skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same news on other site [0] was posted last night but not upvoted (I believe).

Most important aspect, which is not discussed by the Hollywood reporter:

The cancellation decision by Syfy is said to be linked to the nature of its agreement for the series, which only gives the cable network first-run linear rights in the U.S. That puts an extraordinary amount of emphasis on live, linear viewing, which is inherently challenging for sci-fi/genre series that tend to draw the lion’s share of their audiences from digital/streaming

[0] http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-canceled-syfy-after-...
Bitbond seems to be dealing just with Bitcoins, at least that's how their terms of use put it:

"We broker bitcoin loans between marketplace participants ('users'), who want to use bitcoins for a specific time period and pay interest ('borrowers') and marketplace participants who want to lend bitcoins to other people for interest ('lenders')"[1]

So then it is up to the recipient to do the exchange for fiat - if they require that. Based on the website Bitbond seems to be targeting for example people selling stuff online so it might be some of their customers can directly pay for their suppliers in bitcoins.

Even if there would be full fiat-bitcoin-fiat cycle involved, that may be easier and cheaper than doing a cross-border payment via traditional banks. The cross-border payment thing via banks is complicated and has multiple steps. Small banks don't usually have direct relationships between each other, instead there are larger banks involved in the middle to facilitate the payments. With fiat-bitcoin-fiat you might be dealing with local players on both ends, which makes things easier.

[1] https://www.bitbond.com/terms_of_use
Fraud is generally defined as (1) a lie; (2) told intentionally; (3) that caused some tangible damage. Unlikely to fall under fraud.
Means that even the compiler vendor is free to switch the order when you upgrade to a new toolchain version.
It gives me a certain level of happiness that threads still exist discussing whether VIM is an appropriate IDE.
Online Shopping Now a Days Is Untrusted
Do you agree with this? A lot of fraud sellers / customers ruining someone else's life. I hear about this at Amazon FB group a lot.
I think ARM's "strongly-ordered memory" concept is supposed to solve this? Was your friend's problem intended behavior, or a silicon bug?

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dai0321a/DA...
Why can't they? They can hang up. Sure, some people might not be allowed (a restaurant owner might not be willing to lose reservations because the employee doesn't like talking to bots), but in other cases, they are.
It may not be politically correct to say, but there ARE differences between men and women. One of them is that, generally speaking, men are more willing to take higher risks for money and recognition.
The Medieval Mindset (2017)
I watched the first season a few years ago. It is good, solid, hard sci-fi. But like said below, it didn't 'wow' me. Considering the current lack of good sci-fi series, I really appreciated the show.
Yeah, I stopped watching once the paranormal stuff started. Why can’t we have just realistic SciFi?
Good sci-fi, set in not very distant future. Mostly accurate space physics. Definitely appealing to HN demographic.
> Holden's facial expression for determination is that of a man about to cry. In fact, he looks like his dog just died in most of the scenes.

Hahahaha, this is too true. Bobbie is also terrible. But Avasarala I thought was really well cast.

But in general it felt like we got straight-to-dvd type D-level actors (think about crappy movies like The Human Race) in a B+ level setting (writing, CGI, set design etc). I was really confused at first as to whether this was a serious series with a relatively big budget for science fiction, or something that evolved out of a college film project.

Never really knew what to think. Like, I enjoyed Miller as a character. But I also cringe everytime I see his fedora. It feels like they do a lot of the hard things right, but somehow go out of their way to mess up some of the easy things.
I think the problem in such situations is that the M needs to address two different use cases:

1. Reference for what exists. This is used by people who don't know what %Ð is a placeholder for. Alphabetic sorting has a big advantage here.

2. Manual for what can be done. This should arguably be grouped differently, e.g. Full dates, years, months, days, etc. since there are often several placeholders for each category that are otherwise pretty far apart at times.
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series 3 is amazing so watch it for sure. The writers have also said it doesn't end on a cliff hanger either.
It was already clear by the mid 90's.

Bare bones C vs something like Turbo Pascal 6.0 with Turbo Vision framework on MS-DOS 5.0.
Thank s/god/Jane, that Firefly had been saved from being dragged out into a multi season, audience engagement money fest.
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> Season two, which returned more than a year later with a significant marketing push and a solid lead-in, was down 24 percent among total viewers and averaged 457,000 total viewers. That compares more to similar returns for Syfy's inexpensive co-productions like Dark Matter and Killjoys, than to the cabler's original scripted series like The Magicians and Happy.

I'm a huge fan of both The Expanse and The Magicians, but if the above quote is true I can see where they're coming from. The Magicians is a far more accessible show than The Expanse, and if I have to decide where to stick marketing dollars I'm going to go with the show with the larger audience.

Also, although I love The Expanse, it is not nearly as compelling as BSG or Firefly. When BSG came out 14 years ago it was really a singular experience in terms of cable TV. I would say something like Westworld follows more in the footsteps of BSG than The Expanse. And Firefly tapped into the same energy as Guardians of the Galaxy but 15 years too early.

Overall, very sad but not surprised. At least the TV show got me reading the books...
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I've interacted with the robot a few times at stores and every time I've come away feeling more annoyed with technology. It really is a shoddy piece of work.
I also found the casting of the show underwhelming. The sci-fi is terrific, but the casting made it hard to get into. The storytelling I found good enough. I bet it's hard to get a cast together that can work well enough in all those close quarters scenes with lots of choices
Yeah, that's common knowledge but like most such knowledge it may contain a nugget of truth (yes, there are certain structures that reward shorttermism), it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny as a general framework. In studying practically all companies that has become successful at scale and sustained both success and scale over a period of time, you can find plenty of evidence of long term thinking.

Google in particular has shown itself to be perfectly capable of setting and following a long term strategy.
And what is to stop someone from pushing malicious code to GitHub and you guys distributing malicious packages to end-users via your 'stable' channel?

And who's liable here?
Agreed, they seem to ignore literally everything that's going on the open source decentralized storage space.

Adding to the list:
- BigchainDB (https://github.com/bigchaindb) a practical BFT blockchain DB (disclosure, I'm the co-author)

- SWARM

- OrbitDB

And also, it's a very very bad idea to have public storage - one (encrypted) PII entry illegal datum and it's over.
I still feel it's somewhat slower compared to something like https://forum.dlang.org
They are more focused on cost and revenue than reviews and ratings. Especially given the limited piece of the rights they have.
And there are still the books for the people that really want to follow. The divergence from the book are not big in season 1 and 2.

I have not read the rest of the series, but there is a risk of change of tone of the series from close to realistic to more fantasy space opera setting.
Check out this surreal chat with Theranos investor who says he’s “thrilled”
Red Alert for Net Neutrality
What paranormal stuff? Are you calling aliens paranormal?
Saying this is politically correct. The contentious issue is the question of why this is so. Is it because society shapes us in such a way that men are more inclined to take risks for money and recognition. This would imply things can change and women can be excellent saturation divers. Or is it because our genes shape us in this way, making it impossible for women to excel at diving.
I spend a large amount of time on the internet, but I use duck duck go and have ad blockers turned on. When I turn off add blockers it makes me want to spend less time on the internet.
"As the people had no idea of germ theory, it is impossible to claim this was intentional."
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Final donation for man whose blood helped save 2.4M babies
Not being able to opt your child out of DNA collections seems like what could be a slippery slope to a Brave New World. What's even worse is the level of misinformation surrounding the situation. Even if the samples are held under the assumption that they will be used for research, one should be entitled to opt-in, opt-out, and know what is happening with their/their child's DNA. A lawsuit here seems reasonable if not to stop this, to atleast shed light on the situation.
For a company that had little non Asian presence, not knowing what soft bank is very reasonable.

It’s like knowing about ICBC, the largest bank in the world but most people have never seen a branch of it.

Couple that with them being like an investment firm outside of Japan. They could be as obscure as Berkshire, a big player, but one most consumers don’t come into contact with.
With Project Treble that may change who knows?
Leaving aside any questions of how much data you could actually make public without risk of depseudonymization, what benefit does this have over a 1998-vintage database-backed website run by the government? Like, the government licenses doctors and schools and such, so aren't they the central party controlling who can write to the database regardless?
Firefox and Chrome seem render it flawlessly and Edge's performance isn't half bad either, but I am honestly surprised at how well it works even in IE11.
Assuming you install updates from your OS vendor regularly, than Microsoft or Apple getting hacked is game over anyway. Google has some if the best tools available for securing your account (very solid 2fa if you set it up right)
Netflix need to ditch the binge format streaming and support weekly releases.

That would let them do same-time as US releases globally, which would mean people could engage with the online communities of these shows.
I've only partially watched the series so far, but I have read the books. It's a key point of Avarasala's character that she is pretty competent (and lacking patience) as shes basically portrayed as the one running the show on Earth. That said, without the monologues and the comparison to the public power in the book, I can see how that goes way too far into arrogance.
They are great. And it stays realistic. They even age significantly. Holden and the crew are in their fifties in the later books.

However, IMHO the tone changes. But not from realistic to fantasy but from black noir to western to horror to military style story telling.
> But, it turns out, most of these emails are pointless. "In the UK it has been the law since 2003 that you can only send a marketing email to an individual recipient when they have consented to receive it or you have an existing customer relationship with them and have offered them the opportunity to opt out," explains Jon Baines, data protection advisor at law firm Mishcon de Reya.

> So why are they sending these emails? It's largely around the fear of GDPR. The regulation says companies can be fined up to €20 million or four per cent of their annual global turnover. Many companies are keen to get their systems in order. Although in the UK the Information Commissioner has made it clear it won't be heavy-handed with fines.

TL;DR: It's basically CYA and checking things that they weren't doing before now that they should have been doing
Actually, I am happy they are sending these. I hope it is really working and they will delete my data as there was not one I approved again.

Job recruiter sites were asking me if I allow sending more emails and as it is practically impossible to unsubscribe from them I will be glad if GDPR makes them stop.
I'd have to dig it out, but I remember reading an article that showed that just having phones on the table seriously interfered with ones ability to follow a conversation.
I insist on removing phones from sight when eating since.

I wonder if the people that implemented this face down feature know that?
Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect but Didn’t Get Credit Because Sexism
The distinction doesn't work very well as phrased here. It's too easy to convince oneself that I am a patriot, and they are nationalists. So it ultimately just becomes another tribal marker.
Netflix does support weekly releases. The latest Star Trek for example was released weekly.
As someone who has read the first 5 books in the series, there is not a single paranormal thing in the Expanse.
Too bad, I really enjoyed how Shohreh Aghdashloo portrayed Avasarala, she made that character so much more interesting than it was in the books originally.
They do weekly releases for some shows (maybe most shows that they don't produce themselves).

I assumed it was some ridiculous commercial arrangment that meant they couldn't show it until after the season has finished in the states - but I have no idea
> Across a span of a year, all of this volatility cancels each other out.

Bitcoin price was around $19k in December 2017. The price tumbled all the way down to around 7k in February, came back up to 11k, and now it is hovering at around 8k (numbers massively rounded, but you get the picture).

If we consider this span alone (~6 months), Bitcoin's value has fluctuated by more than 50%.

But if we consider a full year, things are even crazier since bitcoin was worth around 1k then.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/price/

The above is great if you are selling bitcoin.

It is not so great if you are chained to any sort of contract (loans, phone contracts, car payments, etc).

If the contract stipulates "X bitcoin per month", your loan/rent/whatever went up 8x in one year. If you are chained to that contract for several years (phone contracts in my country are typically for 2 years), you are massively fucked.
I always assumed everything in reuters was written by bots.
Government actions cause new problems and solve none? Who would have thought...
If Google - an organization with a purpose, charter, and organizational goals - can have intent... how is that different from software?
For instance, nobody who bought it through Amazon counted towards SyFy's numbers even though they certainly counted towards the profitability of production. The people who actually finance production (not SyFy) said this:

> "... given the commercial and critical success of the show, we fully plan to pursue other opportunities for this terrific and original IP ..." (emphasis mine)

so to my uninformed sensibilities SyFy dropping the show seems more like a distribution hickup than an existential threat. At least I hope that's the case.
Anti spam laws existed before GDPR.
Oh yeah, definitely misread that
I love Firefly, and was really bummed when it was canceled. But Firefly is a lovable camp-fest.

The Expanse is better.
I have given up on TV shows. I imagine many others have too. I no longer bother to watch them until I know there is a completed story. Nothing worse than watching a show and it just ends on a cliff hanger never to be resolved because the show got canceled. I don't think production companies realize how much they hurt themselves in the long run, because they are too busy looking at short-term figures.
Alcon said they're looking into it. The next day, the news broke that sets are being scheduled for disassembly, starting tomorrow. So I'm not sure just how honest Alcon was with that announcement, given it was only two days between those two pieces of info.

The current info from people involved seems to be that Netflix is most likely out as a candidate, but Amazon still might pick it up.

(All of that sourced from /r/TheExpanse, which I read regularly.)
Eventually hiv is just going to be part of the human genome.
The fund isn't about building stuff. It's about trying to acquire key components of the digital and internet based economy. So mergers and financial stuff is the intent -- it's essentially a digital infrastructure fund.

To be fair, if he gets one or two homeruns (like with Alibaba) the returns for the fund will be positive. Quite remarkable actually, 90% of these investments could go to zero, and he might still end up making a boatload.
The best alternative to submodules and subtrees I found is git-subrepo: https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo#benefits
I certainly don’t understand your point. Where did I compare the experience of people oppressed by Europeans with anyone? Is your argument something like “Africans in Africa would be as wealthy as white Americans if not for European colonialism and therefore reparations should be computed accordingly”? This is the only interpretation that I can come up with, but it still doesn’t make the Haiti comment relevant.
If companies are evading existing laws, what makes you think more laws will help?
Many companies will enter the field of telepresence in the coming years. It is in the same vein as Wi-Fi in 1999 (it allowed to drop a low cost box and enjoy a LAN, while before it was very expensive to have a hard-wired LAN)

It's the next "thing" after the smartphone. However, the telepresence device must be invisible, do not require any maintenance or settings and operate over an area of a few yards (meters), so I have some problems to see how a single phone could allow the use cases that many people are waiting.
Spam Amazon. They seem to be the only major player who still could pick it up, given that Netflix apparently ruled itself out.

Hell, spam Bezos himself. They're cancelling the show that literally explores the world Bezos wants to create.
I found weird alien physics tricks in later books well beyond realism. The “spaceship speed limit” thing in particular. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I remember it was kind of inconsistent, applying to some objects and not the others as it fit the plot.
Definitely one of the best TV series ever.
Have a look through my promtions inbox in gmail and fine everyone of them.
What we need is a tickbox that says do you want all your spam senders fined.
I do wonder if in fact Google is involved in a fair few of them.
Tim Berners Lee never came across as large than life personality. I would say he had quite a profound impact on things. More than "larger than life" type Steve Jobs IMHO.
Iota isn't much more than a whitepaper and a centralised PoC. Supposedly they're supposed to roll out the real thing eventually but given their track record and how they've responded to criticism in the past I'm pretty skeptical.

I'm also very skeptical of Skycoin and their "web-of-trust" which is even more experimental than "proof of stake" which is itself rather unproven at this point.

Reading through the whitepaper I also feel like Skycoin has an issue that's shared with many newer cryptocurrencies trying to break through (including IOTA) which is to attempt to do way too much stuff at once. It's just just "web-of-trust", it's also "skywire meshnet", "fiber application ecosystem", "Skyminers custom-built hardware VPN" etc... In an effort to differentiate themselves they just pile the features on top of each other instead of focusing on doing one thing right. At least they don't use ternary I suppose.

It seems like a very wild bet to me (even by cryptocurrency standards) than either of them are going to manage to replace Bitcoin by the end of the year. After all, what drives adoption at this point is mainly speculation, not the features otherwise Bitcoin would've been replaced long ago.
> Mercurial?

It's not.

The basic feature set is pretty much the same, and requires similar effort to grok. Some things are much harder to do in Mercurial, and some things are just confusing (multiple heads, pushing branches, multiple branching models, the "tip", etc.). Online platforms are worse (Bitbucket vs Github) in practice.
TSA Rule for Lightsabers
Right click and open in a private window. Not that difficult.
Why helping users limit phone/screen time is Not always a good idea
But you get nice summer headlines to sell some copies of local tabloids for people to read in their summer houses...
Exactly. As soon as autonomous driving is out, people will start using it to not pay attention. And because it will work most of the time, they will keep doing it.
This reminds me of Hoffer's The True Believer - he makes similar observations about how fanatics of different / opposing stripes are much more similar to each other than to non-fanatics, and how fanaticism is often transferable to a different object (nation, ideology, religion, etc.) for this reason.
> (/s (but also !/s))

The term for that is HHOS.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.ht...
I agree that it can be used as a rational tactic, but I don't think it's the case here; as Orwell mentions, it's more of a process of self-deception. It doesn't actually work - those I know can't even convince their fellow party members.
By decentralization they mean decentralization of control, which is not the same thing as in Riak, where control is very much centralized. Think distributed hash tables, like in bittorrent or, obviously, bitcoin.
Protomolecule stuff, though a key to about 1/3 of the plot points, is pretty much the only "out there" stuff in the show. So sure, it seems to break a few laws of physics, but the whole story is about humans using realistic technology confronted with the unknown and the impossible.

Beyond that, the books are pretty hard. The only one physics-bending technology used by humans is the Epstein drive, and as a drive it doesn't really violate any laws of physics (it's a fusion drive) - the unrealistic part is its absurdly good fuel efficiency.
> It’s unrealistic to think that’s possible in anything less than at least 10 seconds.

I recall a study (and would be grateful if anybody has a link, as I cannot find it at the moment), which tested the reaction times and decision-making of drivers who had just been handed the wheel by an autopilot, in a simulated driving situation. What they found was that it took about 10 seconds before the drivers got up to the level even of a drunk driver.

To me, that study indicated a fatal flaw in the entire concept of hanging control back to the human driver. If there is an emergency, it will be resolved in 10 seconds one way or the other. At that point, you can either have the confused computer trying to drive, or the even more confused human trying to drive.
I like pretty much everything else about The Expanse, but honestly, the crew of the Rocinante are just... unsympathetic. Forgettable. They could basically be killed off and I wouldn't care. Seeing that they're (intentionally) a microcosm of the system at large, with better writing their interactions could meaningfully reflect and comment on the tensions between their homeworlds, while still making me care about them as individuals and, indeed, as a crew.

Crisjen Avarasala is pretty much the only interesting main character in the show.