skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, where did they get that number? As I understand it the FED hasn't met its target 2% inflation rate in years.

Edit: It seems I was somewhat mistaken: the FED set the 2% inflation goal in 2012[1] and hasn't met it since, but there are various ways to measure inflation, so it depends on who you talk to.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/politics/us-inflation-...
I think this piece is more along the lines of establishing the supply curve without taking into account the demand curve. So perhaps production is indeed something of an energy arbitrage, but that's without accounting for demand. Though maybe meaningful demand has to be assumed for for the premise of functioning as a vehicle for arbitrage to hold at all?
I would suggest to try Qubes OS:

https://qubes-os.org
If your theory is that in the future people will field expensive teams for sporting events surrounded by high quality cameras and informed commentators who will send out engaging content streams without anyone paying for it you may wish to examine your premise.
This is basically a post describing micro-economics (if I have capacity I’ll continue to produce as long as my marginal revenue exceeds my marginal cost). That’s fine and I agree those are the costs of Bitcoin.

I think the author is missing more pieces when it comes to fundamental value.

Namely, “I’ll pay x dollars to clear my transaction with the next block and “My holding costs are y” in the context of switching costs (i.e. using USD instead).
They may be working on an Enron trading room demo....

More seriously I'm still hoping it will be amazing...
Again, technical challenges generally and scale are not the same thing.

Also I'm sorry but I don't think those challenges are nearly that hard.

ETA's are not that hard to solve, nor am I convinced that they beat Google on ETA's. In fact most Uber ETA's change consistently along the ride and are never accurate for me (before I switched to Lyft).

For matching drivers, all you have to do is look at all the X closest drivers available (an easy query given that drivers don't stray more than 50-100 miles from their home, usually much less), plot the routes using a routing API for each, and pick that with the lowest estimate. The pool algorithm gets a bit harder but is more or less just a preference for other close pool drivers when they are in a state where more riders are allowed to be added.

Uber's app is copied regularly to a workable point by competitors. It's not that complicated and scaling is relatively simple given that it's more or less just upping the number of servers.

Their support is good, but again, is not really scaling related. Coinbase never offered good support. Scaling isn't the issue, a lack of caring for support is.

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The point to all of this being that it's pretty useless to compare scaling of Uber and Coinbase. Coinbase needs to improve, but that can be done just by looking at them alone with enough experience in the needed relevant areas. Uber is not applicable here.
> Calling Uber a tax firm is akin to calling personal workout equipment a gym.

You got that exactly right. If I let people pay to use my personal workout equipment, then I'm operating a gym. Uber let's people pay to be driven around and is thus called a taxi service.
This article is enormously confused, even by bitcoin standards.
I agree that it is concerning, but I don't see how an entire multi page article of someone's hands-on experience with the device qualifies as "exactly zero evidence this product isn't just a hollow chassis."
How can you be your own bank? You can't loan yourself money, any Bitcoin you save won't gain interest, and you can't extend yourself a line of credit. The only bank-like thing you can do is store money, which is probably the smallest responsibility banks have.
Every elected official is your enemy, ever was, ever will.
Next: EU has found out that an apple is a fruit?
I get that you're angry. That's totally valid. I'm also angry and also have violent fantasies. I'm certain that everyone does, its a psychology fact.

But why not channel your destructive urges into dismantling internalized oppression? The ways that you and I go about maintaining these very structures we are each so angry about?

I'm a musician. I once played at a fancy downtown club that took my band's working/middle class crowd for granted. They had two shows every night: an early set with very expensive tickets and international artists, and a late night set with local artists and cheap tickets.

They once made our audience... Hundreds of people... wait for an two hours, standing in the lobby, on valentines evening, because a bunch of drunk rich people had paid $150/ea for an earlier show, and they didn't have the guts to tell them to leave after it was over. We didn't get to sound check. I didn't get a monitor. Our friends and family waited for two hours to hear us play. We had to cut our set in half.

After that I refused to play there anymore. This was a regular place at the time, but I told my friends that I was done, and explained myself. I loved the staff there. The sound was amazing. They had great food and lighting and all that. But I was tired of the management's priorities. They willingly engaged in segregating our communities to squeeze out the money. They weren't curating, they were leaching. I was over it.

Know what happened? Not much at first. People kept asking me to play there. I said "nope, I'm done".

Two years later, hardly anyone I know plays there ever. My little stand made a real difference.

There are other venues in town that have been similarly 86'd by a few trusted leaders in the community. It makes space for new ways of doing things to let go of an old, tired staple.

Why not find something like that in your life that you can do to take a stand?
But the question is why aren't people taking advantage of the perceived opportunity to profit?

The only time this would happen is if something about the underlying economics changed --like energy got more expensive.
iOS has supported keyboards for a very long time. right back to when they first sold their 30-pin to USB "camera" adapter. You could definitely plug in a keyboard and use it.
I don't understand your "what it means" statement. Can you elaborate a little bit plz?
Then I guess you just have a weird concept of what 'vapor' is in this context.

I believe you were thinking about so-called "hipster languages".
> Do the actual math.

You first. You made a claim which was woefully inaccurate, I called you out in an admittedly childish way and now the burden of proving you wrong is on me?

Here is my ballpark, Both sides will want redundant fiber connections between two edge routers at 10gbps. SFP+ 10g from cisco is ~60 bucks. We need at least 4 (2 on each side), plus a reserve of 4 for faster recovery from failure. In addition, lets assume that we amortize some cost of the _edge router_ for this service. A refurb 16 port SFP+ module for 10g fiber is around $6000 and we will need 2 of them in 2 separate chassis on EACH SIDE and lease Colo space for it but we will amortize it. So, $6k + $1k for the chassis + $800 for the supervisor card. to lease space for this: $1000k/month per chassis(5u at 200/u in a major market carrier hotel) / 16. We need cabling too but lets assume thats commodity.

up front costs so far:

$60 (sfp modules) * 8 = 480

$7800 edge router * 4 / 16 = 1950

so $2430 for equipement (amortized)

1k/month/chasis = 4k/month / 16 = 250/month recurring

100 customers over 2 years = 1950 + 6000 / 100 / 24 = $3.31/month/customer before we even talk about monitoring/maintenance/legal/etc

I have not even begun to dig into the practical costs, and I'm at 3x your target. Your move.
The Netherlands tried the experiment to, from one day to another, just remove almost all requirements to operate a taxi. Basically, the only requirements were that you had to have a vehicle that passes inspection, a valid drivers license, and register with the city government that you operate a taxi.

In Amsterdam, the result was absolute chaos. Ignoring for the moment the unhappy existing taxi drivers and companies (that was complete mess, way beyond what the police were able to control), many new entrants behaved less than professional. I.e., competing aggressively for the lucrative rides, being poorly equipped to actually deliver a taxi services.

The situation got so bad, that the old taxi company that everybody hated, was now suddenly was the most reliable taxi service.

The question then becomes how you view the taxi market. Is it a market where anything goes. Where sometimes, in the middle of the night, there is just no taxi that wants to take you (home) for a price you can afford. Where taxi drivers claim that tourists agreed to pay an insane amount of money per person for a short ride from the airport to a nearby hotel.

Or do you want something that is mostly predictable. Maybe not very efficient, certainly not nice. But with reasonable expectation that if you order a taxi, one will show up and take you where you need to go?
Just to put it out there, Ardour is a GPL2 project that also offers paid binaries. They've always got an amount of hate from the self-righteous freeloader community but they've apparently made $8815 so far this month and I get the impression it's become less controversial over the years.
How to grow your car rental marketplace MVP into product
But it's to prevent attacks in the short-term. If passing these laws were more immediately damaging than an actual attack (ie moving long-term consequences up) they might stop doing this.
"One of their functions, which Wall Streeters call arbitrage, was to try to buy power at a low price in one place and sell it at a higher price somewhere else."

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/09/business/fi-scheme9

Worked great for Enron.

Also, China's energy is cheap because 75% of their grid is powered by burning coal. He doesn't mention climate change at all in this article.
Apple will reportedly unify iOS and macOS apps in 2018
Show HN: Tldr written in golang
Prudence from greedo on the topic of first shots?
> What? That doesn't even make any sense. You can sell the bitcoin for USD then pay your taxes.

If that's the logic we're going with, I can pay my taxes with baseball cards and beanie babies too.
Gitcoin Now Easily Integrates W. GitHub – Chrome Extension Enters Beta
>And the consumer...

Sorry, but as a consumer I welcome this. I will gladly pay a few bucks more or wait five minutes more for a taxi than having every industry taken over by the absentee landlord class that is the tech industry. In the case of Uber spying on their employees, having no obligations any other employer has, paying no taxes and misusing the data of their customers and drivers.

From time to time people would do well do understand that everybody is not just consumer but also a worker, or in the end you'll end up in a bad spot yourself.

One just needs to look at the fact that these businesses have customers and drivers rate each other, which is nothing but undignified and gamified surveillance. Don't give up essential freedoms for the sake of convenience.
I think people are okay with some token amount of work to check that they're not a bot, but Google is changing that into a token amount of work to help train their systems.

I don't agree with it, but I understand it, especially if you have bad feelings about google.
We gladly welcome contributions, please feel free to donate your time! However there are some tasks that are much easier to deliver and design as a small team, instead of being able to be broken up into small parts where work can be done by the community. We simply doubt someone is going to come along with the time and drive to complete rewriting the whole fiber scheduler and concurrency part of the stdlib as an external contribution.

That being said, Windows support is likely to be largely done by the community and core team in tandem, as individual modules can be ported one-by-one. There's also the overhead of managing all these open-source contributions which takes time.
I don't think AR can do full opacity yet, with is the problem. You couldn't block out the background enough
I think you're confused about the role of the cable companies in all this.

The cable companies are just the pipe. Cable company margins on video are low. Content providers control the content production and price.

Unless you're suggesting the solution to the problem is more vertical integration (a la Comcast NBCUniversal)?
Analytics Comes of Age [pdf]
Got an elixir book from them and learned alot.
Why go all the way to WordPress? Maybe look into netlify.com. They have a basic CMS frontend that lets you publish posts via several static site generators with free plans. I'd much rather stick with static sites if I can.
Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU
How to run a personal year end review using Rescuetime data
So why are taxi licenses/medallions necessary to add regulation? To provide an incentive to do the right thing? Can't you just fine bad actors up the wazoo and accomplish the same goal?
Good point. And yes the difficulty is going to be a related to the exchange rate -which isn't linear at all.
Those things are considered a problem because they are increasing faster than inflation.
I'll join you in the Oasis.
The Netflix policy here is a good compromise: limit the number of concurrent streams for each account and then turn a blind eye to password sharing. That way sharing passwords is allowed in practice, but also has a clear consequence - you may be blocked from playback if too many of your family members (or friends) are watching simultaneously.

Implmenting stream limits is tricky, as there are edge cases that are hard to get right. However, common DRM services like Widevine and Playready have adopted the extensions necessary to implement stream limits, so there are already "of-the-shelf" solutions.

In short, this is a non-issue with available technical solutions.

Full disclosure: I'm an engineer at Netflix who works on cable set-top boxes.
Anyone who has tried AR on the iphoneX can see it will be huge. The tech is absolutely ready.

The refresh rate and frametimes are locked in beautifully and it all feels silky smooth. Like a window into another world.
Add in uMatrix for the ideal experience IMO.
Take a deep breath, you're rationalizing away hypocrisy.
Channelling my inner patio11: Also consider offering a support contract, or selling licenses, rather than just soliciting donations. Especially if you're already intending to offer access in return for said donations!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939
Gold has real life use even in electrical circuits, besides being pretty. Diamond is used in the industry as well, not just engagement rings. They are also all physical objects.

> no Emperor can replace it, no changes can be done without widespread conses.

When was the last time humans were capable of agreeing and working together for long term? The blockchain thinks it's got rid of the mad emperor problem, where in reality the BTC/BTH, ETC/ETH hard forking an existing blockchain is very similar, and introduced a whole new spectrum of problems humanity tried for centuries to solve, without success: reaching consensus.
No, bad design produced by committee and other bureaucratic bs produces bad results. You're doing it wrong if you're stripping features only on small view ports.
> The only thing I could think that might be another thing to consider is cost of moving money or the inability to do so.

Good idea!
Say it with me: vaporware! I’d love to be proven wrong, but there is absolutely no way they’ll ship a day before December 31, 2018. And I’ll be shocked if even that happens.

They’ve never shown a public demo because the private hardware demo is very likely built with insanely more expensive kit than they could ever sell to a normal person.
It's really, really dumb, but video is actually far more bandwidth efficient than the alternative everyone uses, which are multi-MB GIF files. I don't know enough about the file format, but I suspect it would be difficult to download the first frame of a GIF then immediately stop downloading the rest of the file (which would probably be the best of both worlds).
I don't know for sure, but I believe it would be that SQLite is relational, this is NoSQL (document key/value store)
It's native and NoSQL.
Hard to take him seriously when he thinks 1/6 of an hour is less than 1/7th of an hour...
Yes it does, if they are muted.
To my wife it means "stock market".
a choice of NO CAB or an Uber

That's not what he said. Private-hire taxis are not the same as "black cabs". The first is more like what we'd call a car service in the US (call and schedule in advance). The second is what we know as a yellow cab (hail on the street).
"Most of the time"? Citation needed.

While I generally agree with the sentiment of "do more by coding less", and minimalist user interfaces, there are plenty of cases where you throw a whole lot of functionality out the window by outright banning JS.
Show HN: FurBLE – Furby Web Bluetooth Demo
Have we forgotten how software was distributed in this era?

https://i.imgur.com/RShi0Sg.jpg
Tracking is the funding model of online advertising and investor storytime but it's not the funding model of the web. I think there's no such thing as a funding model of the web.

the web was exclusively non commercial and later was opened to commercial activity and later advertising which added tracking because their business model was broken and they needed something to show their customers and investors to gein/keep their trust that online advertising was not a total scam as physical world mostly is.

The unexpected side effect is the creation of a global totalitarian surveillance state just to show ads:
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI
Book is a set of "I buy X at Y" and "I sell K at P" standing orders ordered by the "best to worst" based on the price:

Buy|Sell

1000@5|100@5.1 <-- top of the book/best price

1000@4.9|100@5.5

..

..

..

100000@1|1000000@10000 <--- bottom of the book, worst price - this is "sucker catcher". If someone clown with more money than brains throws a marker order with the quantity higher than posted by everyone above, it will catch the bottom of the book.

At this point no trades are happening because no one is offering to buy at a price that someone else is willing to sell.

A market order is an order that does not specify the price. Only action and qualities. This is the only type of an "immediate" order because as long as there is anyone on the other side willing to sell or buy a quantity, it will be executed against the most eligible entry ( top ) of the book.

What happens when you do a limit order? The limit order "Buy 5@4.95" will be inserted into the book based on the price so with this order the book will look:

1000@5|100@5.1

5@4.95|100@5.5

1000@4.9|

..

..

..

100000@1|1000000@10000

As you can see still nothing is trading because there's still a spread.

What happens if someone does "sell 5000@5" against the book above:

1000@5|5000@5 <--- locked market

5@4.95|100@5.1

1000@4.9|100@5.5

..

..

..

100000@1|1000000@10000

The market is now locked - there's someone who wants to buy @5 and someone who wants to sell @5. Result of this is automatic market unlock:

5@4.95|4000@5 <--- unlocked market

1000@4.9|100@5.1

..

..

..

100000@1|1000000@10000

with a single 1000@5 traded so the "new price" of the asset is now @5

What happens when trading is suspended and market "ran away" i.e. significantly moved. Nothing special actually. All non-canceled orders are entered into a queue in an order of entry and are executed based on the book replay as if there was no suspension at all.
Microsoft wanted you to buy their software. Google gives it away for free. That's the only thing I've come up with that explains the enduring romance.
Hard to take him seriously when he thinks 1/6th of an hour < 1/7th of an hour
Zoos in brisbane
EFF has proven to be an ineffectual organization.
They bungled NN(infuriating me to no end), and proven partisan at every turn, which would not be a problem if they were successful.

But its clear we need a nonpartisan group who can successfully rally most of America on the left and the right.
I'd wager they have something which is just enough to get people with deep pockets to give them a pile of cash on the premise of "imagine what it could be with only another billion dollars!" but is utterly underwhelming for a mass-market consumer product.
One way to solve this is to look to Spotify. They changed their restriction: only playing music out of one device; into a feature: you can now control your music from any device. In addition to this, they used things like playlists, the discover weekly recommendations and other strategies in order to make it annoying to share an account. WHILE also having the barrier to getting your own account to the point where the annoyances (listening to ads, or paying $7.99 a month) are still better than pirating (possibility of low quality, no seeders, sketchy websites).

Of course this isn't to say this is how cable companies should exactly go about solving their problem, but by cracking down on their PAYING subscribers, they will drive more people NOT less to either pirate, or share passwords.
The physical or virtual place where people trade. An aggregation of people who trade there. An aggregation of the previous into a generic "market". The previous analyzed as system of feedback loops. Also, as used by some, a benevolent supernatural entity with an invisible hand, who magically solves all problems.
Those BBVA benchmarks look very very wrong. BBVA achieved 3822 requests per second with a 16Gb server running Tyk.

I used a 16Gb Digital Ocean box, and a separate box to run benchmarks from.

Tyk CE with keyless api.

docker run --rm williamyeh/wrk -t4 -c100 -d1m --latency --timeout 2s http://10.131.45.89:8080/tykbench/get
Running 1m test @ http://10.131.45.89:8080/tykbench/get
4 threads and 100 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 5.79ms 6.97ms 206.76ms 87.28%
Req/Sec 6.35k 0.93k 10.89k 74.33%
Latency Distribution
50% 3.19ms
75% 6.28ms
90% 15.93ms
99% 31.14ms
1516573 requests in 1.00m, 185.13MB read
Requests/sec: 25244.99
Transfer/sec: 3.08MB

As per above results, I got 25,244 requests per second. 90% of requests were served with sub 15ms latency.

Another thing - you can freely scale with Tyk CE as much as you want at no-cost. I currently run 3 gateways in prod and it doesn't cost a penny. The BBVA article states that you need to pay Tyk to scale - simply not true:

>However, if we want to deploy a significantly larger number of microservices, or simply ensure high-tolerance to failure, we need to scale up the number of gateways. In the case of Kong, all it takes is adding a new node and connecting it to the database. With Tyk we can do the same, although it will require us to pay for the service. This could be a determining factor when choosing what API Gateway to use.

I went through process picking API gateway about 3 months ago. Tyk is not without it's warts, but has far more out-of-box features baked in (inc distributed rate limiting) than Kong. And if custom plugins are required, I can choose between lua, python, js or anything that supports gRPC. With Kong - stuck with Lua.... no thank you.

I guess my point here is that if Tyk not performant enough for you, just add another gateway. And if I need custom functionality - I don't need to learn Lua.
The important thing to remember is that cost of mining BTC (plus an inconvenience and risk premium, which may be quite large) for the marginal person looking to acquire it is the ceiling on BTC value.

An awful lot of Bitcoin bulls are treating it as a floor.

Just because something was made at a certain energy cost doesn't mean you have the ability to exchange it for any quantity of energy, never mind an equivalent quantity of energy at higher energy prices.