" business model appears to be the worst solution for any sort of consumer of these services.
I was going to reply just to tell you how dumb that is, but then I double checked, and the Falcon Heavy can put a 38,000 lb payload into Mars injection orbit. Thats enough for a big set of retro-rockets, a sky-crane landing system, some solar cells to recharge it, and a robot to drive it around.
> You're doing it wrong if you're stripping features only on small view ports.

I'm not sure how that statement addresses the point made by GP, who said, "...their websites are often terrible on a laptop, which is how I use the Internet."

If not the de facto guidance of mobile-first design, the de jure guidance steers designers toward reduced functionality. The overwhelmingly common outcome of a mobile-first redesign of an application is dramatic reduction of functionality, often spun as a simplification. I would prefer if mobile-first redesigns retained existing functionality but I acknowledge functionality may be reached in new ways that better fit the capability of the device.

The problem is not that mobile-first design strips features only on small view ports; the problem is that mobile-first design strips features full-stop.
Then mozilla risks losing 90% of its revenues because it comes from online tracking and ads.
That's just not the case. I've been a system administrator for a very long time and I can promise you that updates on XP were much worse. Much, much, worse. XP was better than 2K, but wow is 10 better. It's a different world altogether.
Did this guy just finish up his first year of Econ? Pretty pseudo-intellectual article if you ask me
Good to know. I can't remember the last time I've seen an ad on youtube that didn't go away after updating the block list. I've since switched to UBO for performance reasons, but as far as I can tell ABP always did exactly what it said on the tin.

Edit: I haven't actually spent enough time with the opt-out unchecked to come across one of these. I suppose it's the nature of the implementation - unless you have humans reviewing the ads or something of the sort, you'll never be able to filter them with 100% certainty.
The video is exactly how I want the future to be. 100% wired in.
I'd like to see Bitcoin advanced past the congested network and high fees that we see today, and I think Roger Ver does too. He certainly also wants to make money, but what's wrong with that? What I think is objectively bad is a worse product for more money.
I have a pretty good understanding of economics but what makes market and limit alone responsible for a price jump. When matching orders were allowed yesterday didn't the price also jump? Thanks.
An amazing collection. Thanks for sharing.
One might hope that the Trump administration is wary of widening the federal government's ability to spy on its citizens. I do.
Say what you will, but Trip shipped a product. This thing isn't even in the same league yet.
iMac Pro. We don't know the form factor for the new Mac Pro yet, but all signs are encouraging that it'll be expandable.
> Schumer is awful on a lot of levels, but I don't seem him losing his office unless he goes the way Sheldon Silver did.

Agreed. New York politicians can get away with attempted murder caught on videotape (literally) and there's still no chance that they'll lose re-election, thanks to the array of arcane election laws that, in practice, collectively disenfranchise New York voters.
i dont think this has anything to do with the article.
Facts themselves are not racist. The person uttering them can be.
Ruby 2.5: Not Blocking My Rescue
Makes sense. One of the ways well-known authors make money is by selling bogus endorsements. Basically just giving someone the right to quote them that they like their product. I doubt Stephenson's "employment" with Magic Leap goes much deeper than that.
Good collection, as well as links to the documentation available for each API.

Side note: Why all the bash and hate for Postman here? Why not write an article and express your concern(s) there and submit it here in HN. Or better yet, connect with the team[1] at Postman and throw your ideas on making it better.

[1] https://www.getpostman.com/team
This article seems silly to me, because it tries to conflate the wasted energy that went into "mining" bitcoins with their value.

It's like an update of hoary old Marxist notions, but for cryptocurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
Please tell me where I can send my money. I've heard of this, but at really low resolutions which I don't think would work well. Is there any existing VR solution that would be able to show an HD display?
I hope they fail as well. Here is one scenario where I think they will:

1) As you pointed out - Users (or their friends) will go out of their way to install an ad-blocker and set it up the first time.

2) If I still find prominently placed Google ads annoying (and I do, despite the fact that they're not animated or audible), then I will still go out of my way to block them.
The Super Bowl ad ran two days before the Macintosh was released for sale.

I think that's a little different.
If it used to take you 8.5 minutes to pick 2 apples and now it takes 10 then yeah, 1/6 < 1/7
And then there's Michael Collins's take:

> "My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote. "If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jul/19/michael-coll...