skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really what Sidechains are aiming for? If so I need to go back and reread their paper more carefully.

What I'm hearing you describe is that the token used by a Sidechain is not one iota different from any other Bitcoin, except perhaps that its latest output script includes some new weird feature we haven't seen yet. It's like my sending you 1.0 Bitcoin through a vanilla BTC transaction and you telling me that I now possess 10e8 Satoshis, which are different that Bitcoin but always redeemable for Bitcoin pegged at that rate.

If tokens being used by Sidechains are permanently pegged to Bitcoin, and we assume merged mining, I withdraw my objection to the concept, and would instead direct my criticism toward how the concept was presented and its seeming suggestion that Sidechain tokens might one day detach and rise in value while Bitcoins potentially fall to zero.
Okay, you contact a construction crew (and other associated contractors, civil engineers, etc), and you make sure they're doing their job. And if they don't, you take on the liability for any damages done by potholes, broken guard rails on bridges, etc.

Does that still sound good to you?
Isn't the singularity definitionally impossible to prepare for?
Checklist is maybe a good alternative to a boring usability report.
Note: Blockchain.INFO, not THE blockchain.
But my experience is that very many startups embrace remote work when they are small. (as in, thousands of them do.) They have to - they don't have a choice.

It doesn't seem to scale that well. (As in, they try but fail to scale it.) This is just my experience or impression.
> I don't believe any branch of the US government has enough of an understanding with tech issues to pass effective regulation. I hope to be proven wrong though.

For what it's worth, members of Congress lack in-depth understanding of most things they legislate. Nobody can know that much about so many topics, almost anything under the Sun (and for NASA legislation, beyond thhe Sun too).

Perhaps we need an IT regulator, who develops expertise. That's how many industries are regulated.
I think it's highly unlikely that Pebble didn't negotiate that 5% way down. While it's a symbiotic relationship, I think that at this point it's safe to say that it benefits Kickstarter more than Pebble.
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I stopped using Authy a few weeks ago after I upgraded phones and lost access to all the tokens I had on my own phone.

Perhaps I should have read the instructions more carefully, perhaps I am an idiot. But I thought the purpose of an app linked to my cell phone number is that these codes would port automatically.

As a result, I will never use Authy again.

SMS validation seems to work fine, which is good business for Twilio. Not sure I understand the acquisition, unless Authy has some good math in their code generation process.
For me, being able to operate the buttons by feel is a key feature, and I find it pretty easy to do on my original Pebble. It's useful for controlling music playback or dismissing alarms without having to look at the watch.

I agree that there are disadvantages too. One of my jackets does make it harder to access all the buttons. And scrolling through a list one item at a time can be more annoying than just swiping and tapping on the item you want.
All time dream, open laptop: https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
According to the article, this was stopped.
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Since this is a UX site, here's my impression:

I found the landing page a little confusing.

"Edit my Free Checklist"

I don't have a checklist to edit, I think this should say Create a Free Checklist?

Also once I clicked that, and it took me to /accounts/new, I just clicked Checklist in the top bar to view the checklist, which is what I originally wanted to see.

It'd be cool if when you clicked something on /welcome/checklist, it did a 'gradual' sign-up and say something like: "Do you want to save this?".
I have no problem with saying that traditional money and cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value, but mostly because I think the concept of "intrinsic value" is rather useless.
that caught me be surprise too, I came in here specifically to see if I could find out where that number came from.
Those who might consider your paid course would only have the persuasiveness of your sales site to go off of. By offering a free email course, you're able to figure out whether Paul's capable of providing you value. If he is, he'll have a call-to-action that upsells you on his paid course which provides even more value.

There's nothing at all wrong with this formula, and IMO it's much "safer" for the buyer.
True, UX / usability reports are boring to read - and to write. This is something simple and fast you can do for any project.

Also gives the customer / team / boss a quick overview of UX issues in the project.
>This is established scientific philosophy within academia.

Well, I'm sure that is proof of its correctness?

>What is happening is that you have formed a very reliable conclusion based on intuition, you haven't gathered proof.

That's what proof is. Saying proof is not proof is not all that useful a conclusion to draw.

>it is actually fundamentally impossible to establish a "proof."

See? That's why it's a stupid conclusion.

>None of your examples have been "proven."

Did we go to the moon or didn't we? If going to the moon is not proof that we can go to the moon, then I don't see what business you have to say any of this.

>It is fundamentally impossible to prove anything. It is only possible to establish correlations.

Correlations are what the word "proof" refers to.

>This is not some weird thing I made up, this is established knowledge.

Well, congratulations. You've just established that God exists, too.

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"Proof" is that which is convincing to a 'fair and rational' mind. All you need are correlations that marginalize error. Things that are proven are true up to the invalidation of your assumptions. In science, those assumptions are experiences. In mathematics, they are axioms. There is no fundamental difference between the two, because mathematical axioms are also observed linguistic experiences.
If it isn't a human right why are you desperately trying to find a way to make it cheaper to live there? Your logic only works if IT IS a human right and justifies imposing upon the personal freedoms of people who already live there in order to achieve for yourself cheap housing at no effort to yourself.

London already has over 35% of its population living in social rent homes. Its not the petty tiny amount you people make it out to be.

> Scarcity is real, and we have to address it in some way

We have. If the current housing is at 99% occupancy then the market is working fine. London has the lowest vacancy stats in the UK. If it were not there wouldn't be such complete occupancy.

What you want is a London in which you get something for less than others have paid for it, begrudgingly or otherwise. Yet there is no issue in filling the properties at present so if there needs to be a market correction, tell people to stop paying for homes.
Microsoft opens up OneDrive storage for developers to integrate into apps
Pointer Events W3C Recommendation, Interoperable Touch, No More 300ms Tap Delay
No longer "beleaguered", but still doomed. :)
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I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I moved to Kindle a year ago and haven't looked back.

For technical and art books, yes I'll still buy the paper version. But for non-fiction, fiction, saved long-form articles, and magazines... I'll take Kindle any day of the week. The ability to bring countless sources of content with me anywhere I go or at my bedside while saving incredible amounts of space in my house is a godsend.

I'm a designer, but perfect layout and typography of printed layout is far less important to me than the ease of consuming the content itself.
its absolutely possible with my moto 360. swipe once up and left and tap forward and backwards.
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Banks are limited in what they are allowed to lend to "buyers to reside".

The rules change for "Buy to let" properties, since now the landlord simply has to demonstrate a business plan of being able to rent out for more than the mortgage payments (with some leeway).

This resulted in people being advised (by brokers) to get the "mortgage to let" fully intending not to actually let it and live there themselves. This loophole has been closed.

I don't even know if you can regulate it - but it is hugely distorting to the property market

Edit: "The policy would cost £27bn, she said, which would be partly funded by removing tax relief on mortgage interest for private landlords." interesting to see the greens attacking the buy to let model, and how they're going about it.
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Same here - I went to a commuter school (still a big state school though, just a non-traditional environment) with a fairly high average student age and only lived on campus a single year. That single year was better than the other three combined. I was dumb and immature and didn't realize the value of friends at the time, and now am not friends with anyone from college.
I was between side projects and decided to try my hand in 3D modeling/3D printing. Worked out nicely. Learned tons of new stuff. Will do again :)
Bionic Eye helps blind man see his wife for the first time in 10 years
Probably they navigate it by making products people pay large amounts of money for, while others wait for a thing some guy wrote in a book was gonna happen one day.
For those wondering when China, the EU or others will overtake the United States' reserve currency status and/or safe-haven status consider this data dump.

Currency <-- confidence <-- accountability <-- transparency.

Is the USGOV transparent? No. Is it more transparent than any alternative? Yes. Auditing the Fed and Ft. Knox would be welcome additions. FOIA access to US and State Courts would be nice as well.
I've only been involved in 2 funding efforts for the companies I have worked for, but did not find it true that potential investors will refuse talks just because you are not incorporated in Delaware.

There were some who requested that we incorporate in Delaware as requirement of the deal, but that is just a matter of making the change. I've never seen anyone unwilling to start discussions just because some paperwork will need to be done.

The advice I have received from my own legal counsel was to incorporate locally until that time that a Delaware move made business sense. Of course, that was my counsel in my situation. If your goals and business differ, you may receive different advice.
> many times end up doing a Google search in incognito mode because DDG just doesn't cut it

The sample is only searches where DDG fails; inevitably, every other search engine will provide better results.

(That doesn't mean DDG is better or worse than Google; it only means that this methodology doesn't provide infromation on that topic.)
eReaders have so many advantages aside from just space. I never lose my place, even when reading 5 books at once.

That one is really a mixed blessing. I also frequently have several books on the go at once, and have no difficulty in finding my place when I switch between them, even with long intervals. I enjoy a very good memory - but I think this is partly because of having to remember that information prior to the availability of digital text. I never liked using bookmarks and preferred remembering page numbers, and would often recall obscure details or sources by thinking back to where I was when I read them or some information about the book's physical context.

Some people see this as overhead; I see it as exercise that helps me stay mentally fit. It's important to me to be able to maintain a deep mental stack that can operate on conceptual, semantic, and associative levels as well as purely textual ones - searching for text is an extremely one-dimensional affair by comparison.
Three hours, seriously? That is no longer within the metro area of NY, not even close. If you're talking about suburban commuting, houses upstate in Westchester are still $1 million with a fat 3% property tax bill. The trains suck and have a history of safety issues and you have to spend 2 hours a day on one. No thanks.

Don't try to settle in the NY metro w/ a family unless you are in finance, your quality of life will suck. If you aren't living in the city there's no point to being here, I would much rather be somewhere like Utah, California, Wash state.
It probably wasn't the first occurrance, but I have a vague memory of hearing it formulated like that first from Niko Matsakis in a Rust video on Air Mozilla.
The reason I called it "Edit my Free Checklist" is that we already prepared a checklist for you. But you are right, it is confusing, I will change that! Thanks for the feedback!

The checklist link shows our original usability checklist, but if you sign up, you can edit it as you wish.

Gradual sign-up would be great, good idea, thanks!
Where I am, I can reasonably bike commute to work, and I might just have to change clothes and towel down. Down there, I'd have to take a full on shower once I got to the office.
>paranoid

Is it really paranoïa when this is already the case ?

Google's entire business is based around getting your data and selling it to advertisers. More and more startups and companies offer a "free" service in exchange for your personal data which they sell back. Hekl, half of HN probably already works in a startup whose business model is exactly that.

You have absolutely no say in how your data gets used. You also have no guarantee that AT&T actually respect your choice. Sorry for not being OK with my personal information getting passed through fifty servers around the world for various advertising companies.

In the case of AT&T it's even worse because they have a monopoly on the medium: you don't get to choose where your data passes through when calling someone. At least Internet allows people to run µMatrix, RequestPolicy and others, limiting the amount that gets sent through.
Chrome is utterly unsuited to the use case of leaving hundreds of tabs open, which happens often to me, as I only bother updating/cleaning my bookmarks a couple of times a year. There's three main issues with Chrome:

1) Nothing I've found that works nearly as well as Tree Style Tab.

2) Chrome always reloads all tabs when the browser starts up. Firefox, at least with Session Manager, will only load old tabs when I activate them.

3) Chrome takes up way more memory. That's partly due to #2, but partly inherent in the multi-process model.

The Chrome UI also gets weird under load. With Firefox, it's easy to tell when it's laggy. With Chrome, the UI seems asynchronous, but there's no consideration for actions taking a long time, so you can get the annoying feeling of clicking with nothing obvious happening.
For me, the experience of reading drastically improves my take aways from the actual reading. I love my kindle, but actual paper books win every time (As long as I'm near my bookshelf). A lot of my time reading, is spent re-reading and eBooks haven't gotten that interface down yet. Sometimes I catch myself having zoned out 2, 3, 4 pages ago and being able to flip back and skim through to pick back up at the last part that I was fully cognizant of.

Sometimes I reach a point in the story that suddenly makes something that I read in chapter 3 or 4 much more important, it's way easier to leave one finger where I am and flip back to that pivotal moment (especially helpful if I had put the book down for a few weeks before picking it back up again).

Sometimes I'm having a conversation with my fiance later in the day or the week and something that I had read was really relevant to the conversation even if I didn't think that it was important enough at the time to highlight it. If I had read it in a physical book, I have an idea where it was physically and can usually find it in a couple of seconds by flipping through the pages. If I had read it on my kindle, then I just have to do a mediocre job of paraphrasing a beautiful turn of phrase.
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I think the problem is that you are predicting the viability not of Bitcoin itself, but of your specific assumption about how Bitcoin might be used. I presume you are implying that Bitcoin could not possibly replace the current system, in the sense that it could not efficiently handle all global monetary transactions. Of course this is true by design, and will always be true barring some significant changes to the software. But that is not the only conceivable sense in which Bitcoin could be considered successful and widely used.
Do you use an OLED screen by any chance? A lot of Android phones have these, including some of the Samsung Galaxy phones. In OLED, the black pixels actually emit no light. With LCD, black pixels are just colored black, but the backlight is still emitting light.

The reason I ask is because in the case of white-on-black with OLED, there actually is significantly less light coming out. With LCD, it's really only the appearance of less light (obviously that's simplified, there are ways to make LCD panels emit less light when it's showing black).
There are hundreds of millions of iOS and Android devices out there. If someone is starting to recognize voices, it supports a common sense reaction that a subset of voice commands are being used for QA/QC purposes to improve accuracy.
> nor do they live under "brutal dictatorships," as far as authoritarian governments go.

You are essentially saying that, among brutal dictatorships, they aren't particularly brutal dictatorships. Which may be true, but not all that significant.

> In terms of per-capita income, it hangs around countries like Peru or Ukraine.

Which are also substantial sources of terrorists, though largely internal rather than international.

> When I lived in Bangladesh, it was devastatingly poor, but terrorism wasn't an issue. In 25 years, per capita GDP has quadrupled, and now it's only poor, but terrorism has become a much more significant problem.

Which actually fits perfectly well with the point I made in the post you are responding to, that one would expect that violent solutions to problems for which the political system is not perceived to provide adequate avenues for solutions would, like political engagement on issues where the system is perceived to provide adequate avenues for solutions, be expected to increase as people reach levels where they are able to spend more effort dealing with things outside of immediate survival concerns.

> > I'd go so far as to say it's ethnocentric for Westerners to chalk terrorism up to poverty/lack of education.

And I'd go so far as to say its a strawman for you to take the suggestion that terrorism was a "social and economic issue" and instead argue against the idea that it is an issue of "poverty/lack of education", and similarly to take a suggestion about terrorism and respond to it with comparisons related to international terrorism.

Its like you've got an argument you are so keen to argue against that you can't be bothered to pay attention to what anyone else in the discussion is actually saying, you just keep repeating a canned counterargument whether or not the argument it counters is even being presented.
Additionally, try RequestPolicyContinued[0] because the original RequestPolicy dev has stopped maintaining it.

[0] http://requestpolicycontinued.github.io
I think the problem with Berlin is that salaries are low, while prices are growing pretty quickly.

From my experience, this is what makes Berlin less attractive than people think (at the financial level):

- low engineer / developer salaries compared to other German cities.
- rent prices are growing a LOT faster than salaries, my last appartment outside of the city center (the "Ring") cost almost 900€ a month, plus electricity.
- public transportation is not that good (especially in winter) and quite expensive relative to the avg. salary (about 80€ if you live in the AB zones, 100€ for ABC).
- high taxes, though this is a common problem in Germany.
- food is cheap, but not cheaper than in other German cities with better avg. salaries.
- if you own a car, prepare for extremely high insurance and taxes

Obviously, Berlin has its own perks, besides the known ones like night-life and openness of the people, it has a really huge demand for engineers and a vibrant startup scene.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5NECe5MbTzq...
Does anyone have insight into how this fits into the market? I don't understand how this isn't a strictly worse phone (given that people carry phones with them all the time).
Ah, I see. Cool.

Another idea: you could add a little box to the bottom of each section that says "Add your own", which would gradually lead into a sign-up, as well.
That's all fine, but there is zero evidence that any company is doing that.

Furthermore, even if a company was using differential privacy to anonymize data between the collection and the processing step, there is no way to prove that the data is being handled appropriately before and during the collection step. Also, there is no way for a company to prove that they continue to handle data appropriately over time.

These tools are super useful for releasing data sets to the public from a trusted source (such as a healthcare provider assisting researchers by releasing cancer data), but that's not what we're talking about here.
Font rendering is as configured. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
I just updated and it broke my selenium scripts.
> - As ridiculous as it may sound, I can visually "scan" a paper book faster than I can scan a file on the screen. This often is much more useful than search because I rarely remember the exact wording of things I need to find.

This is the main reason I still use paper. While digital may be cheaper and more portable, print is so much easier in the eyes and I tend to read much faster than on a bright panel.
There is an in-situ quicksort that has the same asymptotic time bounds as the usual kind. It (kind of) encodes stack by shuffling some elements in unsorted data.
Actually the Fed is audited[1]. It's been done by Deloitte for a while now.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/annual-report/201...
HN has domain penalties as well as keyword penalties.

Here's dang talking about the NSA and Snowden keyword penalties yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097596
Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart

What sort of bug is this that only affects Facebook & Google?
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You can always pick median element in O(n) time and it makes quicksort's worst case be O(nlogn)
I think animated transitions are the skeuomorphism of 2015.

Mind you, I'm technically impressed that an E-Ink display can now be animated, but I can't wait for the end of the animated UI boom.
That might be fine if you have lots of space in your house and don't plan to move any time soon, but I've kept everything digital because I don't have much space in my apartment and I might move within a year (when my lease is up). It's fantastic not having to deal with physical goods.
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"Those ordering early will have an opportunity to upgrade their purchases if they prefer whatever deluxe versions may appear in the coming few weeks."

A Steel version?