skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not entirely convinced, although I’m partway there. When you “have” a Bitcoin, that means you have the private key to a wallet which the blockchain says has such-and-such amount in it. You can have that even if the miners all disappear. You can still use it to sign transactions, although they won’t get confirmed. You can even confirm them by mining a new block yourself with your transactions in it. (If all the miners are gone, the difficulty has hopefully dropped precipitously. And if not, you could always fork it to have a lower difficulty, since the only thing that stops forks currently is network consensus.)

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.
This was actually released already in Firefox 57 as mentioned in the "in case you missed it" section at the bottom of the new features list.
It's nice to see they're still interested in payment-oriented tech in this area, such as Lightning and OmiseGO.

Another one to watch out for is RaiBlocks. Currently has a functioning net, featuring instant, fee-less transactions.

The thing that's really impressing me about RaiBlocks is the community that's around it - so much community dev effort going into payment adapters and services. People are already accepting Web payments with it.

I am holding some, so maybe I've drunk the kool aid but I really feel like it's something worth keeping an eye on or looking into if you're interested in the practical crypto-payments space. There's an active reddit you can find with Google if you're genuinely interested in more info.
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While not necessarily so, they do seem to have are strong causal relationship. The more innovative an economy, the more economic freedom it has.
Current openings are posted at https://careers.mozilla.org/. There should be a steady trickle of opportunities as 2018 budgeting wraps up and requests for headcount get approved over the coming weeks and months.

We do most of our work in the open, so there's a wealth of information you can gather before applying for a role or interviewing. Lurking on mailing lists, reading Bugzilla, following GitHub repos, etc. are all great ways to become familiar with how Mozilla works, the challenges we face, and where you'd best be able to have an impact.
Find a job maintaining some legacy code (there's plenty of it there). At which point you'll quickly realise that maintaining a complex perl program (particularly that someone else wrote) is painful. And the only remaining production perl programs are complex or they would have been rewritten.
Those 0/1s on hard drives are backed by trillions of dollars of debt and tax obligations people are obliged to trade labour and physical goods for though.

Being backed by demand from the entire economy of a stable polity is certainly better than being backed by sunk (energy) cost fallacy and speculator enthusiasm.
I would rather live in a housing market that continues to increase rather than one that goes up and down with the wind.
Speaking of civil forfeiture made me wonder whatever happened to all the bitcoin owned by that guy that ran Silk Road. Government sold it, but with some bad timing http://fortune.com/2017/10/02/bitcoin-sale-silk-road/
> Remember that time a city in CA sent Cointelpro-esqe letters to the registered owner for vehicles their plate readers recorded going down a particular street?

No, I don’t. I’m guessing others might not, as well. Can you please supply a link?
The network effects don't go along with the fork. Same if you copied and deployed Facebook's codebase on your own domain.
This reminded me of a Scientific American article from nine years ago about the evolutionary roots of depression. It says that depression is a useful adaptation:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/depressions-evolu...

Dr. Stephen Ilardi from the University of Kansas takes the opposite position. In his book, The Depression Cure, he says that depression is a disease of modernity. "[O]ur bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of twenty-first century life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drv3BP0Fdi8
That Washington Post article is garbage. It cites as the source of its numbers, the Buzzfeed article I quoted. But the only place the number "$20" appears in the Buzzfeed article is this:

"None of these advertisements mention driver expenses. The same goes for the alerts Uber sends to drivers — sometimes five times a day or more — telling them that other drivers on the road were making $20 or $30 an hour in gross fares."
I think and early version of the enhancements on Android are available in 58, and can be enabled by using the search bar to enter `layout.css.servo.enabled` and then switching it on.
Just look at the gold price over the past 100 years, even the last 10-15 years have seen an modest increase. It will only go up & it is highly unlikely that it won't ever be perceived as the asset compared to other precious metals.
Not in any notes: they removed the Android widget. Coincidentally, so did DuckDuckGo today. :(
Sure, but not everyone has the privilege of living in a first world country. See for example the Republic of Georgia utilising blockchain tech to secure real estate transactions [0]. Now I am actually less afraid of investing my money as I don't trust their government.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/02/07/the-first-...
Except you left out the most important part. >:(

He died three months later!
Arguably they're trying to divert tax monies to be spent on themselves instead of the other problems the city faces, so it is on Amazon.

And they're blamed because they are largely a cause of exacerbating those problems. It's not just a pure good for them to come. Like I said, they cause housing prices to skyrocket. That's on them, and the increased homelessness that would result would be on them, too.
Sorry but not buying it. The selection of even 7 categories, let alone suggesting that such categories should be equally weighted is unreliable at best. The nations self-reporting the data is completely irrelevant and, again, at best unreliable.

Now, maybe the US isn't as innovative as Sweden is. Ok. What exactly does that mean? Why do I care if the percentage of graduate educated people is higher? How does that actually affect innovation? Are those people releasing new, globally-changing products and services? What are some examples?

What does it mean if Samsung has more US patents than any other company besides IBM? Is IBM more innovative than Google?

It's fun and popular to bash the U.S. (has been for some time) but I really don't see much meaning behind these rankings. It's not an in-depth study. Amazon has more criteria for picking a HQ. Do you really think Bloomberg can look at these '7 criteria' and come up with a meaningful estimation? No.
I guess. I live in an expensive area. My house has gone up hundreds of thousands of dollars in value in the last 2 years.

So what? My taxes go up and so do the costs of all the other houses nearby, so I don't net any more if I sell and buy a new house.
Thank you! For me the use case is to show some work in progress demos/prototypes without messing around with git. Obviously this is meant for simple use cases, there are far better tools for static site hosting for more complex issues.
I don't have a horse in this race, but what about pyrite? It has most of the aesthetic properties of gold (which I think everyone agrees is where most of the value comes from), but almost none of the value. Pyrite is a real, physical thing that will not disappear tomorrow. However, it has almost no value.

I guess what I am trying to say is that there is a lot more that goes into value than utility. That's why I do not think that people always act rationally. Clearly there is something irrational about people's relationship with gold that makes it valuable. I don't see why crypto cannot have a similar irrational evaluation. Sure, it could go "poof" tomorrow, but I don't know if that will stop people from seeing it as valuable.
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> Homelessness is not Amazon's problem.

Not directly, no. But Amazon is based in a city that has a large homeless population. It is in the interest of their employees to see that population fall, therefore it also ought to be in Amazon's interest.

> Automation is good. Do you want us to ride horses to work?

Of course it is. But I see this reaction a lot - that anyone asking questions about our automated future is some sort of regressive idiot who hates technology. Far from it. You can see and be in favour of the obvious benefits automation brings, while also questioning what society looks like when a lot of the jobs people currently have don't exist. That doesn't mean "stop automation", it just means "think about the effects of it while we do it, ideally before".
Well if you want to go down the rabbit hole, this is a good place to start...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
This is an odd redefinition of innovation. Is Snapchat more innovative than a proof of the Riemann hypothesis? Number of people who Snapchat: apparently at least 178 million. Number of people who want a proof of the Riemann hypothesis? Maybe a million? Out of which probably ten thousand will actually read it?

Yes, the Soviet Union had many problems, but

>how did they apply these technologies to create products the market actually want

is essentially just asking "why were they communist and not capitalist?"
All BCH did was increase the block size limit from 1mb to 8mb. It solves the scalability problems in the short term, but will run into exactly the same issues a year or two from now. Then it'll be 32mb blocks, then 128mb, then 1Gb. An O(n) approach won't work in the long term.
Last I checked Stripe does all of this - or at least offers a very parallel product.
I switched to Fastmail from Gmail at the end of 2017. While it's of course not as privacy-oriented as ProtonMail, it is sufficient for my needs. Like you, I realized that Google's interests didn't line up with my own, and I would rather pay for a service with money instead of personal data.

As a cherry on top, they host a static homepage for me for no extra cost, but that didn't really factor into my decision.
Stellar which they mention as alternative would probably suit them way better. It doesn't have any of the issues that were problem with Bitcoin, but it's adoption is significantly less.

Litecoin support would be very nice to have, it is kind of obvious step for transaction processing.
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> Because it's a cheap, lazy insult to throw out at people who have different preferences than you do.

Agreed.
.bg is Bulgaria. Bulgaria is an eastern European country, a member of NATO and the EU. The capital is Sofia, and they speak a slavic language - Bulgarian.
Amazon also provides high wage workers who are taxed on their income, and who generate economic activity which can also be taxed and used by municipalities to try to solve homelessness. On net I wonder what the benefit / determent of Amazon moving to a city would have on homelessness.
Protonmail when under DDOS attacks routes their traffic through servers owned by mossad. Which again is an "observer" in the global five eyes surveillance network
Are you converting straight to USD (or your local currency), or keeping the BTC?

I know most storefronts that accept crypto do the former, but I can't help but wonder how much more they could have made if they had done the latter.
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US Govt Only Made $48MM on Sale of 144,336 Silk Road Bitcoins(2017)
>decades

Centuries.
You've never been to central California or the Mid West? In contrast with the West and East coasts, they look about as developed as Belize - including in Hollywood movies, I dare add. It's like, there are a few mansions here and there, but there are also a lot of crack shacks and developing world worthy public infrastructure.
Can someone with GPUs and love in their hearts, bundle this with trained models in a Docker container?

(serious request... I got a cluster, and something like a million pictures; but no GPUs or time for another side project...)
In terms of demand - yes, since all transactions must be paid for in ETH.
I think they had to act now because every single transaction was timing out (taking longer than an hour), meaning the service was effectively not working. They couldn't wait.
golds inherent value is worth like 10 percent of the value people put in it for speculation purposes. If gold was only used for electronics it’d be worth a lot less. in fact, there are things far rarer than gold and actually used more but worth a lot less.
Maybe AWS Cognito?
Really cutting edge: 22X security token backed by assets of the 30 underlying companies, PLUS the tokens are tradable after certain holding periods and not subject to the capital lock-up traditionally associated with startup investing subject to market liquidity. What more?
>"I don't eat or drink anything that hasn't been around for 1000 years"

He'd love our office fridge.
I grew up in New York. Just wanted to add a data point that stadiums don't always "uplift" communities. There's a lot that goes into it.
Because they’re all starry-eyed about the possibility and don’t care what it costs.

I live in the DC area. We’re on the list three times: DC itself, plus VA and MD suburbs. The prospect of cooperating on a bid was brought up, but they’re not willing to do it. They want to win and they want it all for themselves.
I think you're meaning to reference "Elementary," the other show about Sherlock Holmes.
I believe you are incorrect and have the causality backwards. Gold has several characteristics that, when combined, make it an ideal material for ancient jewellery and whose properties remain to this day. It can be found in its elemental form and is easy to refine using primitive technology. It is extremely malleable and easy to shape for artistic purposes. It’s ductility makes it easy to draw through a die or pound into leaf so it can be made into chain links or leaf to be applied to another material. It resists tarnish and is non-reactive in the presence of most acids. It is rare compared to most other metals available to pre-industrial societies so it has scarcity value. All of these properties make it better than alternatives for jewellery and for thousands of years gold was valuable because it could be made into appealing jewellery while metals of equal rarity were not hoarded and made into jewellery.
Some tokens have non-zero utility. Example: FileCoin, Ethereum etc.
That's what I thought of, as well. It's always a terrible deal for the city.
But only a one-way retail value. No diamond dealer will give you anything close to their retail price, when you try to sell them diamonds.
Could you give an example of how to do what you're saying with the current testnet lightning network? Let's say I've installed the client, connected to the endurance hub (or to someone who has a connection to it) .. okay, now what do I need to do so I can get paid through the hub?

If I understood you correctly, you seem to be missing the fact that a hub has to separately lock up money with every node that it's connected to, if that node expects to be paid through the hub. That is an absolutely stunning amount of money for any popular lightning hub. Even if the hub is super-rich and super-benevolent, I have no way of asking it to lock up some funds on our channel, and the hub has no way of knowing that I want to accept payments through that route. If anyone tries to pay me, they'll just get a "no route found" error message even if a route exists, because that route is not funded at every edge.

A single buyer opening a channel with both me and the hub doesn't help unless the hub has funded its side of the channnel with that buyer, AND the buyer has funded his side of the channel with my coffee shop. Now we have twice as much money locked up -- and I still don't see how the hub will decide with whom to lock up its own funds.
"but most people will benefit (every single landlord, lots of businesses that will sell stuff, and all the people that would move and get a job there)"

That's far, far from "most people". Landlords, for instance, would benefit, due to being able to charge higher rents. But everyone else in that town that rents would not benefit. And I dare say there are more renters than there are landlords.
Just wait until LN is enabled.
I also switched back to firefox a few weeks ago and I'm not impressed.

* Performance is really not that good. I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive).

* Scroll-wheel to switch between tabs is gone.

* No multi-tab management (shift/ctrl+click to select and move multiple tabs) like Chrome has

* Firefox's UI on Android is utter garbage, so I haven't been able to switch there which defeats the point of having browser sync. [it leaves zero space for the url bar, all taken by useless buttons which Chrome cleverly hides under the menu button]
I guess this is bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417442 ? If so that looks like it’ll be fixed in 59.
Same here - first thing I did when v58 came out was check to see if CPU usage was lowered, which it unfortunately wasn't.

I see no reason why CPU activity should spike to 20% every few seconds with one blank tab open and no extensions enabled.
that’s fine. stay away from crypto then.
You're right that third-party trackers aren't that reliable, and I do my own log analytics for the easy/important stuff, but I'm not about to roll my own New Relic.

This also seems bad for early-stage startups, where developer time is severely limited.
I'm not arguing it will. I'm arguing it can function as a store of value despite not being used to buy things, or having a secondary material usage.
Last time I was in an Amazon Book store, BOTH prices were displayed on the shelf - Prime and regular. Has this changed?
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We've seen this on select AMD (https://bugzil.la/1417442) and Nvidia (https://bugzil.la/1422850) video cards. What GPU and driver version are you running?
I find the Routines feature can be quite useful, especially if they are performing multiple tasks. I just added "start work" and "quitting time" to toggle my office lights. I wanted to use "work time" in place of "start work" but that sounded too much like "what time" to Alexa. Routines are also useful for controlling my TV and media devices with my Harmony Hubs (although don't get me started on how you have to use a third party service to control each additional Harmony Hub you have).
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Take a city like San Antonio. Austin is 80 miles north. Amazon puts HQ2 in the northern suburbs and suddenly you have a major tech corridor along I-35 that will bring growth and investment along with it, bridging the two cities ala San Francisco-San Jose-Berkeley. You would have a similar effect with Milwaukee and Chicago. Sometimes a city becomes so outgrown and gentrified (like Seattle, hence the new HQ) it makes sense to set up shop nearby.

The next best thing is they set up HQ in southern Austin or northern Chicago (both shortlisted cities), and those cities benefit from residual investment.
It's like saying a barrel of oil or a truckload of grain have no inherent use, because I'm not personally going to do anything with it.

A gold bar has inherent use because there are (and, more importantly, will be) people who will buy it to smelt it and make jewelry.
there's definitely some hype and word of mouth involved in corporate valuations. but it's at least somewhat based in reality.
As you know, disabling SIP is not the best idea. I spent several hours one night hacking my macbook that had MS office installed. I created a malicious excel file following a tutorial, got reverse shell, but couldn't break out of the SIP sandbox. I have serious respect for the Devs of SIP. Windows would be a lot more secure if it had something like SIP that makes it very hard to escalate from a low priv shell to admin.
If you're in the US, you might have heard of Starker exchanges (a.k.a. 1031 or like-kind). It's a method to defer realization of capital gains, usually on real estate. There are outfits that will help you form a multi-party exchange to match impedances between people who want to buy/sell properties, but some want to trade and some want to exchange for money.

Similar with organ donations. I might not match my wife's blood type, but I can donate a kidney to some other random person if there's a network that matches someone with my wife' blood type to her.

These are all the same idea.
I've been using uMatrix for this job for a while now. I find it much better than I ever found RequestPolicy, but of course YMMV.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
actually if people started not viewing gold as a store of value but just as a raw material like aluminum it’s price would tank.
Font rendering any better in 58?

I was trying Firefox 57 after release on OS X 10.11.6 and it seems like it was giving me eye strain which I strongly presume is the fort rendering. Firefox 52 and Chrome 63 seem to be unaffected.
Judging from Crunchbase[0], it looks like this company did a pretty interesting pivot:

"Bolt is an online payments platform which allows users to make payments through digital currencies such as bitcoin.

Bolt wants to give e-commerce retailers a better shot at competing with Amazon."

Can anybody at Bolt talk about that transition? Why is there less focus on digital currencies? Any interesting success/failure stories of eccommerce companies using digital currencies?

Always happy to hear about successful pivots.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bolt-5
Did you ever require care that was not covered by insurance or maxed out your coverage? Or have an expensive pre-existing condition? There's certainly an element of luck involved, especially when it comes to the US healthcare system!
^---I came here to say this. It's a terrific museum -- we basically won World War II because we produced ships faster than the Axis. (And it's nice to see a museum that recognizes the role of civilians in the war effort.)

Really a lot to think about at that museum...
Why do you say that? My email provider (fastmail) supports two-factor auth. Beyond that, I use a long password generated by my password manager. Why am I less secure than a Gmail user?

I think security is much more dependent on user configuration. If my password is "passw0rd" then I'll be fairly insecure regardless of my provider. Likewise, since I have 2FA set up, I'm better off, regardless of provider.
Related to the Coinbase/insider trading noise around BCH a few weeks ago, it seems strange for Stripe to plug other alt-coins (OMG, Stellar, etc) in the post as things they view as "promising" and "imagine enabling support for". I don't think it's illegal nor unethical personally, but it is such a dicey topic that I'm surprised to see someone writing without a mountain of disclaimers on an official Stripe communication channel.
> Also, people forget that the first cars were electric.

There were early (earlier than internal combustion) electric cars, but external combustion (steam) cars were even earlier (both prototype and practical vehicles.)
Our old, hidden URL site, had the slanted style for the last 2+ years before their redesign: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qM3lAjCdSuTPAU-R9S2THrD83Zd...

Is pretty consistent with our style today.