skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SingularityNET.io uses this approach somewhat:

> "Democratic Governance. Although token holders will not have equity or voting rights in the Foundation itself, they will be allowed to vote on specific decisions affecting the Platform. The decisions subject to holder vote will be
limited at first, but will eventually expand to a point where the token holders and the Foundation share nearly
equal control of all aspects of the Platform’s functionality. Even in the Platform’s early stages, following the token sale, token holders will be able to rate the AI Services they use, affecting the success of those services and providing feedback that is necessary for
the service to improve. This role further contributes to the continued improvement of the Platform and its offerings, without any involvement of the Foundation."
I'd add healthy eating habit.
Last time I checked my ASUS Laptop doesnt require to kill my overclocking abilities due to Battery.. MAke it a component users can get fixed boom problem solved.
From the perspective of a non-native speaker of the language, it seems to me that the United States is English's killer product. A great deal of the credit for the English language's dominance must go to the US and the culture and technology it exports relentlessly all over the world. Far from killing the English language as the author complains, the US might just have made it prevail over similar contenders like Spanish or Mandarin.
Author here:
I chose WebAssembly, because it allowed for easy insertion of an instruction we understand perfectly and can backdoor. With more work we could have highjacked an instruction in the actual binary of Firefox and started the attack from there. WebAssembly simply gives primitives that allow for an easier attack (emitting of a specific instruction, chosing constants and predictive code generation). Not WebAssembly itself enabled the attack, it just made it easier.

Exploiting HTML or font rendering is more work, but as you still run known instructions in a known sequence processing known data the primitives are still there. The same can happen for anything that processes foreign data, be it script, video, images or just CSV.
The ability to intelligently design these atomically-precise nanomachines will be an ever-increasing part of our technological development. These proteins are small enough to fit into the features of a modern processor, with a physical resolution less than a nanometer - wet, warm, and 3D. And nature has already given us a library of what these technologies can do - and now we're even expanding those capabilities for our own purposes. Building new biological sensors, products, and therapies - rewiring and inventing biological I/O are now within reach.

If you want to build novel proteins from the other direction - based on linking emeperically validated biological functions rather than trying to calculate function from biochemical principles, check out our system at Serotiny [1]. We're taking a bit of a different approach to protein design - build new proteins by reusing biological components with known functions. And though we help design proteins with new functions, these guys design particular enzymatic pockets or predict particular structures - that's amazing.

The Baker lab and all of their colleagues have put so much effort into this goal - I'm eager to see what comes next.

[1] https://serotiny.bio/notes/pinecone/
When I worked for a multi-national silicon valley based company we got so sick of the creeping Americanisms (to be fair their jargon was worse, they even had a company glossary for it) that we started a game.

We had a tally chart on the wall for anyone who slipped into saying one of them accidentally. I survived for weeks until I rang someone to 'touch base'!

They seemed to have a group policy (or something) that changed the the dictionary in Office back to 'American English' each reboot. I just ignored the coloured (!) underlines and typed the way I wanted as my own personal battle.

I don't actual have a problem with the variant spellings of American English. I have a problem with certain kinds of bad English that happen to seem more prevalent amongst Americans!

1) Verbalisation: "I am hoping to medal in the next Olympics". This sounds to me like they are planning to meddle with it. What is wrong with, "I am hoping to win a medal"?

2) Bi-monthly and bi-weekly. Twice a week or every two weeks? Twice a month or every two months. When you want to hold a meeting every two weeks then perhaps a fortnightly meeting would tell people when they need to be there?

3) Reaching out. To mean making contact. What is wrong with, I wrote to x, I called Y etc.

4) Bootstrapping a business: I get down-voted for this, but this seems to cover everything from, "I'm so rich I didn't need to take outside investment", to "I did this as an add on to my existing business and supported it with our existing funding" to "We started on a server I found in a skip and scaled it up from there until I could quit my job". In most of the cases I have seen it could be replaced with the phrase, "I started a business" without losing any meaning whatsoever.

I should stop annoying you all and do some work
Tech to look forward to in 2018
Ripple passes Ethereum to become the second most valuable cryptocurrency
I have started to give consulting a serious go since 2nd quarter of this year as income from my own products are drying up. So far, I have tried following venues to attract potential clients:

- UpWork (sending at least 20 proposals per month)
- Social Media (LinkedIn, Reddit, Facebook & Twitter)
- Blog

So far getting major work from UpWork with one client from Reddit and FB each. Blog gets views but no conversions yet.
I've been browsing the web since Mosaic and have never bought a product by clicking on an ad.

I may learn of a new product by seeing an ad, and in that sense it worked, but never by clicking on it.

The point being there is absolutely no reason for any ad to have javascript associated with it.
The way Gruber phrased his post makes me feel like he has been told some facts about this and not merely speculating.

It could be the case that the physical button is trapped directly by the secure enclave system and the goal is not to prevent an app from accidentally fooling you in the UI, but to prevent any iOS software to silently ask the secure enclave to authenticate something without a physical confirmation directly from the user.
Ah, I see. Well that might be the cause for the Samsung device. It has an SD card slot, but I don't think that will help much now (good to know for future I guess). As for this

> which doesn't exist on Android

it's simply not true. Google pushed updates[1] to old Nexus devices that extremely hindered the performance. Downgrade made them fine again. I'm fairly certain it isn't a unique case, and Google wasn't the only one forcing shit upgrades on their customers.

1. quick find, but should be enough https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012...
Because cricket is the number one game in town.
> If this isn’t a limited time offer

It is.

> starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018.
Neuromorphic vs. Quantum vs. HPC
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That issue (communication between multiple first-responder branches) probably isn't USA-specific. How is it solved in other countries?
Richard Dawkins once tweeted his rule for accepting something new.

If it adds something new to the language, he accepts it. If we already have existing words that do a better job, he rejects it.

This begrudgingly forced him to accept the use of ‘like’ the way teenage girls use it because they don’t mean “this person said”, or “I said”. They mean some more like “this person said something to the effect of”.
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> The fact is that British and American English will each remain distinctive

So you haven't read all the article, or at least, engaged with any of its points -- perhaps rolling your eyes forwards may help in the future.

The claim the author makes is that British English will die as a distinctive sort, being subsumed by foreign additions that make little sense to the way we live our lives.
Intelligent people don't necessarily think the language should stop evolving.

The perception is that language started "devolving" since about 1950-1970.

The same applies to arts, food and many other cultural achievements.
Already being the most used command line tool to deploy WordPress sites, now Wordmove lets you run arbitrary commands locally and/or remotely before and/or after push and/or pull actions. Curious to see what developers will do and invent!
It's something I'm getting used to on here. That attitude. Doesn't surprise me your comment was downvoted.

The very word "American" is presumptuous. Imagine if the Chinese referred to themselves as "Asians" and their country as "Asia".

I've taken to using estadounidense until something better comes along in English. ..or Spanish becomes the main language in the US :-) Australian English has/had the rather pungent seppo - rhyming slang for septic tank = Yank. But estadounidense is at least accurate.
"Both activities were always clearly likely to be harmful".

With the benefit of 70 years of medical research this is an easy statement to make, but at the time this was far less clear - smoking was for a long time actively promoted as having health benefits [1][2]

It's easy from a modern perspective to look back and apply our accumulated wisdom, but it was not self-evident that smoking was necessarily bad. Otherwise millions would not have signed up for an early death.

[1]https://www.healthcare-administration-degree.net/wp-content/...

[2]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/40/50/4f/40504f0de983d78f3c0f0b22c...
No, it wouldn't. First of all, it is obvious that there will be no consensus. And even if there was consensus it would be very challenging to do because deploying a hardfork takes time while criminal could transfer his money before the hardfork to a different address.
It's not. Fascism is something else entirely.
> Manually inspect every CDN domain loaded on every page that you visit?

Basically, yes, see uMatrix. It's not for non-web-devs, I feel, but if you can easily recognize unnecessary connections it works pretty well.
It's not an unimportant comment at all.
Though Firefox on Android has improved a lot with the recent quantum update, you can still feel it's a little laggy as compared to Chrome.

Specifically, scrolling on Firefox feels very laggy. Also, Firefox doesn't play videos on same tab. That becomes very frustrating.
Unions have a necessary function; as a check and balance against corporate power. But unions acting like this are just as bad as monopoly companies. Anti-trust legislation or similar should be brought to bear here to break the unions into smaller competing unions or place them under a consent decree. Just like a monopoly company should be broken up or placed on a consent decree (Google - search, Amazon - online shopping (although Amazon have yet to seriously part take in rent seeking), Microsoft - desktop software) so should abusive unions. Abuse of collective power; union, corporate, government should be constrained and where reasonably possible pre-empted.
Hehe.. I set my wordpress site to Australian English, but one look at my new edit page with its permanent "G'day" made me change it immediately back to GB-English.
Author here, in case you have any questions.
strawman! those aren't necessarily the same people. Edit: But even though, a bit of cognitive dissonance is part of the learning process. I think you are pointing out a true correlation. which is, often times its enough to be popular or just shout the loudest to attract attention, and everything else might follow.
Not a Brit, but agree with you almost 100%. Although I reached out to Y is different than I called Y. It implies are more tentative, weak relationship between you and Y. I would say let me call Y if the juju between me and Y is strong, otherwise I would say let me reach out to Y
I've played hours and hours of VR and never got bored o_O I felt like there was a never ending flux of game. What games have you tried?
How about by manipulating your facebook news feed and exposing you to a carefully selected series of images and headlines to sway your opinion on political topics without you even realizing.

How about identifying which youtubers your children are impressionable to, and then approaching them to push unhealthy food products?

How about using your porn browsing habits and location history to figure out when you start cheating on your significant other, how about offering you divorce lawyers before you even realize you need one.

How about figuring out when you become isolated and lonely by looking at changes in the volume of texts and phone calls and IMs you exchange, and then selling that primarily to dating and sex chat websites.

Ever wondered why these websites are silently deploying anti-adblock functionality rather than trying to bring the matter through the legal system? Because if it ever became a legal case and they were made to disclose how they use the data, there'd be a fucking uproar. This is exactly what happened in the EU and that's why advertisers had their balls cut off in that region. So now they've opted to support the destruction of net neutrality and bolster DRM laws so they can shoehorn advertisements and anti-adblock under DRM instead.

People need to get 100% clear on something: there are very smart people getting paid very generous salaries whose job is to find ways to distort and manipulate laws and public perception to prevent consumers from asserting their rights against having their behavior manipulated. I don't think it's an understatement to say that these groups are a major threat to the wellbeing of the people, right up there with war and climate change. Ajit Pai is a textbook example of this pattern. He's not stupid, he's not an asshole. He's a smart person who has been tasked with a goal that goes against the public good. And he's done a good job at that task.
Top Bucket List Ideas for 2018
Launching an album on the blockchain, without a record label
If you had a large number of gold coins, would you keep them at home to avoid annoying robbers?
> Americans could care less

So they do care?
I saw the talk live and the nerdism, physicians humor and the transfered knowledge was really mind blowing. It's an awesome insight into the foundation and building of a really large human made machine. Watch!
Same in Germany. Of course drunk driving is not unheard of (especially when you get more rural (and also older people)), but the general attitude I experienced is a lot different then in the US. Here almost noone in my group of friends would get behind the wheel after more than one beer. And if someone would dare it would probably result in "lets call you a taxi" or "crash at my couch".

When I was visiting friends in the US, a totally different picture. Almost everyone was happy to drive after a few drinks and noone did care.
Yes, why don't you go ahead and do that.
> he

Her name is literally Alice. Women can be sucessful in business, too, y'know?
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Increase the allowable title length? :)
There isn't much evidence that Tether Limited is indeed keeping a reserve of USD for each Tether printed [0]. They are minting hundreds of millions of Tethers and there are a lot of skeptics out there who don't believe that they have billions of USD in a bank.
[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4133884-bitcoin-additional-...
I quite like (1), sounds amusing and wonderful -- no?

Many words in English have this origin, eg., Shakespeare did this all the time giving us the verbs "to champion", "to elbow"... from nouns.

bi-* (2) is fair, being an ambiguity.

reaching-out (3) contains less information than the alternatives provide, but do they provide too much? Given how we are connected in so many different ways now, does labouring to include which mechanism really seem efficient?

(4) Bootstrapping is an american cultural fetishization of individual spunk/moxie (etc. americans have many words for it). I suspect your objection has more to do with this cultural disposition to self-promotion and borderline delusional accounts of their own gumption and lack of others.

Europe, owing to the class system and 1000s-year+ settlement has a lot more preoccupation with the role society plays in success.

As far as all that goes however, "bootstrapping" seems a good word to mean, "I think I did most of this myself".

PS. I will say, for any offended americans, that I think europeans sometimes have the reverse delusion, esp. the british: that nothing can be done alone, and it's not worth trying.
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Haha, man... I live in Europe and I sometimes feel bad about how insecure some neighbourhoods here are in big cities, usually because of gypsies/slavs or Muslims, and I think "the US probably has it so much better...". Then I see shit like that... What the hell is going on there? Are the municipalities toothless?

Here we usually give housing to those "individuals" in some isolated neighbourhood so they don't bother normal people, and it works really well. I mean there are bad hoods but you know which they are. I can't imagine feeling insecure while I walk around downtown or something like that. There are a few solutions, you don't really need to lock them up like animals, even if it is warranted, sometimes 8-) I imagine this is hard to do in a place like SF where housing is soooo expensive.
If your sudoers policy allows you to run vi then you've already failed.

sudoedit(8) has been around for a long time and it solves this problem.
Nice collection. Here are some of mine;
travel to everest,
Meet the President of USA,
Be a Game Show Contestant
...and most of them are joined at the hip with big tech--which will probably not be doing so well after the rest of the world figures out how strategic it is and starts rolling their own.
That's interesting. I'm the other way 'round. Mostly because American English has managed to confused the hell out of me. Pronouncing (or softening) "t"s as/into "d"s means many Americans spell accordingly - Tao becomes Dao.

Then there's the impossibility of popular phrases (individual words such as "movie" don't bother me much at all). "What are you hungry for?" simply cannot be. It makes more sense to ask what one feels like eating. Same with "I'm excited for..." Just doesn't make sense. We're excited ABOUT a thing, not FOR a thing. The American propensity to fake it because PR annoys me no end, too. Every time I hear "I'm thrilled to..." I do a little mouth-vomit. There's just NO authenticity behind a statement that starts with those words.

Many more such nuances. Like "He disrespected me" instead of someone being rude, curt or otherwise unfriendly to another (respect is earned).

There are going to be as many opinions about this stuff as there are people.
The Trump website’s JavaScript tries to troll Obama
My pet peeve is when Americans say “I itched myself” ... you scratched an itch.

> 3) Reaching out. To mean making contact. What is wrong with, I wrote to x, I called Y etc.

As a young nonnative whipper snapper I think reaching out kinda makes sense in the modern world. We’re connected to people in so many ways simultaneously that the way in which we reached out is irrelevant and often forgotten. I don’t always know if I called, wrote, emailed, texted, slacked, tweeted, messengered or carrier pigeoned you. I just know I reached out.

And before you say most of those are a form of writing, I think they’re often perceived as closer to talking (in person almost) than to writing.
Ok, but why use a broken hash algorithm?
Yes, it slows down quite a bit (2012 model), but it still is the best tablet I've seen.

I don't want any manufacturer "features" on Android, I just want a pure Android experience. And also looking for a replacement for my parents aging Nexus 7.
Well ok, but British English is composed at least of Scottish English, Yuppie English, Townie English, Farmers English, Northern English, Black Country English, The Queens English and also I'm not sure about Newcastle-upon-Tyne if thats related or a completely separate language.
kinda reminds me of the programmer boards.

the talk about software and RSI.
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How does this work? I'm not in webdev so I don't know the ins and outs of browser editing, is it really possible to only accept a portion of a website and get around those things? Wouldn't this also be useful for getting around pay-to-view sites as well?
I think the claim that it is closer to the "original vision" has some substance if you think of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer cash system rather than as a settlement layer.

With that said, this certainly does not imply that p2p cash is what Bitcoin could actually excel at once it reach global scale. Modifying the original vision is not some great sin, it literally happens all the time with startups and no one bats an eye.

I don't think being closer to Satoshi's original vision is any important, Bitcoin is not a religion and Satoshi isn't a prophet.

The split-up was a good thing, I'm excited that different avenues are being explored. Maybe core maintainers are wrong and p2p cash is actually the way to go. Maybe Bitcoin Cash fans are wrong and the solution lies in developing L2 solutions. Maybe both are wrong. Time will tell and we should be happy that different things are being tried.

The engineer in me says that the "real" Bitcoin is the one with the most total difficulty. I think that definition is too narrow. To me, both are the real Bitcoin, just in different timelines. The timeline that wins will overwrite reality such that it was the real Bitcoin all along. Meta!
It would've been even better without the unnecessary political commentary.
If it's not open source, it can't be Free Software, it's just freeware.
But fails !

https://mobile.twitter.com/pdglenn/status/946465050449018881...

(I know HN should not be about politics, but it’s a JavaScript story :) )
I do this too, for similar reasons. I just like to keep working when I'm on a roll. I'm always looking for research on it and never really find anything.
British English is no longer appropriate because it was never properly promulgated in its colonies. Around the world from South Africa to Belize and even in Canada varietal bastardizations of the language have been allowed to emerge creating more English that is not British. Both Spanish and English are languages that have become decentralized and there will never be a global standard in favor of the country where the barefoot barbarians claim to dominate it so completely.
FYI since a couple weeks ago, all of your comments except this one appear dead. You must have made someone mad.
Aerobic exercise dramatically reduces cognitive function for hours immediately afterwards. How does this resolve with these findings?
No doubt we "Americans" have changed the language, for better or worse, but this comment is more about journalism.

I expect more from the BBC than to let a former Bloomberg journalist make generalizations without anything to back it up. "Awesome" occurring more often than "marvelous" doesn't provide us with anything other than the fact that the author appreciates the latter more than the former.

Seems appropriate that I should go write a piece for the BBC on how journalism has declined and how Brits are contributing, and be sure to cite this article.
traveling to Everest base camp sounds cool.