skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is that gaia hubs are owned by the users.

There are two aspects of this implementation:

1. The Blockstack naming system is used to associate an immutable user identity with the routing path to their storage, for reads and writes.

For an application to store data in the gaia hub, they must sign a challenge text proving they have been whitelisted to write that data, but the data is associated with the users gaia hub.

If the user leaves the platform, all of their data is with them in their gaia hub, which can be used by another app (maybe a competing blogging app for example?).

2. Users host their own gaia hubs.

Right now, the barrier is high for people hosting their own gaia hubs, so Blockstack provides a default one that is associated with their identity, so the average user can focus on using the applications on Blockstack and less on the system administration like overhead in setting up a gaia hub.

However, this user onboarding default does not override the ownership the user has in that their id is the one whitelisting applications and allowing applications to store data, which they can then own and use in other places, or disconnect their gaia hub and simply keep the data as their own personal HD with user addressable content even if they did not want to use it anywhere else, with other apps, etc.

Users can host their own gaia hubs. We are working on migrations, images available on platforms and publishing instructions for how to utilise DO spaces and S3 in addition to the driver functionality that exists now for things like Azure blob storage and S3 buckets.

The newer development is focused around automating the driver with local disk so the same set up can be ported to images on the cloud as well as users hosting their own gaia hubs on a server somewhere. For example, many of our enthusiasts are asking how to host them on a rasberry pi.

Let me know if this answers your question. I would also love feedback or ideas in general.
Not all tech comes from slinging ads.
I don't think there's a good answer to this... it varies depending on the language, familiarity of the codebase, complexity, novelty/difficulty of the problem/solution, how repetitive the code is, etc. So I don't think comparisons can be made between people, even if they're looking at the same code base (since what is difficult for me, may be easy for you, and therefore easier for you to comprehend and remember... but if we look at another codebase, the opposite may be true.)
Thank god for these pioneers.

I'm surprised by CES's response - when did teledildonics become a moral issue?
They also managed to run away after 9/11

They're still running away, but we want their dollars so we keep allowing this behavior:

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is asking the Trump Administration for answers about whether the Saudi government helped a Saudi national flee the U.S. after he was accused of killing an Oregon teenager.

http://time.com/5490263/ron-wyden-saudi-arabia-suspect-flee/
Here's the original presentation back when they decompiled it: https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot13/workshop-program/pr...

And the paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot13/woot13...

Basically, dropbox remapped the op codes to different values and shipped rc4 encrypted pyc files with a custom python binary that had the key inside it.
Considering Apple just released a letter to stockholders noting that their projections were too high and directly pointing to poor iPhone sales as the reason I'm not sure what your comment is trying to say.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-...
The reason why audio adblocker should definitely exist:

those ads will be updated one day.( Company/product shut down...)
(This scenario of popular revolt has never actually transpired.)
I am hoping to hear suggestions or real-life experience of anyone who has gone back to do their Phd after turning 50. My wife and I, both professionally and financially settled, are looking to stop working at 50, and take up something close to our hearts, which will be our _second_ 20-year innings. We would like to start that innings with doing a Phd in that field.

We both have Masters and an MBA in our respective fields. The next innings will be based on our current experience (30+ years) and our education, but hoping to apply it in a macro, policy framework, for which will go back to study.
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I can't believe people would even consider foreign laws apply to US small businesses that operate solely in the U.S.

Edit: no you don't need a guide on how to comply. No you don't need to pay some consultant to see if you are compliant. Simply ignore.

Edit 2: to comply means you except all foreign laws and rule.
I’m in the camp that firmly believes that AirPods or an AirPod-equivalent completes the general audio experience on an iPhone. Being able to trivially link them to my laptop is also very nice, but what really makes it is being able to invoke and use Siri reliably when my phone is in my pocket so long as the network conditions aren’t crap.

That said, removing or not including certain features does make it less of a general purpose device that is less useful to more people. Apple has been ragged on from day one for not including some form of SD card support, an FM tuner and a removable battery. To this day there are people that will refuse to buy a phone without those features.

They might not be strictly necessary features, but they still sell phones, or at least make them viable to the kind of person that demands them, but Apple still sold hundreds of millions of iOS devices without those features.

Then they removed the headphone jack too. To a group of people that were never concerned about the lack of removable media, a radio tuner, and a removable battery and bought iPhones for years, they suddenly lost one feature they actually used and were told to buy a single instead.

I mean if your car’s Bluetooth radio sucks, or you have a very nice pair of wired headphones you like using, or you simply want to be able to plug your phone into a random audio source at some party, being told to buy a dongle instead sucks. It’s just one more tiny little $10 widget which will get lost or worn out or rendered useless in a laundry mishap.

Apple made a trade off, but in this instance, it does not seem like a worthwhile trade off and it does hurt their image when they make some seemingly anti-customer choice like this. Even people that weren’t personally affected and didn’t mind shelling out for a set of AirPods or W1 Beats might change their perception when enough shit hits the fan and is flung in the face of those around them.
I'm in Murphys, and the place that's most scary is up along the south part of the Arnold Rim Trail, though there are others. But once you get up by Alpine I think you're safe, out of hunting season at least.
DS was a dumb name. 3DS was clever. 2DS was bad but I don't know what they should've called the "3DS that isn't 3D" otherwise (3D-isn't?). After that they should've just stopped, I cannot fathom why they did the New whateverDS stuff when the naming was already getting out of hand.
It is kinda criminal that they are overlooked in this article. Some genuinely hilarious content in these videos.

http://www.acq-inc.com/portfolio/category/live-show
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IBM patents more than all of Germany
AT&T might as well pivot to nuke plants and Uber can start building skyscrapers. Health is so outside of Apple's wheelhouse, use of smartphones seems to be making people worse! I think it's a desperation pivot to appease stockholders who were just told Apple won't be making as much money as it used to.
I think we can agree that what you do and what your salary "come from" can be distinct and can be influenced by other things. There are engineers at FB whose sole job is maintaining REACT.js but they are paid from the money made from selling data.

Further, and I want to make it clear that I don't mean this as a value statement, but is a printing company what most of us really think of a the "tech" industry? and by extension does that really make you the subject of what you are replying to?
Hang in there ... I've ridden that particular train[1][2]. You have to be strong, positive for the family member. Know you are not alone, there have been many people who've gone through this, and as I discovered, it helps to talk to them.

I am happy to report that as of 29-Dec, we are at 7 years post op. On the 1 year anniversary of when we got the diagnosis, I saw an xkcd strip[3]. That gave me some hope of an eventual return to normalcy. A few years later, I saw one of the followons[4].

Little things like that help. They really do.

[1] https://scalability.org/2011/11/ot-it-really-focuses-your-at...

[2] https://scalability.org/2012/01/ot-what-is-and-what-should-n...

[3] https://xkcd.com/1141/

[4] https://xkcd.com/1928/
One aspect is that LinkedIn is protective of plugins that incidentally cover up their own ads. Notably several entries on this list once had such grievances filed against them.
I have to at least partially disagree with #1 being a benefit. Universities and loans for universities should not be encouraging students to waste many years of their life for a degree which does little to help them get meaningful employment. Additionally, with at least the american student loan system as I am more familiar with it, neither the university or the bank offering the loan faces any repurcussions for encouraging and financing these bad decisions, with the government guaranteeing the debt will be paid.
ipad air might have been underclocked due to a battery that needs replacing
Well if they're uploaded by the copyright holder they're unlikely to be DMCAed (though it happens :-). And why should they protest a trailer -- it's an ad for their film, right? But these shortsighted folks often will DMCA one.

In theory you can be liable for damages for filing a false DMCA claim (a couple of examples here: http://www.aaronkellylaw.com/consequences-of-filing-a-false-... ). In practice it almost never happens, which surprises me as they are a nuisance for the YTs of the world who have to handle the complaints.
I bought into this article until "the field of machine learning, although seemingly distant from mathematical logic" and then I sold it all.
Possibly in the sense that a stopped clock is right twice a day, rather than this being backed by a credible source. I think the likelihood that this is backed by a credible source is still probably about the same, but maybe this is the year that it is?
If there was ever an "enterprise" business, it's healthcare. In it's entire history, Apple has never made any enterprise products. They're a phone and music company, and now they're going to save people's lives. More Kool-Aid, anyone?
Goodbye Chevy Volt, the Perfect Car for a Future That Never Was
Additional Info: It is 10% less in the Jan to March Quarter, which in Apple's terms is actually Q2 2019.
I'm not you, so I can't confirm what you are experiencing, but have you considered that the screen is throwing off your perception of the phone's size? For me, the biggest difference has been in interacting with the phone, which means that my fingers have to actually cross the entire height of the device rather than just the area that used to be the screen.
60 minutes interview with a young Jeff Bezos, 1999

https://youtu.be/VuI-ss5aQU8?t=629

"how do you view that phenomenon [laugh] that Amazon is worth more than Sears!? [condescending laugh]"

"a couple of geeks [laugh laugh], who sketched out some software, could destroy Sears Roebuck [laugh]"

same 60 minutes "expert", telling young Bezos, Amazon stock was wildly expensive

https://youtu.be/dTxuzW9RAO8?t=20

"Amazon is worth more than a major industrial company, like Texaco ... that didn't blow your mind?"
Except they are not using the DMCA, they are using google's own content id process, which has no checks and/or balances[1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/12/19/the-injus...
Two years ago, there was an article on the same website "Apple to slice iPhone production 10%", https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Apple-to-slice-iP...
Glad that moronic speculation is over with. On to the next one!
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Every time I think of sears I think of this story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIktR-3Ci4 where they stole someone's wrench design
When Sears, the Facebook of its era, launched its IPO in 1906 the catalog was the Internet of the day
https://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-per-flash-sears-ipo-0513-2...
For people interested in learning more about the author's (Bryan Caplan) background and views: http://thepolitic.org/an-interview-with-bryan-caplan-profess...
> OMG, we're actually having an edition war on HN! D&D really has broken through!

Are we? The disagreements seem to be about details of why various editions succeeded or failed, not about their superiority.
> Their new laptops are also insanely priced. The 2018 Macbook Air is more than 2x the price of the 2017 Macbook Air.

I have no idea what the price is in India, but a 2017 MacBook Air is $999 in the US, while the 2018 model is $1199. Not quite "2x the price".
I don’t think it affects your main point, which I think is about the SNES and forward, but the naming of the NES and its “sober” redesign of the Japanese FamiCom for the US was very deliberate, and Part of Nintendo’s winning move after the video game crash. This video goes into great detail: https://youtu.be/B9kyey_qxNM
Just a few things:

- Make sure to fill out the url filed when submitting.

- Also, I would set the link to the github page, https://github.com/nightw0lff/validator-handler, rather than the npm page.

- Mortal Kombat is awesome!
You're missing that everyone is different.

A lot of people really care about the quality of the camera and the overall speed of the experience since they spend 10 hours a day on it. Don't forget that many millennials have a phone but no TV or computer. But equally a lot of people don't care about those things. And probably most of these are like yourself happy to stay on the 6s.

As Tim Cook said as long as you're happy that's all that matters because at some point you will upgrade and you will likely stay with Apple. Just not every year like maybe you used to.
People hate generosity as much as they hate mean-spiritedness (2010)
Part of the much higher prices in India are becomes of import tariffs. But it is made much worse by the fact that Apple's prices are already so high.
Yeah, leucine is a bit of a hot topic among the intermittent fasting crowd because of its apparent ability to arrest fasting-induced autophagy. Some amount is clearly critical for anabolic signaling, but the evidence I've seen indicates that extra dietary leucine (in excess of typical consumption) has no effect on actual muscle synthesis [1].

There is compelling evidence supporting supplementation of some conditionally essential amino acids such as carnosine (perhaps vis-a-vis beta-alanine) and glutamine. There's also increasing interest in restriction of specific amino acids, namely methionine, for anti-aging and cancer treatment.

But all this talk of supplementation and restriction, outside of what occurs naturally in foods, stands in opposition to the dietary notion of protein completeness. My hope is that it will eventually lead to more appropriate and flexible measures of dietary protein quality.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844186
This post was egregiously manipulated with fake votes and comments. The HN community won't stand for that.

We've banned all the accounts involved, as well as the site.
> They were outraged about this Huawei CFO arrest. Many of them swore off Apple phones and said they were only going to buy Huawei from now on.

As a show of solidarity with Huawei, or because they felt that Apple had something to do with it?
Better Camera. 6s is good for day but potato at night. At my job I take lot pictures of signed documents, I find the camera on XR to focus faster and take sharp photo's.
> The rich get back everything they put in.

Source?
What would you suggest a 'must have skills' for a Designer in 2019
What would you suggest a 'must have skills' for a Designer in 2019 given the world tech and design trends?

#UX #IxD #CxD #UI #VR #AR #MR #XR #AI #fintech #healthcare
I think it did need to be written, but it's perhaps more useful now to laymen than professional economists. I've only been vaguely aware of "Austrian" economics, and loosely associated it with the kind of strident internet ideologues you mentioned. This article has given me a clearer view that's free of the distortions that I might have otherwise had to filter out with effort.
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The Gig Economy hasn't even started yet. We've yet to solve Identity (Who is this?) and Merit (Is this person qualified/competent?). Hell, we've only barely started decentralized finance let alone scalable-decentralized-organizations. Uber/Lyft/Taskrabbit/Fiverr are low-hanging fruit compared to the complex workflows most services entail.

I expect we're going to see more niche gig-economy businesses being built around more complex workflows with higher skilled labor. Lots of B2B and B2C potential when you break up services into smaller tasks that can be fulfilled. Success is providing the benefits of scale without the challenge of doing it yourself.
It's funny that modern Hayek adherents are so militant about preventing things that Hayek himself was completely fine with. He saw a government role in pricing externalities, banning poisons, preventing deforestation and pollution, limiting working hours or other manipulative labor contracts, preventing private fraud, and in wealthy societies, providing minimum food, clothing, housing and social insurance.

That list would make many at Mises scream bloody murder. Man our discourse is just so petty.
Why is every day in my life like the other?
That is one of the most egregious abuses of statistics I've ever seen on HN. Pretty funny. Stock price correlates with a whole raft of macroeconomic factors e.g. economy, taxation not just the specific performance of Apple. And even ignoring that Apple's performance as a stock is dependent on their overall revenue and profit mix for which they are extremely diversified. It's not just about iPhones.

What we do know is that iPhones are important to Apple and if they genuinely thought that there was a significant market for tiny phones then they would release one. They still sell the iPad mini and the smaller Apple Watch for example so it's not just they they are afraid of small things.
They didn't die. Kevin Siembieda sold a bunch of art prints and asked fans to buy books direct from the web store, and they got back in the black. That was 12 years ago and they're still alive.

Siembieda has a habit of going all-in on bad ideas and then blaming everyone but himself afterwards. E.G., there was interest in a Rifts video game, so he licensed a studio to make one...for the Nokia N-Gage, despite all his fans urgently telling him that it was a dumpster fire. Then when the game flopped like everything associated with the N-Gage, he announced that no one could have seen this coming and clearly video games weren't a good avenue for Palladium. More than once he's commissioned a book, talked up the author in a big way, then by the time the manuscript is half-completed he's decided to cancel the book and tell everyone that it's because the author just didn't get it.

And apparently a lot of the losses to the crooked accountant happened because Palladium had no inventory control system, so no one realized stuff was vanishing.

All of which is to say, I suspect that anyone but Siembieda wouldn't have fallen victim to that guy in the first place.

(Oh, and there was a $1.5 million Kickstarter that somehow crashed and burned with 90% of the promised materials undelivered, even though all the tooling was ready and they were actually printing books.)
That is with 4.0mm Bezel on every sides. So If Apple shrink the Bezel by 1.5mm, It would have the same width. Assuming you don't do Curved around edges like Samsung, Huawei has managed to make the left right Bezel shrink to 2.1mm.

The major difference between X/XS and 8 is the weight. And this make the whole phone felt very different.
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I absolutely don't mean it sarcastically. If you want to make money as a media service in today's extreme wealth inequality, you need to find a way to do this. There are no exceptions.
Alcohol also makes us loose or inhibitions. I wonder why that is
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4511950

> That reminds me of Peter Thiel's Venn diagram of 'Sounds like a bad idea' and 'Is a good idea'. It's a pretty slim area in the middle and the 'Sounds like' part means it's hard to know until you do it.
The article is a rumours or suggesting for Q1, ( Or Q2 in Apple's terms ), not Q4.
Surprised at how many locations they have, if this is the correct company:

https://www.spacesworks.com/locations/
The author (rightly in my view) doesn't group Hayek under Austrian.

What you're talking about sounds like transaction costs and information asymmetry, which are interesting. Hayek's work is interesting to me, even as someone who would self describe as a socialist.

His decentralized market solution to the economic calculation problem, the information from prices (price signals) tell producers and consumers to increase/decrease supply and demand.

But markets aren't perfectly competitive, there are monopolies. Markets are embedded in societies, they don't exist outside of them. Markets don't guarantee an optimal equilibrium. 50% of R&D spending is by the government.

He also did early work on neural networks, published The Sensory Order in 1952, 3 years after Hebb's The Organization of Behavior
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but the theory that "VR is an important new medium" is exactly what I wanted empirical data to test. I was not asking about potential; I was asking about current sustained use.
thx bro, edited.
Gig economy can be a victim of its own success if it starts accounting for a significant portion of the labor force. Because of the inevitable political backlash about its business model. Once you see too many successful companies with workers scraping by, you will also see political demands to treat these as full time workers instead of mere contractors. At that point, gig economy's business model would stop working and these companies will have to live with far lower margins of the traditional industries they are disrupting.
Some people can do it, others can't. I would have had a very hard time coming up with the amount of sustained motivation needed to learn my college subjects on my own. I ended up majoring in subjects where the classroom setting was beneficial to me. I have also taught myself a variety of other subjects, so it varies from subject to subject for me.

The daughter of one of my friends had a baby at age 16, was allowed to graduate from high school early (i.e., kicked out), and got an online degree from a good university. She said the hardest part was the sheer boredom, sitting at home in front of a computer all day.
Resolution isn’t as much of a problem if you’re okay with 10fps (for example.)

“AR” is a pretty loose term. You definitely won’t be getting HoloLens/ARKit level tracking or 3D rendering in these. Tech just isn’t there yet.
If you find your camera to be adequate, then keep it. The screen is better both on XS and XR. I would still keep iPhone 7 for at least 1 more year before upgrading. The new XS and XR have the best camera on an iPhone but still doesn't match up to Pixel 2 or 3. I am certain in 1 or 2 generations apple will catchup.
Apple cuts first-quarter production plan for new iPhones by 10 percent
It is really good for quickly developing prototypes, and testing your workflows. But please don't consider it for any serious application that runs inside an unattended device for long periods of time. It is leaky, slow and consumes more resources than it should for the tasks it does.