skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you repeatedly mistake a drill for real-life? The source was unclear whether this person had a mental break (weird but understandable) or s/he actually had some source saying a missile was inbound. The latter would be so interesting as to what convinced the person of the missile.

This explains why the button pusher wouldn’t cooperate with the investigation.

Also good to see that responsible managers were also canned / disciplined.

Can’t wait for the bunch of articles talking about UX wasn’t the problem and there’s no correcting for insane users.
Originally, 'fiat' had the same link to gold as crypto has to fiat.
True, for taxes fiat is needed, but it is possible to have a thriving economy without needing access to fiat.

The moment people can start to pay rent and groceries in crypto, it makes sense to accept crypto even if you can't turn it into fiat.
As long as taxes are paid in fiat, you need some of it, but that wouldn't make crypto useless.
That service actually exists and has for many years (e.g., Pixsy https://www.pixsy.com, DigiMarc https://www.digimarc.com/solutions/photography).

It just didn't involve the term, "Blockchain" :)
I just can't get a decent "This is how to get started" from windows guide with atomic. It's all assuming I'm perfectly happy on linux. Not to knock it, but I just want to start some VMs on hyper-v and have a go.
I beat Amazon all the time on their own platform. That is, I sell the same items they sell, but for cheaper. But this is merely a tactical localized advantage.

If you want to build something that beats Amazon, you need to identify what Amazon either won't or preferably can't do. Some plausible candidates:

1. Consistent prices

2. Customizable prices (ala jet)

3. Products or categories Amazon can't source (surprisingly many, there are a ton of popular items Amazon doesn't sell and a bit of sleuthing can find some of them). One subcategory of this is exclusives of existing brands and licenses, or patented products. Another, quite lucrative category is MLM stuff - it's tough to get them in bulk but the popular ones sell quite well by third parties on Amazon.

4. Trends. A small business can typically react quicker to trends. Lots of small sellers made money on fidget spinner well before big retailers did.

5. Sell to b&m, still 90% of retail. The vast majority of Amazon PL is not in stores.

Another thing would be to identify Amazon's profit centers and compete there. They make a ton of money on some items, they lose a ton of money on others. You can profitably compete with the high margin items.
Interesting take. Maybe too challenging at an early stage?
Too many bad actors involved to have a clear sight. Better to start from a clean slate.
> That doesn't mean it doesn't exist or can't be investigated though.

If you can't define it, there is no “it” to investigate, and no way of saying that it does or doesn't exist, since either statement is meaningless without a definition of what “it” is.
Seems to me like some people can't understand the difference between tokens and blockchains.

But maybe they do and thought "Well, a blockchain is a good idea to track photo ownership AND people make mad bucks with crypto currencies at the moment, we can offer a something that has to do with photos and make big money on the side"
Hate to ask, but how do you know you're actually going to get some gold? Are deliveries ensured? Are the coins/metals held in escrow with a trusted third party?
You try it - try to get more than 10,000 USD cash out of your bank, and then tell me how sweet that fiat money is (much less doing this without any questions asked). This is not to send out the ridiculous trope of “fractional reserve banking is a fraud” or anything; Chase, for the moment, is solvent, and recent events have made it clear that the Federal Reserve will sooner barbecue children than let a bank customer not have access to their funds, regardless of the solvency of the bank.

If you look in the Bitfinex subreddit, you’ll see tons of posts complaining about slow withdrawals, but the older posts all say that the situation was resolved. It might be that they’re just oiling the squeaky wheels, but on the whole it looks like things are working, just slow.

You say that “Bitfinex Credit” is backed by USDT, not USD. Why do you think that? And even if they do this as an internal accounting trick, it is only problematic if Bitfinex is insolvent. USDT seems like a red herring here - either Bitfinex has the money to back their customer deposits or they don’t.

The last time they were insolvent they managed to issue funny money to recover, and, inexplicably, kept their position as the market leaders.

The allegations of market manipulation are concerning, but the crux of it is that if Bitfinex is printing unbacked USDT and using them to drive the price up, that simply means that they are insolvent. Because there are essentially no operating credit markets in the cryptocurrency space, the ripple effects of a run on Bitfinex would be limited by that; not to say they’d be nonexistent, but other market centers trade huge volumes now indepently of Bitfinex.
It's worse. There are two possibilities for how this works, neither of which bode well for the future of KodakCoin

1. Registration of an image's IP rights is automated.

Users will be able to claim the IP of images which they do not own, and use the system to fraudulently siphon payments from the true owners. KodakCoin would be enabling and cooperating in selling fraudulent IP licenses.

2. Registration of an image's IP rights is not automated.

If every image needs manual human intervention to be registered, not only is this not a decentralized system, but the costs to administrate the system will scale directly proportional to growth. Unless the average image generates more profit than the cost of human administration needed per avg image, the more popular KodakCoin becomes, the faster it loses money.
> 2. Install cameras around Police HQs. Don't they want to be safe too?

This is one of the things that makes me laugh with annoyance at the signs at, say, Customs and Immigration when entering the U.S., or at the entrances to courthouses, or (formerly) around airport screening areas. "No pictures or video are permitted. Cell phone use prohibited."

What, precisely, is going on that shouldn't be photographed? If one camera in the ceiling is good, aren't 931 cameras all that much better?

As always, the safety of the enterprise is paramount.
It also shows that this conflation is very, very recent. I assume this is either because some people realized that there is "more than bitcoin" now, so you can't keep saying "bitcoin" and mean all the cryptocurrencies, and they just thought "jeez, cryptocurrency is such a complicated word. Let's just use crypto!"

In any case, crypto has been established as short for cryptography for far longer than any of these currencies existed. It is used in this way as a distinguisher in many contexts (e.g. crypto-phones, crypto-locker, crypto protocols, ....); calling "crypto-X" just "crypto" is unnecessarily ambiguous.

(either...or it's some guys pushing their agenda very hard in the last few weeks)
It's hard to beat Amazon on diversification, specialization would be the only way. Until they acquire you
Some anecdotes: I spent $30k on computer and electronic engineering books in the past 6 months. Yes really. A lot of them were those culled library books sold by wholesalers on Amazon and library benevolent foundations. There is still a long list of ISBNs (and some IBM/AT&T/standard body private publications) I'd pay a ton of money to buy but cannot because there is nowhere to buy them; the copies are not on any digital market place and/or have largely been destroyed.

The issue is books have an inherent physical logistical problem. A city library has a relatively small demographic; the high hit rate books will be relatively easy to stock but getting the long tail right will be nearly impossible. I don't know the right solution to that, but something akin to the netflix DVD distribution model might be a better fit going forward for libraries. Most people can't afford to build a private library like I did.

As for my own justification, I _love_ physical books. I much prefer it to reading on a screen or even epaper. It is a visceral context switch to go "offline" and stare at paper vs any digital system. There are other things that aren't necessarily apparent as well -- press printing a book is an expensive proposition. Therefore, getting the typesetting, copy editing, paper quality etc done right the first time is paramount. I just don't see that on most epublication. Even press printings that are sent for epublishing more often than not look completely haphazard in page layout.
Thank you so much for mentioning the new experimental metal renderer feature. This has dramatically improved my development setup.
True on volatility and transactions, I shouldnt have said exactly. But volatility speaks to why you would want to exit BTC as quickly as possible, if trying to avoid. One could argue it should net out to nothing over time.

I dont see it as flooding the market with anything, the Tethers are created in effect by people exiting cryptos into Tether on all these exchanges that only deal with Tether rather than USD (potentially!).

Lets step back to Tether creation. There are zero out there. Someone gives Tether $10 million for 10 million USDT. Those matriculate out in the universe, and are being exchanged back and forth for cryptos. Someone somewhere always holds those 10 million Tether. The price of cryptos rises and rises. Now all of a sudden the demand for USDT has increased, as people who exit crypto on those exchanges need more units than before, rather than 8500 USDT per BTC its 20000 USDT per BTC. No one has given Tether anymore USD directly for USDT. What would happen in this scenario is the price of USDT would rise. One way, not the only way, but one way for Tether to bring the price back under control, would be to buy BTC for USDT, issuing new shares, to bring the price back down. Which at $1 means equillibrium.

Is that how things work, I certainly dont know. But that mechanism is one way it could work. And it could explain why USDT are created on down days. Its the demand of people getting out of BTC driving it.

Now they could totally take that money and spend it on hookers and yachts for all I know...but thats at the end of the chain.
Sure - but I think it's understated how important that stuff is. If you go into a psychiatrists office looking like a mess, you're absolutely, by the book, going to be more likely to accrue a diagnosis. This isn't a critique of psychiatry - it's just a natural result of the DSM being a statistical manual.

It also makes any notion of 'absolute' personality disorder a kind of contradiction in terms.
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A good Ux will correct for users with mental issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule
It keeps telling me to take the leap. :/
Mainly because of too short sprints, where I work its two weeks and you usually have to do analysis+code+tests.
Needless to say that the quality isn't very good and there is no proper documentation..
This isn't quite correct for American health care. It is absolutely cheaper to pay insurance premiums than to pay directly for medical bills. The insurance company takes in more premiums than benefits that they pay out but the price that insurance companies negotiate for a procedure is dramatically lower than what you would be able to get if paying directly.
If Microsoft guarantee the culture and let Valve take over the Windows app store it could be excellent.
Looks really interesting. I'd love to see an animated version that shrinks from large to small.
A 15MB json file is more like a mini database, it'd be faster to run a quick script to import it in a nosql json database and then query from there. It may take 5 minutes but then you won't want to throw yourself out of the window when trying to edit/query it.
> it’s certainly not known for its values.

Oh, this I disagree with. (Bias note, I work for Amazon but state only my own opinions).

Amazon has the Leadership Principles. Google them to see what they are. You may not agree with them, but these values are religion inside the company. It's becoming less so lately (to the detriment of the company, in my view) but they're still values that Amazon is and should be known for their obsession with.
Isn't this kinda similar to the fractional banking system we have already?
I think my confusion lies in that magic_beans was talking about power structure, and specifically privilege. I continued on in that track not realizing that you had changed to an orthogonal topic.
Search around on the Bitfinex subreddit. For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bitfinex/comments/7rbfca/ticket_636...

The thread here is about Bitfinex not writing money, but on the thread a couple of similar issues get resolved. Could be shills or Bitfinex oiling squeaky wheels. I too would love to see someone here on hn post about their experiences, though.
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I think the causality flows the other way: the system being so complicated to navigate creates huge barriers to entry, which result in huge profits for whoever can navigate the whole system.

Whenever I want to feel sad, I think about how the most brilliant minds of our times are probably making a fortune at such zero sum transactions as gaming the health system and tax code.
There's a Microsoft Research project that does something like this with mosquitoes for disease management: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-pre...

(note: I work at MSR, but on other projects)
Container Optimised OS (Which is just ChromiumOS stripped down) has been working pretty nicely for me on GCloud. Just reboot and you have the latest updates. https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concept...

It's also open source

But yeh, Matchbox + Ignition for automatically bringing up configured nodes with iPXE was an extremely powerful combination. However, those ideas can be easily ported over or already exist through cloud-init.
Funny, I'd guess it gets much less wear than normal. Showroom cars are sat in for a couple of hours in total at best. Cars on the road do many more hours in the same timespan.
I work on the other side - as a manager of a 3rd party seller on Amazon (we have nothing to do with electronics and it would be almost impossible to counterfeit our product, in part because it is custom made in the US and are heavy physical objects).

They are doing their best to crank down on this by increasing the quality of listings and enforcing more stringent requirements for selling products of certain brands. They also introduced additional costs and barriers for creating multiple thousands of poor quality listings rather than a few quality ones.

The fake electronics products are hurting us as well, because customers have become increasingly wary and return-happy, since they expect the quality of product to be low and returns to be friction-free, regardless of other factors.

The chaos within categories is the biggest obstacle - it is nearly impossible to solve, simply because they are HUGE and removing bad listings is an almost manual process. It has to be and Amazon certainly can't take the leap of simply starting to remove 3rd party seller listings without angering them and making them quit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFYz5iiB620

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSo2-xeTvb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfvlCMA46q8

Aphex Twin/ AFX - Nightmail
The extra confirmation shouldn’t have been on the same user. The “two man rule” exists for emergency protocols for a reason.
previous discussions on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6909146 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9661349
Would this still be covered under the original patent until 2029 [1]?

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US8213745
There are lots of issues other than climate science that need debate. And demonizing the other side for their beliefs doesn't help.

It's one thing if you want to be critical of their ideas, but attack the ideas, stop attacking the people.
I've got an unrelated question about tmux/iTerm2 - hope you don't mind me asking.

I'm a heavy iTerm2 user and always been curious about tmux. Is there any reason to try out tmux integration if I'm already comfortable with iTerm2's features and panelling? I kind of got the impression tmux integration was largely for people who love tmux and are migrating to iTerm2, so it just makes it more familiar. Or is it something I should take another look at?
Like this one? https://github.com/vivianhylee/seam-carving
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Everyone should agree that between pure chance and the placebo effect, there must be quite a few cases. As for the rest, it's a matter of faith?
So is crypto-everything (keeping with the current stupid trend where "crypto" refers exclusively to blockchain technology) in free fall, yet?
If I have dinner with a climate denier, does that make me one too? Or does it mean I just want to enjoy dinner with someone that happens to be a climate denier?
fuck...I just loaded up on KODK March put options....

if I don't post on HN for a while....you know why
> This is missing the phrase "right now". There is nothing inherent/unfixable in Bitcoin or competing cryptocurrencies that make them bad for payments in a technical sense

It’s been a decade and Bitcoin has never delivered on that promise despite heavy marketing pushes and huge amounts of capital. At some point it’s not reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt until something ships.
well basically we use that on gcloud k8s in the future.
but we still have a bare metal cluster. we only used ignition + vmware to provision it in the first place and it was a breeze.. etcd was configured on the fly in a HA setup, k8s was made ready to bootstrap (just needed to run kubeadm init --config...) and we had basically a working cluster. highly available, with as many nodes we wanted, just copy the worker.yaml and edit what's needed.

we actually play around with tectonic at the moment.
"Join out project and get book your place in the whitelist!
"

Sounds awesome.
If only there was a token that could be used to verify reputation, stored on the blockchain...
Were talking about the same thing, this is a historical discussion about the evolution of these processors that lead to this point. How can you suggest that I'm denying the advantages of multi-core when I pointed out Apple has now also adopted a variation of big.LITTLE?
> You sell BTC to USDT if you are not looking to cash out of BTC. Instead, if you think that BTC is at a peak in the short term and you simply want to sell at the peak and get back in once it drops, selling to USDT is just fine. That way you can buy back BTC once price drops.

Why not just sell BTC for USD, and keep the USD balance that you get in the exchange? You can buy-back once the price drops. You don't have to wire transfer the money out, the exchange will happily keep it on their books for you.

If your exchange can't keep USD on their books, there's something seriously wrong with the exchange, and you should probably look into taking your business somewhere else.
> this entire section is thumb drive scammers using the hack that makes a drive appear larger in system info

That's not fair; from the first page, I would say at least the $1400 Kingston drive is genuine, and the 512mb drive that says not 512gb, and the PNY one. Just from a quick skim and double checking other sources for the first and last.

Many of them may be as you describe, though, especially the cheap ones.
It's not polite to armchair-analyze strangers, especially without training. Please refrain.
I will repeat myself from another ICO thread last week: you cannot have investment vehicles where commiting fraud results in no punishment. It simply doesn't work. Until someone figures out a way to even somewhat integrate ICOs into the existing legal system, this will keep happening.

I have proposed one possible solution to this problem here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208325
No argument there. There are multiple arguments about what Tether is or is not, and what part of this story interests people. Im most fascinated and interested in what form the proceeds of USDT sales are in. If they are holding bitcoins it has much bigger implications than if they are holding cash. Thats kind of why Im probing this. If they are really holding bitcoins, it means a spectacular implosion is coming. If holding cash, less so. If or why they all go to jail is less interesting to me.

So, whether their books line up is irrelevant to whether they committed fraud, perhaps, but VERY relevant to the price of bitcoin.
I'm sure there's a name for this phenomenon. We shouldn't be calling remotely piloted quadcopters drones either, but "drone" has become a modern colloquialism for any UAV that isn't a remote controlled hobby plane.

I imagine this is one of the ways in which language evolves, for better or for worse.
Notes is my backup/"scratchpad" as well, but it's impractical for me for the following reasons:

— Too easy to accidentally edit notes. I've occasionally destroyed some notes by "butt dialing" when I forgot to turn off the phone and put it in my pocket, which caused them to be replaced by random text. To avoid that I have to password-protect and hide important notes, which is inconvenient if I don't necessarily need privacy on them.

— Cannot view creation date, afaik, only modification.

– If I ever cannot (or don't want to) use the Notes app then I can't access my notes.

— Cannot add audio or link to arbitrary files on local storage. Can't link to other notes.
I submit that we currently have a massively popular decentralized, federated, open standard messaging system. It goes by SMTP, and it's a cluster in many ways.
It's not Yahoo anymore since 2008.
GDAX but there will definitely be a KYC delay the first time you do it with phone calls and ID checks and questions about where you got the money.

Second time, though, no problem. Less than 72 hours.
We link to this regularly in the #git irc channel on freenode. Seth used to frequent there, but he hasn't been there for a while.
If only hacker news would follow suit
The point is even more dramatically illustrated if you zoom out further and show 2004-present, assuming your point is that "crypto" as a contraction of "cryptocurrency" is extremely recent; the usage is less than a year old, and therefore likely to confuse those of us who have been using "crypto" as shorthand while discussing "cryptography" for multiple decades.

(Perhaps linguistic coherence is more than we should expect from the cryptocurrency community, given that they have already inflicted upon themselves the utterly bizarre usage of "blockchain" as a mass noun.)