skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct. Today, merchants are on the line for any fraud that they incur. When you call your bank to report fraudulent activity, the merchant is out the goods + has to pay fees/fines + has to return the money + deals with paperwork overhead. Bolt completely eliminates all of that. We're taking a stand to end fraud and take on all the liability for our clients.
I agree with everything johnklos said and I do the same for the same reasons.

I enforce TLS for certain domains and sometimes for all domains, depending on if I am subscribing to something for the first time and unsure if they support TLS.

I read emails with strings and more. If there isn't a plain text version, I just delete it.
There are already more than 2000 bitcoin ATMs https://coinatmradar.com/
He really needs to find a COO. He needs his Tim Cook. This is a good way to show shareholders he's all in, but he's not a genius at Operations, he needs to find someone who is.
>One in three smartphone users in India run out of space on their phones daily

Damn that's a lot of good mornings. Are they saying it to everybody else in the country??
ad 1) with a lot of people having more than one device, why not a block-chain app between just your devices to make sure information is shared between them correctly? It's all about finding a valid use-case, barely anyone does though.
The original gumdrop iMac's predated the iPod by 3 years and were EVERYWHERE.
But he talked about that too...
>I always feel bad when I read some of Taleb's work and come away empty

Took the words right out of my mouth. His recent thoughts/tweets on Deep Learning were even more confusing.
Out of curiosity, why not Google Cast ==> Google Home or Chromecast Audio?
I experience the "overgeneralized results" issue multiple times every week for maybe the past year. It frustrates me every time. If I have to click Tools > All Results > Verbatim every time, frankly I am ready to switch search engines. I am afraid to say that Google has really let itself go.
Yep. The author gives reasons for Amazon's decisions. I wanted a pricing discussion. My bad
> Why should your health care be determined by your employer? It's a ludicrous system that should have died decades ago.

Yeah but it's being replaced by insurance that is utterly unaffordable for a lot of contract employees. If we want to decouple health insurance and employers (and we should) then we should be proactively working out what that looks like in the future.
>>a guy who's skipped the React, Angular, Vue hypes

This is the root of your consternation. Like everything in our industry - experiment, build, then judge. I was a naysayer initially too. Then I tried React, Redux, styled-components, etc. and now I'm a believer. Combine this with modern CSS like Flexbox and CSS Grid and it truly is a golden age of web development!
Get paid for writing short stories with this Nigerian app
Brave also started to get annoying by always asking for donations to content creators. So I think i will drop it and continue FF Quantum + uBlock + noScript
Sometimes talking about cars someone brings that up the other way around - rear wheels 'propel', the commonly used 'traction' is about the front wheels pulling the car ...
Google Home Max is $399. The price reflects the speaker quality.

Although the HomePod has only one woofer inside while Google Home Max has two and can create a stereo image.
Have you tried Startpage? Lets you Google search via their proxy servers, no issues with tor/vpn that I recall.
The government provides incentives (tax exemption) for employer provided insurance, which distorts the market. Seems like extending that benefit to freelancers or eliminating it entirely would be extremely helpful.
https://www.mercatus.org/publication/tax-exemption-employer-...
What? The entire ledger is publicly visible. If the government can figure out your public key they can see every transaction you've ever made.
what information can the get from a home speaker that they can't already get from your phone if they wanted? do you not have a phone?
I don't agree at all, and even if having an employer is better for economies of scale this doesn't mean we should force employers to give benefits (employers could negotiate deals and propose them to their employees).

The economies of scale argument is not always a good argument because you need to specify where does the deal cut comes from. I think it comes from the fact that the overhead in negotiating a huge amount of contracts is more amortized. So we could have this kind of good deals if independents find a way to reunite themselves. Otherwise the economies of scale argument could basically be the answer to everything ("We need a worldwide government because of economies of scale").

Who knows what we people will find to address this issue. Maybe we'll have coworking space packages with benefits ?
From your much more informative link:

It does things like track where the mouse is moving on the page, whether someone is copying and pasting information into the fields, whether they’re making typos, how fast they’re typing, and many other factors. By analyzing customer behavioral patterns, Bolt says it has a better shot at stopping fraud than just asking for the billing address.

I wonder how this handles autocomplete? In a sense it would be a good sign if the browser already knows given and family names etc., but could that be differentiated from a quick (perhaps extension-assisted) cut'n'paste?
What a disrespectful tweet. If this were about a minority group, there'd be outrage.
> they want to make a really incredible speaker

Incredible by what standards? It's not even stereo. Nowhere does it mention perhaps the most important metric for audio quality, namely RMS audio power output. The tiny size alone pretty much guarantees that the amplifier will suck.

I'm very confident that e.g. a combination of Klipsch R-15M speakers, Yamaha R-S202 amplifier and a Chromecast Audio will knock its socks off. And that's a setup which you can order on Amazon today, it costs exactly the same, and it can do perfect multi-room out of the box.
I’m assuming you haven’t looked into the Kodak ICO? It’s actually quite well done.
Because city number 21 will race to the bottom and win the bid.
Or: people who paid Apple's $99 developer fee? Hardly a group of "chosen people". This would make sense if you were talking about something like CarPlay, but there's no discrimination here other than the one I mentioned.
For non-salary workers, in your "8 hour" work day there is a certain mandated amount of break time. X minutes per Y hours, for example, plus time for lunch. They might have taken 8 hours and subtracted two 15-minute breaks.

I'm not sure if the 8 hours is intended to be (8h + X break time), or (8h - X break time); I thought it was the former, but but might be mistaken. That's probably where the GP got their 7.5 from.
Not similar at all. The regulatory burden on insurance companies is orders of magnitude more immense than that of auto makers. The complexity of insurance and the software products used in the industry make the auto industry seem like tinker toys.
> why not a block-chain app between just your devices to make sure information is shared between them correctly

Blockchain is ONLY a public verified ledger.

A peer to peer blockchain is not public verified. This is running a server on your phone.
We can't have a reasonable conversation about it because it's a zero-sum war between labor and capital. It's not possible to decide issues such as benefits on the basis of what's best for the economy because where the benefits come from doesn't have a big macro-economic impact. What this argument is about is who gets how much of the pie.
Most large insurers barely provide any insurance any more. Most of their customers are self insured employers. The "insurance" company just administers claims without bearing much risk. Approving a claim doesn't directly impact their profits. So their interests are better aligned with patients than you think.
Wow, I expected Mr. "I don't eat or drink anything that hasn't been around for 1000 years" to write a lot more negative on this. I completely agree with the statement that even if bitcoin itself fails, cryptocurrencies will ultimately succeed.
Because the non-collusive city will come out ahead in this prisoner dilemma.
This, about the mental overhead. So much.

@Sarrah: I put some of my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16214892
Advertising. But not via tracking and personalization. They show ads to you based on the keywords you used to search and don’t follow you around the web.
In practice people use different apps for different purposes, and isn't that a good thing? Why do it all in Facebook?
Does >; have an ascii name? Symbol Hound isn't bringing up any useful results.
I remember people saying "Only eMachines can do the internet. That's why they have 'e' in their name, duh!"

And remember "Dot Com Guy?" Some dude in Dallas who as a publicity stunt pledged to stay in his house for an entire year and just live off of stuff ordered online? Today, that's quaint. Back then the very notion of ordering a pizza on your computer was like flying cars.
If by drive you mean not fall over, yes. If you mean actual routing, avoiding collisions and reacting to unexpected situations, very much no.
I dearly thought he bureaucratic system would have ejected current president though. It didn't protect much IMO.
There's no direct control of the device; i.e. apps are not run directly on the device. Rather, developers leverage SiriKit for a limited set of actions.
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Read this as a comment from a cryptocurrency lurker.

> Bitcoin Cash, which is the true bitcoin.

I see this statement repeated often, to the point of sounding like a strategy of "if you repeat a lie enough, people will believe it". Isn't Bitcoin Cash the minority result of a Bitcoin fork? Isn't the majority result by definition the true Bitcoin?
No central design! (God doesn't count)
So it's not really zero fraud, Bolt just covers the cost of fraud.
You don't need a block chain to do this. Every iPhone and Android have this capability and it works quite well.
There have been attempts to do this. Flattr and Patreon come to mind. I currently actively support a few people on Patreon.
The iced tea company was the first to stumble upon the fact that adding "blockchain" to your company's name and making no other significant changes could boost your shares by 50% instantly. They have some plausible deniability that they truly intended to pivot the company and didn't know it'd have those effects.
Just launched a couple hours ago. Thanks for the find, and I agree fully with the sentiment.

Docs are now fully public: https://docs.bolt.com/

Pricing varies depending on volume, risk, and a number of different factors given the complexity of payments (and that we're taking on full liability). But after a short call we provide a very simple flat rate with no BS. As much as we'd like to do one price, given the nature of our product, it's just not viable at this time.
The Python version blows up if the slot isn't already populated. The Perl version works in either case (there is a typo in the Perl code though).
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Ads of course. Bot not as greedy as google. Not tracking every fingerprint of you. They just show sponsored search results according to your search terms at that moment, in contrast to your whole browsing history/habits.
But this is neither about crypto-based currencies nor it it (really) about the block-chain. It is about fraud, the SECs comment is a warning to publicly traded companies who consider to increase their stock valuation by claiming to work on stuff which (other) people (falsely?) believe to be a game changer while they are not (really) working on it or there is no reason to believe they could actually pull it off.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

― George Bernard Shaw

Not all great decisions are rational, follow your heart be happy

For me, Python is an uninspiring language, yet it inspired many people to build great things, a decision that to me, sound so .. irrational
I know you said you don't need them, but what features are we missing?
Is it always the case that more variables are necessary better? After some sweet spot, with more variables false correlations increase exponentially.
Interesting thoughts but I think "the sum of transaction fees people will spend in the future" is better as a value for mining (after rewards go to 0). "Holders" really aren't wanting anything to do with transactions.

My Bitcoin valuation:

Bitcoin is worth as much as it costs to move to another blockchain.

That's the "first-mover advantage" basically and I'm afraid it's much closer to $200 million than $200 billion.
Discover and Capital One are probably the best cards to use for foreign purchases if you live in the US (I only use my Discover IT or Capital One QuickSilver for purchases in foreign currency or that charge from a foreign bank), some banks offer no-FX fee cards but typically they're tied to specific rewards programs (often travel) that might not be as useful.
New smart windows darken in the sun–and generate electricity at the same time
Yes, that would be great as well but I’ve long since given up on that happening.
Microsoft has contracted their German Azure region to Deutsche Telekom (which is clearly a separate company) and claims to not be able to access the data. An arrangement similar to this (where basically the brand and technology is used by an actually independent company) could be possible.
Non-mining nodes still enforce the consensus rules. Miners can't just decide to increase the block size or change the total # of bitcoin to 42 million.
Look at the history of labor and the 40 hour week. You have to pick a standard, otherwise the pick will default to employers who will choose ever increasing hours for a fixed salary. If we pick one together it's easier than standing as a lone worker saying 7.5 is reasonable.

Modern civilization has advanced, why should the work week stay at 40 (and eroding in many workplaces in America?)
So let's pull down reference:

Not to be against state's rights here, but isn't Net Neutrality anti-business?
>> generalization, but specific to a yes/no. No politics, but setting aside states vs. federal overlap and differences
>> Net Neutrality hits at the heart of overlap. That was a tactile approach to ask a question w/o saying Trump, Democrats suck, Republicans Suck .. etc.

If a state goes it alone, does it risk pro-business components who might leave the state?
>> How is THIS political? I ask the risk for analysis
>> to help me expand the dynamic understand that is required for Net Neutrality to have an informed view. NN IS political, and I'm trying to understand the longer view of its implications to each part. THAT is neutral.

Curiosity vs. equality slant, so not looking to pick a bone here. Real question ..
>> Lastly ... I stated my intent. Intent is either what sets you free ... or lands you in jail.
>> In this case, I used intent to direct towards WHY is NN so controversial and how can we make it LESS controversial.
>>I don't understand people that don't like open-minded requests for help in understanding the broader strokes of very BROAD topics. It's the nuances ... not the prickly parts .. that make for good conversation.
Are you the author of the blog post, or are you involved somehow in this event?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
Totally agree. He seems to think highly enough of his own intelligence that he's excused from being precise or even intelligible
Insurance profits seems to make up only about 1% of our total private healthcare expenditures. However, that doesn't take into account the amount of those healthcare expenditures that are being spent to generate those profits rather than to provide healthcare. It also doesn't account for the additional costs to non-insurers from systemic problems created and maintained insurers to increase their profits. (E.G. pushing filing/approval costs onto physician's offices or systemically fixing prices).

So while Insurance company profits are not the direct cause of the outlandish healthcare costs in the US, they are a huge contributor to our problem and a core driver for many of it's multitudinous factors.
UK councils still relying on Windows 7
> Well, presumably working class people are as able as anyone else to decide what is in their best interest.

This is a fallacious argument based on the assumption that people are all engaged and informed, which is not the case, and working class people aren't alone in that.

People make decisions based on the information environment available to them. When your information environment consists of The Sun and The Daily Mail making up fictional anti-EU anti-immigrant headlines (then issuing retractions a few weeks later in small print) then your decisions are being... framed... by a very small number of very influential people.

You can try and argue that propoganda doesn't work, but you'd be arguing against the history of the 20th century, from Goebbels to Madison Avenue.

> With Grenfell, exactly the same cladding that exacerbated the fire has been applied to buildings in Labour as well as Conservative boroughs.

I haven't seen reports on that.

> And the cladding only existed in the first place to meet climate change targets.

What's the relevance of this? Are you blaming climate change now?

> I really don't think that you can claim that Grenfell is a party political issue.

Nonsense. Go listen to Mogg argue for fire safety deregulation. He wouldn't be able to do that as a Labour MP, and he certainly wouldn't garner support.
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19 or so employees? Is this an acqu-hire? My concern is that the market for middleware tools like this is really small and not really enough to support 19 employees.

I worry that this makes it more expensive to run cloud servers if each cloud server needs to run the simulation for the users involved. Now instead of some simple message passing and synchronization, it needs to run CPU intensive physical simulations.

I am not completely convinced that this is to integrate this into UE4 but rather to give this team an out and add employee headcount to fast growing Epic Games.
For context let´s get into the Bitcoin "Slang" including "pump and dump".

7 Popular Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency "Slang" Terms via CNBC [1:35 duration]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhesgGZw2A
Yes, during the dotcom boom you could see a spectrum of behaviour, including at one edge companies that were almost purely a scam, basically "We're going to do this perfectly ordinary business, but _Internet_ so give us piles of cash" and at the other conventional businesses that really were heavily Internet related and only tweaked how they described their existing Internet work or moved that to the top of a document, such as Microsoft or Google.

In the middle somewhere a good example is Be Incorporated. During the 1990s Jean-Louis Gassee had founded this startup with VC money to pursue a new operating system and basically prove Apple (who he'd previously worked for) wrong. By the end of the century JLG's funding was running out, the VCs didn't want any more risk, Apple had chosen to take back Steve Jobs instead of him, and it looked as though Be would go out of business shortly, but the dotcom book offered a "Hail Mary" play.

Be re-wrote its history and produced IPO paperwork that emphasised this as an Internet technology offering in the heart of the dotcom boom. Be's future was now in the promising (but it turns out in the end, totally irrelevant and now forgotten) Internet Appliance market, they pivoted from their previous work (developing a personal computer operating system nobody was using), they went from talking about TCP/IP as a specialist corner case few users would care about to prioritising it as the main focus of their system, and so on.

It didn't work, Be Inc. ceased business after burning all the IPO cash and laid off all its employees without shipping any significant new products. But without the dotcom boom, that would all have happened much earlier, when the VC money ran out. Ordinary people who foolishly purchased Be Inc. shares in the IPO or shortly afterwards lost their shirts, and the VCs got their money back.
Kodak had a very original idea to use blockchain technology to complement their existing business, targeting the same customers. It was done well enough that I bet they can provide a paper-trail of the idea that pre-dates what happened to the iced tea company's stock. They might get investigated, but I would bet confidently they'll walk away clean.
But he indeed is mostly talking about the idea/concept behind Bitcoin (that could be translated as "blockchain based assets") rather than necessarily Bitcoin itself. He doesn't discard Bitcoin as not having these qualities, but he also doesn't state that only Bitcoin is capable of it.
> If this were about a minority group, there'd be outrage

People don't get a say on which race or gender (edit: sex) they're born as. That's partly why race and gender are protected classes. "People who own Bitcoin" isn't a protected class.
No?

In that statement, Taleb uses his conclusion as a premise. That doesn't make his reasoning stronger.
Because the cities are rivals in a competition for Amazon's HQ, not colleagues who all stand to benefit from a collective bargain. In this case, there will be one winner so the incentive to cooperate is greatly diminished.
This isn't a prisoner's dilemma, the cities are allowed to talk to each other, and to gang up to punish those who break ranks.
Hell, China could reprice electricity rates for mining. That alone would almost do it.
You should read Taleb until you understand the important part of his message is not to listen too much to people like Taleb.
Hi, could you mind writing some examples, please?
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Sheesh, anyone schooled by Scrooge McDuck comics - Taleb's demographic is a pretty sure bet - would hit that bit of money history before puberty.
It's “innovative” because it serves people who are already fully invested in the Apple ecosystem, rather than either the Google or Amazon ecosystem, or not being deeply attached to many of those ecosystems.
Things I want from HomePod:

1) To work with only the tracks I have downloaded in my iTunes library. Currently I have to use a 3rd party music player because the stock music player won't respect my wishes in this regard.

2) To be able to turn Siri off

3) To sync with an existing audio system, so that I can play music through my home audio system in my living room, and HomePods in my bedroom and bathroom

4) To avoid the weird situation where latency causes music to not sound synced, so that if I'm listening in one room, I'm not hearing music from the other room with a half-second delay.

I am hopeful on all counts except for the first one. Apple seems dead set on forcing their idea of music enjoyment onto me. Then again, perhaps the behavior forcing me onto a third party player is/was just a bug.