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> “Amid his mind-boggling defense, the investor did admit that Theranos was now in the “loser column” of his investments list, a list that also includes Tesla and Bitcoin.“

Interestingly, at Collision Conf this year, while on stage being interviewed, he was pumping up Bitcoin like it was going to the moon. Strange investor I guess.
> "the reverse scenario they demonstrated. That is, the bot answering calls on behalf of the restaurant and accepting bookings"

In the scenario of bots talking to bots, if they identify themselves as bots to one another, then they could quickly switch over to a much more efficient machine communication methods. :)
Yes, but he is no longer with Vice due to “differences of opinion” with the direction of the company.
X-files comes to my mind as a great example. The episodic nature is built into the format - a weird thing happens, x-files are called in. Next episode, new mystery.

Its then a coin flip for whether its self contained or has a link to the broader conspiracy arc.

I found that satisying as a kid. I wanted more of the big arc but it almost certainly wouldn't have worked if it was the central theme of every show.
The two things are separate even if nationalists try to use patriotism to justify their beliefs.
Full disclosure: I joined the CK team recently after having been a fan, community member, and tool developer since shortly after they launched in December.

What very few people realize about CryptoKitties is the vibrant community of players and developers that has spawned around this game, and it makes the experience of collecting, breeding, and selling CryptoKitties very rich. One group made an app that lets you buy accessories like hats for your Kitties: built without permission or need for permission thanks to the open mature of the blockchain. I helped make KittyCalc.co after seeing huge demand (and user experience confusion) for my Kitty Genetics spreadsheet that let you input two Kitties to see what the chances for different traits in offspring would be. The community pieced together this breeding algorithm and cracked the genetic code for kitties within weeks of release, but that doesn’t make the game of trying to breed specific Kitties any less fun. It does let you make informed decisions so you can weigh your personal risk to reward ratio for each breed.

There’s a lot of subculture around Kitties—people collecting all black and white Kitties, people competing to breed the most adorable generation 100 kitties, people selectively breeding to breed the lowest generation Kitties possible with the most prestigious ancestry (so-called 8 diamond Kitties). Recently the community got together to raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Seattle Children’s hospital.

This auction, though, at the Ethereal Summit, some crazy to behold. As the article says, Christie’s appraised this Exclusive CryptoKitty + hardware wallet art piece at around 50 ETH, and the actual bidding brought it way higher. The proceeds support a great cause that the CK team believes in, and it’s one of the coolest CryptoKitties in the game (and id 127 is icing on the cake) so it was just really great to see.

I know I often come across as too-enthusastic-to-be-genuine, but I really just love this stuff in my core and can’t help sounding like this when I talk about things I love. Check my post history if you don’t believe me! I totally know also that CK is the easiest thing in the world to dismiss without giving any critical thought, but what made me fall in love was the devs DID give this a lot of critical thought before release, and have created a deep, meaningful experience (I’ve learned so much about Ethereum and the blockchain thanks to CK) behind a silly, fun premise.
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I’ve only read the first 3 but thats definitely not true. FTL communication, physics-defying space maneuvering, the giant space ring thing controlling the speed of the surrounding armadas...

Even if there are attempts to create some explanation for it, in a hard sci-if story, it’s basically paranormal in all but name.
> Frankly that's luck. No doubt he is smart and has smart people working for him but that's pure luck.

All investment is "luck" if you put it that way.

> All but one gone and that tiny $20 mil investment saves it all.

That investment didn't save it all. Softbank was a multibillion dollar company before and after their investment in alibaba. With or without alibaba, they would still be around.

Not sure where you are getting the idea that alibaba saved softbank. Softbank's Alibaba stake makes softbank very valuable, but it would be around without alibaba.
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They already did that by introducing Material Design. Its blandness, huge whitespaces, inability to recognize clickable objects are so off-putting that I ran away from Android already and interact with it only when I have to and with variable doses of cognitive pain.

Thanks Google for preventing me from becoming a smartphone addict by design!
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Hi Vlad! Thanks. This is for the first time I hear such an opinion :)
TL;DR:

> Looking back at my weekend with Flat Earthers, it is striking how many
> people who doubt the global model of the Earth also subscribe to all
> manner of other beliefs, from Biblical literalism to occultist paranoia,
> from anti-vaccination to quack cancer cues, from antisemitism to Aryanism.
> But it was also just as striking how many people whose journey into
> believing the Earth is flat included traumatic events or personal crises.
>
> This, perhaps, is why it is so important for us to listen to and talk
> to Flat Earthers, and to approach them as much with understanding as
> ridicule: if they can see no light in mainstream society, their rabbit
> hole may only get deeper and darker.
Article titled "GDPR isn't to blame" followed by article about how GDPR is to blame.
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Remember: Smalltalk was invented at PARC where, among other things, they had a broad goal to create systems that didn't exist. GUIs for personal computing prior to this were purely terminal based, with standard monotype faces. These guys were interested in actually printing documents, making animations, music, all kinds of stuff. So they came up with the ability to use different typefaces and used them all over the place.
Can’t blame him for trying. It puts a seed of an alternate story into our minds. How do other streams of “alternative facts” get started? And many people want to believe that Big Medicine is keeping breakthroughs from us.
There were other competing ideas to http and html. They were better but unfortunately lost out. Tim is incredibly lucky that what he wrote for his PhD unexpectedly took off - he is also a one hit wonder. Steve’s story is vastly different.
Reminds me of this article, which recounts a book by Knuth where the reviewer comes up with an 6 command shell pipeline equivalent to one of the multi-page examples:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
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I am feeling cynical because none of the announcements mentioned notifications or random reward content. Nor am I familiar with research that shows grayscale reduces addictiveness.

I like the put down gesture silencing phones, but there's two things wrong with it. 1) it encourages you to leave the phone easily accessible instead of turning it off 2) its exactly the kind of corporate move to give just enough control to the individual to make it seem like Google's business model is that person's own moral failings.
Can't people stop beating this dead horse already. She screwed up, her company is dead, just let her be.
There is so much I'll never understand about business, business people, and people who remain loyal to them. I wonder if I s/business/<different category>/g will I see the same thing?
Yes there are differences - I wonder makes it necessary to protect yourself against contrarians with the "politically correctness" tagging of your statement?
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The survival and unity of a nation gives substantial long term benefits, contrary to what you believe, because effective nations make modern life possible through their guarantee of property rights and rule of law which are both prerequisites for any substantial economic activity. Not only this, but they also facilitate managed capitalism within their borders through their enforcement of regulation and wealth transfers in the form of taxation and public spending.

The nation is an integral part of the global economic and social structure not because of petty adherence to "tradition" as you believe, but because it plays a necessary and valuable role.

Given this, to say Patriotism is unproductive or backwards is foolish.

Nations are fundamentally a collection of people and entities that accept (sometimes begrudgingly) living in a union is better than living apart. It's important that people feel proud of their union and value its existence just as two people in a romantic relationship must value that relationship in order for it to survive and thrive.
> the economist publishes articles of extraordinary quality

No they don't. They offer fluff. This article is just fluff and years old news. Maybe because I work in the tech industry, but this article didn't offer anything of value. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that $100 billion dollar fund dedicated to tech investing ( especially in developing nations ) is going to have an impact.
And even that was self-aware as in they did background scenes on its development (eg not just arm wavey)
Almost all of them are from the documentation of flysystem which is some kind of PHP abstraction layer for filesystems.
If Google really wanted to help here, why don't they just, you know, make every part of YouTube less optimised for maximum view time. Remove autoplay, turn down the recommendations. Nah, we're gonna throw some optional, possibly ineffective shit into our mobile OS instead so we can say we did something.
Sure the analogy is imperfect. I also don't have a perfect analogy for a browser vendor hobbling its newer product. But I'm just appealing to common sense wrt not addressing an extremely common use of something yet wanting that something to stop being used.

I personally don't think they should implement the MSHTML/COM APIs with Edge any more than I think they should implement ActiveX on Edge. The old tech can die its slow death, so long as there is a viable replacement.

Selfishly, I want this for https://github.com/zserge/webview to watch Electron adoption decrease or even an API-compat version using shared libs already on the system.
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> You didn't read and understand the whole documentation for this complex feature

Formatting a year's date into a string doesn't require a complex feature; the "complex feature" part is a warning itself. The date object (struct tm) has a year field that is a simple integer (almost: it's years since 1900). Sticking that into a string in the format "2018" is trivial. The word "weeks" doesn't enter into it and we don't need ISO to figure it out.

Also, you have to be super naive to believe that G was used for "year" instead of the letter Y, and then not even wonder out of curiosity that, if this is how you're supposed to obtain the year, why Y was not available and what the heck Y is being used for. The software field requires people who are curious like this and read documentation critically (as they do code).

Why would someone invent a date formatting printf thing in which %H is hour, but year is %G? Why would they forget to add the year feature, then use Y for something else, and add year support under G in some new standard? Of course, any nonsense lettering is due to historic extension when letters are running out. Why would the basic feature of generating year part of a date string be a historic extension?

> Standards usually sound like a good thing.

The first standard for a programming language or API is often good; then it is usually severely screwed in subsequent revisions. This is massively evident in C, C++, POSIX, Unicode, WWW, IP, USB, Ethernet, ...
Start with "Use of Weapons". Literally, just try a couple of pages... one of the best openings in a SciFi book ;)
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Yeah, but what if the strings I wanted to sort contain newlines?
Copyright is viral and copyleft is the cure. But these are just religious issues these days and as such I couldn't convince you to think otherwise.

GMP is available under the LGPL.
You make an accusation without support against Google and then use that as support for another accusation against the poster. This has the effect of leaving unbiased observers to wonder what the basis for your moral outrage is.

Those same things that are addictive are also empowering and useful. Giving someone a way to handle it properly is a responsible way to do provide that service.
Strangely, the Expanse was being heavily hyped by Netflix UK earlier this year - but then Season 3 failed to make an appearance and now, apparently, Netflix won't be getting it at all.

This makes me wonder if perhaps a deal with Amazon has already quietly been done? It would be a great shame if the Expanse got cancelled. I think it's genuinely the best sci-fi show around right now.
> a person made the wrong decision

…during the course of that person's work duties, for which the company, therefore, owns responsibility. Literally every single thing any company has ever done wrong boils down to "a person made the wrong decision."

> i don’t make purposeful email addresses; i don’t have time for that.

Yes, but security and privacy researchers make time for this specifically to validate whether companies follow their own privacy and usage terms as well as to quantify and gauge the risks in interacting with a company, such as the risk that the company will misuse that information or the risk that the company may be breached, resulting in user account details being used in attacks against the individual users themselves.

It's fine if you don't do any of this or, for that matter, if you don't even care. But don't belittle the work when you don't understand the reasons for it.
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Think about how much ads steal from you, by tricking your brain into buying stuff you don't need.
I'd start with Consider Phlebas. It's the most space-opeartic work of the series and although it's a somewhat early description of the culture, it pulls off a unique trick of describing the main protagonists of the series from the point of view of a sworn enemy (who is also a very likeable hero).

The other books suggested here, Player of Games and Excession are also quite good, but nothing beats Phlebas for sheer energy.

Well, opinion anyway!

P.S. The State of the Art, a collection of short stories with a few Culture ones (including the namesake) is also a good introduction to some of the themes and ideas in the later novels.
Karatsuba I'd not that hard to implement, and Toom-3 and then Schönhage-Strassen will also give a huge boost for huge bigints.
It's what numbers week in calendars... I don't like numbered weeks much myself but some people are absolutely in love with it...
Softbank actually has numerous business units ranging from reselling/distribution of various products to monetizing telco data.

I would be careful to even call them just a telco.

I can say for a fact they have other robotics efforts as well. Yes they have not had the best luck in monetizing them.

Ironically, we are associated with some of their newer R&D efforts in robotics:
https://skymind.ai/press/softbank

I can say they have not made ideal decisions in a lot of areas, but I wouldn't count them out based on 1 bad robot.
They are a lot more diverse than that.

Source: I have softbank as a customer, have dealt with numerous executives here, and actually live in japan. I don't just read the news.
You make an excellent point regarding Apple.

I think most people don't know and/or don't care, but you can get the best of both world with CopperheadOS.

Note: CopperheadOS is not for everybody though, I suggest reading this before trying it: https://copperhead.co/android/docs/usage_guide
Which just means that someone else will step in. People will move towards where they needs are met. People dont want the addiction but they want what they are addicted to and you can't just put the genie back in the bottle again.

I view this is a political / strategic positioning to guard against legislation I don't see it having any real effect or being of any significance just as I don't consider addiction the fault of clever algorithms but rather human nature. Instagram is probably the best example of that. It's the one considered to pushing most people into depression yet it's mostly based around people sharing images not clever algorithms (yes I know they use algorithms on instagram)
OMG.

I would imagine you've been pretty shaken up by this. Perhaps it would be therapeutic to do a Reddit ama about the after effects of opening your email and seeing an email that says "Yubikey sale?"
It wasn't widely mocked. I have met numerous people who played Nintendo games with this warning and seeing some neckbeards on the threads you linked I had never seen anyone complain about it. Most people just take a break or don't play for extended times to even see the warning.
Internet companies, but Google especially, thrive on high numbers of short interactions that end in an ad click. Someone spending an hour in Gmail and then clicking an advert is less profitable to Google than someone spending 15 minutes in Gmail and then clicking an advert on 4 separate occasions. The ideal for Google is for people to spend less time on their site, but to keep coming back more often.
To be honest, the first season was really good, but the second was a bit meh and, well, I haven't even bothered with the third. It seems the rest of the viewership mostly agrees (considering the declining ratings).
What they promised is theoretically possible, but they ran afoul of the huge practical problems that made people with actual biology and engineering backgrounds (like myself) very, very skeptical.
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The other great motivating example I’ve seen is an Amount type parametrised by currency as well as the numerical value, so that the type system can enforce that you don’t add two amounts of different currencies, or that to add, you have to also provide a correctly typed exchange rate value.
proxy, like "proxy variable", is a common term in stats for a visible measure that correlates with another one that you care about, but can't easily measure.

It's more common in tech circles as stats and ML have become more popular.
David Quammen is a treasure. The Song of the Dodo is one of my all time favorites.
(Oh, and massive financial shenanigans.)
You should probably use the time zone identifier from the IANA list, which would be 'Europe/Paris' or similar.

https://www.iana.org/time-zones

Accessible copy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
> Of course a lot of things can happend to the price in half an hour, but that's another story.

Isn't that exactly the story?
I know several companies who developed internal applications using Silverlight. They still have to use Internet Explorer.
I'm guessing this is basic psychology. It's easier to blame a reporter for something you invested in so heavily than to admit on national TV that you screwed up. None of these big shot investors want to admit that they got defrauded, it makes them look foolish.
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There is no reason the underlying idea of nanotainers being used for blood analysis is fundamentally impossible but it is a hard problem because the volume of blood is so small there can easily be statistical fluctuations that affect the classifier. That said, it's strictly correct that, if engineered properly, it could have provided additional actionable medical data.
We basically ban throwing exceptions in pure code at my shop; usually we use ExceptT or throwIO or something.

I used to think the multiplicity of error handling constructs in Haskell was confused and bad, but they all have their uses. The key insight is that your error handling should conform to the local structure of your code, not the other way around.

Propagating errors across multiple component boundaries or multiple layers can be cumbersome but I think that reveals fundamental architectural weaknesses in the program itself.
So they can put on their resume that they have experience with machine learning? I don't have any shame about overdoing things when I think it will improve my resume.
We could generate an "untrusted" cookie. This prevents clients using it from meddling with "trusted" clients.

It's not really fine grained and also doesn't prevent untrusted clients from meddling with one another, but seems like a starting point for someone inclined to add more security to X.
> I am inherently suspicious of these types of nanny-tech initiatives.

As you should be. It just gives google more excuse to monitor you. They have justification for monitoring you more closely. To "help" you.

It's so funny to me how the HN crowd who attacked google,facebook, etc relentlessly for monitoring their users are now demanding google,facebook,etc monitor their users even more to manipulate their behavior.

What happened to individual responsibility? And why the focus solely on social media? Should ISPs do the same thing? What about 24/7 stores? What about TV? What about news organizations? Should we only allow news organizations to print on odd numbered days to help news junkies?

I know most of the anti-social media rhetoric is just paid propaganda funded by the elites who want control over social media. But I just don't understand the supposedly "independent minded free thinking" liberals on hacker news advocating for nanny-state and nanny-corporations.

Is this hacker news or geriatric news. It seems like most posters on here are bitter 50+ year olds who rail against technology. There is something so eerie and strange about the HN crowd lately. Is it that most HN are just old now?

I would never expected this type of thinking from developers, let alone "hackers" on "hacker" news.
Right. Even the UTC+7 forms are confusing. Best to use location based zones for input at least

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/linux_timezones/
I didn't know the details, thank you! Appreciate the clarifications.