skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Game items like weapons and shields in an RPG game. Imagine if there is a global database of such items and different game developers build different games around it. So you could use your items in different games.

What centralized entity would you trust to run and maintain this database? What if this centralied goes bankrupt and shuts down the servers? If you are a small game developer, you are screwed. Even if it's Google, you still can't be certain that Google will not shut down the project and turn off the database like it has with certain projects in the past.

A public open blockchain is a neutral database that it would be reasonable for many small game developers to use for this purpose without fearing that it will get shut down, or the rules would be changed.
Creating frictionless markets which players can more easily enter without a gatekeeper (e.g. a monopoly). The trick is to tokenize and write smart contracts representing the entities and relationships. It's a long way to go before achieving this, but we'll get there. Hopefully.
That's exactly how mint.com works, owned by Intuit/QuickBooks.
Well said

I don't know how anyone over the age of twelve cannot see #2 and #3

Code has bugs. Things will go wrong. You need lawyers.
One problem that I think blockchains could be well suited for is the storage of police evidence. Not physical evidence of course, but anything that could be turned into data. There was a scene in the show Billions where U.S. prosecutors tampered with evidence in the from of notes taken while interviewing persons of interest. Since blockchains are at their core a tamper-proof append-only data store, if those notes had been stored in a blockchain that evidence tampering would have been impossible. Any time the stakes are high enough a centralized technology can become vulnerable to people being bribed, etc.

Note that my use of the term "blockchain" here isn't limited to public blockchains. You most likely wouldn't want to store police evidence publicly on a blockchain like Ethereum. You'd want that to be private, but there do exist private blockchain consensus algorithms like BFT that do have the same tamper-proof properties without requiring a public proof of work network.
A18Z: "we'll submit to more SEC oversight so that we can trade like Wall Street firms"

Wall Street: "Welcome to the big leagues. Ever heard of the efficient market hypothesis?"
IMO the original use case of just Bitcoin is still by far the most compelling. A non-inflationary store of value not unlike gold, but it can be transferred for a very low cost anywhere in the world in minutes.

I think the same arguments that come up about privacy can also apply to currency - I'm not doing anything illegal, why I do I care if I'm being monitored? or I'm not buying anything illegal, why do I care if banks and payment processors can block transactions? It's nice to have an alternative and be able to do things outside of that system just in case.

I don't, however, really understand the fanatics that want every cup of coffee they buy to use crypto. I definitely don't see any practical benefit to that.
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and their power and risk ability (affinity?) even affects businessmen trying to run sincere business for profit all the way here in India too
Unseizable money.
How to download?
are DC or Wall St different?
Mint legitmatized that authorization flow years before Plaid came around and the banks decided that was the best way to move forward instead of adopting something like an oauth2 flow.
What is the limiting principle?

Why stop at the now magical $15/hour? If $15 is better than $14 then why wouldn't $16 be better yet?

Once upon a time I was having an in person discussion with someone deeply involved in these sorts of policy discussions and I jokingly said that the law should just be $50/hour since that would obviously be better than $10/$12/$15.

To my astonishment this person proceeded to explain that it would indeed be a good idea because everyone would have more money to spend and so this change would be a boost to the economy.
Absolutely no acknowledgment that there might be unintended consequences to a $50/hour minimum wage.
I was sad to see => aka "hashrocket" syntax go, and it still slips in sometimes... but it is nice being able to use the same hash syntax in Ruby and JS.

What I'm intrigued by is the author's suggestion that there's more to the change than a relatively minor syntax change. Is there more to the story? I always assumed that both syntaxes are functionally identical.
Yeah back when ING still had a retail presence in the US they were notorious for not working well with Mint… because they required a mint specific access key and not your master credentials.
Polish pronunciation is actually incredibly easy, there's a direct mapping (a mathematical function) from a simple partition of letters to phonems. Unlike in English, where we have weirdnesses like "vehicle" or "colonel". There's a price to pay for quick and massive import of words, lack of centralized language development coordination body and conquering the global stage of accents, I reckon.

Example for the town: Mszczonów -> Mshchonooff (Americanized).
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Not necessarily. If the company can't afford as many people at $15 an hour then some of them are going to be let go.
China doesn't like not having the biggest of something. I expect this to be beaten within the next couple of years.
IIRC Rust's safety is provided by affine types; all languages with affine or linear types can provide the same guarantees Clean and Mercury both come to mind of the top of my head (IIRC Clean had "Concurrent" in its name at one point), and I think there are both Haskell and F# variants with either affine or linear types.

In addition there are many other solutions to safe parallelism and/or concurrency, some of which don't require a type system at all; Erlang is famous for safe concurrency and is untyped.

Lastly, there's good old fashioned multiprocessing which can be safe just by not sharing memory.

There is no one feature that is new in Rust, but it has a relatively unique set of features in the non-GC language world; ATS is the only one coming to mind, though I'm sure there are some other niche ones.

I love this combination in rust because latency sensitive operations in GCd languages are notoriously hard to achieve. Lisp was able to be an operating system because nobody needed to run quake at 100fps on a lisp machine. With GC you can pick latency or throughput but can't reliably get both without coding around the GC.

This does mean for me that when considering things that rust is particularly good at, latency sensitive applications stand out; this is not to say it's bad at non-latency sensitive applications, just that one has a lot more choices when latency is a non-issue.
Noting one exception, India's biggest business group 'Tata' is a 100+ years old family business conglomerate, but is mostly owned by various trusts(https://www.tatatrusts.org/). It is very easy to find works around the country funded by them, be it restoration of historical monument, NGO publishing children education books.
Much easier to charge users using their own credit cards. Don’t see what crypto is solving here?

In your email example, what is the advantage to you over charging a subscription? How do you create ongoing revenue?
In the US, the federal government heavily subsidizes rich people’s charitable contributions. https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

Even when completely legal, rich Americans use charities as a means to avoid taxes while still using their money to influence policy or pursue other agendas. But there are also a plethora of charity-related tax evasion, money laundering, and fraud schemes.

The Trump Foundation is a good recent example of how criminal schemes tied to charitable organizations (like white collar crime more generally) go largely uninvestigated and unpunished in the USA. The brazen repeated crimes were only noticed because the chairman/founder became President and started attracting scrutiny from the media.
At a guess: If the economy goes down the drain and Google needs to cut costs asap, they could kick out the contractors with a moments notice and tell the software people "no more perks for you". And the SWE's couldn't easily leave over the lost perks if all other places were struggling at the same time. So in that sense it's less risky.
Yeah, but you can plant a new tree, which will sequester carbon at a much faster rate than the mature tree it replaced.
Peter, co-founder/CEO of Segment here... I'm not sure it felt that way in the moment. On December 11, 2012 we were in pretty bad emotional place. I was on the verge of quitting at several points during the prior month, and was hospitalized twice earlier that fall due to stress and anxiety during our search for product market fit.

Obviously, the Show HN on December 12, 2012 turned that around. But it still took us several months to realize we had a tiger by its tail and begin to recover psychologically.

So... for those of you searching for product market fit and not finding it yet, hang in there.
I have a 1080ti too, 2x HDCP2.2 (over DP) compatible monitors and a 1 gbps connection and yet I can’t even stream 1080p content on Linux, much less 4K.

I guess it’s still me to blame because I pay for it for friends and family who use my account.

Anyway check your cable if your monitor states that it’s compatible.
I didn't know about mbasic facebook, it is awesome! Thank you. It even works the chat without needing to put the phone in desktop mode.
The money appears and disappears as the result of fractional reserve banking. The analogy with your parents loaning you the money is incorrect because your parents cannot engage in fractional reserve monetary creation.

It actually has nothing to do with the central bank - fractional reserve banking has a much longer history than central banking.
a16z is not the object of the "blowing up". There is no clickbait or ambiguity.
Many of the newer, high profile blockchains have moved away from proof of work to proof of stake, which is not energy intensive
Yep, 3 sensors can fail too. Less often however.

These sensors exist to solve a problem with the MAX design. Changing and moving the engines increased the likelihood of a stall when the engines could push the nose up (as I understand it). Fine.

But here's the kicker: this should be something that pilots should be trained on. They should be aware of how the MAX is different to the previous 737s and know what to do to disable this system if it causes problems.

But that might be the end of a common type rating, which is something the airlines (and apparently Boeing) didn't want.

The whole 737 MAX situation just looks like a giant clusterf--- that was a kneejerk reaction to the unexpected success of the A320neo to which Boeing had no answer and to avoid years-long development delays and losing more customers to Airbus, it really looks like they made shortcuts. And that's so damaging to their brand it really defies belief.
You mention both common sense and personal values. I think it’s much more likely that people have different personal values than you than that people have less common sense than you.
Check out PyInstaller.
Peter, co-founder/CEO here... tag managers from all these players only solve the issue on websites, but only 30% of the data we manage comes from websites. The rest comes from mobile apps, payment systems, helpdesks, CRMs, email, push notifications, etc. So tag management is an antiquated/web-specific category that we've been ripping-and-replacing now for a few years.

It is also a huge market, with lots of interesting adjacencies that are equally whitespace. https://segment.com/protocols is starting to push into some of those areas.
My ancestors were not the Anasazi. That's a derogatory term used by the Navajos. Current term is Ancestral Puebloans. Ancestors of the Hopi, the Zuni, the Tiwas, Tewas, Towas, and a few others, all which have preserved our histories. Function of the rooms and site are known, the names of who lived in what apartment is known for many cases, etc.

The Chaco complex was multilingual. Some languages were isolates.

Yes we had written language both in things written down long term, and in letters and accounts that were sent great distances. The written language, like Chinese, is not phonetic, and can be read by people from the culture across unrelated language families.

Believe me, no western scientist, anthropologist or archaeologist is interested in the truth of any of this and we've all stopped offering or even bothering.

Pretty much everything in the article above is wrong in some way. Even the thing he describes as a dividing wall is not at all, it's the side of an elevated set of structures. The NPS has models of what it used to look like in the visitor center that show his theory is totally incoherent. There's no way any competent guide would have told him it was a dividing wall. However there are many senile retired archaeologists and anthropologists from the old school of extreme ignorance and supremacy who work there during the summer as volunteer rangers and so he might have been told just about anything.
And so what if they are going to stop? Why were they offering it in the first place? It is such an obviously terrible idea
If you're doing those things because you think your transactions are anonymous...you're putting yourself at risk. Bitcoin is not private, like at all.
I once worked for someone who had no clue about biology and had no critical faculties at all. She was like "but it inhibits target X", and you'd go like "and God know what else" because the compound looked far too much like a promiscuous binder. Then she'd tell you you were a pessimist. She had an Elizabeth Holmes portrait in her office until late 2016.

It was a complete shitshow, like the experience of the guy behind Org Prep Daily at his startup (starts here: https://orgprepdaily.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/breakin-bad-in...) minus the drug manufacturing, although I'm positive that the bosslady was on stimulants. After such an experience you get skittish.

Elsethread someone mentioned a supposedly copper-binding orally active derivative. Copper-binding in stomach acid? How much of that has been validated? Part 5 of "Breaking Bad in South Florida" might be relevant: https://orgprepdaily.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/breaking-bad-i...

David Lowe has something about supposedly selective compounds polluting the literature, but I can't fidn the blogpost right now. I agree with his sentiments.
I don't think there's anything weird about that at all.

But suppose you did want to publish your content. For instance I make videos about tech and programming that I enjoy sharing with others and getting feedback on, so I post them on YouTube. Some people like to do that with their selfies or political commentary. To me that's all fine as long as they understand that it's no longer private.

The bigger privacy violations, imo, are the hidden ones. The web trackers, IoT data collection, location services, conversation metadata, etc. These are situations where it's not "public" like YouTube or Twitter, but it sure isn't private either.
Just don't get banned by Visa or Mastercard
As a side note, I generally like reading, but I cannot for the life of me pay attention this circus of an article. The animations give me motion sickness.

I see comments here which indicate there may be something worth reading in there, but my brain is screaming at me to ignore it. The whole thing feels like an advertisement.

Perhaps it's because suits are making a corporate comeback.
By stopping the investment or no-investment-for-free shares?
I'm not saying I do, I'm just saying I don't trust China to either really
Blockchains are essentially paperclip optimiser machines.

For bitcoin - paperclips are PoW hashrate.

The network rewards people that contribute to it's growth.

It doesn't care about people and people values - it's like a new kind of living organism that uses people as substrate to exist
a16z ("our" partner was Chris Dixon) led our seed round at Wit.ai. Working with them on a day-to-day basis was an incredible experience. They never asked for anything, but were always ready to jump in instantly when we needed anything from sales intros to offices in Palo Alto. When we got an offer from Facebook we founders wanted to accept it. They initially disagreed with us, but once we confirmed our decision they supported us 100% in the negotiation process. That's what I call class.
> So what is so special about an employment contract, compared to all other businesses?

Oh, this is really easy to answer. For example, the fact that purchaser dictates the price, not supplier - to such an extent, that purchaser voluntarily and periodically decides to start paying more, without explicit intervention from supplier. Oh, and also decides to reward supplier with bonus payments when receiving good-quality merchandise.

But it's not about that - if you think about it, it's probably related to the expectation of exclusivity. Is there any business that is expected to exclusively supply to only one customer? If so, I'd suspect they'd be very concerned about that consumer paying them fairly.
Skepticism might be warranted, but it should be noted by now that decentralized finance has a place in the present and future of our planet and it's not going away. I strongly encourage technologists to keep an open mind and do in depth research into the space.

Yes, 2017 was over-hyped. The tech was not mature then, and while it has matured some since then, there's still quite a ways to go.

Bitcoin Lightning network is growing. Ethereum has successfully navigated core upgrades and has a clear path to scalability. Other platforms are doing great innovative things.

But to the core of the argument that crypto has no use case. It's 2019. We've seen our internet rights to speech and expression violated by companies imposing their values on their user base. We've seen digital ghosting, deplatforming, fake news manipulation, propaganda and all kinds of insidious behaviors from corporate giants that are too big to be truly accountable anymore.

Bitcoin et al. are a very real promise that the future of banking and finance and money will be decentralized. Which as far as I'm concerned, is about freedom as much as speech is. You don't have any freedom if you have to beg VISA or PayPal for permission to spend your money. That alone should be enough to justify the existence of block chain technology and we should all be cheering on its eventual success.

But besides that, the tech is being used in novel ways. From gaming to loans to tokenized asset trading. Cryptocurrency is programmable in a way that is just not possible with dollars.
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I truly mourn the death of the "printable version" link
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I’ve seen a number of people move from Rails to Rust... is that really a common move? Seems like they’re very different and designed for very different things. Are people commonly building web applications in Rust? I know it’s possible but C++ has web frameworks too and that seems like a more apt comparison.

I guess I’m just baffled by the number of people on here that I see pointing to Rust as the next project they tackle after Rails when I don’t see them overlapping at all.
If you look at other countries then $15 an hour is a crazy high amount for a minimum wage. 6 years ago I had a full time software development job where I made $600 a month net. If you look at countries like Ukraine or Bulgaria you'll see even lower earnings. And it's not like average people in those countries are starving or dirt poor. They have cars, homes, computers, smartphones etc.
I'm not convinced that there are essential technical reasons stopping decentralized systems from scaling into the 10Ktps range that we would need to compete with VISA.

We would have to make a few changes though - we couldn't send all transactions to all nodes - instead we'd need a tree of confirming networks or something. And we might need a 2PC protocol for transactions. (Eg first I send money and generate a hash. Once thats been confirmed you can commit a receive money message. Or something like that).

But I acknowledge that the burden of proof is on me here. And I'm not convinced its worth doing - I agree that there aren't many good use cases for this.
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I was responding to a comment that said "My point here is that the difference between men and women on most metrics tends to be more heavily influenced by other external factors."

Given the topic, I took that as an argument that the neurological differences are not as pronounced as what is created by external factors, and I was responding to the lack of evidence provided for that view (which I interpret as the opposite of the view you suggested).

I actually lean towards your position, but I wasn't trying to express that as an argument (I'm unqualified to). I was just trying to point out what I saw as at best very loose reasoning (at least when provided without evidence).
Am I the only one that would miss every single thing this extension hides? Actually I don't use the right side bar, but I like to organize my email in labels and auto filter emails into them and clearly see how many I have.

I do like gmail as it is now. Actually, I also like the html version https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/h/ but because it has all the features of the normal gmail but it loads faster.
There are in the Mediterranean. For instance between Morocco and Algeria it's one of the two options to cross the border, because the land border is closed (due to territorial disputes).
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> A single developer can do today what once took a small team.

When was this, in the 80's? Web productivity is just catching up to RAD platforms like Visual Basic in the 90's and still a lot more complicated than a good UI framework like Gtk/Qt.
An emphemeral ride you recieve via a ridesharing app is a commodity. Your social connections are not a commodity. The distinction in where (and where not) network effects applies matters.

Small critique, though: if there are no drivers, you won't ditch Uber of Lyft for the no-name platform that mandates a 60 minute wait before you can get picked up since they have so few drivers.

Perhaps, network effects should be a continuum, with ridesharing at the weaker end, and social networks at the stronger end, when it comes to business relevance.
Are you an amateur photographer? Or are you someone who posts images to a social media website for a dopamine hit?

Perhaps there’s a value to gatekeeping. It can make us actually put effort and consideration into things. Modern web services like Instagram have allowed human fantasies to run wild, completely detached from reality. If you truly cared about your art and wanted it to be seen, you would devote yourself to that and work on getting into a gallery, or set up your own website. Instead you retreat to a fantasy world of online likes where you feel legitimized as an artist with zero real effort, and zero care or true appreciation on the audience’s part.