skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchain have a few characteristics that make them unique:

- they are database

- they are distributed

- everybody has the entire db

- it's transparent: everyone see the content

- it's temper proof

- it has a notion of temporality

- it has a notion of transactions, and each transaction has a unique id and an history

- transactions have authors, sources and destinations, with unique identifiers that can't be faked.

Hence it's a transaction based system that is a source of truth that can be audited from end to end by anybody.

So the only applications that are interesting for the blockchain are the ones mapping to this EXACT concept. Otherwise, you don't need a blockchain.

But because of the bubble, people are now using the blockchain for everything, since that gives visibility. I have friends myself that have projects making ICO just for that. And it works. Their product clearly didn't need a coin, but they raised several millions of euros to build their stuff.

Ok, so what kind of project DOES match the blockchain paradigm?

So money, obviously is a contender.

But voting systems as well.

Or a mix of both, such as betting (see the wagger project).

Compliance systems are another use case. E.G: make a public database of all plane inspections or food products origin.

Being decentralized doesn't mean blockchain systems don't have central authorities. The decentralized nature mean the data access (and potentially production) is not on a central system, which has great benefits. But as soon has you need human actions, you need something to tell them in which direction to go.

So you need a central authority for the part dealing with the humans.

E.G: for the voting system, something to register the citizen and produce the polls. For the betting system, something to introduce the bet results into the blockchain. Etc.

One alternative to that we are experimenting with currently as a community is the use masternodes (POS machines holding a lot of coins out of the market for a long period of time to show their commitment). It's basically an oligarchy.

The coin Polis is an example of that: they make proposals of things to finance, and each masternode vote yes or no for the proposal.

They are a lot of masternode coins, now, for various uses. Zencash uses them to distribute the messages of its chat system, wagger to introduce the data from bets into the chain, etc.

But most of the masternodes are just used to increase the ponzi effect (we build and host masternode for our clients as a service so we have a large sample of them on our servers).
Here’s a precedent: a MIDI file doesn’t break copyright just because it could be used with a soundfont you don’t have rights to, to generate an audio file you don’t have rights to (because it’s a derivative work of the soundfont).

Or, even simpler, a text file doesn’t break copyright just because you could print it using a copyrighted font you don’t have rights to.

A game-modding program is exactly the same thing, here, as a MIDI sequencer or a printer; and the mod itself is exactly the same thing as the MIDI file or the text file.

In both cases, you’ve got 1. a high-level description of a thing you’d like to make, and 2. a program that renders that high-level description using a supplied asset library. Presumably, there’s nothing stopping you from using an entirely public-domain asset library. Some unscrupulous people just happen to want to use a copyrighted one. (Just like some unscrupulous people happen to feed BitTorrent clients torrents that point to copyrighted material!)

In both cases, there’s nothing inherent in the software that leads to it being used in that manner. It’s the user’s choice to point the software at an asset library—or a torrent—which contains content they don’t own.

Of course, by this line of argument, a page with instructions for how to use the software in combination with the game’s copyrighted asset library, would be breaking copyright in about the same way The Pirate Bay is. The site hosting the software itself would best refrain from doing such. (And better yet if it comes with such an open asset library, such that it can’t be argued that breaking copyright is its only purpose in practice.)
The "Equifax's lawyer" is not allowed in the small claims court, it's mano a mano
It's a slap on the wrist compared to the crime.
If you think that your attitude and words have no bearing on what happens to you in these situations you're beyond naive. The justice system is made up of people, not robots. Nothing unethical was done it him, he was convicted and sentenced accordingly.

If you get pulled over and call the cops a dick the second he walks up to your car, you're gonna have a bad time (and you deserve it.)
Sculley saved Apple from an immature Steve Jobs. As late as 1994, Apple was still the number one computer seller.
> Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here.

Well...so much for that. Pizza anyone?
As just a customer, Amazon is the closest I've gotten to Star Trek level technology. I tell Alexa what I want and two hours later a set of headphones, a box of Tide and a package of Earl Grey tea materializes on my front porch.

Not quite as fast as Picard's replicator but for all practical purposes, the same thing.
For me ELI5 is just a visual anchor in a wall of text.

I don't think it has anything to do with quality of responses. If you compare r/AskReddit and r/ELI5, you'll find the latter tends to attract more comprehensive and structured comments.
Credentials are irrelevant here as what I'm talking about is high school level integration of Newtonian forces.
I can't think of a test, many people haven't been able to, and neither can you apparently, until someone has a test it is effectively non-falsifiable.

Science isn't about proof, if observations change (primarily improve) then we change what we think we know. Which is why the above is all the "proof" I need. you can falsify it very simply. Provide a test. I have met my burden.
that doesn't give them the right to detain you

Nobody's arguing that they have a power to detain you without probable cause, but they can (and have, many times) cancel a membership for noncompliance. But to say there is "nothing there" in the agreement on the topic is disingenuous.

Of course, those who aren't members anyway aren't really risking anything.
Toys 'R' Us will close or sell all US stores
> Let's wait for adults to be in office first

So the main thing to consider is that you should never give the office power you wouldn't want the worst possible person occupying that office to have.

It doesn't matter whether you think that person is the current person, any of the previous people, or the potential future people.
> Sounds complicated. Most gym rats I know just use pen and paper clipboards.

I've done it both ways. Keeping track of paper and pen and taking notes is more complicated than just having something strapped to your wrist that does it all automatically with an occasional swipe or tap. Both ways are pretty simple so I don't want to exaggerate, but having the thing automatically do the thing is definitely simpler.

The random quirks of software are complicated... that's the world we live in though. New stuff is developed to replace the old stuff before we've even worked out the kinks in the old stuff.

I don't use an apple or high fashion watch for this, and while GPS and payments work, I don't have LTE for messaging like many do. A lot of watches are just a step up from a fitbit. Fitbit with maps I guess. Hmm, maybe I should have just gotten a fitbit. :)
So I just tried to replicate the query for the restaurant Da Nang Quan (which is in Oakland California) and this time it actually makes a sensible interpretation of my question ("Danang Quan") once out of five times, and got close another time ("Danang Kwan") and got complete nonsense the other three times. Unfortunately all three of the results it tried to give me for the nearly-right questions were in Vietnam which again is not anything like the answer I needed.

This confirms my experience so far with Siri.
Yes, I know exactly what you were referring to.

I think this sentence is accurate: If you are suspected of drug dealing, any asset that you can't prove you received through other legal means is likely to be subject to seizure.

I think this sentence is accurate: any asset that you can't prove you received through other legal means MAY be subject to seizure.

I think this one isn't accurate, though: any asset that you can't prove you received through other legal means is likely to be subject to seizure.

Maybe I'm just surrounded by extremely lucky people, but none of the people around me (all of whom aren't partaking in illegal behavior / have never been suspected of illegal behavior) have had the police show up and randomly take their stuff.
It's right there in the civil complaint. Dunno if there were any other forms of compensation, but at first glance it does sound like she lost everything:

> Holmes was paid a salary of approximately $200,000 to $390,000 per year between 2013 and 2015. During the same period, she also exercised approximately 53.7 million stock options and received super-majority voting, Class B common shares, which granted her almost complete voting control over the company. Holmes has never sold any of her Theranos stock.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...
I think you misinterpreted what I was talking about. Either that or you define 'activist investors' very differently from how I define it. What these people are doing is not 'activist investing.' They are providing disinformation, engaging in active and intentional deception towards the goal of destroying a company in order to profit. They are not uncovering wrongdoing or fraud. They are not doing due diligence and profiting from material information. That is not criminal, obviously, and is to be lauded!

If you engage in willful intentional deception, you are not an activist investor. You would be engaging in fraud and illicit market manipulation. I find it very bizarre that you would claim these malicious actors as activist investors. Most of the rest of your complaints with my statements seem to stem from your notion that I would do the same. I do not.
Yet DM is so sexy and mysterious ... Even Sheldon couldn't resist the temptation.
It isn't just bad actors. Its our fawning nature. I think that many people were reluctant to question Theranos precisely because she was a female entrepreneur.

Nowadays, you have many, many successful female tech entrepreneurs: stitch, bumble, ipsy, etc... and hopefully we are past the fawning phase and can apply critical thinking.
did you count for population, per capita, economics, race, etc? Those numbers are far more telling when they're used appropriately.
I don't understand the hatred for perforce. It works really well. The times I need an offline branch to work on and keep history of commits are very rare.
Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to respond. This is exactly what I was trying to wrap my head around.
Younger (hehe) generation might not know this, but Amiga was so ahead of its time. PCs, Macs and others (yes, there were other systems) were nowhere near multimedia capabilities Amiga had. Not for the price a kid could afford or bought for (such as an SGI machine). Vivid colors, fast graphics, great sound, all in a small box. Whereas PCs and Macs seemed like several generations behind it.

What made it special was that every kid (and an older person) that used it dabbled with games, programming, music, everything it had to offer. You can still see that core foundation Amiga enabled those users in their everyday work they do today. It's not something that has happened before or since. I wish kids today have something like it. On paper they do. Computers today are beyond imagination a few decades ago, but something is lacking. Maybe the abundance of power? Back then, graphics, sound, interactive storytelling and interactivity were just coming at full force to home users and they were exploring. Today it's taken for granted, so maybe not many care (everything looks the same feeling).
So Forstall and his direct report were responsible for two botched product launches, Siri and Maps. This is a big blow to the camp suggesting firing Forstall was a mistake.
I don't have much firsthand experience with Perforce. I've set it up, attached it to UE4 and just appended commits. I have been on the miserable side of git and binary data, LFS and other solutions seemed like awkward solutions.

Even ignoring the distributed aspect of git, the things I loved as a solo developer was immediate branching, a sane way of merging, and things being fast because there was no server to talk to (coming from SVN and CVS).

Now that I think more about it, I think some of the game studios I'm familiar with were using Git for the engine and artists were using Perforce for their assets.
Unless I am missing something, that's 20 pages of aggregate stats on things like age, race and gender. There is very little info here about IQ. It doesn't give me the data I need to draw meaningful conclusions.
It is much easier. There's "Apple Watch", "Apple Watch Series 1", Series 2, Series 3 ..

So we end up with a classic fence-post error, where if I say I have the first model, most people could assume I mean Series 1. So we've taken to calling it Series 0 (a term Apple never used/uses). Otherwise if I just call it "Apple Watch", you have no idea if I'm implying a version number or not.

I get their problem. "Series 1" is less "2nd generation" and more "revision 1.1". If they'd called it a 2nd generation, they'd overpromise and under-deliver, which is never popular. But calling the 2nd revision "Series 1" is all kinds of confusion.
"That"
Many companies fire workers for talking about unionizing or trying to unionize. This likely had similar motivations.

Either way, what a sleazy move on Foodora's part.
Or the actual article title, which is "How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa"
Pat Condell over censuur
I don't know enough about blockchains to understand the phrase git repos are not blockchains.

If I say git log 191edc5e2e515aab1075a3f0ef23599e80be5f59 anywhere at any time it means the same thing each and every time. That is not the case with git log v0.0.1
and this would create a pretty awesome movie... think "erin brockovich"
Can you explain your comment to me, because I don't get it?
Cant speak for the other person, but as someone who's used iPhones exclusively since the original, Siri makes mistakes with sufficient frequency that it's subjectively just bad. I can't quantify what percentage of requests fail to be understood correctly, but it's sufficiently high that the frequency is annoying. It's even worse when using the Apple Watch (Series 3).

Unexpectedly, this can sometimes be a positive too. "Hey siri, turn my lights <pink/orange/purple/blue/red/white>" has on multiple occasions been interpreted as "Hey siri, turn my lights", which then results in the lights being turned off. This is hugely entertaining when you're demonstrating your new Philips Hue bulbs over FaceTime, and the person on the other end now just sees your camera go black instead.
This is becoming a real problem really fast. Resumes are automatically trashed because of keywords, employers sharing histories and data of previous workers is just around the corner, credit decisions, insurance costs and access to certain services will be denied based on opaque (and often wrong) ML algorithms, personalized price gouging in web stores is in the making, and who knows what's next.

What we need is a law preventing companies from treating customers differently unless there's a strong reason (ie pregnent women, age restriction) and they specify exactly why. We also need to ban companies that collect and trade personal data. Of course that's a mammoth task and the easiest way to achieve the goal is to create technological interlocks preventing leakage of personal data while busting the biggest data trading companies.
> drone-based burrito delivery service

Not joking, I have heard this pitch.
MotionStack – Chrome Provided Compass vs. Adtile Compass
How to Nail Content Marketing
Stephen Hawking and a physicist had an argument followed by a discovery
One thing that C should have is an automatic string type (more like a byte[] than a String) that knows its own size. A huge amount of programming bugs arise from the lack of strings, and I can't see the reason why they could not be supported even in small systems. Delphi/Object Pascal had something like 3 or 5 function pointers that support the string type (create, free, resize, things like that).
From the Bible:

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”"

--- Matthew 19:23-26

I assume you were saying that startup founders are wealthy, so they have problems?
+1 vote for Newsblur. I was using Google Reader start to finish and also tried several others before settling on Newsblur. It's perfect in almost every way, but has a curious/arbitrary number of stories preserved per feed, sometimes 200, sometimes 500. I haven't figured out if it's an option, or an algorithm.
DFINITY, Polkadot, and the Ethereum WASM project are other examples of blockchain uses.
I suspect there's a lobbying plan from Uber and others to make sure end consumers can't actually buy self driving cars.
The stock options backdating scandal forced out two members of Apple's executive team, and got them indicted: https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2007/2007-70.htm

The no-poaching collusion between Apple et al probably cost Apple a nine-figure sum to settle (I'm not sure what the exact breakdown between the defendants was): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Both of these were quite serious issues, in my opinion.
People become increasingly competent, but they will also becoming increasingly ingrained in the current ways of thinking and current understanding. Many (certainly not all) sea changes come new people coming to a field - think about how we view figures like Einstein or Hawking. Their breakthroughs didn't come after many decades immersed in the field, but relatively early in their lives/careers. My concern was that we would drive towards a local maxima, and lose the new ideas that push us even further forward.

Also FWIW it was deliberately tilted negative to illustrate that eliminating death is not _necessarily_ a good thing, but there will most definitely be major advantages to it as well.
This absolutely enrages me, too. Especially when other big retailers are copying the same model. It's made shopping for computer parts an absolute nightmare.

I swear the plan is to maximize the time it takes to find anything and thus have more time to try to sell you more junk.
Pilot is not replacing Xero or QuickBooks (in fact, we do all our work in QuickBooks -- and we're definitely aware of Xero.)

Pilot is a better bookkeeper, and the reason we can be a better bookkeeper is that, even with a tool like QBO or Xero, there's still a bunch of incredibly manual work that happens ON TOP of those platforms, and a lot of that work is very well-suited to being done in software.

Do Xero and QBO get better and smarter with time? Sure, yes, of course they do. But the problem is: no one software company (i.e. a company with the ability to develop software) owns the problem end-to-end, so it's never going to be seamless.

(It's not obviously Xero's problem if the Xero/Gusto sync isn't very good, and it's also not obviously Gusto's problem either. Net result: the bookkeeper does a bunch of work by hand to fix it all up themselves--work that's super-manual and tedious.)

That's where we come in; we're the bookkeeper, but we also have the ability to write software when it's appropriate for solving the problem.
It seems to me that LC4 key is essentially equivalent to RC4 state and thus RC4 early keystream bias does not apply as there is no key-expansion phase.

Edit to clarify: LC4 key has to be permutation of 36 elements, while RC4's state is bijection of 256 elements that is somehow construed from the byte-string key and the issue is in how this string->state transformation works (ie. you have to pump the function for >500 times to get unbiased output).
> And at the first sign of things not adding up, end the relationship and any contact.

How about 'at the first proof of things not adding up'? Verification works both ways. If an isolated incident smells funny but checks out on investigation then maybe it was just a misinterpretation.
People with ASD are a lot of different things, but not usually manipulative. We're usually the ones who are being manipulated because we're too oblivious or too trusting for our own good.

Regardless, glad you're coping. If it's ADHD though, the meds can really make a huge difference in quality of life. But I understand if you'd rather not seek treatment when the alternative is being diagnosed with a personality disorder.
Yeah, I don't think any of your friends offered you a position because you're they're friend. They offered you a position because they knew you AND they knew you were smart/talented/a coder/whatever.

I got my first foot in the door via an internship on a referral from a friend who had interned there the year before. I had no formal credentials (just taking CS classes on the side of an Econ degree in college), but I had spent all of my math/CS classes studying with this kid. He knew I was smart and put his own ass on the line to get me an interview.

You can be successful purely by reading books in a room, writing code alone, and building some brilliant startup. (E.g. look at the CD Baby guy, what's his name). But it's SUPER unlikely. You're way better off being a social human being, building relationships/trust, and paying it back/forward to folks that do right by you when you know you deserve it.
What did I just read? This is really poor quality
Depends on construction and earthquake size. Many frame houses have collapsed in an earthquake and the risks increase dramatically with building height.
The US has 10.5 gun deaths per 100k per year; the Netherlands has 0.58. The lowest US state is Hawaii, with 2.71. Hawaii is higher than almost anywhere in Western Europe; only Finland, France and Switzerland are higher.

Obviously not everywhere in the US has the same rate of gun deaths, but compared to The Netherlands anywhere is high.
> The exciting thing about blockchain technology is that it acts as a decentralized ledger that uses encryption to make it secure.

Is "hashing" encryption? You can't really do "validation" like the diagram says, either.

alexey: I know you wanna shill your website a bit, but you could have chosen a better article to do so with.
The Amiga's way of getting relative pointers to libraries was amazing (and quite ahead of its time). Like you said, the only absolute address that always worked was 4, exec.library, and after that, you used that pointer to open other libraries, guaranteeing that they could be relocated any time.
I’m extremely skeptical lyft is replacing anyone’s car. The “sweet spot” is cities, and you probably already didn’t need a car if lyft is all you need.

Meanwhile, leaving the city would be extremely expensive and unreliable with lyft.