skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reserve cryptocurrency of the internet needs to be fast and offer cheap transactions

The most important things about any cryptocurrency are decentralization and censorship-resistance. Without those two, you might as well be running a PayPal clone in a datacenter. That way, you get the fastest and cheapest transactions possible.

> so that it can easily and cheaply be moved between exchanges.

Exchanges can set up big payment channels between one another and do instant Bitcoin transfers. However, since they operate in a regulatory environment, this may never happen.

If you don't subscribe to the bitcoin-dev mailing list, then you're missing out on the latest developments toward scalability and privacy, which are really exciting.
Paypal steak does not sound like it would taste good
Totally agree. I did government research for a while and published papers. Don't exclude them - anyone at the intersection of government work and research is likely to have meaningful contributions to this website.
> I guarantee Jony uses a case.

Doubt it. For one, he can just get a new iPhone if his breaks, and two, he takes a lot of pride in his work. He's not going to go and cover it up.
This is not actually the case. APFS can continue to behave as a case-INsensitive partition (check the options when creating a new APFS volume), and remains so for the system partition, I guess specifically to avoid any hard-to-debug compatibility issues.
Another view is that if you're still bag-holding, you're asking for it.
Is it wrong that I first thought it would be about using smartphones for social stimulation, that has slowly become an addiction?
I did, soccer as a kid. I didn't enjoy it much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

Vi Hart's incredible explanation of the modern medium (youtube) and how it affects the message, and the wise words (probably written by McLuhan) in Edmund Snow Carpenter's "They Became What They Beheld".
My question to you is: have you used Face ID? What makes you prefer a fingerprint reader on the back to it?
I'm actually pretty competitive, I just cant get over why anyone would get competitive about something with no long term value or meaning - it just doesn't register with me.

(Edit: I guess people take umbrage at my dislike of sports - my lack of enjoyment in nowway is judging you for enjoying - its more a broad sense of bewilderment)
Raiblocks aka Nano is a scam.

"Distribution is complete" - how was the supply created and distributed?

https://raiblocks.net/page/frontiers.php?limit=100

Basically someone created Raiblocks by forking another DAG 'blockchain' database, and allocated themselves millions of coins spread across many addresses. A few thousand coins were given to the public if they clicked captchas.

These people who generated raiblocks / nano are now essentially multi-level marketeers trying to convince you to buy their beanie babies.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=raiblock+captch...

Remember, anytime you buy a cryptocurrency means someone else is trying to cash out.
You have hit the mark. And it isn't just exceptional circumstances; there is a skill and expectation distribution amongst human drivers that can be eliminated here.

We don't really care about the best human drivers. The challenge is preventing the worst human drivers from sitting behind the wheel and eliminating edge cases where an otherwise competent driver is not fit to drive due to some personal circumstance.
What's so infuriating about this is that it seems like they go out of their way to make the back of the phone slippery. The metal back of the iPhone 6 and 6s is like teflon and the glass on the X is almost as slippery. Why? I have an old iPhone 4 sitting on the shelf that I occasionally pickup just to marvel at how it sticks in your hand. They proved it could be done years ago.
Let me clarify then.

In order to connect to a remote machine (in this case, a website) your computer must make a TCP connection to the remote server.

A TCP connection requires a three-way handshake to begin. This requires the sender (you) send a TCP SYN packet. If you "spoof" your IP address, the SYN ACK will never reach your machine, and you will therefore never be able to ACK back (with your "spoofed" IP). Because you never get this SYN ACK back with the servers initial sequence number, you will not be able to ACK back with the correct sequence number to even connect in the first place.

I'm fairly convinced you don't know how basic networking principals work, or at least do not know the difference between spoofing and proxying.
2001 - 22.96 billion / 11.01 operating income
2017 - 90 billion / 22.3 operating income

I would love getting the crap beat out of me with my legacy junk and these figures.
In the sense that if I were god emperor I would have made a law against it.
Compact mode, which Reddit also offers, is an easy way to satisfy both camps. Set the default to whatever your users prefer (determine this with A/B testing) and allow the other choice in Settings.
That was my first thought as well.

Is there any good reason why these opportunities for follow-on investment might have higher expected returns than, e.g. putting the same amount of money into other seed investments? e.g. is it possible that if you participate in the follow-on, that you get some extra leverage to convert your previous shares into a more favourable class?
They're not squircles, though.
Superb reminder of the difficulty of true NLP. Google Translate is an amazing and very useful tool, but machines have a long way to go before they really understand language.

Example sentence used by article:

> In their house, everything comes in pairs. There’s his car and her car, his towels and her towels, and his library and hers
Note: Right now the Bitcoin mempool is nearly empty. It looks like 5 sat/b will make it to the next block.
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> You have to have a strong nose for bitrot and ruthlessly filter garbage out of the firehose, to work in web development today.

This is a big test for the development community, and I don't know how it resolves. Are discerning coders who've seen this fad cycle before just going to have hold their noses and pretend to be gung-ho about the latest fad, or do they stick to their principles and say "Yeah, I'd use that if we had a good reason, but I just don't know many..."?

Bear in mind, doing the latter just means some idiot who's read six lines of a blog post from TechCrunch is going to come in there repeating "blockchain" and "Kubernetes" non-stop until they get hired on the spot.

We have a lot of people who've been misled into believing "copy Google and magical fairy unicorns will fly out of your butt" crawling all over this community, including a lot of under-experienced developers themselves who apparently don't realize that they're reaching outside of their comfort zone with this.

It's very hard to find a company that isn't trying to get Kubernetes-ified as fast as they can. If you go into an interview and say that you're so-so on Kubernetes, it'd be like saying you don't like Node in 2014 or that you don't like Mongo in 2012 -- you're out the door. Every company needs to be like the cool kids and get the magic of the Great Googly Kubernetes smeared on themselves.

This is of course very silly and bad from a technical standpoint, but it seems to primarily be about social standing. That's why something like EKS is so good. They just fork over some cash to Amazon and then they can tell everyone that they too use Kubernetes, and all of Google's hard-fought marketing effort goes down the tubes, since users are still glued to Amazon's platform.
Woah. That's pretty impressive. It makes me want to try programming something with it even though I've never played magic and don't know the rules.
re: your edit; it's not necessarily true that deaths/distance is a better way to assess how terrible humans are at driving. People who are able to drive many miles (relative to the average) likely drive regularly on the interstate, which has been designed to make driving as decision-free as possible, even at high speeds.

Maybe the author's fault was to use deaths as a metric when accidents would have been far more telling of how frequently humans commit errors while driving, especially the kind of errors that computers do not make. Namely, computers make far fewer errors the more regular and controlled the operating conditions. Humans, on the other hand, can get into even more accidents the closer they are to their own home.
You are correct. I was looking at the wrong data. Etherium is currently doing more transactions. Thanks crypto kitties.
So they have to buy someone. WAY too hard and expensive to start from scratch. Let’s say they buy T-Mobile.

What are Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T going to do? If you’re Apple do you think they’re going to be willing to do lots of promotion with you? You’re now a direct competitor.

Maybe they’ll take you out of their stores. Maybe they’ll raise the price. Maybe they’ll just push other phones REALLY hard. Your sales are going to go down no matter what.

It’s nice you on the whole network, but now you have to support all these other phones. Do you think Apple Mobile wants to be in the business of selling in supporting Android phones? Maybe they kicked everyone off, maybe they just try and encourage people to move over to the Apple side of the fence. Either way you’re losing customers.

Your sales are down. Your customer count in mobile is down. The carriers are as mad at you or worse than they were when you first came around and suddenly had a lot of power. Your network isn’t good enough so the people who do stick with you or move to you aren’t going to have a great time because you simply don’t have a really big network. It’s going to take A LOT of time and money to fix that. You have money, but will people be willing to wait around?

If Apple wanted to do this they would’ve had to do it years ago when the iPhone with still relatively new.

And again, I don’t see the DOJ ever letting Apple do this. Ignoring questions of political goodwill towards Apple (which is VERY short), it would be a giant shake up of the mobile market.

Let’s say it works. Let’s say they’re allowed to actually buy T-Mobile. Now what? Is Google going to try and buy a carrier? We already know that Comcast wants to be in the cell phone game, are they going to try and buy a cell phone maker?

The stupidly large companies that shouldn’t be getting larger by taking over other industries problem will just continue.

I really like Apple. I do not want this to happen. And for the reasons above I don’t think they will do it.
John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google
A Wristband to Track Workers’ Hand Movements? (Amazon Has Patents for It)
Always wondered. Thanks!
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Yeah I think they've saturated the actual home stay sector for now. It's very hard and limited to create demand for anything, especially a rather new lodging offering.

So they're pushing this experience stuff to try and differentiate and go for more growth as you mentioned along w restaurant bookings.

It's annoying to me as well as a host and a renter. If they aren't careful they could cede market share to other competitors that allow and welcome host and renters to easily connect outside their system and remain focused on lodging.

I don't understand their UX approach since it's easy enough to ask what the user is looking for and make it dynamic instead of blasting experiences everywhere. Or not be so pushy on experiences if I start a lodging search. Push it after.
If you're using Firefox, open 'about:config' and set 'network.http.sendRefererHeader' to 0.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendRefererHeader
Yeah I like his style but they really all seem like opinion pieces with no sources whatsoever.

I still enjoy them but they are barely technically documentaries.
> As someone that digs in this data for a living, personally strongly believe this should be on by default for all browsing.

Yeah, but it may surprise you to know that your opinion isn't shared by the people who own the computers in question, or the private data you're digging in.

Your personal strong belief is, in this case, utterly irrelevant.
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Can you provide more info on this? To what extent do you see difficulty falling?
How exactly would you hack or compromise bitcoin?
> Looks like AWS is their Golden Goose

Which makes me curious about Google's strategy regarding Cloud. Ads are cash cow of Google, particularly for commercial queries. As more and more product searches start on Amazon, this cash cow is threatened.

So them trying to go after Amazon's Cloud business now make even more sense. Only difference is that Google leadership doesn't seem as ruthless as Bezos. Else, they'd have cut margins on their Cloud offerings to near zero in order to undercut Amazon.
Stripe has never been European, it was always headquartered and operated out of the US.

It'd be like claiming that SpaceX is South African.

https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/the-collison-brothers-and-...
It sort of feels like "format policing", a la "tone policing". Like the mere way Curtis presents his ideas invalidates them somehow.
Seems Google has update their translation model?

For the Chinese one, at least:

>> After one year of working in Tsinghua University, Zhong Shu was transferred to Mao's translation committee to live in the city and back to school on weekends. He still holds the post of graduate student.

The leader of the Mao Selected Translation Committee is Comrade Xu Yonglian. Introducing Zhong Shu to do this job is Tsinghua classmate Qiao Guanghua.

On the appointed day, after dinner, an old friend hired a rickshaw to come from the city to congratulate. After the guests go, Zhong book said to me in fear:

He thought I had to do a "Southern study walk." This is not a good thing to do.

>>

Now they correctly singles out person's name, "锺书(Zhong Shu)", as comparing to transliterate it as Book(meaning of the character Shu). Even with that 南书房行走，IMO, it did a not bad job, at least knowing it is its own entity, not to break into parts then translate.

As a native speaker, the style of the example text provided is quite elegant and old-school. 南书房行走 is a very confusing phrase, it looks like a verb but used as a noun phrase, and without context, it is hard for me to tell the meaning of it.

The updated version of the translation is pretty serviceable. Google Translate works best with functional text, like news/report, etc. Not quite there with literature, which is well known, probably on purpose. As someone works on MT project, this quality is pretty amazing. I won't necessarily say it is shallow, TBH.
Not when it was that price 2 months earlier. Why wouldn't you expect a rapid decent immediately following a skyrocket?
Part of me really wants this to be called the nether region... </joke>
I used to run Ubuntu on a Macbook Air.

The battery lasted significantly longer when I switched back to OSX.
I always considered causality less as a binary thing that was always 0 until $somethreshold was crossed, and more of a bayesian (or other) probability model.

Since in many cases we don't have the evidence for a deductive conclusion, we must often rely on inductive logic, even while still seeking the evidence until we can switch to deductive.
Has the same crazy jitter on Mobile Safari. Is there a browser that it does work right in? Chrome?
Awesome. Thanks for replying. I'll definitely be watching your team at work :)
Have you contacted DO support? You may want to dig deeper into finding a root cause for this.
It would be significant if crypto was like the traditional stock market.
Yeah it's hard to imagine having good natured debates around social justice topics in America these days. I once went to a museum event where the staff dressed like renaissance scientists and humorously debated whether the "celestial spheres" rotate around the earth or the sun. It's hard to imagine a similar event about the more politicized subjects of our time.

Perhaps the question is: should we?
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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sport

You seem to have invented criteria with meaning to you, but that’s all. Then again, people have decided that tomatoes are vegetables, and that’s fine I guess. Mostly though it just seems that “sport” has a certain cache and “not a sport” is often used in a derogatory manner, which is a shame. A lot of people seem to have accepted the notion that the only skillful, valuable forms of competition are sports, and their language reflects that.

ESPN has a much simpler definition based on a, “can we make some money here?” test. For me? I’m not a fan of most popular sports, but I do love games. I don’t see the need to butcher the language for the sake of broad acceptance, or a buck.
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I would actually be surprised: Putin has the redeeming quality of autocrats, he doesn’t complain about trivial things. He certainly instruments threats, made-up or otherwise, and he might occasionally get people excited over confusing displays of nationalism, like that foreign food strike last year, but the whole message around it was grave.

Saying that a freckled teenager in California can challenge his popularity by writing nonsense on the internet… it’s unbecoming.
So, I would expect podcast ads to be roughly comparable to Spotify ads and, for Spotify, paying subscribers bring in 3x more revenue than those who get ads. And for me podcasts are a direct substitute for music, in that I listen to them on the train when I would otherwise be listening to music.

I see your point about onboarding. I wonder if one of them could just ingest all the podcasts on the internet, strip out ads and collect revenue for them, and then offer them a way to claim the revenue and/or opt-out.
Sounds about right, FRP was originally formulated around events and behaviors all the way back in 1997! Great credit to Conal Elliott and the late Paul Hudak for that.
You're comparing apples and oranges, too. OP was talking about functional facial unlocking
Does this school of thought originate in the US? I realize it’s based on the Frankfurt school but I’m not sure if it was always so militant.
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As far as I can tell, the founders are Irish but the company has always been American.
The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
>certainly not stagnant

Hmm. Maybe I'm misinformed? What kind of innovative things have they done recently? As a PayPal merchant, the UI is still a clunky mix of old and new, and weird session errors and logging in twice, etc. We just barely got past SHA1 certs.
Don't believe that their competitors will have notch-less phones... they will copy slavishly!

Count on it (unless they have a design latent in the notch).
Yes, that's what everybody uses electron for, because the use-case is obviously there.

But everybody who has build an electron app and a Qt/GTK app, will agree that the tool kits which are available to electron apps are not as sophisticated as Qt/GTK (not talking about the ton of downsides of electron apps (huge app size, outdated versions, etc.)).

I am completely pro PWA, but as far as I can see it it will take a few more years (at least) before we will get to a state which will allow us to use them in the same way we develop and use normal desktop apps nowadays.