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I knew Aaron a little (via mailing lists and stuff).

You are absolutely right that he wouldn't like Reddit in its current shape. But not for the reasons you seem to think.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/shifting1

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001599

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/newmccarthy

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001606

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001173
I'd say the main problem is developpers carelessness and incompetence.

New SQL injection vulnerabilities are being introduced every day. Passwords being MD5. Array boundaries being sourced from client data. I mean there are perhaps 5 to 10 coding errors that are generating most of the vulnerabilities.

That's not the only problem. We also need to trust the users, who are either careless or malicious. But I'd like at the very least to be able to trust our systems.
And no more "check out my new Javascript framework".
We do not need more laws and regulations, we need less. Remember what happened if you had a security vulnerability 15 years ago ? You got hacked by some kid, then you patched your system and restored from backup and gave the kid a cookie. What will happen now ? And why ?
He also edited the comments in a way that they didn't seem edited. Reddit adds the "Edited" message after a 5 minute old comment is edited by anybody.
Some combination on a 2D map of no-other-life and really really smart, I think.
Well. Facebook is not secure and we don't care.

Most users don't care about security and this should not be a problem.

Telegram is a very nice mobile platform. I use it to share a microblog (Telegram Channel) with some friends and it is very nice.

The only gripe I have with it is their propaganda on security.

Telegram is not secure, but I don't care, I already have Signal for sending encrypted messages.
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Just look a few comments below.
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You are correct. They are also huge ecommerce site and book store.

I understood previous question as "What CMS amazon is offering for clients in website hosting", to where I think my answer still stands.
Why don't we? Because thankfully some people understand how power works. Especially the power to imprison people for subjective qualities.

Depending on who's judging, this comment could get you in some legal trouble if those laws existed.

Flawed people adjudicate and enforce laws. Because they are people. Forgetting that is dangerous.
"Is your adversary a three letter agency (if so, you may want to consider using OpenBSD instead)"

If your adversary is a 3 letter agency you'd better use no computer at all. If they can't subvert the OS (witch I doubt) they'll subvert the hardware (hello Intel ME).
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> It takes some financial assets 3-5 days to settle after the initial transaction goes through, weaving its way through many database systems (some many decades old) and middlemen who each take a cut, e.g. clearing houses. Any established industry has lots of cruft that builds up.

Yes, but centralized databases are a solved problem. It doesn't take 3-5 days for Amazon to process an order, or for github to process a pull request. The problem is here:

> weaving its way through many database systems (some many decades old)

Right, so you could replace the entire thing with a single centralized database, and cut the processing time to ~0. And you wouldn't need to develop any new technology to do it.

> For this reason Santander estimates that banks can save $15-20bn per year collectively by using blockchain technologies to make their infrastructure more efficient

Assuming that is correct, that implies you could save even more money by using existing database technology. Right? What I'm looking for isn't an argument about why banks need to update their technology (they do), or why the existing system is almost unbelievably archaic and inefficient (it is).

What I'd like to know is why blockchains are the correct upgrade path when they appear to be strictly inferior to other existing technologies along the dimensions that banks are currently struggling with.

Of all the places blockchains make sense, an industry with universally used, completely trusted, and heavily regulated central clearing houses seems like the worst possible case. No?

True, the KYC makes slightly more sense. Even there I have to wonder though. If I was hired as the CTO for an industry consortium to design a secure way of allowing customers to store, manage, and share their PII, I can see a lot of potential problems, but none of them feel like something a blockchain would help solve.

Or to put it another way: How come Amazon never talks about using private blockchains to manage inventory or payments to their sellers? Wouldn't all the arguments in favor of blockchains among banks apply even more strongly to using them within Amazon?
You could try the opposite: give entirely random people the ability to vouch.

I have no idea if this would work, but.. I've been doing lots of ML lately where it is often pretty hard to beat random, and throwing noise into a system make it much more robust.
Regarding more effective settlement and cutting out middlemen:

I believe dperfect is asking why a blockchain is technically necessary for this. Why can't the large banks cut out the clearing houses by dealing with each other directly?

Is this really about the blockchain technology, or is it more about political cover to push for big changes in how business is done, eliminating legacy systems and killing some industries currently providing services to banks?
This tutorial is about FreeBSD 11-CURRENT snapshot 20150111 (pre-release version), so it deals in act II with hybrid UFS/ZFS setup, but FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE supports root-on-ZFS-in-UEFI-mode via standard installer. Release version of boot1.efi loader fully supports ZFS, so small UFS boot partition is no longer needed, and things are much simpler now.
I think your cast of 'fake news' may be way too narrow.

Remember the WMDs? The babies thrown out of the humidi-cribs? Jessica Lynch? This goes back through all news. Dan Rather's comment on air after seeing the classified Zapruder film,"went forward with considerable violence"? A complete lie. All news contains significant spin. And most mainstream news is completely fake.

No, what they mean now when they say "fake news" is "news that disagrees with my political leaning".
Sorry for all the troubel. These issues should be resolved now.
Posting "fuck /u/spez" has become something of a meme, and every time you write out someone's username like that, they get a PM. This, combined with the accusations of paedophilia that the lunatics at /r/pizzagate were making, understandably seem to have caused him to snap.
>Because it undermines the integrity of literally every post on the site.

Maybe the posts on the site shouldn't be afforded the assumption of integrity? Trump's supporters have already taken over the front page with a constant barrage of false "news" stories and a fanatical devotion to defend them.

There's no reason you shouldn't apply the classic 4-chan disclaimer to reddit as well:

>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
I guess a lot of people don't know the type, judging by the accusations that his "this was to troll the alt-right" was a lie.

Seems obvious to me, he started with that intent, thought that obviously the stories would be discredited and the people who bought it would be shamed.

It sometimes happens to organizations that promote an Onion article as real. It does a lot of damage to their reputations.

Then that didn't happen and he made a lot of money. He was disgusted by how stupid everyone is, liked the money and justified it to himself that he's conning money from gullible rubes who are bad people.

I don't know this guy, but I know more than one person just like him.
I'm not on any side. I'm just a bystander. See this and other incidents reminds of the time users got fed up with Digg and left for reddit. We'll see what happens with Voat in the coming months.
> Many people post on Reddit under their real identity.

Among them, two Presidents of the United States, several ministers / PMs / MEPs, a long list of Hollywood stars... what if a rogue employee impersonates or alters POTUS statements?
It's odd because Reddit is basically about 'voices' so this is in a way a 'core issue'.

That said - it's 'by young people for young people' - and the CEO is pretty young it seems.

If I were the board - I'd cut the kid some slack, make him apologize, put some process/measures in place, 'be better' and move on. My hunch is the guy was just emotional about it, and had a lapse of judgement. People make mistakes.

If this were a bank, or a 'real' news site, or if the guy had serious issues with reality, I'd sack him, but for this ... no. Learning lesson.

Oddly - if it were their last CEO - that ex-VC ... I'd probably sack her, she should have known better ... she's super educated, been on a lot of boards, a lot of exposure to companies, CEO's, a lot more experience/maturity, I'd kind of expect a much higher standard. Then again, I'm being totally speculative about all of this.
Not that it wouldn't appear, but that it would be weighted more harshly against. Specifically because their community upvotes in higher proportions than others (either due to upvote bots or just an over-enthusiastic / fervent community), to such an extend that breaks algorithms, and so the relative worth of their posts is set to be lower than other subreddits.

For real numbers, there are ~300k the_donald subs. If you are not a sub (and use their subreddit style) they have intentionally stopped you from up or down voting their posts or comments, and if you are a sub there is only an upvote button (seriously, something something safe spaces…). Looking at their front page, every single post has between ~3000-6000 "points" (which, taking spam magic out of the mix, means roughly that many upvotes minus downvotes).

Contrasting that, there are 9 million DIY subs, and most of their posts on their front page have <100 points, where a couple of ourliers have ~5k.

Or, there are 11 million r/news subs, and their front page consists of the top 4 posts being in the ~6000 points range, while the rest of that page is more in the hundreds.
It's quite long, but a fascinating look into a part of the world I didn't know existed. A hopeful notion of where the maker movement and open hardware might go. I'm jealous that there isn't something similar close by.
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> I hope we don't get to the point where it's really just all out information warfare... and it seems like we're already halfway there.

We live in a world where the Daily Mail is the most-visited English language news web site and people are using fucking toasters to launch DDOS attacks.

The internet has gone to hell. We've already lost.
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"It set off the overheated discussion detector (a.k.a. flamewar detector), which lowers the rank of a thread. We do turn that penalty off for particularly substantive discussions—which, though this may surprise you, I'm not sure this one is. Not every Reddit drama shitshow is uniform in its excellence."

"Edit: ok, we've reduced the penalty"

Apparently not enough to get it visible to the front page again, though.
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>You probably have no idea the degree to which the IT people in and around the military maximize their belief that those simpleton sailors not in the IT circle of trust are sheeple, and that they, the IT gods are, each and every one, the grand saviors of the Republic.

You're posting on HN. I'd wager that a lot of us are or have been guilty of a bias like that.
Here's an archive of the post that led to the crackdown,

http://archive.is/MrsGu

The pizza-man is the 49 most influential person in D.C ? More children disappear in the US than people dying from cancer ?

This is very suspicious (considering all the high-profile cases of child-abduction coming out). NyT disappoints again with its quasi-religion.
Rather than desperately thrashing around to find some excuse why your loss didn't happen, why not instead work on improving your message to Rust Belt voters? Trust me, it'll bring you a lot more success next time.
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See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13029201

They modified it before the election (during implied they did it and then put it back, and unfairly implies it was because they wanted to "suppress the truth" or whatever), and to be clear it was to combat the fact that the_donald readers upvote all their posts with a huge amount of fervour that doesn't align with other subreddits.
>App developers never need access to real data. Ever.

What about if the app chokes on real data and it's not something covered by testing?
So, I'm a little hesitant to link to this user because many people get fixated on her personal style, but reddit.com/u/sexycyborg is a maker based in Shenzhen who frequently posts about the markets there. Her projects are also an example of what end users are doing with the good they are getting in these markets and the kind of innovation it can inspire
> 1.8A/50V

Then the capacitor would have to be able to withstand 50V. That usually means proportionally more spacing between electrodes.

There's something called "breakdown voltage" (or more precisely dielectric strength), which in air is about 30 kV/cm, and is the reason for those ceramic spacers that keep high voltage lines apart from grounded metal.

(If your electric field, measured in Volt/meter, exceeds the material's dielectric strength, you get ionised molecules and sparks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_strength)
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Somewhat off topic and not condoning the editing of comments (I probably will condone the closing of boards once I know more) but:

What the hell is a pizzagate? I saw it mentioned a few times while reading the mess that is the reddit detectiving for Assange but never saw a clear description. And now it is apparently a pro-Trump thing too?

What was the logic behind calling him a pedophile for that?
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Except Trump is not the Hitler figure, he's the American figure. The Nazis of today are inspired not by trump, but by the democrat created phantoms of who they say trump is, this article included.

If no one ever called trump racist, we wouldn't have inspired alt right groups. They are the irony of the left's failed smears.

Another thing Hitler did was turn children against their parents. The Nazi youth put society above family. You see more democrats disowning children for voting trump than the other way around. Bernie is a socialist. Trump has a big beautiful family.
Name is meh, but the url is worse. Why not dikalo.net? or dikalo.co?

Also, "messaging done right" is a bad tagline as it doesn't tell me anything.
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No no, you've got it all wrong. It's the wizards that we've got to worry about. Do you think they paid taxes on all of that gold in Gringotts? Do you think they respect immigration controls when they're flyin' around on their broomsticks? And then when you start talking about they censor our freedom of speech by wiping our "muggle" minds.

The Chinese wizards, the Hungarian wizards, the Norwegian wizards, doesn't matter - they're all in it together, scheming and plotting in their giant invisible castles.
What do you mean? They are both very different tools, no?
What an amazing multi-level clusterfuck.

You either need to ban /r/TheDonald, or just accept it for what it is, hold your nose, and walk away. I believe that I'd choose the former, but if I had the power to do so I might feel differently.

But this is the worst possible thing. It makes Spez look horrible, it undermines trust in the site and the admins, it confirms all the nutty things the alt-right believes about Reddit, etc. It makes actually dealing with any of the underlying issues much harder; anything that the admins do which is or might look anti-The_Donald can now be spun as "another example of their bias". And since we've already got such a glaring example of that bias, the claim is now plausible in a way it wasn't before.

Should have just quietly banned the sub and moved on. Or not banned it and ignored it. Anything but this.
> Others wonder if a significant population from The_Donald will migrate to Voat, a Reddit alternative.

Oh let them please do that. Rats belong in the sewer

And I have no qualms about what Spez has done. Internet trolls deserve it.
Unfortunately no. Very much no, even though it's widely believed that that is a good definition/intuition (and used in many places).

It's the odds of having that results due to chance, if the null hypothesis is true[0]. That latter part might sound pedantic, but the whole point is that we don't know how likely the null hypothesis is. If I test wheather the sun has just died[1] and get a p-value of 0.01 it's still very likely that this result is due to change (surely more than 1%)! We need a prior probability (i.e. bayesian statistics) to calculate the probability that the result was due to chance, that is why that partial definition is incomplete and actually very misleading. This point is subtle, but very important to really understand p-values.

Another way to look at it is: if we knew the probability that the result was due to chance we could also just take 1-p and have to probability of there actually being some effect, a probability that hypothesis testing cannot give us.

There is one nice property that hypothesis testing does have (and why presumably it's so widely used): if the idea you are testing is wrong (which actually means "null hypothesis true") you will most likely (1-p) not find any positive results. This is good, this means that if the sun in fact did not die, and use 0.01 as your threshold, 99% of the experiments will conclude that there is no reason to believe the sun has died. So hypothesis testing does limit the number of false positive findings. The xkcd comic is a bit misleading it this regard, yes it does highlight the limitations of frequentist hypothesis testing, but the scenario depicted is a very unlikely one, in 99% of the cases there would have been a boring and reasonable "No, the sun hasn't died".

For an incredibly interesting article about the difficulty of concluding anything definitive from scientific results I highly recommend "The Control Group is out of Control" at slatestarcodex[2].

[0] To be even more pedantic you would have to add "equal or more extreme", and "under a given model", but "if the null hypothesis is true" is by far the most important piece often missing.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1132/

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
He can go back on anything on our side, whether it makes any sense or not. That's one of the problems with going around Congress.
While I agree with you, this type of argument doesn't persuade a person from falling to confirmation bias. And the number of people who'd believe such a thing, far exceed the number of people obsessively posting (and trolling) online about it.

The New York Times is only going to magnify this effect. The skeptical argument has to acknowledge the inappropriateness of some of the pizza shop's Instagram posts.
It would be unfortunate, but if I was trolling and got trolled back at that point it's just a taste of my own medicine.

People can say what they want about having access controls in place to prevent this but at the end of the day there is a DBA with super user access to the database, there always is.

If you can't hack that messages on these platforms don't carry any integrity then maybe you shouldn't use them.
I'm having difficulty finding any authoritative or historical resources on this, but I recall that "good" viruses were for some time planned that would do just that: Run around, see if they could infect via the method, then patch and self-destruct.

Ultimately the idea was considered not good because of difficulties with getting it to work as expected, pressure and fear that the fix would introduce more issues, liability issues, and so on, and probably some ethics debates on computer intrusion even for the purpose of securing the device.

I'm not really sure what stance to take on such an issue, since the idea behind it is good intentions, but I feel like it can lead to unintended consequences that ultimately would have no one liable. For my personal machines I have fairly vanilla setups, but many of my friends and colleagues have rahter intentionally complex set ups and most definitely would object to someone accessing their set up and making changes without their permission.
No problem. And good luck. We are a fairly established firm so our approach is more "We need someone competent who can work well with others". It sounds like start-ups are a lot more willing to take a risk and think outside the proverbial box.

Which I don't at all get as one would think we could absorb a failure or a delay more, but different cultures.
Oops. Thanks for the correction! Looks like Windows and Mac Chrome developers are out of luck now, unless they are brave enough to try a solution listed here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23055651/disable-develop...

Chrome on Linux doesn't warn yet (I just tested it) and neither does Chromium.
Wow. What a shitty response. If people responded to your comments with that kind of non-sequitur you'd be all over them like a rash. But then you dole our rubbish like this.

Here's some "fake news" for you, from a news site listed on the fake news list:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-18/5-times-when-mainst...
He's in his 30s, it's a bit disingenuous to call him 'kid'. Being young has nothing to do with this lapse of judgement.
Yes a have a static ip, but DynDns like service providers works too. I use then for years, before my DSL provider gave me one :)
Letting insurance companies enforce best practices seems pretty inefficient, considering how that strategy has played out in the medical markets.
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