skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not true that they see no benefit. They will see benefit in:

1) cheaper financial services
2) broader financial services
3) real-time financial services
4) access to financial services regardless of location (or nation)
5) decentralized applications fully integrated with financial services

The average Joe doesn't need to control their own private keys in order to gain these benefits.

But think of it this way. What would be more difficult, for an organization or company, today?

A) start your own bank
B) start your own key management service

A) make an application that accepts payments as low as $0.01
B) make an application that accepts payments as low as .001 ETH

A) create a new protocol layer on top of the banking system
B) create a new protocol layer on top of Ethereum

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Today, we rely on perhaps at most a few dozen companies (PayPal, Stripe, VISA, MC, etc) to build interfaces with our banking system.

There is no "app store" for banking system financial services. It's hard, hard work to build anything on top of that archaic system.

Blockchain makes currency an internet-native construct. Which has profound implications that we are just beginning to see the very earliest examples of.
In case you want to look more into that, I'm running Chrome 67.0.3396.87 on Android 7, but I've also seen this on Android 6.
A Time-Lapsed Glacier Collapse Is the Saddest Science Lesson
It was pretty much off the cuff, yeah. :)
Assuming I'm someone who wants to spend money on adult entertainment, why would I want to use a coin specifically for that as opposed to a general purpose coin? Same for someone who works in adult entertainment; why would I want a coin who's only use is to pay for porn?
Also water is wet.
You’re both right.
Developing hit shows like "Game of Thrones" is extremely hard, and the competition for streaming content is cuthroat.

Meanwhile AT&T essentially only competes with Verizon, and does that primarily by offering the exact same services -- not exactly revolutionary, Harvard Business School Case Study stuff.

What has AT&T done in the last 20 years that was original? Mainly its operating business strategy is to raise prices as a regional, quasi-monopoly.

But sure, it's the (not highly paid) HBO employees that have to work harder, emulate those brilliant AT&T execs and their super original business growth strategies.
Yeah but think of all the money you’ll save in salaries!
I'd be curious to know how far you can go with marrying GOFAI systems for high level planning work and RL systems for pattern recognition and tactical actions.
HBO is still distinctively good - they have the time and money to fund things like limited series, and huge shows like Westworld and GoT
I love it and agree. It's like this at the start of every major change that has an impact on all levels of society. Even if these tokens are failing, they exist because they caught some unique insight into how the tech will change the world and they were able to communicate that clearly enough to get many, many investors. That they failed or were money making schemes is irrelevant because someone will see the core idea once the sector has matured and use that to build something cool and useful.

It should also be pointed out that 50% of small businesses fail within 5 years, and between 70-96% fail within 10. You'd think people so incompetent at identifying success would know when to STFU by now. "Hey, our industry is the go to source for how to run a business. Businesses have a 96% failure rate. Please continue to listen to us. Why are you laughing?"

https://www.fool.com/careers/2017/05/03/what-percentage-of-b...
https://www.inc.com/bill-carmody/why-96-of-businesses-fail-w...
I agree though I think in short term price normalization is going to create lots of situations where demand exists but customers are unwilling to pay for all they want. The forced choice is going to create a really competitive market but in short term I won't sign up for 2+ services at ~$15/month.
> Compared to wire transfers, one is required to trust the intermediary in that case.

You're totally right. But let me flip the question around a little bit. What would our financial system look like if we didn't have to place so much trust in our intermediaries?

It's not that banks aren't trustworthy. They are. They're extremely good stewards of the public trust, for the most part. But the fact that we place so much trust in them has systemic effects that are stifling to innovation. And I think that's what blockchains may allow us to overcome.
Thanks for checking it out and for the question :) I originally started in Flask. I started out using quite a number of libraries, but got a little frustrated back then when I didn't totally grok how the pieces all worked together. And Python 3 then didn't quite have the same support it does today. WSGI was simple enough to understand, so I started from there https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/

I've started looking into migrating the services from Python to Golang to make deployments easier. We'll see how it goes :)
Yes, I got the same one!
> Its main purpose is to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.

How does it reduce bandwidth exactly? It still has to grab all the html/css/js for the site being rendered.
Band of Brothers and The Pacific I thought were great HBO series. Also Rome is a great series.
Funny it seems Netflix has been doing everything it can to be HBO! (And that’s a good thing!)
Great, just what we need, more corporate censorship from the Youtube Trusted Flaggers.

How about I decide what I want to see, instead of the Ministry of Truth doing it for me?

How about I approach Youtube and all other sites with skepticism, and teach my kids to do the same, instead of having any default trust at all?
"Blockhains are going to redistribute the wealth from the wealthy elite few to the masses."

There is exactly nothing in blockchain that guarantees this will happen, or even makes it a likely outcome.
Pretty sweet!

Curious: why headless firefox and not headless chrome? Also: 'its main purpose is...to reduce bandwidth.' How does this reduce bandwidth? Is the assumption that you would deploy browsh on a server and ssh/mosh against that, and the bandwidth savings are to the client? (But full bandwidth usage to the server)?
> You aren't trusting an exchange when you send a transaction on the blockchain.

This is true, but exchanges have become the de facto on/off ramp for cryptos. If I want to acquire bitcoin without mining, how am I going to do it other than buying from a centralized entity?

Edit: As I post this I remembered that Paradex, a decentralized exchange for ERC20 tokens built on 0x, was recently acquired by Coinbase[1], the largest centralized crypto exchange, who in turn might soon be acquired by Facebook[2]

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currencies-coinbase/c...
2. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
I really appreciate when people who actually conduct the interviews give honest information about how their decision making process works.

Especially because everyone will hammer the shit out of you and critique your thought process.

Even if you think this paticular criteria is random/inefficient, people are missing a major opportunity to get inside the head of a person who could hire them.
‘thinking fast and slow ‘ talks about this
UK unveils extensive new plan to go all-electric by 2040
Silicon Valley and Curb Your Enthusiasm aren't mentioned enough and a big reason I subscribe.

HBO used to be the pinnacle of stand-up shows, but Netflix has taken that torch now it seems.

For comedy series they do well though. Curb, Silicon Valley, VEEP, Last Week Tonight, Eastbound & Down, and back in the day Larry Sanders, Mr. Show, Ali G and more.

They always deliver with great shows non-comedy as well: Band of Brothers, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, Sopranos, The Night Of, GoT, Big Little Lies, True Detective and on and on, hard to find this level of quality and creator freedom that allows that. Netflix definitely giving HBO a run for their money in quality and creator freedom, hard to imagine AT&T even giving creators the level of control HBO and Netflix have.
We need to boycott China. Their environmental negligence is going to harm generations to come. This is just selfish and short sighted.
If you could explain or show how you connected VS code to act as the debugger for Chrome I would let you and you could use VS code instead. I would also be impressed.

I didn't mean to imply they had to use Chrome.
No, no, no. You'll see it when you believe it. It's a new paradigm.
> Securities deregulation.

Do you know anything at all about the year 1929?
Author here. If I can answer any questions, feel free to ask away!
There is actually a critical difference depending on your oil market projections, which is why they're diversifying now rather than later. A very optimistic projection would be that Saudi can gradually extract & sell most of their oil before the clock runs out. If that doesn't happen, they could lose a large amount of value as global energy markets change dramatically over the next 30-50 years. Half of the US oil consumption is gasoline (9.3 million barrels per day oil equivalent, nearly equal to Saudi's output), and that's almost entirely going away with the switch to electric vehicles in the coming decades. China - the world's other giant oil & gasoline consumer - will similarly move almost exclusively to electric vehicles, as will the rest of the developed world. If you're a petro state, you don't want to be sitting on 100 years worth of oil and betting on extracting annual payouts from it over that time (comparable to what they can get for it now).
I'd like to build a pinball machine where the music is interactive. I have a number of ideas how to structure the gameplay. No idea if it would be fun to play. :)
> I guess I'm not sure I understand how this relates. Everybody already does do this. You are allowed to drop your bike off at a bike rack...

Scenario: go to park your personal bike at the public bike rack only you discover it's full of bikes from some company who wants to make a buck out of it.

A lot of these business models take advantage of resources that are "free" but have really cost a lot of money to set up and maintain, usually by the public.

I'm in Sydney and am now starting to see share bikes littering the landscape. One had been dumped in a public ocean bath (at Balmoral).
Exactly right. Allow the free market of ideas to separate fact from engineered fiction. There is a place for fake news catchers, but it is minor and should only be intended catch the most egregious violators of the public's trust.
In my city, the docked bikes are $8 for a day pass. That's way too high an entry point for me to ride to lunch a little farther than I can walk. Not to mention that I might get on a bike and find my destination rack full, therefore having to go to the next nearest dock to try to end my ride (and walk that distance on foot). A more economical choice is the $80/yr pass, but that's also a very steep entry point.
I don't think it's unsustainable at all.

But HBO used to have buffers for this stuff: a captive audience of cross-subsidized cable subscribers that were paying for HBO as a part of their TV package, and a competitive status as basically the king of the hill for prestige scripted television. They could take flyers on John From Cincinnati and Carnivale and wait for the next tentpole --- the next Game of Thrones or Sopranos or True Blood.

But both of those buffers are going away. Cable TV packages are going the way of Blockbuster Video. If you want subscribers, you're going to have to get them to sign up, in a crowded market, and bill them directly. And HBO isn't even close to the only game in town for prestige television. Even Hulu is competitive here; arguably, The Handmaids Tale has done as well as any non-GoT property HBO has launched in the last couple years.

To me, what this suggests is that for HBO to be competitive, their model is going to have to look more like Netflix's: they're going to need to fund and develop a lot more properties, rolling the dice more often until they can find a bunch more tentpole shows. Which is all the article really says, too.
Overall I see this as a milestone in SA history. They are anticipating the death of the oil market. Many people think it's unwisw to play games with what is essentially their entire economy. But I guarantee if you knew what SB has planned, you would find it hard to see any other path forward
does it fetch images? if it does not, there you go..
Ok -- I suppose it's the only bad example I have encountered.

To put it another way, if the candidate just starts changing completely unrelated stuff, and continues to after I say "that's not the issue, think about XYZ." That's a red flag.
You have to beware of overreaction to the bad investment. Generally folks are not savvy investors. Just look at the large number of small investors in the stock markets. When greed takes hold or FOMO does and lots of people lose money it will lead to an overreaction against investors wanting to put money in companies. This will lead to VC/angel investment drying up which in turn will curb startups.

Remember we live in a country where a cafe has to put the following disclaimer on Hot coffee paper cups "Caution: The contents of this cup could be hot!!"
I think AI winter is unlikely to come about this time since non-RL stuff (supervised learning) has been so successful and useful.
Look at how certificate transparency is done.. a few servers using same protocol is all it takes.

Most crypto-things have this idea that they servers validating transactions have to be compensated and that anyone can do this validation. (validation == mining)

Having a few well regulated entities do all the mining is a centralized system that can be verified externally. Without all the cost of decentralization. And with the added security that validators are trusted entities.
aris is technically correct. They are not legally allowed to bring a ton of USD into the country (if they're even well enough off to do so). And legally, they have to do so at government-mandated exchange rates (which no one does, because everyone buys/sells on the black market). Surely people are using USD where possible. But likely, they're HODLing their USDs (against the rapidly inflating Bolivares) wherever possible, too.

Meanwhile, no doubt some are using crypto to supplement their incomes/savings as well.
If this kind of stuff is of interest for you, I wrote up some similar ideas (albeit in Go instead of standard command-line tools).

366,000 RPS on a laptop: https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html
It's a glass-half-full thing. I'm mostly just glad that I live in the era of antibiotics and anesthetic.
I'm really fascinated to see how the next 5-10 years play out for the news industry.

They seem really focused on google and facebook, who have a great deal of control over the flow of traffic to the news sites. The EU in 2014, has even tried to get google to pay for headlines and snippets [1]. And they just decided not to go ahead with a similar plan [2].

Yet the news seem to ignore the isps, despite their willingness to actually alter content in traffic to display ads. [3][4][5] I feel that they are stepping over dollars to pick up dimes? Perhaps I am biased, but one of those seems like more of a threat to me.(Yes, I know about https) Where is the constant barrage of net neutrality opinion pieces? Are they not worried?

Now they want to talk about paying users for data. From the heading on the article: "Our site uses cookies to deliver relevant messages during your visit, such as presenting our latest offers". Obviously they know which articles I am interested in(which products might i buy), but I have heard they keep track of how long it takes me to read it(are speed readers more affluent?), and where people stop reading(short attention span correlated to increases spending impulsiveness?).

Am I going to get paid to read the news? This is a very valuable service I provide. Yet the economist charges(which I am in favor of), and complains about the free services(which I find really convenient and cheap). Are news/data collection companies going to be exempt? Are they in favor of paying users?

I guess seeing how the GDPR unfolds will be interesting wrt the news.

1. http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/the-fight-to-get-google-to-...

2. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44712475

3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/atts-...

4. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh

5. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-s...
Yep, thanks, the idea was to highlight all the research going on and argue it deserves more attention.
so far

That is, the people who start entering in console.logs, are entering them in in random places, not really troubleshooting.
Those last two (speaker and clock) yes, but otherwise no. Linus Torvalds really doesn't like using a debugger and he'd rather you didn't use one either. His words:

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/debuggers.html
at $20/payout, that would be 550 charged in a month or 18/day. Doesnt it take like 4 hours to charge each one? How much did your electric bill go up?
I'm not sure what the desired outcome should be but successive iterations has strange results:
https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow....
https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow....
Or, as is my preference, how to analyze 366,000 Records per Second on my laptop: https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html

And that's with non-optimized code!
$13.5M in Crypto Stolen from Token Platform Bancor
True, not all properties are there to the same extent as in eg Go, but they are there to some extent and more broadly Starcraft and Dota still 'game-like' ie not as complex as driving a self driving car in the real world. The Venn diagram is tricky to get right...
> This is true, but exchanges have become the de facto on/off ramp for cryptos. If I want to acquire bitcoin without mining, how am I going to do it other than buying from a centralized entity?

Sure, that's true. But once you own them, they're yours to do with as you please. You can also buy them from someone peer to peer if you really want to onramp in a 'decentralized' way.
Intent matters. Your example of flipping the script would only be comparable if the manufacturer engineered the car to fail the test.

VW built their car to produce a specific test result to get buyers to buy the car. It fits the description at the link below all too perfectly.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Fraud
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Besides this comment, is there a more transparent way to see when mods have mutated the post?
Have you ever ridden a bike on the sidewalk without any pedestrians to worry about? It's not a good experience. Bike lanes are fine.
They might be why you subscribe (and I like Silicon Valley, too) but they're not why customers in general subscribe. True Blood had something like 6x as many viewers as Silicon Valley (this is what I mean when I say HBO's business isn't really "quality" so much as stickiness); for Game of Thrones, it's more like 12x.

But also, you can't look at those shows in isolation. Compare them to Netflix's properties. Stranger Things is as big a deal as literally anything HBO has launched in the last decade, including Game of Thrones (I really want to believe that HBO is kicking themselves for not buying the script for that; it was shopped to them). For any given HBO 30 minute comedy, Netflix has probably launched 3 equally credible comedies.

The very best, most important 60-minute scripted dramas in the past decade have not as a rule, with the exception of Game of Thrones, been on HBO. If AMC can do Mad Men and FX can do The Americans, there is no reason to believe that Netflix can't do equally well just by pouring investor dollars into acquiring shows. At the end of the day, that's what these businesses do: pick production companies to fund, fund them, and then distribute the results.
I feel like HBO manages to make people feel like there are fewer lulls in its schedule by stretching their shows airtimes out over 3 or 4 months. On other services people watch a show over a week and then look for something else.
You’d be surprised how many programmers don’t understand (or at least think about) a formal language and manage to write a parser. Heck, it explains why a lot of languages have bizarre hacky syntax.

The problem of writing a high performance parser and the problem of writing just a parser at all are fairly isolated. I’ve written many parsers during my career but don’t consider myself a parsing person by any means (though the number of people who have written incremental parsers for IDEs is probably countable on one or two hands, most people don’t think about that as a parser problem).
How much is the offering discounted in the eyes of the investors because it is not issued by a "normal" company, but a dictatorial state ?
HN anti-cryptocurrency bingo:

- "It's just a glorified database"

- "It's just a slow database"

- "Congratulations, the crypto people just learned why regulations exists. Soon enough, we'd need to create each and every regulations in financial sector but for crypto"

- "Oh, to solve that problem, they'll have to do this other thing, and another thing, and soon enough you'd have recreated each and every aspect of our current financial system which they aimed to remove"

- "Can we stop using the word 'crypto' to mean 'cryptocurrencies'? I downvote any article's headline which uses 'crypto' to mean 'cryptocurrencies'"
Hiring folks also increases the communication overhead. If you are a team of 3 and hire a 4th you now have a new person that needs trained, needs to learn tribal knowledge, asks the other 3 people different things and keeps them busy distracting them from what were doing - finding product market fit. Any more, I prefer lean & scrappy teams. Small teams get more done. Only scale up the other bullshit when you absolutely have to.
The thing that always bugged me about time travel fiction is that the reference frame is just assumed to be the surface of the earth. How fast are we wizzing through the universe? Why wouldn’t I reappear somewhere out past Saturn when I travel forward or backward in time?

Similarly, if wormholes are real, and you construct one in a gravity well, what happens to gravity? Especially if both ends are in a gravity well?
A settlement of a crypto payment is much faster than a credit card payment in terms of settlement time. And a credit card payment is centralized.
And significantly faster in many cases if you already know what you're looking for. The Chrome debugger can be painfully slow debugging some of the ember applications in work - I have a video of it taking nearly a minute to respond to keyboard input in a deep stack (The firefox devtools perform a little better on the same codebase).
None that I know of except companies solving specific problems for the crytocurrency community.

There are lots of companies doing useful things claiming to use blockchain but when you deleve into the details aren't actually using blockchain like GUTS Ticketing https://guts.tickets/

And there are lots of companies really using blockchain but of no real use like HDAC https://www.hdactech.com/

The intersection of useful and blockchain comprises of virtually no companies.
This doesn't answer the question I fundamentally want to know: do they think it was worth it?

In my CS master's programs profs often warned against the PhD, said companies wouldn't hire you, that they'd view you as "too smart" and potentially be bored by everyday work.

Not true for certain disciplines (AI, e.g.) but I don't think every CS PhD is walking out the door with 300K/year offers hitting them in the face.