skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you're considering the fact that the web ecosystem itself is in competition with other platforms. The counter to your "If proprietary extensions get used" hypothetical is that if they don't get used, the world moves on, getting the job done with fully proprietary and/or platform-specific solutions -- Windows applications, Android apps, etc.

People don't sit back, put their needs on hold, and wait for the web platform to develop and implement new standards. They use available tools. Would you advise them to leave the web ecosystem entirely? Or use the lesser evil of extensions platforms, thereby solving their urgent problems and indirectly providing long-term direction to the web platform's evolution?
Both work just fine, when compared to DIY. Playing favorites is not how to advocate to people not in the know; I happen to have a Ledger, so it's what I typed.
I want one of these so bad... :/
Samsung Connect Home Review: A Hybrid Between a WiFi System and a Smart Home Hub
Some of the AVX512 instruction set seems very well suited for automatic JIT compilers. I'm sure Azul immediately jumped on board for the "Conflict Detection" instruction set and are auto-vectorizing tons of more loops.

But other AVX512 instructions don't seem very easy for compilers to automatically apply. In particular: Scatter/Gather instructions have implications on the most-efficient way to lay out data in memory. I'm sure an auto-vectorizer can take advantage of it slightly, but it'd take an AVX512 expert to determine the best memory-layout for various data-structures in this new AVX512 world.

Although I guess an auto-vectorizer could use those instructions to handle more cases... smart programmers would still have to tune their code (or really: their data-structures) to be done in such a way that the auto-vectorizer / optimizing compilers can utilize these instructions.
Hardware wallets come with a passphrase mnemonic that completely restores them. Write it down, put it in a safe deposit box, you're done. You can then take an acetylene torch to your hardware wallet, buy a new one, restore from the passphrase, and have everything back. Hardware wallets are far easier to back up offsite than key management on a computer, though a SmartCard-HSM comes close. (Hardware wallets are the same principle as an HSM.)

Since you're probably wondering, the passphrase mnemonic on my Ledger is a group of 24 words that represent a translation of the primary secret key. All accounts on my Ledger are derived from it. I've tested wiping and restoring, and the passphrase now lives in my bank deposit box.

By the nature of cryptocurrency, if you had all the public keys from your hardware wallet you could use it as a bank by dropping the wallet itself in a safe deposit box. You don't need it in your physical possession to receive, only send. I'm considering buying a second for exactly this purpose, though at that point, a paper wallet would be just as functional.
There's a law of economics that, crashes occur when everyone who can remember the reason we have laws to prevent them is dead.
Dear Coinbase,

Why in the world do you keep signing up new customers if you don't have the capacity to hold them?

All aboard, yet the ship sinks due to the passenger load.

That's both absurd and preventable.
Reading the full paragraph about Reissfelder makes it sound like a great deal of social engineering went on:

> A few months later, Reissfelder, a laid-back German coder living near San Francisco, sold his travel startup to Expedia for $85 million. He was 33, and with his cut, he was looking forward to traveling the world with his fiancée. That made Reissfelder the perfect target: newly rich, financially inexperienced, and distracted. The same people who had introduced Gaglio to the Benedeks—a network of tax lawyers called the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners, or STEP—set him up with Reissfelder. Gaglio quickly formed an emotional connection. When Reissfelder said he wanted to lose weight, Gaglio forwarded photos of himself as a pudgy youth. Before long, Gaglio was signing his daily texts and emails with “Bises”—kisses. “In my mind, I’m thinking the familiarity was weird—but they’re French, you know?” Reissfelder says. “When he started suggesting investments, I said no, but he was so insistent, and I kind of felt obliged.” Reissfelder even ended up inviting Gaglio to his wedding in the Cayman Islands.

It sounds like it was a slow burn leading up to suggesting that Reissfelder invest money with Gaglio.
Partially.

Like all other politicians, I think his personal ambitions dovetailed with his ideology and the direction of his era. I think his detractors often confuse his attitudes towards class with those towards race, and his character. He grew up brutally poor and struggled in his professional class closely with issues of class, especially given his position as the ‘dumb’ southerner in Kennedy’s pedigreed cabinet. He was a voracious advocate of the poor Mexican children he taught, pushed them to succeed relentlessly, and tutored the school janitor in English for free because he was convinced his inability to speak English was hindering him. I think his entire career often struggled with issues of class and inequality, and his personal instinct to the lesser was typically compassionate and generous. He was known to have a temper and a flare for knowing how to touch people’s insecurities and nerves, and also for his ability to find and build emotional coherence in those positions he found politically advantageous. He also loved jokes, and didn’t care much about who they were at the expense of.

But ultimately he could have found a more natural path to power in racial demagoguery that was so rampant in the south, and the political cohesion behind the southern democrats at that time gave him a natural base of power to launch a presidential bid. But he chose the more arduous work of breaking down the south’s racial hierarchy at great cost to his professional relationships.

I think Caro said it best, that power ultimately doesn’t corrupt, but rather reveal someone’s true nature - and LBJ used his shot at power to write compassion and mercy into the federal statutes. He fought ferociously to give the civil rights and voting acts real power, and handed minorities the greatest legislative weapon they had since Thaddeus Russell outlawed slavery.
It could also signal a shift in strategy by Apple to overproduce, or better models that more accurately estimate demand.
Weasel words perhaps, but Kelly Starrett really divides physical therapist communities. Some love him, some hate him. Personally I think he's often "right for the wrong reasons". But if his approach gets you feeling better, that's what's important.

Ditto workouts for "core muscles".
Oh please, people have had months and months to cash out nearly any time they please.
This gets into a fuzzy area, since it's a multidimensional equation, and often, even the founders can't tell you what your share is "worth" without lots of caveats and time spent on spreadsheets. There's usually not a single answer.

The important principle, though, is that they shouldn't be hiding anything from you. If the company won't even tell you the percentage your shares represent, you can't trust them to do anything else.
that being said, the article is comparing it to 2015 which I think was consider an usually high outlier peak given the intro of the 6 and the large screen models
"Bots" don't have a separate economic existence. They are a productivity multiplier like any other tool.
It's because the incentives of your drug dealer are more aligned with your well-being than the incentives of your bank or government. That's not always the case, but when it happens, even the worst criminal can be a better friend than a legit operation, for which the only reason not to screw you over completely is the potential legal fuss.
> Are there objective metrics that demonstrate service quality has degraded (reduced train frequency, reduced amount of seats, etc...)

Yes, there are, and the NYTimes has reported that data in previous articles from this same series.
> Serious question: what value would gold have in a post-apocalyptic world? If I'm selling something, why should I take gold in exchange for it, instead of something useful, like ammunition or food or water?

What if the people who want your goat don't have what you want to immediately consume but you know for sure Bob down the street (who doesn't particularly like goats) will trade ammo for gold?
Is coinbase suspending withdrawal to other wallets as well as trading?
I hope people hurry up and buy them. I have an iPhone 6 and soon they'll slow down my iOS unless they sell enough new phones!
Law enforcement: Woohoo we just spent millions in tax-payer dollars and got these copyright infringing bastards' domain. That'll stop them.

30 minutes and $10 domain registration later:
Pirate bay: We've migrated to our new domain, take this one and we'll buy another...
It was really terrible in the 70s when the city went bankrupt. Then it got better, and now it's getting worse again.
AND cue the innumerable HN comments about how we need to feel sympathy for startup 'growing pains.' Coinbase has people's cash, hard cash, and stored value, it's not a software as a service startup that got wildly too popular.

It's not growing pains, it's greed and/or incompetence.
Imagine for a second that the US Congress, Senate, and President all voted to make usage of current cryptocurrencies totally illegal.

Would it even be possible for them to stop people from using current anonymous cryptocurrencies and technologies like Blockchain?

I.e. if US citizens decided to ignore the ban on cryptocurrency usage, would they still be able to trade and use them without being identified by the government, and with no interruption of service (e.g. US Gov takes down enough blockchain nodes to cause service black out)?
TL;DR Seller did wrong and it cost _me_ reputation.

I left a neutral feedback one time because of a legitimate seller problem, but otherwise things were fine. The feedback didn't affect his seller score.

The seller left negative retaliation feedback and then offered to have us both unpublished (or something) the feedback so that it didn't affect my reputation.

I learned you don't ever leave negative feedback on ebay.
I checked a few sites I found from the list in the sidebar of /r/darknetmarkets. A couple of them allowed paying into their escrow service with Monero, and for vendors to receive Monero, but it looks like they're still fundamentally based on a multisig Bitcoin transaction.

This seems like a mistake to me; I would have expected faster Monero adoption, especially with Bitcoin hitting performance bottlenecks.
I don't mind the work day so much, it's the work week that bothers me most. I would rather have a standard 4 day work week.
What would it take to fix the subway? Money of course. Where's it come from? Who cares, just spend it. Transit is necessary. Tax the businesses that benefit from good transit. Raise the gas taxes, because driving is a luxury if you could have taken mass transit. Boston's transit is a mess too. Some of the problems can be fixed just by throwing money at the problem. The Boston subway breaks down all the time because the cars are way past service life. You can just buy new cars, and service will improve a lot. But they waited so long that breakdowns are constant. The new cars won't be here for years, but we don't need any upgrades other than buy the cars and put them on the tracks. It's seriously frustrating that these things are in such a bad state when massive improvements can come by just spending money to fix old broken stuff. Call me naive, but I just want better public services, and I understand it costs money.
Until you need to update the drivers and agree to the restrictive EULA.
Right, so you think investing is the same as theft.

That would make Warren Buffett is the biggest thief of all and has apparently stolen $487B from investors. Of course he hasn't spent their money, it's actually invested in hundreds of companies and investors can get their money back any time they want just by calling their broker.

But in your mind, it's the same as if he had stolen it. Because of "lawyers, accountants, and stuff".
So Amazon wants to monitor people in and around their own homes for some reason.

Before I read TFA, it was the only business reason that made sense to buy a car charger company. It wouldn’t be perfect information (maybe I took the motorcycle that day), but long term you’d get a pretty good idea of our comings and goings. When the car’s at the house, it’s usually plugged in, the charger knows it’s plugged in, and the charger has an internet connection (hell, the charger has a web server running). Unplugged: I’m leaving. Plugged in: I obvious just got home. I suppose that might have some utility for scheduling deliveries, dunno.

The reason for this tangent is the purchase is either to aid in delivery scheduling, of which I’m skeptical, or it’s just another piece of the puzzle to go along Alexa and the like. Now, I’ll agree that the puzzle might end up being super creepy, but it’ll be interesting to see what they up,doing with it.
On a similar note, I thought it was this [1] blink.

[1] https://blink1.thingm.com/
Of course it's a good point, it's one of mine ;)

My expectation is we'll end up with "to avoid a hard cliff between a network reliant on mining and one reliant on transaction fees (and the inevitable instability of the transition), and to ensure a robust mining ecosystem, we're going to extend mining, at a reduced rate, for just a few more months..."

And there's an apparent benefit for end-users, too - if you want Bitcoin to be a practical payments mechanism (as opposed to store of value), transaction fees have to be kept comparable to credit cards. But the electricity used by the network still has to be paid for. What could be more tempting than magicing a few more bitcoin out of thin air to pay the miners?
You can, but you shouldn't. What if you lose your mobile phone...?

> Our mobile operating sysmtems are pretty secure (in the grand scheme of things)

Not yet. Maybe after Android One / Project Treble runs on the majority of smartphones in the world. Which won't happen since Google made Android Go for low-end devices.

That's three problems. Security of the device(s), the lack of redundancy, and the physical security of the device.

A hardware wallet (such as Trezor or Ledger Nano S) together with a smartphone (or PC) yields you 2FA. "(Or PC)" could mean an offline Linux distribution on a USB key which is used as backup. The hardware key suggests a paper backup which should be safely stored at a notary or safety deposit box. Same for the USB key with the backup Linux distribution. Though it can also just contain some config files (stored encrypted).

Such a hardware key costs <= 100 USD/EUR (plus the costs of the notary or safety deposit box) so for any amount of cryptocurrency _above_ the cost of that it is worth it.

These costs are peanuts for the average BTC user, but for people in poorer countries its sadly quite an investment. Worth it though.
That seems a bit of a truism, though - if wealth gains go to the poor, naturally they will become wealthier. Trickle-down economics imagines exactly that if the wealthy get the pie, they'll dole it out.
We've asked you several times already to please start commenting civilly and substantively, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wait are you saying that teenagers are running 20M monthly traffic sites and using money to distribute drugs? Any other illegal activities?

Which funds which then?

Something does not sound right in this story.

I am sorry you lost a close one but it seems silly to blame torrenting teenagers for this.

Chances are the law are after them already because of their risk seeking behavior: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-nate-norman-a...
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> For instance, on eBay less than 2 percent of all feedback left is negative or neutral. One explanation is that dissatisfied customers are substantially less likely to give feedback. It means the most important information, the negative reputation data, is not being captured.

Can negative feedback on eBay be cancelled? Because if it can be, then I'll give you a much more plausible explanation - sellers bribe customers to revert their negative feedback. This is pretty much standard practice among companies selling on Polish equivalent of eBay/Amazon, Allegro. The bribes are usually heavy discounts and/or free products. Part of the reason this happens is because for a seller, it takes only few negative reviews to lose promoted spots in the service, which can be life-threatening for a small business.
I love the concept of leapfrogging fiat by pegging to CPI in future. Avoid deflation of bitcoin and inflation of USD.
Although then the game becomes (as it is now with CPI), who determines exactly what's in the CPI basket?
>I mean, I feel like tech people have this sense of moral exceptionalism

Which is somewhat ironic considering the many parallels between that and how colonialism was justified.
After reading your comment twice, I still can't tell if it's sarcasm or not...
Quick tip : you can blacklist nearly the full .Bid TLD. Its will stop a lot of popunders
This would be easy for Ebay to fix: simply don't show feedback until both parties have left feedback, or the time limit for leaving feedback is reached.
Ah man I had the same, how did you handle it? I regret helping anyone now, it was stressful and they underestimated the risk despite my constant nagging. Last week in BTC land was insane.
I am Satoshi!

So uh, not anymore dammit,
Electrum.
Brazilian police uses drones to catch drivers using mobile phones
Just got the print subscription. One of the best outlets I've ever read from; I'm glad to support them.
Clever?? Crypto is on its way down right now. You go right ahead and buy, but for everyone else I recommend you SELL.
An engineer signing off on a bridge design is also 'merely' an opinion. It's an opinion that will put that engineer in jail, if the bridge collapses, and it turns out that he took a bribe to sign off on the design.

There's a world of difference between "We misjudged the long-tail risk of the instrument we rated" and "We straight up lied so that we could keep getting business from the banks."

Half the mortgages in some of those AAA instruments were issued to people with income at minimum wage, or with credit rating in the 500s, or to people buying homes that were never even looked at by underwriters. This isn't a "Whoops, our math was a bit off, we didn't expect the collateral to drop in value for a bit."

This is straight-up fraud, and the people carrying it out should have been taken out back, and had their shirts taken away from them. We need more, not less personal responsibility from our professional sectors.
Roku solves part of this problem. While you do still need to maintain separate subscriptions to these services, Roku has a search function that shows you everywhere that a given movie is available (and for how much, if applicable), and lets you directly open that "channel" to that program.
I think the past norm was for sellers to leave positive feedback when they received money, and for buyers to leave positive feedback when they received a product that was accurately described.

I have had good experiences buying and selling large items like computers on eBay, but I don't like the new practice of sellers withholding feedback until they get positive feedback.
I checked it right now: no support for my native language at Netflix. Netflix is not interested in me, so I will continue to support pirates, which will translate Netflix shows into my language.
In fact, single-tracking in most of the subway degrades service even more than it technically needs to, due to the inability of the interlocking system to reverse track directions. To single track the MTA has to tie down the stop arms and coordinate by radio, and it is almost never worth it. The MTA does sometimes use single tracking in the East River tunnels, where the interlocking allows the track direction to be reversed.

For comparison, the entire PATH system supports changing the track direction, and single-tracking is relatively common during weekends. Of course, the PATH is much smaller and has a different history behind it, not to mention totally different legal requirements (it is a "railroad" rather than a heavy rail system).
Plenty of different ways to read it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_malorum_est_cupiditas
If they're running sites receiving 20+ million hits a day (how do you know this, btw?) there's no way that the movie studios, or the people they hire to deal with piracy, aren't aware of it, if not the FBI.

If your real issue is about drugs in your neighbourhood, you should be focusing or asking for help on how to deal with that problem, not online piracy.
Apparently the set of users who don't know how to type their own email and the set who know how to use copy/paste are non-overlapping.
> absurdity of bitcoin's (and other naive cryptocurrencies’) finite amount of money

Bitcoin can be seen as a middle finger to inflation, more than a basis for primary currency.

If nothing else, it certainly as helped advance the conversation on the nature of money supply.
There are exactly three situations:

1) Browsers start the standardization process immediately. There's no proprietary extensions, and things remain interoperable.

2) Browsers add proprietary extensions. Nobody uses them, and they burn money on engineering time.

3) Browsers add proprietary extensions. These extensions get used. Interoperability goes out the window.

> Would you advise them to leave the web ecosystem entirely?

Yes, I think so.
i had back pain for 2 years... which sows up 2 to 4 times a month, i tried many techniques, but with no great result.

But this one technique where you just lie down on the floor upside down fully flat for 20 mins... my back pain just disappeared and never came back for last 6 months...
The Nvidia one looks quite a bit nicer than your average eBay ruler though... full 12", two color silkscreen, ENIG finish, and some crazy tiny-pitch BGA footprints. The component layout is also not haphazard like most of the other rulers I've seen; it's much more of a work of art.

I definitely want one.
Can you elaborate on what you mean here?

Isn't B-T just a consequence of accepting the axiom of choice and performing some pathological decompositions of a ball? What do you mean by:

>non-smoothness breaks conservation