skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That this is being down voted suggests that we (people in tech) find it difficult to imagine ourselves as contributors to dischord and stratification. My initial reaction is to disagree, but that is defensiveness. What if there is some truth to it? The influx of tech workers really has raised the cost of living in SF substantially (although zoning laws and insufficient development are implicated as well).

danharaj, in what ways are tech companies relying on social and economic infrastructure to the detriment of others? I'm well aware of the tragedy of the commons, so what is the finite resource in this case?
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It may work until there comes a competitor like Amazon that operates on near 0 margins and kills the business. Still it's a nice vision.
Maybe the "gold rush" is over. But there's still a heck of a lot of gold to mine. We're not even close to the point where there is no more valuable software to be written (and sold).
It was kinda based on How To Design Programs (http://www.htdp.org/) though to be honest I never touched the book and relied mostly on the in class instruction (which was what made this class awesome IMHO). I found the website for a newer version of the class:

http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cs1102/a08/

and OMG! I found the assignment!

http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cs1102/a08/Assignments/Hwk2/index.htm...

> A function update-world that consumes a world and produces a world reflecting what happens when no key is pressed

OK, not phrased quite how I remember it but I guess that's where the epiphany happened :)

I took another class with her that was programming languages, and we used Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/) and the course website (http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cs4536/a14/)

This class also had some great epiphanies for me, but again, I think the instruction being top notch helped keep my attention going. This is more advanced stuff conceptually.
http://thegi.st

It's a bit buggy still. To get a sense of it, stick to BBC articles.
(I'm not the author of that article, just a friend of mine)

I expect that if the tech companies were deeply involved in encouraging development and mass transit, then a sizeable percentage of people in SF and elsewhere would decide that this is bad. Most of the press would focus on individual personalities with bad optics and on sub-issues that involve sacred victims, since those are the kinds of things that the readers want to hear about, and "tech companies are villains who do bad things" is an established narrative that it's easy to understand new events by; public opinion follows naturally.

And if that's not the case, one of my takeaways is that there would be something else that people decide is intolerable about the tech companies. The issue is not the issues; the issue is the narrative, into which a limitless number of stories can fit.
>Rushkoff points out that basic economy theory, as laid out economist and philosopher Adam Smith, recognizes three factors of production: Land, labor, and capital. But in the current digital economy, only capital is valued.

Stopped here. Airbnb commoditizes land, and Uber commoditizes labor. They do so very efficiently, but the problem is they take too much for the parent company for how efficiently they commoditize these assets.

I can't take someone seriously who can't even get the basics right.
I see your point and don't disagree.

Thinking about why someone might mike the choice to use text, text is more in keeping with *nix philosophy. Not that I'm saying it's better, but grep is pretty light weight and a lot of people use the command line and/or languages other than Javascript. YMMV.
> Did it?

Strictly, BOSH solved it. But BOSH was originally written for Cloud Foundry, so through the fuzzy lens of distant history it looks the same.

In Pivotal we upgrade our public-facing Cloud Foundry installation, Pivotal Web Services, within a day or two of a new CF release being blessed. Typically nobody ever notices. Hundreds to thousands of VMs (I don't know how many we are running now) are upgraded to the most recent version of Cloud Foundry in a few hours and nobody notices.

Yeah. It's solved.
Philae was a great mission. Flying into space, linking up with a comet, then landing a probe is the stuff of science fiction. 60 hours of data really pushed the science forward quite a bit. I'm missing why people think it wasn't a success.
Yeah, an idea like this would work well for console development!
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> No one has ever been expected to do something like this in the past, AFAIK.

They're not legally required to, but there certainly is historical precedent. I live in LA, and many of the parks, museums, university buildings, and charitable institutions bare the names of the cities oil/property barons. Even those that don't were still financed by that money. There's also the "company town," where the dominate industry in town shoulders even more of the infrastructure.
A system update is how Apple would install a backdoor, if they were forced to.
We don't need to think about AI. I'd rephrase your question like this:

What can the author do, sitting at a computer, that later readers can't undo?

When phrased that way the answer is obvious: a lot. Like multiply two large numbers together, or obfuscate a program to make its meaning less clear. Both are in principle possible to undo, but the "load factor" can be arbitrarily large, making the effort for the 'reader' entirely uneconomic.

If even a human can't undo some things that the author did, how can we expect the computer to do so?
Oh interesting, I'll look more into that.

Yeah, it should compile to JS, I'll probably look into doing that at a later point in time.
Maybe, but now they're flinging DDoS attacks at each other. This is not the regulation-free utopia everyone was sold on over the past few years.

Frankly, it reminds me of nothing more (to cite a video game in about as serious a way as I can) than Rapture in Bioshock -- something that seemed like a good idea only until the first meaningful disagreement, and then fell apart completely.
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In this particular ZKCP case we use zk-SNARKs because they're fast and they exist, but theoretically we do not need their "non-interactivity" properties.
If you hadn't stopped there you would have seen that he addresses why Airbnb/uber aren't counter examples in the next paragraph.
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Don't you worry that a lot of people would die if the social contract was to break down or is this an acceptable loss to you?

I understand that you might expect something better to rise from its ashes, but it seems like in the short term it could be horrifically bad for many people.
see:
http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/g-lvt-would-benefit-ri...
"their share" - as if there's some objective fairness to taxation and charity. There's not, objectively.
Wow, what do you guys do?

Edit: I'm trying something similar.
You're not wrong about band-aids, but some of us have to ship. ;-)
It's illegal to DDOS, commit fraud, steal, etc... One of those laws would apply to anything you might do to 'hack' Bitcoin.
Depending on the scenario, an app packaged as an AppImage may launch as fast as or sometimes even faster (due to the compression) than an installed app. In most cases, there will not be a noticeable difference for normal desktop applications. Since an AppImage is also a valid ISO, you can loop-mount it and copy its contents wherever you like, and do a comparison.
Your personal Yoda
"No, i don't believe the world would burn if the social contract were to break down."

History disagrees. Strongly.
I'd certainly love to learn more - can you provide some background/information about this?
> Intensify Discussion: Any news that could be perceived as negative must be amplified to extremes and made into hyperbolic worst-case scenarios.

Isn't this kind of thing just natural? Don't reporters do this on their own for everything? The author's entire paper seems geared into convincing us there's some dark forces at work. A conspiracy maybe?? To someone that doesn't care about cryptocurrency it just comes off as... silly.

It feels to me that people who love bitcoins make their whole world into some binary existence about the currency either moving forward or why it's being held back because of XYZ.
Now let's imagine what will happen when driverless cars start to take away millions of jobs. It may not be that easy for a truck driver to find a new work.
> They're not legally required to

then there shouldn't be any expectation
do you think Tech companies don't lobby and participate in municipal governments? The interests in favor of ignoring systemic societal problems are much more powerful than the people who are being crushed and forced out of participating in society. Politics are ruled by the interests of the rich. Everything that has been gained to the detriment of the rich has been through popular struggle and oftentimes bloodshed. There is in liberal democracy always a constant pressure to roll back such gains and subdue populism. This has been the momentum in the United States for decades. It might be shifting now, perhaps too late to avoid a serious glitch of the system.

It's not ridiculous to think that the powerful and influential have a responsibility to the society that supports them. have we so fallen down the neoliberalism hole that civic duty is a completely alien concept? If the rich have no responsibility to society, liberal democracies will break down.
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Even among tech companies designed for fast growth, I'd like to see more structured as worker owned co-ops instead of having investor ownership. Without investment money at the outset, they'll have to bootstrap longer, but that's only an issue if the business is following a "me-too" wave and has competitors on similar timescales. Once one gets off the ground I don't see a disadvantage.
Dude, you're talking about JavaScript. Documentation is most likely to be
superior for shop-made tools, and the community will be at arm's reach.

And do you really think seeing someone else's code means no transferable
skills? Sure, you can't put it in CV, but on the other hand, you'd see more
than merely using some random one-function module.
I'm afraid I don't follow you at all.
I have a feeling that these tech giants are up for Standard Oil/ Bell surprise in the medium future.
Yeah but I have done that by lowering my tax contribution too. In fact if I move into one of the new mega-super-skyscrapers that this will surely result in I may end up paying so little in taxes (because so many people will share the ground) that it won't be enough to pay for the police and fireservices, which surely will go up because it is more expensive and difficult to fight fires in so tall buildings.

So in effect I have shifted most of my tax-burden off to others, land will have very little value (because it will have to be taxed more and more heavily).

Of course you can mix it with older taxes, but then you have the problems you had with them too.
Check out https://algorithmia.com/. Stuff like this plus a bunch more. Real business model so you can have more confidence in it.
Agree completely, in fact one of my favourite fonts is the non-antialiased monospaced 'Fixed' font that came with X:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

With a small tweak, adding a slash to the 0, it's perfect for reading source code all day long, and I've also started using it elsewhere including the browser.
If it's free, you're often the product being sold.

This is a statement the haves know, and presumably the free internet crowd is not fully aware of, or have a choice to opt in/out of.

There have been free dial-up internet providers like 3web, who historically tried to fill this niche but were more upfront about it and tried to make it run.

http://www.all-free-isp.com/3web.php
I appreciate that science cannot operate in isolation of the rest of the world, what with all the economic and political realities and such. However, learning that politics was the reason to use an inferior power source for Philae makes me sad.

Can anyone shed more light on what type of political problems would using RTG create? Something about weapons grade plutonium, perhaps? Or this being an European project, and we cannot possibly source the materials from the US? Or (and I hope this is not it) green “solar good, nuclear bad” dogma?
Have economists flocked to Fairhope, AL to study if the claimed benefits (or otherwise) of George-style land tax come to pass?
It was extremely shocking for me to see how many poor people are living even in the richest communities of the USA, except on places where poor people are removed from "security men" like if they were dirt.

It is unbelievable how primitive and underdeveloped the society in the USA still is, how anti-social and pre-homo-sapiens-sapiens-like most people with money are behaving.

Very disgusting especially when looking at the enormous amount of money USA puts into its war machinery.

Simply disgusting. You have nothing to be proud of.
No surprise that an organization engaging in large-scale behavioral engineering ('click here') has a warped view of free speech.

I don't know how to reconcile 'we've never had rules about what people can write' with 'my clear communication that this is unacceptable' (or even with taking down photos of breastfeeding women).

His interpretation is that BLM doesn't mean all lives don't matter, therefore the crossouts are inappropriate. (1) I'm not sure social justice movements want to be interpreted by nasdaq CEOs. And (2) crossing out isn't censorship, it's debate.

Given that this whole company is about people writing on each other's walls, you'd want them to have a more nuanced attitude towards graffiti.
This reads like one of those threatened authoritarian dictators blaming the recent mass protests on 'foreign agitators'.

It's also completely generic. If someone important had died, the advice would include 'murder the key people and make it look like an accident'. If there had been a crippling bug, it'd be 'introduce critical bugs into the software'.
Typically, cities are governed by their citizens. If a city is made up of a lot of rich people, they may not tax themselves so as to realize a windfall.

Cities are not independent entities.
Please don't flag posts simply because you disagree with them, even if you disagree strongly. The flag button is not a "downvote".
Do you mind sharing a hint of how you got started?

I find the idea of working similar hours as you but still being able to provide for my family while spending a lot of time with them incredibly appealing.

Whereas at the moment, during the week I'm lucky to get more than 2 hours a day, the commute and workday eating up the balance.
Bitcoin is not a system for those who favor changing the rules while the ball is in play.

Furthermore, the terms "war" and "toxic" seem tremendously overblown. It was just a fork of some software that hardly anybody, in the scheme of things, really uses.

Maybe we should get the neovim guys some of this press frenzy, eh?
Good luck raising taxes against concerted lobbying efforts and threats to leave the area.

And good luck calculating what a "share" is.

In the UK, Google has come under fire for negotiating a risibly low tax payment.

That has as much to do with the current administration's dislike of corporate taxation as it does with Google. Even so - Google, like all corporations, benefits from the UK's education system, healthcare, transport investment, police force, legal system, and security services. It's hardly unreasonable to expect a larger contribution to all of the above than the company currently makes.

I expect the SV situation is similar, even allowing for local differences.

>If a lot of rich people live somewhere, that should be a windfall.

Not if rich people also own the government and manipulate the taxation system for their own benefit. This is exactly what is happening in the UK, and it's why public infrastructure is creaking while rich people all over central London are pushing up property prices by buying for investment and leaving huge swathes of real estate empty.
> I'm a bit confused about land, labour and capital comparison. It seems that he's complaining about 'land' and 'labour' not getting enough as a result of digital economy, but those are potential inputs, not outputs, so the reference is misguided.

Capital also is an input, not an output, so I'm not sure what distinction you are trying to make.

What he's claiming is that in "normal" businesses those who supply the inputs (land, labor, and capital) all get a decent share of the profits, but that in the digital economy most of the profits go to those who supply capital.

The problem I see with his claim is that he doesn't actually make a case that this is inherently bad.

He uses Airbnb and Uber as examples to illustrate how it can be bad. I agree both of those companies are bad...but they are bad because their business model is essentially based on turning many of the costs of the hotel and taxi business, respectively, into negative externalities, not because of how their profits are distributed among the suppliers of land, labor, and capital.
My guess is that most laymen compare it to the highly successful Mars rover (Curiousity and Opportunity) missions which have lasted for years and still continue to be operational.
I am not sure of what to infer from these.

In the end, the entire macroeconomic background is different.
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I agree with this article overall, especially re: Google, but I do not agree about Facebook. Most American users 13-25 do not use Facebook anymore.

Facebook will either have to work out a business model that makes it profitable to frequently buy WhatsApps/Instagrams and then Snapchats/Telegrams/etc or they will end too.
The simple explanation -- which I unfortunately left out of my slides but did elaborate on during my talk -- is that Bitcoin has a way for you to send money to someone contingent on them producing the preimage of a SHA256 hash. The remainder of the script allows you to get your money back if the person doesn't have or doesn't provide the preimage within a certain amount of time.

If you use a zero-knowledge proof to enforce that the preimage of the hash is a key which unlocks some data you want, this becomes a powerful tool for building exotic protocols or performing risky transactions. It also doesn't cost much on the Bitcoin side of things.
because these genetic algorithms are best suited for consistent behaviour

i noted in another comment that this ga cracker repo will only work on passes that resemble the ones it is trained on, but like all genetic algos is aggressively ineffective on inputs resembling anything else

as for programming the practice, it is embarrassingly redundant and consistent due to the structure of programming being based on grammars and logic

so imagine a program that has a data set

you need ten bits of information about that data set, like max, min, mean, etc..

so you write 10 individual functions to loop over the data and interpret it

that is all very consistent behavior and code

now imagine you write a simple genetic algorithm that can interpret your interests and write those simple loops for you on the fly

ten functions of 10 lines each is 100 lines of code

one function of 30 lines that can generate then discard those ten previous functions gives your program a 70 line and immeasurable man hour advantage

think if a search engine needed an engineer to explicitly write the discovery function of every possible query, it would be impractical, so instead you imagine generalisations that permit simple functions to take many varying inputs and produce many varying outputs

what i think the parent comment is suggesting is that these generalisation functions themselves could be built by computers and one possible method being genetic algorithms

furthering the abstraction

all puns intended
Nobody was denied service.

People were simply denied service at their previous, exceptionally-cheap rates they had become accustomed to paying.

This is like saying that you are subject to ddos when a concert you want to see sells out. You either fork over the premium on the market, or you don't participate.
My friend had another post on this subject that you might find interesting.

http://rationalconspiracy.com/2014/04/17/money-doesnt-matter...
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> If the majority of the decision makers were against it, fighting it wouldn't be on the agenda in the first place, right?

Good point. Though from my limited understanding of how companies function, often the the CEO is chosen by the board and has the freedom to do most what (s)he wants but with knowledge that the board can step in at anytime if the CEO is offbase/course.

So it simply could be that Cook is standing up for something he believes and if it negatively affects the quarter/year then he's out.
The social contract is a bankrupt concept. The proof is very simple.

Show one instance of assent to this contract. Or, maybe, just show us the text of this "contract".
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were replying to.

I'd change my answer to: nothing at all in the context of manual testing. And yet in practice the answer so far seems different from our in-principle argument. I'm trying to make principle and practice line up better.
This is not meant to be an essay but review of Douglas Rushkoff ideas about the very current days.
I bet you can count on one hand the amount of people ever prosecuted for DDOS.

And would a jury convict someone like this of anything other than a slap on the wrist? To people my parents age they think of it like kids playing pranks on each other.
This is nothing more than some
people trying to appoint themselves BDFL when none is wanted or necessary - pretty standard power vacuum stuff.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188445
Good quality summaries, but it seems it caches pages based on their base URL, and throws away the query parameters.

Some blogs use query parameters to distinguish between articles, so it makes it kinda useless if you want to do more than one article.
Okay, have fun building a profitable social media business serving subsistence farmers.
Is there a fallacy related to crying fallacious argument when there isn't one? If so, I suppose I should pull that card right now...

It's hardly jealousy. And you're arguing against claims I didn't make - I never said a civil war changes civilization in and of itself. But we're talking about a period where the way the country had been ruled for hundred of years completely changed, with huge amounts of turmoil, lots of bloodshed, and came out on the other site vastly changed. To try to compare it to the US Civil War, where in comparison things were static (As far as the governance of any nation remains static) when it comes government reform, is silly. The US punished the South, but the federal government behaved much as it had before.

In comparison, the Meiji restoration ended centuries of feudal society.