skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly true, but I also tend to think that the scaling debate is overblown. Bitcoin, from the outset, has been designed to generate consensus around a majority chain. Forks are ultimately the source of Bitcoin's security and its development. If there's any elegance to Bitcoin, however brutal, it's here.

There are several approaches to scaling Bitcoin that should work. The debate focuses on risk aversion and which will be best. In the end, though, any untenable situation should be quickly resolved as a majority choose the least painful option. The New York Agreement appears to be this in action, and represents a major shift in the community as a new client may become the default.

Many have compared Bitcoin to TCP: it's not great, but it's good enough to become a standard. I tend to agree with this view, though there are many well-founded concerns.
On the other hand if you want to reduce the time you spend online, as a user you should prefer slower websites.
Silicon Valley (TV Show) Title Sequence Breakdown
> but it really reads like they are playing with going the way of Github.

What's the way of GitHub?
Neither he nor the company would be better off if he were still doing it manually.

I don't know whether I think it's ethical or not overall, but it's at least a more optimal situation than if he had continued spending 8 hours a day updating spreadsheets by hand.

He's doing a better job than he was before, for the same price, and he gets more free time. Everyone's a winner. Admittedly, he is a winner by quite a bit more than they are, but he would have been perfectly within his rights to continue doing the work manually. Then they'd be paying the same price as they are paying now but getting work with more mistakes in it. Why would they want that?
You are not talking about sending money, but converting money from one type into another, namely fiat money (which is exactly why all the KYC regulation is required). Try converting one crypto currency into another using shapeshift and see how extensive that KYC process is.
> Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective

Documentation or discussion could use language that means some demographic groups aren't comfortable getting involved, when they could otherwise be great contributors. It's a reasonable idea that some people already think computer programming "isn't for them", and that correcting that misconception is important. I agree that people should be judged by their merits, so we should focus on not deterring people for non-technical reasons.
Cash is still king in the black market. Bitcoin has taken a small slice of it, esp. for money laundering and buying drugs online.

Put it this way: the black market does not rely on bitcoin in any substantive way. Bitcoin, however, depends on the black market for its existence.

So the black market has a combined value of $10 trillion, but bitcoin takes only a small, small slice of it because cash is just better. It's just that this small slice is bitcoin's bread and butter.
Ask HN: Best Animated Promo Vid Company?
Explainer videos seem to be a must nowadays. Does anyone have recommendations of good companies to work with?
Ok, so Zillow has no copyright claim to the images. The article follows that up by loudly and repeatedly reminding us that even if Zillow did have a copyright claim, that the use of the images falls under fair use.

However, is that really true? The article backs up most of its claims, except for the "fair use" one. The disclaimer on the McMansion Hell site claimed that they were used under fair use, but the author of the site is admittedly a bit unfamiliar with the law. I haven't seen an analysis of if it really is fair use from any of the coverage.
Was Jet privately owned and bought outright by WalMart in a private deal? I thought they already had an IPO, in which case it wasn't their "choice".
The models say that a rising minimum wage would decrease demand for labour. Of course, how much it affects actual unemployment depends on how much labour was previously demanded and supplied. The thinking of course is that aggregate income among low earners makes up for the increased unemployment, and the extra spending power they have improves the economy as a whole, leading to less unemployment than a linear relationship between minimum wage and unemployment would suggest.

Edit - at the very end I should add, "assuming the demand for labour actually increases aggregate income for those workers affected". If a min wage hike is too severe or unemployment already too high, you might not be better off in the end.
I get alcohol, that's reasonable.

What the frack kind of software place won't let you swear.
> I don't pretend that the world is perfectly modeled by classical macroeconomic laws

Understatement of the century. Would you tell someone working at CERN "I don't pretend Newton's laws are perfect, but..."?

> the burden of proof is on the pro-minimum wage camp to disprove the laws of supply and demand in this situation

Which previous studies of the minimum wage have consistently done (well, more accurately shown that the deadweight loss is more than offset by increased wages). That's the whole reason this article is interesting.
GNU is more of an umbrella than an organization with research and goals. FSF is more focused, but mainly towards industry.

If you create a decent Siri/Alexa clone and license it under GPL, I'm sure GNU would be happy to adopt it. :)

That said, a quick web search dug up these:

http://lucida.ai/

https://jasperproject.github.io/
are you on producthunt today?
True for initial implementation of individual components. But RH employ developers that can sit full time and churn the interfaces (not necessarily nefariously) between the components such that only their components stay in sync.
Well, I guess, this has got to be said: security should never be a concern for application software developers.

This may or may not apply to things like systemd which live somewhere on the boundary between what would be pure "system" and "application" programs, but it is undeniably true that application program code, such as that of a document editor or a calculator, should be solely concerned with the application side of things, i.e. correctness and efficient implementation of what is otherwise known as "business logic", and security is usually not one of them - contrary to a very common, but mistaken, perception. It is the "system" component of the execution environment that should focus on what it has been designed for in the first place.

Therefore, ideally, it should not matter what programming language is used to write application software - whether it is C, Rust, Prolog, or SQL; it does sound ironic, though, that the most demanding pieces of a system - demanding in terms of reliability and security - are usually written in an "unsafe" language.
Agreed. If fraud = unethical, then that's what this is.
This whole phenomenon is over your head, isn't it?
If anyone out there doubts that a lot of pump-and-dump scams are happening, they need to take a look at this (NSFW): http://boards.4chan.org/biz/catalog

I'm sorry for linking to 4chan, but I don't know of any better way to display the caliber of "investor" that is participating in this market right now.
I don't know about today, but for the previous couple of days, I was unable to submit a new post to a subreddit of mine or my profile. I was able to comment in both my subreddit and a different one.
The speech recognition effort span a few projects:

- https://voice.mozilla.org/ to collect training data.

- an implementation of the DeepSpeech algorithm, with a goal of running inference client side. (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech)
Attorneys waste everyone's time by making demands without any legal basis?

...yes, often?
Have you tried Semaphor from SpiderOak? We provide a secure Slack alternative designed using our No Knowledge architecture--meaning that we (SpiderOak) know nothing about the encrypted data you store on our servers.
This approach allows a third party to host the data, making it way more convenient from an operations standpoint.
Slack provides convenience, but it severely lacks in security.
I assumed as much. And well, it was downed by Russian backed separatists(maybe even "off duty" Russian soldiers) using Russian equipment. I think the Russians just wanted spread a false narrative to sow distrust in factual reporting about the conflict. That is really more of a disinformation campaign than a false flag.
> Nobody in manufacturing allows that.

So who's right?
Yes lots of people had that thought :-D

https://www.reddit.com/r/rustjerk/
your site (not blog) has a bad scrolling experience in Firefox on Android
Could have sworn that i have seen companies opt for Gentoo in production, because they could tailor the end result specifically to their needs...
I agree,but isn't the article a good step towards educating the public about the nuances of these diseases? I think the spectrum is so broad, and maybe it will help the people with milder symptoms at it's tail end by making the society more receptive. I have a relative who is scheizophrenic and I can't stress how important it is to make people aware, and enable them to see from a compassionate angle. To me this article goes in the same direction as the remarkable article done years ago by Rachel Aviv [1] To me we need more like this. And also the article does mention how the researchers stress on proper diagnosis and treatment.

[1] http ://www.columbia.edu/cu/neuwrite/pubs/avivHarpers.pdf
Rise of Machine Learning – what you need to know
Agreed. My oldest is turning ten, and especially in math they have moved to a lot of estimates and guesses, which is fine but should not be the end goal. It's one of the few subjects where there are methodologies that give you the actual, honest to goodness answer, yet her teachers can't or won't teach them. They go very broad but never particularly deep, so word problems are a huge struggle.
I'm going to disagree with most of you (and most of the commentary I've seen) that McMansion Hell's assertions of fair use are easily defensible.

I come from a journalism background, where we had to wrestle with fair use restrictions quite often, and it turns out that fair-use claims when it comes to images are not as cut-and-dry as with, say, text.

I'm allowed to reprint a sentence from a book in a review about that book and claim fair use, but I'm not allowed to reprint the entire book, even if I'm reviewing it, and claim fair use. But with images, those who claim fair use are typically reprinting the entire work. That tends to be a problem, because one of the four prongs of the fair-use test is the amount of the original work used. Among the relevant questions here are: could the images have been shown at a lower resolution and still gotten the point across? Could only portions of the images have been shown and still gotten the point across?

Then there's the fact that she claimed in her official response that "this blog is my livelihood," which suggests that she's receiving income and is, essentially, operating as the sole proprietor of a business. Another one of the prongs of the fair-use test is the nature and purpose of the work, and you're more likely to prevail on this point if you're a nonprofit or can't be construed as a commercial operation.

I'm not saying that Zillow's threats have merits. I just don't think we should all be so quick to say, "Oh, well it's OBVIOUSLY fair use."
This! I can not stress this enough: algorithms, languages and paradigms are just tools and some are suitable for a certain job and some are not. How do you choose a language to complete a task? It depends on the task at hand.
In handling money you must be consistent but in some other cases - eventual consistency is just good enough.
When building a server should I kick all users out just because we've lost a couple of nodes in the cluster? It always depends, it always is a trade off.
I guess I'm just happy with close enough, and maybe I'd feel different if it were tech from my own coming of age.
I'm curious what an intercept of Mac Product looks like in the Dark Matter scenario. It's not the first mention I've seen of the CIA intercepting the supply chain of an organization.

If one was to purchase a Mac and it was to be intercepted and infected, what does that resealing process look like?
I'm trying to build up the effort to finish writing my book on monitoring, let me know if you'd like to read it and it might encourage me to push on.
yes, it happens...
Lovely. I actually confuse the two from time to time.
You can't really decry bitcoin or ether for volatility. They are technologies that, given their intent, have never come close to saturating their intended market. Of course if bitcoin gains adoption and more people want bitcoin the price goes up.

That doesn't mean there aren't structural flaws in their design (mostly meant to enable their initial success) but I don't think you can make a cryptocurrency that can simultaneously attract interest while also not appreciating from that interest. In order to implement a coin payout algorithm capable of handling an influx of on-chain activity you basically tell your early adopters "hey, this is a new and unproven thing, but if it takes off the algorithm just devalues it anyway to keep it where it is at" so you don't even have the selfish self-gamble motive to profit off it and thus no reason to participate if it isn't already a successful means of exchange.

The tech is great though.
5 Altcoins which can give better return than Bitcoin
Bummer. Great site, in an ironically snobby kind of way. I'd tell them to use Open Listings pages but we get similar takedown requests from our data providers (regional MLS associations) regarding shittylistings.com. They can revoke membership (and listings) pretty much at will. So while there's no strict legal argument against it, they probably got a vague threat from an MLS and were spooked. On that note, I'd be really interested in how their data licensing agreements work because I had heard that they pull from aggregators and not directly from MLS RETS hookups.
This is nothing new. Many IT departments at security-sensitive companies have been doing this for a while with their own gear. It's quite common for enterprised-managed laptops to scan for SSIDs and report this information back to HQ. This is primarily done to assist in the tracking of stolen laptops.

Many will quietly connect to open APs when they're discovered and use DNS requests to tunnel this information back, thus attempting to work around captive portals. They might, for example, send an A-record query like this:

chrissnell-laptop-DEADBEEFC0W.security.bigcorp.com

where DEADBEEFC0W is the ESSID of a discovered nearby AP and security.bigcorp.com is a specialized DNS server configured to record this data.
It's an open question if this will go anywhere, but one OS is being written in Rust from the ground-up - https://www.redox-os.org/

I'm pretty impressed by the progress the project has already made.

If I had a bit more time I'd love to contribute!
> And so are Lawyers firms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-martini_lunch
No one in Mozilla Corp asked for their CEO to be fired. These were Mozilla Foundation employees.
True. But there are a number of business models that don't require that.

If it were me, I'd position it as an AI startup. I think Jacques might overestimate how awesome existing solutions are for sorting. Customer provides belts and bins, he provides software. The lego is a proof of concept and prototype.

Or he could do a lego website startup, and expand his project and purchase inventory, and operate a warehouse of lego. Bootstrap this way until the software is ready for general use.

Or he could construct systems like the one he has built and sell them to other lego resellers, and expand into industrial or agricultural sorting in time.
That's funny, because I don't see the logic there beyond it sounding superficially like a savvy decision to cut costs and leverage the community, however the role shouldn't really be a single person in the modern era, but an advocate collating voices and ensuring the editors and writers are informed by an opposing (or descenting) voice within their ranks or you risk a form of 'group think', which I believe probably had more to do with the Guardian's error than anything else.
It unethical to deliberately introduce errors. If you have broad discretion about how you do the job, it may not be unethical not to actively call your employer's attention to your automation, though (but for the deliberate introduction of errors) it should, with a reasonable employer, be beneficial to do so.
Well, it is in New Jersey...
Censorship is censorship. Biology plays no role in that matter here other than to attempt to justify the censorship. This is not an objective matter, it's subjective. And Facebook has designated themselves as the central authority of what needs to be censored on their platform, thereby controlling speech. We can stop using it sure, just like we could stop using the Internet I guess.
I learnt PHP and avoided frameworks for years, but Laravel is a dream. Watch the Laracasts and you'll be up to speed in a weekend
The Trickster is also older, since he played him first in the 1991 version of The Flash.
After reading through the user guide, this appears to contain no vulnerabilities/exploits, just a payload to fulfill a need to track the location pattern of a target.

This is very basic stuff which could be easily replicated with kismet and some scripts. I am guessing this is some sort of intern project.
I’ve written this in another comment before, but it explains why we should separate them:

> I live in a city where Google Maps has, until one month ago, had basically no traffic data, satellite imagery was from 2004, and even today still supports no transit.

> Here maps has up-to-date imagery of highest quality, has traffic and transit data.

> Yet, many people use Google Maps, even if that provides worse results, sends them on roads that don’t exist anymore, etc.

> When one recommends they switch, they say "but Google Maps is preinstalled, installing Here Maps would be so much effort, and it doesn’t work with Ok Google".

Do you think this is an advantage to consumers, that they end up with the worse product?
"Oh boy. Time to read another page of comments written by people who think that price elasticity is always linear and that markets are always efficient!"

I'll take that over a page of comments from people that are not aware that price elasticity exists.

Progress, yes ?
Does it matter if we send something out? The distances seem too vast. Our signals decay so fast that you need moon sized antennas to receive them beyond a few light years. Also, so far, no one seems to be out there. And even if:

Why would anyone spend an enormous amount of energy and time to reach us, a miniature rock that has nothing to offer to a space faring race?
Kiss_sdl removed under DCMA
I wouldn't trust your programmer much at all if they couldn't configure OpenVPN with correct DNS settings, given some time.
It's a really broad field, so don't expect to get up to speed very quickly. A lot of people have recommended a lot of books already, and I could add to that list. One thing you might think about is Safari Books Online. You'll notice a lot of the recommended books are there, and even though it's a bit pricey, I think you'll find you'd save money by the time you get enough of the books that seem useful to you. You'll also loose nothing by jumping from book to book because they're too advanced/not advanced enough until you find one that's at your level.

I would recommend starting with one of the many OpenCV tutorial books, and maybe work your way through a few of those. Then move into books that cover more of the algorithms behind the library like "Multiple View Geometry" by Hartley and "Machine Vision" by Davies, among many others.
there's some settings in the top right corner that allow you to change case sensitivity
On Currencies
What about us braindead slobs ?
> This is precisely why there was minimal reaction to the Snowden revelations - what revelations?

Or perhaps the 1984 Orwellian explanation - fear of surveillance curtails dissent.

E.g. perhaps there was minimal reaction because while people had always joked about the Govt. reading their messages, when Snowden revealed it was utterly true, and way worse than anyone had supposed, they became afraid to voice dissent about surveillance.

They were right to fear this as Snowden's stated reason for whistleblowing was not the existence of mass surveillance but because the mass surveillance was not for national security but its primary goal was to protect the program of mass surveillance.

Snowden revealed this: that the primary mission of the spying was to keep the spying secret and those who opposed the spying faced the greatest extra-legal retaliatory attacks. [1]

As the recent cataclysmic cyber attacks have shown national defense was not a priority for those 3 letter agencies developing weaponised exploits.

The weaponised exploits they screwed us all over by letting fall into the wrong hands, e.g. Wannacry an American state sponsored cyber-weapon funded by US tax-payer monies that wrecked the UK's National Health Service and now threatens international shipping - oopsie.

[1] Snowden outlines his reasons for turning whistleblower in this conversation with Chomsky & Greenwald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOksJKfapVM
Attribution would appear central. I'd find it worrying if Voldemort was behind this, but I don't see how I could be worried about that possibility without attribution.
It's all about hitting the Ballmer peak at my office, baby.
thanks, i don't want to eavesdrop, but looking for technical docs on how a https proxy server really works :) .. something i can use to learn how to implement one.
Agreed!

Could they have come back to us faster, yes, but an honest, well thought through apology with all these details included is a really strong response and I'm not going to complain.

We can always complain about why not this or that, but it seems we are never satisfied even when we get what we want.
They send individually packaged everything. Three meals amounts to about this much trash (those pieces of paper are full size 8.5x11" for scale. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CU1N8VJVEAATbNG.jpg:large
The giant foil insulator (shown) and gel ice-packs (not shown) were what did it for me. I found conflicting information on whether they were recyclable, but the best answers I could find indicated no. Apart from those pieces, the remainder of the waste (shown) was a lot, but not totally unreasonable.
I'd argue everything they're doing could be portrayed as ethical in some context.

If they aren't actively looking to replace the job they feel the need to fraudulently accomplish, I'd argue that's the unethical component. I don't think they mentioned anything about looking for more work.

It's one thing to be in a situation where the only options you can perceive as valid are fraudulent ones. It's another thing to choose to stay in it instead of choosing to extract yourself.
Something interesting I noticed here:

> Phonemic transcription of English "pot" is /pɔt/, and "spot" is /spɔt/.

Your use if this particular IPA indicates that you speak a dialect that has undergone the cot-caught merger, which probably means your accent is from Scotland, the western half of the US, or the Boston area. If you didn't, then you'd transcribe those words as /pɑt/ and /spɑt/ if you spoke a dialect with the father-bother merger (most American accents) or /pɒt/ and /spɒt/ if you spoke a dialect without it (many English accents, including RP).

I'm leaning towards you being Scottish, since Scottish English tends to merge them to [ɔ], while American dialects with the merger tend to merge them to [ɑ].

This goes to show that IPA transcriptions are heavily dependent on dialect.