skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been struggling with this question also. The responsibility of the state government is similar to the federal government in that they are meant to represent the interests of their citizens. Within a state it is undoubtably good policy to provide a mechanism for enforcing a positive social good like utility regulation if that is what the residents of that state want. The flip side is that the internet is necessarily interstate commerce and hence the federal government can always invoke the interstate commerce clause (the same argument they use for drug policy) to do whatever they want. However, as we see states invoking their rights to designate drug policy within their borders this seems to be a natural policy extension.

I think what you are bringing up though is the quagmire that could result from trying to build a network that has to abide by 50 different regulatory systems. I would like to see an independent third party draft regulation on net neutrality that each participating state could then adopt through their own procedures. I know that probably won't happen, but it would be nice to see a form of "collective bargaining" among the states.

Personally, it is good policy for states to support net neutrality if that is what their constituents want. But the implementation might be a shit show.
> These entities don't need to be somehow (gently) "restrained", but as a civilization we need to rethink the power we've ceded to them at a very fundamental level, or we risk growing ever weaker and more dependent on them.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on all the points you made, but I'm a bit weary for this one, especially using the term 'ceded'. Have we really ceded power to Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook or have they simply 'won' the capitalism game? If they won, do we penalize them for winning? Can we force a breakup of these Tech Titans into independent companies (something akin to the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 [1] or the breakup of Standard oil in 1911 [2]) or would that stifle the amazing innovation these companies put out regularly?

If we have indeed ceded power, then what is our recourse? Legislation? By whom? Many of these companies are arguably working for the same government that is in the best place to enact such regulations, as shown in the Snowden leaks.

I don't know what the best answer is, perhaps we need to wait out a few generations to get policy makers that actually understand what the internet is and the implications of digital monopolies. Perhaps the answer is less pessimistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legisla...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
The NSAs voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home
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It would be nice to see burndown charts in CE along with EBS[1], just like pipelines and runners.

[1] http://help.fogcreek.com/7676/evidence-based-scheduling-ebs
Hackers can see your Tinder photos and figure out your matches
> If all the miners are gone, the difficulty has hopefully dropped precipitously

AFAIK there is no mechanism for the difficulty of new blocks to fall. And if the only use is creating transactions between yourself and yourself, well you can also collect gravel.

> This doesn’t sound super useful, but it sounds about as useful as a bar of gold in a world where nobody considers gold to be valuable.

Even in a sub-industrial context and ignoring pretty much all of human history and assuming your gold has lost all of its extrinsic worth, your bar of gold could be molded or cast into plenty of useful things (light reflectors, heat shields, baubles, weights). Bitcoins, not so much.
> Here, children are driven to school by their parents.

Weird, here in New York I see kids riding the subway to school every day. I must be imagining them.
While I can’t say if the percentage is correct it’s not that far off.

Both my parents were on their 2nd PhD in Russia in during that time (born 1942) both are Jewish the level of plagiarism in the academia was insane they had to enroll under non Jewish names to be even accepted were accused of plagiarism multiple times while some of their dissertations were not only plagiarized but effectively stolen.

It took my father probably an extra decade to get trough every thing PhD in biology and an MD simply because of the corruption in the academia where party favorites got preferential treatments and outcasts would have their exams lost recieve false penalties and if you happen to be Jewish often given tests which were designed to be impossible to pass.
Are would be robbers really that interested in stealing tuna nicioise salad boxes and quinoa wraps? Robbers want cash from the till and things they can fence quickly, seeing as this store doesn't deal with cash, I suspect the only petty thefts will be people circumventing the camera/sensor technology to steal their protein enriched breakfasts shakes
> I would rather see people hang themselves with their own rope than be told how to tie a noose by others who supposedly know what's best for them.

I don't see the relevance of this.

I assume you don't literally mean you don't want people to be taught to tie knots...
At the minimum you can't fake its value.
RF? I thought we were talking about sound here...
Then there is the vocore2; cheaper and not a repurposed consumer device.
Does Chromecast Audio do what you need?
It's so obvious, I'm just going to use a decentralized cryptocurrency to hail my self-driving electric car in like five years, so why bother supporting legacy technologies? /s
Gold is a greater-fool asset, just like Bitcoin. We buy it hoping a greater fool will pay us more for it later.

Most of the value is what we ascribe to it. Close on 80% is used in jewelry. It doesn't actually make you money, there's no universal law that makes it more valuable over time. It's just stuff we like, same as art or classic cars or Bitcoin. We've just liked it for longer than those things, so we trust it more. but that isn't guaranteed.

You can use non-greater fool assets to make money. A stock is a piece of a business that earned you money over time. A truck can be used to make money. Gold can be fashioned into more-valuable stuff but the real assets are the craftsmanship and tools. Gold is the commodity.
Collective bargaining is probably the wrong metaphor. This is the principle-agent problem.

The citizens would be better off if the elected officials worked to make their city the best possible place to do business for all companies on an even playing field. The city would then attract plenty of good companies simply on its merits.

The elected officials instead benefit from granting favors, being able to brag about how they brought in a big name like Amazon, and getting Jeff Bezos on their personal speed dial.

This is also why collective bargaining will not happen here. The interests of the elected officials are not at all aligned. They're competing for a scarce resource, and they themselves largely do not bear the costs of trying to acquire it.
Nvidia, Western Digital at Chips’ Frontier
the modifier "intrinsic" doesn't add anything though. "people intrinsically like" --> "people like"; "gold is intrinsically valued" --> "gold is valued".

"intrinsic" seems to imply an innate persistence despite not being able to justify such innateness, just empirical persistence. It just implies things that are arguably not justifiable needlessly. gold has been persistently valuable. The universe doesn't give it an innate value.
Is there a way to bundle a dynamic DNS offering that would make the changing of an IP address invisible to the home user. It's 2018, so I'm wondering if setting this up has become easier than it has in the past. Just trying to think of something to keep the idea viable.
Asteroid mining would disrupt the market for many rare elements, but I think it could be less chaotic than people think. It's not going to be like the Gold Rush where a deposit was found and prospectors flocked to it. It'll be a massive undertaking, almost certainly with multiple nations working together to achieve. The time between the project becoming public and the resulting mined resources being delivered would give markets time to settle on a price.

That said, yes, asteroids mining could certainly affect the price of gold, but not necessarily destroy all its value. There's a price floor set by the industrial applications for it.

With BitCoin, there is no floor. If no one wants to buy your BitCoins, you can't do anything else with them. They are just data representing proof of work, but no outside value.
You can hear the original song on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2E613J9m0I

"Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage

Sitting up there on the fuselage..."
Well, think of it like this: Evolution is a process, and the process is the purpose. And sometimes we end up with results that are "wrong". But this is never the end of the path.
You were probably waiting for this, but how do you handle IP reputation?

I REALLY would like to host my own e-mail server but when I've previously tried this on the various vendors platforms (Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure), I naturally end up with an IP that has either no rep or bad rep. I did everything I could with regards to proving my mail server was legit but still ran into issues with my e-mails being flagged as spam.

I know I could use someone like SendGrid or whatever to handle my outgoing e-mail, but now I'm back into the whole privacy concern area...
Your comment amounts to "I don't know why anyone would use X when they can use these other two things that are fundamentally the same."
I often feel the opposite. Pseudocode makes me lost.

Ideally, you'd have both. The clean math notation AND pseudocode.
Sorry to say, but if a city gives away so much to Amazon that it's a net negative, it's their own dam fault. Maybe they should take some negotiations or financial modeling classes.

Amazon doesn't control the zoning laws, the city does. If housing prices increase, it's the city's fault.

People act like Amazon is some all-powerful entity that can railroad an entity like a city council that has the power to change laws.
Tab Center was reimplemented using WebExtension APIs and released as Tab Center Redux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...
Not if they are spacex :)...they come back and recover
The Transistor, Part 1: Groping in the Dark
Use bitcoin with lightning.
> Just look at the gold price over the past 100 years

Or 2,000 years:

"the researchers look at pay for a Roman legionary, in the era of Emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-14 A.D.), who was paid a salary equivalent to 2.31 ounces of gold. A centurion was paid a salary equivalent to 38.58 ounces of gold.

Compared to modern US Army salaries, a private is making 20% more than the legionary, and a captain is making 30% less than the centurion" [1].

A counterpoint can be found in silver, where unexpected Spanish silver production in the New World prompted inflation around the world [2][3].

TL; DR For historical reasons, gold is grandfathered into our collective consciousness.

[1] http://www.mining.com/what-a-roman-centurions-pay-says-about...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/story-of-citi...

[3] http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/web/s5/s5_4.html
I have and it wasn't good.
It is impossible to handle out of memory exceptions inside the BEAM. At best, you can hope for a crash of the VM. At worse, it just hangs.
And one will most likely not find out about this until they hit this scenario.
Yes, but nearly anything can function as a store of value by that standard. While it's true Bitcoin has name recognition and that is an advantage, it's not exactly a big advantage.
Or maybe you've never experienced a convenience store with a significant line.

If there are 2 or 3 people in line that doesn't dissuade me from shopping there, but if I see a long line of a dozen people winding through the store, I almost always go somewhere else.

I've run into that at gas station convenience stores a lot -- I go in for a drink or snack while pumping gas and if there's a long line, then I just go back to my car and leave.
> The problem is there isn't really much of a market for something like that. Sure, you can have detailed documentation on such a product that explains how it's functioning, why it might drop out when your ip changes, etc., but who is going to understand that? People like you and me, yes, but we're a pretty small market.

I understand why this is not available as a standalone product. The window is probably too small to warrant it. I don’t understand why no company appears to offer it as an option to a product that otherwise “just works.”

Sure, it would require additional investment on the part of the manufacturer to include an “expert-mode” toggle that lets the user make their own decisions, but a market exists for people who want that. Money is being left on the table.
Google Inbox is also pretty terrible on chrome for me, i'm not sure i'd blame vendor lock-in.
Funny story. By coincidence, San Antonio is really proud of its Toyota plant.
"won't be a need for alt coins" fails to see that some alt coins have specific purposes and aren't just "cheaper" and "faster". Privacy (Zcash, etc), useful mining (Primecoin), funny (Useless Ethereum Token), and so on.
> I completely disagree with the “race to the bottom” framing of the idea that cities shouldn’t compete to provide the best services for the commercial enterprises which reside there.

I think the idea is that cities definitely should compete to provide the best services for the commercial enterprises, but that those service should not include breaks on taxes or land giveaways. If building a new transit station, boosting spending on public schools that the Amazon engineers would want, and restructuring building and zoning codes to increase the housing supply will make your city more attractive to Amazon, by all means go ahead, since those should redound to everyone, regardless of whether they work for Amazon. But Amazon seems rich enough to me that they would be just fine even without tax breaks on construction materials or payroll taxes.
Thanks! I didn't know I had literal string interpolation available until today!
(Full disclosure...22X/B22 here) I'm really excited beyond just our batch. Paving the way for this can change the game for a lot of other early stage companies.
...and even collectibles have some appreciable aesthetic qualities and enthusiast interest which exists independently of and generally strictly prior to speculators getting involved.
On the homepage when you hover over, but say it's $3.1B (the number doesn't really matter because it's impossible to gauge how much goes to military spending)

>U.S. assistance helps ensure that Israel maintains its Qualitative Military Edge (QME) over potential regional threats, preventing a shift in the security balance of the region and safeguarding U.S. interests.

My argument here is that the US is outsourcing innovation to countries like Israel rather than investing in it domestically. This likely serves to kill 2 birds with one stone but it makes it weird to index the 2 countries against each other.
I believe part of your question was answered here[0].

In short: on this platform merchants have the ability to process a transaction that Bolt suggests is likely to be fraudulent (in effect ignoring the warning).

In a general sense, all merchants have to balance their false positive rates with their false negative rates in a way that makes sense for the products/services they sell.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16217020
I am using Intel, but Nvidia. On my current machine (Windows) I have a GeForce GTS 450 and the driver version is 23.21.13.8813. The linux one is Arch and has a 1060 Max Q, but I'm not at that computer and don't know the driver. Maybe selection bias, but I think it happens much less on the linux computer.
This is great news and opportunity for OmiseGO, Ethereum and Stellar. Solid projects with respectful and well know developers team that do not directly compete against Bitcoin.
I think some of it Amazon doesn't work outside a vacuum of other tech companies. It has to compete against San Francisco and other major tech hubs now so having a developed city is a selling point for Amazon HQ2.
I think you raise a good point. This is possibly the effect of using apps to lower the transaction costs of arranging services. It allows work projects to be decomposed into isolated, repetitive micro-jobs.

Another aspect of gig economy companies controlling networking: they typically ban workers from communicating directly with customers. Ostensibly it's for safety reasons, but the real reason is most likely to prevent workers and customers from circumventing the fees. The result is that workers are not able to develop a regular set of clients which could provide referrals, etc.
I can't. There are tons of EU countries missing from this list.
Being valued by people 'liking it' is exactly the opposite of _intrinsic value_.
> We are encouraged to put math stuff in ours just because it looks more theoretical that way.

If that's really true, you are getting bad advice.
Please ensure you’re getting paid for that time, or find a new job. You should be paid for the hours you work, including on call time.
Reminder: the 2020s is a "future decade".
Can you elaborate on how locking works ? Mainly, does it require a BTC transaction (+fee) or not?
I'm almost in total agreement, except for the fact that I have a fairly flexible work schedule. Using a "dumb" programmable thermostat is nice for someone with a fixed schedule/routine. The only thing that attracts me to a remote accessible thermostat is that I can remotely adjust to the new value as I'm walking out the door from work. In the 10-15 minutes it takes to get home, the temp should be closer to where I want it. However, not enough to make me want it to managed via 3rd party company.
> Of course we are in a novel high stress environment so I think it can be triggered erroneously or we just need to now live through really shitty situations at work, etc.

I wonder if this is something new or that only was misreported or not documented.

Maybe living on modern society in huge metropolitan areas, where no local sense of community, thus lacking cooperative behaviour incentive indeed has these effects as human society never would have scaled evolutionary to this level before.

Or maybe it was just underrepresented chronologically and just now we have the luxury of mostly not starving if we don't work to get the food, allied with the huge complexity layer of things to beware about these days.

So fundamentally my question is if we just would not report or pay attention or attribute to sobrenatural stuff, like demon possession and indeed there was already depression and other 'modern' mental issues; or if this always existed and just now we have the luxury to look at it.
Something about this article reminds of Venkatesh Rao article: We Are All Architects Now

"A crisis is too good a thing to waste. Not only should you have as many as you have time for, you should succumb to each as quickly and completely as possible, and then bounce back as quickly as you can so you can have another one. Resistance is not just futile, it is counter-productive.

This aesthetically appropriate and functionally necessary response to a crisis is a crash. If you don’t crash, it wasn’t a crisis. A healthy, crisis-ridden life is one that evolves rapidly, one crash at a time. So it stands to reason that navigating such a healthy life well involves crashing early and crashing often (CECO; life is a FEFO in CECO out, or FICO system)."

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/17/we-are-all-architects-...
> the problem with regulating anonymous transactions is you don't know who's doing them

Every government has departments of agents adept at tracing cash transactions. Bitcoin offers the advantage of total transactional transparency.

Shady wallet? Trace back until you find a known wallet. An exchange, vendor, et cetera. Subpoena, find their counterparty, rinse and repeat. Best case: you find your guy. Consolation: money laundering charges against the schmuck who didn't keep books and records.

Arrest someone who conducted a fraud, Ponzi scheme, ransomware scam or terrorist financing? If they did it with cash, the money is gone. If they did it with Bitoin, you have the option of tracing forward and seizing the funds the moment they hit a known wallet.
> That being said I agree that these days the tendency across all languages is to go towards fewer special characters, not more. In this context Perl 6's syntax feels a bit anachronistic.

This is just a comeback of a recurring dumb trend based on the fallacy that describing the operations of a program using English words is always superior to using appropriate specialized notation. The core of the fallacy is assuming that because something looks like a familiar English word, people who do not understand programming will understand the corresponding semantics of the operation in the programming language, because they know English. Which is complete nonsense - people who do not understand programming will reason by analogy, and through trial and error end up at a partially wrong and misguided understanding of that operation. English words only start you off with unnecessary baggage in the learning process.

It is even worse for people who already know programming. A C for loop is not a JavaScript for loop is not a Python for loop... The details of their semantics are very different, and you will introduce bugs if you just assume "I know how for loops work!"

There is nothing new about this trend either; it was the central premise behind COBOL, and a big motivation for BASIC. What BASIC was in the 1980s, Python is today.

What is ironic about this trend resurfacing today is that it has never been easier to use special characters - Unicode is everywhere, and even making custom keyboards has turned from a major manufacturing endeavor to an accessible hobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4
Is the liability on Tinder or the user, who is not using a secure network?
Baidu/palo, the MPP data warehouse
Imo focus on output of new technologies.
your assertions about fees is exactly backwards. if there are fewer transactions, the fees go down. each block has a finite number of transactions it can include, so to get yours included you attach a fee. therefore, increased demand increases the fees and visa-versa.
No, Rai does not have a functioning network as it currently stands. Nodes consistently become out of sync with the rest of the network, which has caused a lot of drama because the exchanges that list Rai had to shut down deposit/withdrawals for weeks. It's only recently that most of those exchanges were able to enable deposit/withdrawals by implementing a workaround provided by the Rai team. But it's far from stable and there is not yet a permanent solution to the Node issues. Even their wallet has consistent sync issues, resulting in the Node getting stuck to the point of having to download a snapshot of the network to be able to get caught up.

But, with all that said, I have yet to find a cryptocurrency that left me more impressed than Rai has. My first transaction took 2 seconds to appear in my wallet.
I think that is to one dimensional a view. Many organisms come into situations they are not really fit to survive- society is complex, there are lots of dark corners where specialisation is needed. If you are a social party animal and by inheritance suddenly have to become a 24/7 CEO of a company,without any breaks and non stop political power plays - depression is not indicating that you are unworthy or something. It indicates that you want to migrate in society, away from a unhealthy environment- you detach yourself from the people you have to deal with and wait for reattachment with a better crowd. Sort of the eject capsule from bad influence you do not want to adapt.
His entire comment is about the differences between BTC and Monero and Bitcoin Cash that make the latter two more desirable. Not sure how your interpretation is remotely accurate.