skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thinking is that bitcoin/cryptocurrencies dont have to be 'fully' embraced by govt, it just needs to be recognized as a valid asset class and the markets will do the rest. so long as its not too much of a pain to use/keep it will do just fine. what people dont grasp is that the reason govt or central banks dont like any other fiat is that it takes power to inflate away from them. so long as we have fixed references in form of btc/etc markets will ensure they work as inflation hedge (after an unspecified initial period of price discovery ;). In fact I do foresee BTC becoming a legit currency after few unstable currencies fail.

You could argue this was essentially the role of gold but the main problem with gold is that its the central banks that started with biggest ownership of gold so its very susceptible to price manipulation and really un-auditable without some form of trust setup. both of those are not as much of concern with cryptocurrencies.

TLDR: it will be an asset until it becomes a global currency.
...and this somehow coincides with new iOS updates.

After an explanation, everybody applauds this wise choice, protecting their phones from not working at all!
> It is not sustainable for the environment to buy and throw cell phones every few years apart.

I don't disagree with your overall point, but is this part actually true? How does the environmental impact of creating a phone compare with that of creating a TV which might only last 10 years, or a car? Feels to me like the phone impact must be pretty minimal.
Personally, I see the rise of cryptocurrencies as the beginning of a capital singularity, whereby vast flows of capital begin to outpace and outmaneuver any other collective human organizational mechanism of restraint, eventually and increasingly beyond even the perception of such structures.

I recommend all cryptoholders of a few years consider their long game regarding which coins will be declared, and which will remain in the shadows.

Cryptocurrencies allow for freedom beyond the practical control of agencies such as the IRS, IF you are willing to put in the time and effort. Think very carefully before voluntarily clipping your own wings.
I disagree with a solid 80% of government spending. Lots go against my core values and morals. Currently right now as a Canadian I even have to pay taxes for religious schools, a religion which was responsible for molesting my father as a child.

I pay against my will because the government holds a monopoly on violence. They will lock me up for not paying.

A society built on top of the threat of violence is not one I endorse.
Including the OpenVPN, HTTPS, SSH, and TOR protocols? (All of which could trivially be used to circumvent such a block.)
Dunno man, kinda seems like you should have made this trustless, distributed, anonymous and immutable.
Please tell me how Safari or Apple in general works against consumer privacy protection?

Safari is pretty good at privacy protection. Apple doesn't really have an interest in collecting your data and they have a history of implementing features improving privacy (cross-site tracking protection, build-in adblock API, etc.).

The problem is that Safari is only available to the wealthiest in the world.
Damn. This is powerful.
Someone actually that it was fun and valuable. Shocking, I know.
Why not make them unequal in size to make this more transparent?
I will add these servers soon!
I already have test results from AWS, Google and Azure but I was afraid to include it because their basic instance's disks are slower than DigitalOcean, UpCloud or Linode's.

It doesn't mean they are bad, if you sure your app will only use memory these can be really good, but disk speed affected and shifted the whole benchmark.

They have instances with faster SSDs but if I use these for the tests the 5-10$ price range won't fit.
There’s an excellent episode of the 99percent invisible podcast about Kowloon, which was the first time I heard about it. Would recommend a listen (and the podcast as a whole)
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-66-kowloon-wa...
I'm not sure what the right move is here. Apple does have a notification once the battery reaches some threshold of "bad". But maybe it's too conservative? Clearly, notifying an iPhone customer that their battery is going bad when they're throttling CPU by 1% is too aggressive. 75% is too late. Where the right number lies, I don't know.
It's kinda funny that this comment could equally apply to the original - there's nothing apolitical or anti-contemporary about it either.
I respectfully disagree, for one simple reason.

IE literally refused to implement standards, rendered broken dom elements, allowed for proprietary native extensions and had many different apis for them. They had 90% of the market share and no other viable platforms.

All of those things are true of iOS Safari as well, except that on iOS you literally can't use any other engine so 100% of the browsers on Apple phones and tablets are restricted by whatever limitations or flaws Safari brings.
If the problem is with the immune system reacting too strongly, could suppressing the immune system potentially help? Of course, you'd probably want to combine that with antibiotics, to fight any secondary infections that could develop.
Obligatory: http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
They assumed their user base has dwindled to only the kind of anticorporate hacker wannabes that watch Mr. Robot.
And Apple has a major mobile market share, that HAS to use safari. If I could get away with not supporting safari, I definitely would.
This makes it very obvious that buying loot boxes is, in fact, a form of gambling. We'll see how long that lasts in jurisdictions with tight gambling laws (i.e. Germany)
for the lulz?

Hackers gonna hack. In the “let’s build cool stuff because we can” way.
I totally agree with you.
The difference between the Mozilla thing and this though is the level of outrage and the fact people are actually trying to make excuses for Apple.

Mozilla did their thing imho in all naivety. Someone there thought that would be "cool" you know because Mr robot is cool, but clearly missed the point.

Apple have a history of trying to pass off design flaws as features; antennagate anyone? As far as I'm concerned if you know that a component will deteriorate over time like a battery making it practically impossible to replace is a design flaws.
Supposedly it creates lower power chips.
Is it a loci because that is where the crime happens, or is it a loci because that is where all of the crime prevention/detection/prosecution is directed due to external circumstances? You have to be able to correct for this sort of bias in your training data or else you are just baking the external circumstances into the model and pretending that they reflect reality. Start by figuring out how you would obtain data from all places first.
Apple did that and people would start cracking iphones open to replace batteries. Not in line with Apple's philosphy.
> If you have been on both buses and trains it should be obvious.

It's not that obvious if you've been on a well-done BRT line. The design characteristics of busses that you mention don't hold true universally—in particular, on quality BRT lines, the busses are typically designed to feel very much like the interior of the trains people like. I'll give you acceleration and deceleration comfort in general though.

> Somehow it still baffles transit planners that people might care about the subjective experience of being in transit rather than the throughput or cost.

It baffles me that people think transit planners control vast sums of wealth and are never forced to make tradeoffs due to cost considerations :-)

In all seriousness, if cost were no object, I'm sure we'd all love trains. The reality is that even hyper-premium BRT lines with dedicated exclusive right-of-way and premier station design are cheaper (way cheaper) than building rail infra.

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> How the auto industry hasn’t made that blidndingly obvious is beyond me.

The auto industry relies on there being a huge government subsidy to maintaining the infrastructure that their product rolls around on. Nobody ever said cars don't deliver a nice experience (at low levels of congestion). The problem is that we tend to have too many people driving on roads that cannot, due to laws of geometry, space, and time, accomodate that demand.
That's exactly what I thought. And then I saw Bloomberg, and then thought maybe it's an old article from April 1.
We wanted people to feel like they had a higher likelihood of winning than they actually did.

It's the same reason slot machines always "almost" hit the jackpot.

It's more addictive that way.
As far as I know, Firefox does not implement U2F exactly (one of the reasons support for it isn't enabled by default): https://twitter.com/jamespugjones/status/931324766782332928
I agree, it was a close election and yes the system has it's flaws but there was nothing that went majorly wrong with this election.
Or make the battery replaceable...

It pains me that I effectively have to choose between replaceable batteries and IPXX ratings.... T_T
The problem isn't specifically Apple's batteries; it's with current Lithium-ion battery chemistry in general. As a whole, we've nearly reached the upper bound of where energy density and consumer safety are at for providing us with a good battery that doesn't easily explode and gives the phone a constant current. The documentary series NOVA had a good episode earlier in the year that showed some possible alternatives to these https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gxZrQ5yPsLI

Regarding the slowing down of devices, underclocking the CPU allows for both less power and a lower peak voltage to be drawn from the battery and extends the real usable life of the phone. Others would simply not turn on or pass a hardware test by failing to POST. You are right about new software versions being 'encouraged obsolescence'- a company that pushes features to its older phones knowing they may not be able handle these alongside the older essential ones definitely has an interest in you purchasing a new phone. This could easily be fixed by not having the slimmest phone on the market and instead have a thicker and more easily user-replacable battery.
Thanks for the kind words and the idea! Will do.
I am a non-Han (the Yi tribe to be exact) Chinese from China and grew up in a province next to Tibet called Yunnan. One of the reasons surveillance is heavier in Xinjiang is because of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. They are basically the ISIS equivalent in China and have had carried out quite a few terrorist attacks.

One of the attacks happened in a train station in Kunming where my parents' home is close to and caused mass casaulty in 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack). Surveillance in the Uyghur area has got a lot tighter since. Just like the Middle East issues to US and other western countries, Ugyhur issues to China are quite complicated. However, if the bottom line on stability/security of an area is crossed by a particular ethnic group (Uyghur Muslim in this case), maximum surveillance/crackdown would be imposed.

Areas such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Yunnan tend to get heavier surveillance treatment given their track record of independent movements. Yunnan once had its own independent military force called Dian Jun (滇军) but it soon got acquired by the Chengdu military force after the Sino-Vietnamese war due to trust issues between the Yunnan local government and the central Chinese government.
You can go to a store and ask someone there to replace the batteries of your TV remote or battery-swappable phone for free, if you like.
> there is real value in blockchain

People say this, but I maintain it isn't true. The only thing the blockchain is good for is when you cannot have any kind of central trusted authority. "Central authority" typically meaning government institutions like regulations and the legal system. Once you remove a central trusted authority, transaction costs get very expensive very fast. If you can't trust anybody but yourself it means you bear the cost of validating every single part of a transaction. You see this in the blockchain--it is massively more expensive to process a transaction than using a simple database. You see this in "smart contracts" because without a legal system to fallback on, you have to code every single edge case no matter how remote or you'll get fucked (which is actually impossible anyway, and is one of the reasons why the entire idea of "smart contracts" is a bunch of baloney...).

My point is, for 99.9% of every day things we have no need for any kind of distributed trustless ledger. The transaction costs for them outweigh the alternative of simply trusting people and using our legal system when something goes bad.

The only real use case for trustless distributed ledgers are for stuff that cannot use the legal system--eg organized crime, crypto-ransomware software, illegal drug trade, etc. For everything else, a database is all you need.

By the way, I'm not even going to go into the fact that "The Blockchain" only functions with mining, and the only way to incentivize mining is to bolt a "currency" on top like Bitcoin or ETH and then find a market to sell all the "coins" the miners generate. Take away that, and who the hell pays for the mining? If your answer is "the banks would" or "the parties would"... well, if they are gonna do that why the hell wouldn't they just pay for a traditional database instead? After all, that kind of cooperation sounds pretty centralized anyway and a large Postgres instance is a lot cheaper than thousands and thousands of miners....
Those 3 conditions are literally what Apple said influence performance in the story you're commenting on.
Ghosts in the Machine (2015)
I must say Github has been amazing in enabling this, at least the first steps bit. Ever since they introduced editing in the browser, I have committed to maybe half a dozen open source projects. All of these were trivial one-liners with very little added value, but still, given that I could do all that without even having git on that given machine, is amazing. That + integrated CI tools whose results are integrated within relevant pull requests... it's at a point when almost anyone can fix documentation or typos in code.
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> IOTA’s relationships with top-tier companies continue to be nebulous.

Not a big deal to me.

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> IOTA network relies on the “coordinator”

And it's planned to be removed in the future.

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> while IOTA users do the proof of work on their own devices, per transaction

Because of that proof of work can be rethought and built into cheap hardware for IOT.

4. Security vulnerabilities

I'm pretty accepting of software having bugs at the beginning, even stupid obvious ones.
A CSV file is a dream compared to what you might have to go through with on normal stocks.

My wife inherited a small amount of telecom stock from her grandmonther who worked for AT&T back in the early days. No records had been kept as to when the stocks were bought (they were part of her salary I think). Of course they were all acquired before the Bell breakup. So what she inherited was a big mess of baby bells and about once a year or so one of them will be bought out and they'll do a stock merger and automatically sell any fractional shares left after the merger so we have to pay the Capital Gains on that sale. I am still not sure how someone without a Lexus Nexus account is supposed to calculate the net profit on those shares.

Thus far most of them have been small and we've been calling the entire thing profit (purchase price of $0) but I know one of these days we're going to have to do it for real.
What continues to fascinate me about stories like this is just how nakedly, obviously partisan the post-Trump reporting on the evils of social media is. Compare this with, for example, the tone of all the stories about how the Obama campaign used social media to win the previous election...
We need to balance "holding them accountable" and "being realistic". Mozilla cannot compete against Google without funding from somewhere. As far as I know, this is a fact. So the question, to me, becomes "what kind of funding is acceptable?"

And I suspect this is where we completely differ - because while Mozilla has made some mistakes, I am not nearly as enraged as some of the other commenters I've seen have been.

I think Mozilla has been doing a great job, with a few notable hiccups.
A sample is not a model. Taking a picture of a surface, however detailed, doesn't get you any closer to rendering it.

Neural networks are exciting here though. But even if it gets off the ground, it will still be at the "Phong shading" level model for some time.
I could have pressed on it more, but I think the Southern California coastline and the frequented routes in the Northeast are the only exception here.

It sounds like your trip across country was quite lucky. I've never done trips quite as long as coast-to-coast but I've taken some odd routes. I love the train for writing, so I do it a few times a year.
How to use Python and Flask to build a web app – an in-depth tutorial
It also feels like it crosses the nebulous line between belief and action
Why did you decide to fast for 12+ days?
> As far as I know, Firefox does not implement U2F exactly (one of the reasons support for it isn't enabled by default): https://twitter.com/jamespugjones/status/931324766782332928

Sort of. It's true that Firefox doesn't enable U2F by default (yet), but that's actually unrelated to the reasons that it doesn't work on Google domains. The real reason that Google's U2F only works in Chrome is that they rely on non-standard implementation details: https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/931534674224062464

For contrast, you can use U2F on Fastmail and Github in Firefox, because they don't rely on non-standard behavior.
More replies to similar question here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801996

As for me, best fiction: three body problem

Best non-fiction: WTF by Robert Peston
They're pretty close to being the same thing.
Those things are free?

I feel like I have been paying for them since I got my first job at 14. I'll probably still be paying for them when I am 80.
who knew bad loans to folks with no means to pay for them would ever backfire?
Are video lectures for this course publicly available?
Reminds me of the film, The Big Short, where the main characters find out from an adult entertainer that she is buying multiple houses.

The interviewer asks this woman about the future of Bitcoin when she's clearly not an expert because shes says, Bitcoin "will be too high for individuals to invest in." One could buy a fraction of a Bitcoin to "invest" as little as $5.

The question is not whether we're in a bubble, but when it will pop.
This is one of the issues with this debate. As you mentioned if your behavior has caused an uproar/crisis, then it already has and will have consequences. People might quit, they might get angry and so forth.

When people seem to talk about consequence in this manner they seem to mean that 'People should stop caring about what other people have said or done', even if it means ignoring things like how a person believes you are literally a lesser human being due to some trait you were born with. 'Diversity of Thought' as a statement has been latched onto as being an excuse rather than its original purpose.
Wait hasn't the status quo been to be nationalist?
As an example, on the 11th day, I decided to go to the Verizon store and get a new iPhone, because my old iPhone was having problems. So I walked to the iPhone store. I felt very weak, and I was sweating. The experience was surprising because I'd gone for a long walk on the 7th day and I'd felt fine. But by the 11th day, on a long walk, I felt like I was walking up a steep hill, even though I was walking on flat terrain. At the Verizon store I appeared normal and I had a good conversation with the sales clerk. Then I walked towards home. I felt much weaker on the way home. I stopped to buy water at a connivence store. The sales clerk asked if I was okay. I explained that I was sick. She said I looked sick.

I walked a total of 8 kilometers, which isn't much, but it felt like a serious hike. I felt very sick that night, and I fell asleep early and I slept for 12 hours.

But when I woke up in the morning, I felt good. I had energy and mental focus. And then that faded away over the course of the day. Which is the other thing about a long fast -- you still have good stretches, even after 12 days, but they become increasingly rare.

I think those people who go 2 weeks without food and then claim they feel great are simply taking for granted the fact that they are resting a great deal, and they expect you to take it for granted as well. Nobody goes 2 weeks without food and continues to have the same energy level, sustained over an entire day, as someone healthy who is eating normally.
Reducing maintenance cost and more room for other improvements, I see no need to justify this reasoning at all.

It's your responsibility to show that the saved maintenance cost is hurting the "essentials" of NYC subway.
Looks helpful, can't wait to seem more included such as FarmLogs under Agriculture & Farming.
These are great, but it's still not generating facial expressions, just mapping real faces onto digital ones.
I get what you mean by saying it's humorous, but I think it's important that nobody easily dismiss what he says because of who he is.

A lot of what he's arguing against is cargo cult programming, and I think it's fair for anyone to argue against that. If your only explanation for why you chose one architecture or design pattern over the others (especially if that option introduces a lot of additional drawbacks) is "because that's just what you do", you need to stop and objectively evaluate what you're doing.
Yeah, which would be relevant if I hadn't literally had to repeat myself 5 times in this thread. "Unwarranted", these labels are not. Labeling the argument "absurd" and "arrogant" is pretty much all that's left to do at this point, so I'll just leave it at that.
After my iPhone 3g's (not even 3G S) last update, it became noticeably slower. It became one of the main reasons I upgraded my phone. It never spontaneously rebooted, but it definitely became slow.

I ended up getting a Samsung Galaxy S5 in 2015. I've replaced the battery once after the original started swelling, and it's still going strong. I plan to next upgrade my phone in 2018/9. I'd be pissed if the OS updated and suddenly made it very slow before then!
I've been loosely following the development for a while. Glad that it's not dying and seems to be going somewhere, but not quite ready to build anything big on it yet (which I guess can be self fulfilling... someone has to build something big on it sometime to increase visibility)
Much more importantly to me: Does this happen in MBP/OSX?
Well, I can’t shoot people to death and potentially get away with it at my job. If I was interviewing for a job where I literally held the power of life or death for other people, then yeah, I would probably expect some pretty strict controls on that power.
Too bad, there's bobkes even on that site :-)

But thanks, I'll keep an eye on it.
Oh of course, but I'm a big believer in social contracts. What can I say :)

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Citrix used to have XCP ( Xen Cloud Platform ), as a way of OSS the core functionality away from the paid functionality. They moved to one build in the possibly naive thought that making licensing a feature of a support contract, would enforce a social contract of "hey, why not pay these guys".

That did not work.

I think AWS moving away from XEN is a bit moot. While AWS did contribute back some to XEN, they mostly forked it for their use case. They are doing the same with KVM. Citrix has been by enlarge, the majority contributor to XEN.
There is a segment of the crypto-currency community who got into it explicitly to avoid paying taxes and to be away from government oversight. They aren't going to be happy with the exchanges playing nice with the IRS.
You don't think real people in this country had real grievances?