skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make a list of all the customer support requests you get and order them by frequency of request. Likely there will be a bunch near the top that are questions/confusions that could be prevented if the user was more informed. Highlight the answer to those questions in your onboarding flow, especially in emails and in app messaging.
> Surely they could not instantly dump all of their "ripple assets"

They can't. They've escrowed that 60 billion away and will release it to institutions at regular intervals. Any XRP that isn't bought will be put back in escrow. The executives that have large amounts of XRP themselves are contractually obligated to not dump it. They can only sell a certain amount per week. I think its like 10,000 or something (but I could be wrong on that).
Don't forget history, because someone will eventually make a mistake and a finger will need to be pointed :)

In my current org I would still lean on engineers making the config changes, but if we had a group of more tech-savvy stakeholders I could see this being useful. I hope you all post an update down the road on this process.
Surely the high transaction fees are an issue though?
Having just been in Beijing and Shanghai for a significant period of time, I can say both of those cities are fairly modern with a flair of western living standards (aside from the fact that most people don't speak English). I can't speak to anywhere else, though I'm excited to visit a number of more rural cities this year.
I'm not sure if they need a warchest; my point was that Whisper don't have a presence in Brazil and so they probably couldn't be compelled to do anything by the government there, whereas FB has employees and execs there, and directly do business there, so there are all sorts of levers that the Brazilian government can (and have tried to) pull to compel them. Frankly I suspect it would be good press for Moxie if he had an arrest warrant outstanding for not turning over customer messages to a government.

Also note that FB Messenger doesn't have e2e encryption, and I'm fairly sure that FB would hand over any data that they do have to any government that asked. They certainly hand such information over to the NSA.

The reason I brought WhatsApp in as an example was because even Facebook, a company well-known for sharing its users' data with government security agencies, was not able to share Signal messages. That is fairly strong evidence that their protocol implementation does not have a secret backdoor; if there was such a backdoor, there would be no story of an FB exec in jail, since FB would have quietly handed over the messages that Brazil asked for.
Well, that's... incorrect. Cooper actually says, "They're not 'beings.' They're us," and later says, in response to TARS saying that people couldn't build the tesseract, "No, not yet, but one day. Not you and me, but people." I really don't see any wiggle room in the actual events for claiming Cooper believes they are anything but human; or at least beyond human. But he sees them as an extension of humanity.

Whether Cooper is right may be an open question, but the film heavily implies it. That 'first contact' turning out to be Cooper may be evidence of wrongness, but we don't necessarily need that since we know the characters are not omniscient, and in the context of the film it implies that there aren't any aliens. There are also no signs of any other life, despite several habitable planets. Frankly, the film doesn't even make sense if "aliens did it"; any message of hopefulness about human spirit would fall apart.
Reactions to Meltdown and Spectre exploits
I’m a category theorist so I’m going to nitpick - the claim that all concrete mathematical objects are specific sets is either tautological (a concrete category is literally one where each object has an underlying set) or untrue (I can think of several non-concrete categories that may be studied “concretely” using type theory, such as the microlinear spaces of synthetic differential geometry).
I wish ALL companies distributed their software through torrents. I live in Venezuela and my ISPs throttle each connection, they're also slow and unstable. Bittorrent gets around all this by giving me the ability to resume and leech through dozens or even hundreds of parallel connections.

I've actually had to download pirated copies of Microsoft software that they freely provide as downloads. They offer direct downloads but don't let me use download managers... Long slow downloads always fail for me.

And that is just Venezuela. I know Iranians have exactly the same problems and I'm sure many others do.
I think I'll pass, too many restrictions and gotchas. This is why we left Hong Kong after the handoff in 96.
I agree. Also some public transport companies have their own application/web portal able to provide the same kind of service that Google Maps.
But I disagree with "bike/car/foot/public transport is all the same complexity": public transport add a factor you can't control.
SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System
It's not so much the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates, but between glucose and fructose. Glucose is energy for your body, so important you will manufacture it even on a zero carbohydrate diet. Fructose serves no real purpose in the body and is processed entirely by the liver (primarily into fat - excessive consumption leading to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease).

"Sugar" is often used for any simple carbohydrate but it's really fructose containing compounds like sucrose this piece is primarily warning about. Fructose seems to have a much bigger impact on insulin resistance leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, etc.
It sounds like you're confusing conciousness with intelligence, which are two separate concepts entirely
According to dictionary.com, a martyr doesn't strictly have to die. A martyr "endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause". His argument makes perfect sense and I agree with it.
You can't really change the world if you're always coloring inside the lines. There is such a thing as creative destruction; when structures get ossified and corrupt, they've got to be burned down and swept away.
Bitcoin effectively froze when Blockstream decided against increasing block size. The way I see it, bitcoin only stands as the flag-bearer, as (much like bitcoin cash) the transactions are too slow and still cost money. As the ecosystems grow and stabilize I imagine we'll be having some of the more full-featured, specialized cryptos carve out a spot within their specific domains (Dash or Raiblocks effectively taking over the "currency" use case for example).

I agree that the environment between the bitcoin and bitcoin cash communities is extremely toxic but I downplay how much that matters for a simple reason: bitcoin has been steadily losing dominance in the space and bitcoin cash is completely useless feature-wise, when compared newer-gen cryptos and even older ones like Litecoin. So sure, it's a nasty environment but it's one that I suspect we can just let die quietly in the corner.
How on earth do you state all these things as facts? You are confident about the mental states of zebra? Why?
The paper was written by two people called "Bird" ?!

File under "nominative determinism"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Working is a relative term here in France for public transport. This week a tree fell on a railway deserving the St-Lazare train station in Paris, reducing the service to three train one a line used by tens of thousands of people daily. Still I appreciate having a good network here in Paris (and in most of France).
The Site Isolation page[0] states:

> This protection is made possible by the following changes in Chrome's behavior:

> […]

> - Cross-site "documents" (specifically HTML, XML, and JSON files) are not delivered to a web page's process unless the server says it should be allowed (using CORS).

I understand it to mean that the tab's process used to hold code that verified the CORS header, and that the verification is now out-of-process.

[0]: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolatio...
Does Gett or similar not work very well in London? It seems to work perfectly in Edinburgh, even for rides going most of the way out of the city.
I have Dell XPS 13 9350 (Full HD). The computer randomly wakes up from sleep and drains the battery. And sometimes it wakes up in airplane mode. I haven't been able to solve it no matter what. Updated all drivers including BIOS, tried all the solutions people suggested online, formatted Windows, changed wifi card. Problem still continues... Also the battery life is nowhere near what they advertised. Other than that I am satisfied but this issues are so annoying that I want to change it as soon as possible.
When you go back, using Google Fi and hotspotting has been a fantastic experience.
Lincoln's Great Depression
Boo hoo. Do you think Medieval cities like those in Europe were built for public transport as well?
The article title is misleading, they haven't "quit twitter", they're just no longer archiving every public tweet (except for a select few, e.g. those that are likely to be historically interesting/noteworthy - e.g. Trump's twitter utterances).

Perhaps the title should be editorialised to something like:

"Library of Congress announce a change in collections practice for Twitter"

edit:

@dang - how about changing the link to:

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/update-on-the-twitter-arch...

or

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2017/12/2017dec_twitter_whit...
How awesome ended up with Lua and not Guile – Julien Danjou [pdf]
Unrelated. You pay the card issuer with bitcoin and they sell it for eur. As far as they're concerned they only have to pay a one-time fee for transferring the received bitcoin to an exchange and selling it there.

Whenever the cardholder makes a payment, that payment is processed against the fiat-equivalent that they have with the card issuer; the card is funded by bitcoin you send in yes but it's backed by the currency they converted the bitcoin into the moment you sent it their way.
Website boom and blockchain madness corollary
I think that the abstract is clear, and probably they are using the correct terminology in their field. But the first time I read it I didn't notice that they are documenting first hand stories about the events, but not the events themselves (aka videos).

> We document Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and non-Indigenous observations of intentional fire-spreading by the fire-foraging raptors Black Kite, Whistling Kite, and Brown Falcon in tropical Australian savannas. Observers report both solo and cooperative attempts, often successful, to spread wildfires intentionally via single-occasion or repeated transport of burning sticks in talons or beaks.* [..]
Could you be any more of a shill? RBF is optional. Furthermore, disabling RBF doesn't enable 0-conf transactions -- transactions can still be dropped from the mempool.

Anyways, say hi to the BCash CEO for me.
> Imagine how much important business knowledge is tied up in an Excel macro, or -- God forbid -- in a ridiculously long formula stored in cell Q237 or whatever.

Often none, and that's the bigger problem; those aren't vehicles that are good for storing business knowledge, so the business knowledge that went into them is often either stuck in someone's head (who may have left long ago) or lost entirely.

An (possibly entirely correct in context, possibly not) application of that knowledge in a particular context is captured in the macro or formula, but the knowledge itself, including the factors from the context contributing to the particular application, is not captured.
@Google Chrome devs:

For the same security reasons, could you also please fix this flag, it doesn't work anymore:

chrome://flags/#enable-webassembly

yet "deactivated" does nothing, WebAssembly is still active :( I sincerely don't want to run untrusted bytecode this week.
Why do they want time tracking?
Typically you would top it up periodically in larger amounts, not once for every single Visa payment.
> compared to Arch

Have you ever tried to install Tumbleweed? I was comparing the two, not using absolutes.
One could argue that in a socialist regime, companies such as the one that made her hands couldn't exist.

This is a great, heartwarming human interest story, and should drive a lot of attention for the company, but getting insurance companies to actually do their jobs should be the public interest driver here.
Neutrogena has made an iPhone scanner that magnifies your skin issues
I've always heard (no proof) that artists make little off album and song sales but received a larger benefit from concerts/merch. -- If that's true, the shift to increased concert revenue benefits them.
The "dawn" of online piracy was in the 70s and 80s with BBSs and Usenet, way before Napster. Even right before we had Napster, we had IRC as mentioned in the article.

Napster was more like the beginning of peak online piracy. Then we had all the Napster knock-offs for 10 years. Piracy pretty much lost mainstream appeal after that with the emergence of legal media streaming services.
I'm 29 and loved 2001, for what it's worth. It's not really just age, I don't think. I remember showing college friends Hard-Boiled (the John Woo film starring Chow Yun Fat) and they all got bored and stopped watching. Meanwhile I'm wondering how anyone could find a scene where there's a shootout involving guys on motorcycles with machine guns not to be simulating enough. I guess the mind of the cineaste works differently.

On the other hand, I watched High Sierra recently and the pre-Bullit notion of a car chase scene was, uh, less than thrilling.
That's a fair point. Recognizing it as true shouldn't prevent us from recognizing how special we are, but you're right that we need to take a conscious approach to act as stewards of the world with our great power over it.
I am sure when the card was introduced these same people would have said - See, bitcoin is so great it is now accepted by Visa and Mastercard.

Now we get this.

Sometimes it seems the thought process has evolved to - Heads I win, Tails you lose.
Also fyi, README.md contains a link "elinks" http://www.xteddy.org/elinks/ which is currently 404. http://www.xteddy.org/ has a link "Elinks" http://www.elinks.org/ which is currently 403. Sigh. A ggled http://www.starshine.org/xteddy/thomas/elinks/ links to http://elinks.or.cz/ .
> Why would that prompt them to decamp?

People tend to become politically involved (loosely defined) when desperate. Remove the source of desperation and engagement fades. Convincing people to come to a meeting or go to a rally or draft a letter to the dean or call or write to their representative gets harder when the problem goes from specific, e.g. I need X study to write my paper, to abstract.
> Bitcoin effectively froze when Blockstream decided against increasing block size.

You mean when the Bitcoin Core implementation of the Bitcoin protocol decided decentralization was an important feature of the currency and transaction compression should be the prioritized means of scaling.
All iPhones, iPads and Macs Have Major Chip Flaws
In today’s politically correct environment, the masses are wont to instantly discredit and discard the entire career of anyone whose personal failings happen to become public. Travis spent a tiny fraction of his time being a jerk. The rest of it was spent creating one of the most impactful companies that the world has ever seen. Give credit where credit is due.

”Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done” - Bryan Stevenson

Edit: I should have used the word valuable instead of impactful. I’m leaving it in because the Uber critics responding below have all jumped on my use of the term, and those replies would no longer make sense if I change it. That said, I do believe Uber has been a very impactful company and will continue to be.
I like how you define the intention of patents but I am fairly sure that is not the intention in the law definition of patents. And while what you say is nice it simply doesn't work. Anything worth keeping as a trade secret and able to be kept secret will remain a trade secret regardless of the existence of the patent system.

It would be very interesting to live in a society where once a product is available on the market any trade secret on it is illegal and the only option is to have patents that you receive royalties for but you can not restrict their use.
"death spiral of the blockchain" or death spiral of Bitcoin? There's an army of alt coins waiting to take its place. A lot of them are garbage, most are OK, but a handful of them are brilliant.

Bitcoin was the proof of concept and it was very successful in that light, but as a consumer product it is quite flawed. The survivors of the current bubble will be the ones that change the world. I'm not sure Bitcoin will be among them.
Angry Black Woman Getting Her PhD
The liquidity to sell to fiat is drying up after many are realizing the valuations for crypto are completely fraudulent. There is an astronomical amount of centralized crypto printing going on that has corrupted the entire crypto ecosystem. Tether just wrote in their legal terms that as a of January 1st tether can't be redeemed or used by Americans even though it backs USD. Corrupt exchanges inflated the prices and issued worthless tokens to buy bitcoin then sell it to main street. This is Bernie Madoff x 10,000.
Uber has it's faults, but the degree they had to fight tooth and nail in every municipality over something that was so demonstrably better than what was there before is absurd and should be a lesson for every other industry.

And yes, voting with one's wallet is often the most effective form of voting we have.
Which supports my point -- the quote "federation does freeze protocols in time" was being questioned, and IPv4 is the textbook example of a federated protocol that was frozen in time.
The problem with that logic is where does it end? Should anyone who wants anything from anyone be able to claim it?
Nationwide, police shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in 2017
We are the the best culture-preserving and culture-spreading animals. The rest of the achievements follows.
Is SciHub still reachable somewhere?
I think it goes beyond generosity. I think it's natural for people to care about what happens to each other, even between strangers. And it's just as natural to want to do something about it. The story you quote exemplifies this- it's only uman for the US team captain to be upset in the situation.

The reason why these natural tendencies to stand by each other are being eroded left and right in western societies, is probably too big a conversation for now, but my concern with that is what moved me to post this. So, you know, I apologise for a bit of subtle socialist propaganda :)
>The properties of bitcoin are completely irrelevant to the mechanics of the card.

On what planet? If the price fluctuates the way bitcoin has been, Wavecrest could literally be bankrupt before Visa even knew about it to pause any further transactions. At which point VISA is responsible, you think they're going to risk billions of dollars on a currency that is clearly a bubble at this point?
We can discuss the efficiency of a market-based health care system when such a thing exists. The current system is as artificial and corrupted as the taxi medallion situation.

If only I could walk into a health care facility and see the prices posted on the wall for various procedures, or get an estimate upfront, the way I can at any auto garage...
Humans are maybe special in that we can't seem to cope with anything that's not neatly black and white. Our brains tend to halt and catch fire when we have to analyze gray areas. Just look at politics or technical discussions. "Guns are (good|bad)." "It's slightly mathematically possible to compromise this system; we can't possibly ship like this!"
Tell HN: Coinbase stopped regular payouts of wires as of Dec 15
Myself and what appears to be a hundred other people are waiting for thousands of dollars in wires for the past month.

No way to get a response from Coinbase other than occassional Reddit replies. Phone support claims to investigate and no reply again. Status page has been showing fluctuating numbers (e.g. "up to 5 business days") but about a month already in my case.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/ for many such stories.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7mpk7s/upvote_is_your_wires_withdrawals_are_from_dec/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7o6nqb/880000_withdrawal_delay/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7o4tgz/please_help_coinbase_lost_my_8000_usd_wire/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7o7wxa/its_time_for_organized_legal_action/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7nnqxx/us_wire_transfers_from_coinbase_to_bank_from_dec/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7mpk7s/upvote_is_your_wires_withdrawals_are_from_dec/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7kwllo/stop_giving_lies_and_false_hope_with_up_to_3_days/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7kt75b/coinbase_not_paying_out_i_transferred_26k_by_wire/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7mcy2n/up_vote_if_your_wire_withdrawn_from_1212_1215/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7nntqf/waiting_for_30k_wire_for_two_weeks_already/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7o6oyv/list_of_cases_for_olga_from_coinbase_sepa_and/

And many more.

Hoping this is just growing pains, but the lack of communication is scary.
I enjoy a slow burn, but 2001 for preschoolers? Might work for nap time I guess.
They certainly weren't built for widespread individual use of automobiles.
But there was no source of desperation yet - there has not been a period in which researchers have not had access.

(Well, technically, there was a short one at the start of last year IIRC, but Elsevier prolonged access then just as well.)
Looks amazing. Way better than the typical React/Vue bloat that's advertised here on HN regularly. I dig the background, it fits well with the text, although the font looks a bit weird. I think Comic Sans or <marquee> tags would make it stand out a bit more.
Yes, Wikipedia usually lists the working domains. But, of course, it's probably not legal.
One thing I've failed to find out about IPFS: who pays for hosting? The user? Or is it donated by some peers?
In practice, if you cannot demonstrate an exploit, your concerns will be heavily discounted, and this is a case in point. Even if you do show an exploit, attempts will often be made to dismiss it as infeasible in practice (this is for security issues in general, not specifically Intel.)
Wondering why SciHub is not yet on some sort of IPFS / FreeNet / Tor Storage something. Plain file storage obviously would not be enough, metadata and possibly full text index would have to be stored with each entry. Searchable. could even come with a recommendation service like Mendeley or Researchgate based on which papers you pinned in your client.
Only Wavecrest issued cards. For example, TenX will have Wirecard as a new card issuer until they get their own banking license.

"Visa have today instructed us that we must close all WaveCrest issued Visa Prepaid Cards."

This is Wavecrest specific, nothing to do with crypto.
Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
Lightning Network exceeds the throughput of VISA. The scaling problem is being addressed -- just not in the naive "let's throw away decentralization and increase the blocksize" way.
No, that is wrong.

1.) Wavecrest assumes absolutely no exchange rate risk as they don't deal with the BTC, a company like Xapo does

2.) Xapo make a very big margin on the bitcoin sale

3.) The companies that perform the sale at topup time rather than purchase time work out how many GBPs you get after they've sold your BTC, so they assume no risk at all, and the companies like Xapo that perform the sale at purchase time structure their operations to minimise the risk of losing money, and they're aware of the risk, and they're far from the first company in the history of the world whose operations require them to adequately manage risk.