skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has everything to do with free speech. It wasn't about being 'disorderly', it was about laughing at a confirmation hearing being considered disorderly.
It was formerly the Magic the Gathering Online Exchange. When it became a bitcoin trading platform it was renamed Mt. Gox.
Of course it is, apart from hardware comparisions; Apple has all the necessary components sans gamepad to create an Nintendo Switch esque setup.
Then users would just set their machine to say they're on a slow laptop with 1% battery left.
I really don't think you read the paper...
Thought experiment: how much money and how long would it take you to build a product with complete feature parity to Slack?
I wish Waze had an "A/B test mode" where you can bookmark the current cohort of drivers around you, and then N minutes later see where they ended up. Whenever traffic apps claim my main route home is backed up and I end up taking some weird backroads, I wonder if I would have been better off sticking with the main route.
And of course it makes sense in context. ('It' being changing an agrarian capitalist society to an agrarian communist society - clearly the natural progression.)
For $200M ARR, in a non-fictional world I may have it as low as 600M valuation and as high $1.2b depending on growth.

But in this world, it's valued @ 5B. The tech world (bubble) is amazing.

Businesses are now being appraised like houses: "Comparable businesses were just bought for X dollars".

At the end of the day the valuations don't rely on businesses bottom line. They are based on two factors:

- How much Google, Apple, etc. MIGHT buy them for in the future.

- How much investors THINK Google, Apple, etc. would buy them today for.

Speculative markets have never failed us. /s
Backronym, I suspect. MtGOX is a lot shorter than the full name spelled out, and it's just a hop, skip, and a jump (crikey, it's just a hop with a side of misinterpretation, if that) to Mount Gox and Mt Gox.

Edit to add: 'neotek has a better answer :)
How can you put a limit on their market cap without understanding their growth rate?
I'd be a lot more interested if it was obvious
that folks like Amazon, Stripe, Paypal,
Braintree, Ebay, etc. were working on this.

I can say all but Braintree, which may as well, process through one of the Paymentech platforms (owned by Chase) and have the ability to store customer billing information securely on PCI compliant servers provided by same.

Furthermore, the fraud exposure presented by this API will be difficult to be accepted by processors.

EDIT: Stripe is an ISO with FDMS, owned by Wells Fargo. They got the transactional system from Paymentech in "the divorce."
> The w3c seems to be run by people who make money on the web, not people who use the web.

Not really. Anyone can join the W3C, and anyone can participate in a working group / contribute to a standard.

However, most people would agree that the balance of power effectively lies with the browser vendors. You can propose a standard all you like, but if you can't get a browser to adopt it then it's not going to get any traction. And although it's true that some browser vendors make their money off the web (Google) others very much don't (Apple).
Huffman Coding: A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes [pdf]
The real environmental cost of ads is when people actually buy the useless shit being advertised. Also, you definitely have a strange attitude toward mining cryptocoins client-side and are engaging in many assumptions and false notions (that 100% of CPU will be used, that ad-tracking doesn't use just as many cycles, that it's not opt-in, etc.)
Mate, it's a turn of phrase: a more colourful expression of Hanlon's razor. Are you being deliberately obtuse?

They're not "mining for sympathy": they've clarified their position and taken responsibility for handling the situation poorly.

Maybe stop interpreting everything you read in the worst possible light?
From the website linked in his profile:

Contacting me

The best way to contact me is via email; try my first name at this domain.
And likely not letting a crisis go to waste.
Hoping for the same. Stopped using Slack primarily because of their mobile (iOS) experience. Push notifications never seem to come on time and I hate that the notifications get pushed in reverse order when EVERY other app does the opposite.
Wasn't the XNU kernel a microkernel originally?
Because you can catch up during breathers / breaks from your main task.
Maybe most companies don't need as much channels as there are users, though.
Economics is a sham discipline. Economists are like the witch doctors of the modern era, spinning whichever narrative they feel is the correct one. I wish MIT would just call the field something else like "social dynamics". Sort of like how physiotherapy is offered at Universities instead of the chiropractic mumbo jumbo.
It's extremely rare to find someone who don't do JS but is also actually good at HTML+CSS, as in usable markup and styles. But I'd hire that person if I found him.
> it's fundamentally anti-user

I don’t get this sentiment at all. The vast majority of users don’t know what root access is, let alone care about it.
I think that a fundamental aspect of that we are yet as individuals within our societies to understand the implications of Nash equilibria (and other significant economic theories).

In any functional communistic society I think that it would need to be taught from a young age in order to provide the populace with a near inate understanding of just how damaging selfish individual motivations can be (when applied on a global scale).
You have to remember that you're not entitled to their server resources. If you are not okay with a CPU miner, then don't use their site. I'm okay with this as long as they are 100% transparent about their monetization scheme.
I'd posit not at all, since accepting purchaser verifying information automatically provided by a browser (or any client-side program) will almost certainly be rejected by any ISO/VAR/processor having a fraud liability exposure.
Is there anything stopping exchanges (or other parties) from manipulating the price of Bitcoin by having millions of bots repeatedly buy/sell coins amongst themselves? If not, is there any way of detecting whether this is or isn't happening right now?
In a few words. With CoreOS Tectonic we are reducing the toil teams endure to update both application infrastructure and applications. We believe that security begins with a simple regular processes for getting updates to software out the door and that our tools and products remove toil from these processes.

Two sides of the problem:

Infra: CoreOS Tectonic[1] provides one-click updates of the entire app infra stack from the VM/bare-metal Linux instances[2] through the Tectonic control plane including Kubernetes, identity services, monitoring tooling, etc[3]. We call this automated operations.

App: By leveraging Kubernetes APIs application teams can roll. Further container scanning tools enable app teams to scan in-use containers for CVEs.

[1] https://coreos.com/tectonic

[2] https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-container-linux-update-o...

[3] https://coreos.com/blog/announcing-tectonic-1.7.1
Would You Give Neo-Nazis Basic Income?
3x revenue for a SaaS business that is probably growing at 100% yoy makes no sense. I have no idea why people continue to cite this. Even public SaaS companies aren't getting valuations so low.
I don't understand how people can continue to use it even though the notifications are extremely unreliable. Unacceptable for any chat-based app.
Which languages have thorough first-party documentation of how the runtime works in an easily accessible form that's available to the public?

Smalltalk, though you might have to go to a library and check out a dead tree book.
Wow I'm quite surprised at all the negativity towards slack on here... My team hasn't experienced most of these issues and we love using it.
Yeah but you're not entitled to use their server's resources for free. If you're not okay with them running a miner while you use their site, don't use their site. I'm okay with this approach as long as they are transparent about it.
Yeah, but then they would need to actually check the ads they serve. Like, with PEOPLE.

Have you ever MET a people? Gross, no, keep them out of it.

It's like how you can't expect ad networks to avoid serving up malware every now and then. What, do you expect them to be responsible for the negative externalities of their products? I thought this was America.
One thing worth noting is that, with a theoretical max capacity on only 1 million, this airport would actually be pretty tiny by world standards. (The largest do >100m, and even Colombo Airport pulls in nearly 10m.)

By comparison, another famous white elephant airport, Ciudad Real in Spain, was built for 10m and currently serves precisely zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Real_Central_Airport
Probably because of the similiarity to "Ft Knox"
I haven't watched the video yet, but I can provide some insight. I spent time with Ted in late 1992 and early 1993, when I lived in San Francisco, and Ted lived just north of the Golden Gate on a houseboat in Sausalito. This was just months before the web 'went public.' (That fall, I was hired by O'Reilly & Associates to help build Global Network Navigator, the first commercial website; we launched in October 1993.)

Ted could be grumpy and arrogant, but he was also incredibly insightful and visionary in his thinking. It seemed to me that he felt strongly the pulse of the future, and was passionate and driven to build the very best version of that future. Like most visionaries, his perfectionism was a result of careful consideration and system design and an inability to settle for less. It's hard to understand now, but he'd put enormous effort into designing a coherent hypertext system that supported not just simple one-way linking (what we've done for 25 years with HTML/HTTP), but bidirectional linking, including an addressing scheme that could 'transclude' (he liked neologisms) content from any other author, while giving full credit, and even royalties. (If you can find it, read his book Computer Lib / Dream Machines.)

He'd been seriously thinking about this stuff since the mid-1960s, and there in the early 1990s, had just started getting traction with a team of people who shared his views. (I was one of them, though a very minor character.) We all knew it was hard, and still quite unclear exactly how all this magic was going to work. Xanadu (Ted's name for his system) had been started and stopped and restarted already a few times. But hanging out on his houseboat in Sausalito, talking data structures and user interfaces with Ted and his gang of incredible programmers, chatting with luminaries who strolled in (I remember Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, coming over one sunny afternoon), was an incredibly heady atmosphere. No one except Ted knew if it would actually work, but it sure was fun to try.

Yet the web lurked just around the corner. On a whim, that summer of 1993 I attended some networking exposition (Interop?) in the city. While cruising the aisles, I ran into the O'Reilly folks and their big color X terminal running an early Mosaic browser, showing a very early World Wide Web. Although I didn't get the details, I immediately understood what they were showing: this was hypertext that worked. While Ted's system was an amazing promise, the Web was clearly the reality that would, in its own pragmatic, hacky way, be the way forward. (I believe that Tim Berners-Lee, inventor/enabler of the web-as-we-know-it, has cited Nelson as an major influence.)

So look at Ted and his work like a musician's musician, unsung and unrecognized beyond the inner circle. Or like Tesla, a great inventor of impossibly amazing projects.

I'm glad Ted's still out there, still inventing, even if Xanadu is but a dream.
I struggle to agree, despite being the person who initially championed it at the company. It feels like the worst of both IM and email: people use it instead of email, so delayed responses are ok (although sometimes you want a realtime convo and cannnot get it), but alike IM they also just don't respond sometimes (this reminds me of how people sometimes treat iMessage/SMS).

I was thinking about the impact of taking it away again, if Hangouts supported "channels" that people in the domain could join I think we would have a pretty seamless departure. The channels feature is about all I've remained to love after having slack for 2 years.
I won't bore you with the history of the Payment Request API, but a sizable chunk of it was inspired by the native Objective-C / Swift Apple Pay API, which is why it's so similar.

With regards to Android Pay being easier to test - that's primarily because Apple Pay implements a much stricter security standard that requires a challenge/response to take place before starting the transaction.

It's actually pretty easy to shim the Apple Pay API to Payment Request. If you didn't know about this already you might kick yourself, but there's even a Google supplied shim that allows you to just write the code once using Payment Request: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/appr-wrapper
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I wouldn't give anyone a "basic income"
Atlassian has just launched Stride as a cheaper alternative. I'm planning to test it out soon to see if it hits the mark for your second requirement too.

[1] https://www.stride.com/pricing
Data processing inequality would suggest a breakdown in complex structure as entropy increases.
Or, you raise when you don't need it, so that you don't get shitty terms, which you'd the get when/if you actually do need it!
When you buy something, do you expect to show ID? Every merchant I've ever done business with, has accepted cash without questioning if the name I'm giving is actually mine.

For their tax reasons, I really don't see how it matters. "Got cash payment of $$$ for ads" gets the same treatment regardless of the buyer's name.
In the affiliate marketing world I've seen huge international affiliates set up 100s of proxies to arbitrage grey-market affiliate offers (supplements / financial services / bizop / etc) on FB's platform.

One stupidly effective and commonly used tactic to prevent FB from shutting the accounts down immediately was to run URL redirects based on known IP blocks from FB's compliance team, including 3rd party teams / etc - sort of an arms race.

I imagine with the budget and sophistication of Russia's digital team anything that's so far been detected by FB is the tip of the iceberg.
Managing to create a network effect for corporate chat rooms is impressive. But it is a bit depressing that centralized unencrypted chat for corporations is a billion dollar product.
You don’t bother. You move to a neighborhood where people mind their own business and don’t mind a little infrastructure (or the occasional non-functioning auto) in their back yards.
There's some dry satire.
> How does this make developers' lives easier than existing solutions? I'm kinda thinking it doesn't.

One way it makes developers' lives easier is by providing a single API through which you can offer multiple payment services (Apple Pay, Android Pay, PayPal, etc), rather than requiring separate integrations and code for each service.

However, the main attraction is it gets rid of auto-fill - which is frequently clunky - and replaces it with a unified check-out process. The benefit there is for the user, not the developer.

> Odd that none of the editors are, you know, actually from companies that do meaningful e-commerce.

Being an editor of a spec doesn't really mean much in terms of defining it. It just means you're the point person for a ton of administrative work.

The group has very active participation from a number of eCommerce players, including all the major card networks, AirBnB, Shopify, Stripe, Tencent, Worldpay, and Yandex. There's a lot of eCommerce interest: https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/83744/status
Huh, interesting - sounds similar to the work of Paul Otlet, who sought to...well, there's a biography about him titled, "Cataloging the World."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet

He had an idea for a sort of world library/scholarly citadel called The Mundaneum - I wonder what he would've made of computers. Sadly, Wikipedia says that the project lost funding from Belgium a bit before they were invaded by Germany, who broke a lot of it.
Yes, https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/26/provisions-how-bitc... (cryptocurrencies in general, I believe)
> Although being skeptical, I would say we should be quite careful in how much we are implying with a phrase like "I am conscious of it".

Sure. I'm more or less defining what I mean by "consciousness" in that statement. It is the indisputable fact that (put colloquially) "something seems to be happening." Since we're being skeptical, there's really no phrasing that cannot be disputed, so I can only ask you to do the experiment to see what I might be pointing at. Something definitely seems to be happening, even if in some other sense we might say it is not "actually" happening.

I no longer consider it meaningful to "explain" that definite property in terms of fundamentally uncertain metaphysical concepts like time and space, no matter how likely they appear to be. I appreciate that others may differ here. Thanks for the dialogue!
I personally can do UI of Slack client in 5-8 months (so 5-8 man/months) + one/two backend developers needed. And it will be almost native client with client distribution less than 5mb.

As a proof, it took me 2 months to make this application: https://notes.sciter.com/ (and site for it in that time too).
> Furthermore, the fraud exposure presented by this API will be difficult to be accepted by processors.

I'm confused by what you mean. The API doesn't have any additional fraud exposure. It uses existing payment instruments and methods. Also, all major card networks - Visa, MasterCard, AmEx - and many payment processors - Stripe, Worldpay, etc - all actively participate.
When I was much younger and more naive about how the US and capitalism works, I thought that it would be a splendid idea to be able to make money on my thoughts, experiments, and doings. And I thought that it too would be a great idea to be able to leverage others' works, pay them, and build on them.

And now, I do just that. Except there's no money changing hands. That's open source for you. Now, if Xanadu's ideas did come to fruition, then I would expect everything to have a paywall on it. And the worst/regular experience would be pages of pages of aggregate sentences, with each few words being a cent or 2. The pages themselves would be >$1 each to download. Instead of trying to trick browsers and people into spyware - it would be tricking people into automatic slow-reloading links that would cost a few cents... And would continuously reload treating unsuspecting users like a piggy bank.

Instead, the world we have is free by default. Only if something is deemed to cost a lot is there a paywall. Things under that threshold use advertising, which is slowly beginning to fail at the seams. That's because content is expensive, but copying isnt.

(BTW, my points on the main post are still yoyo-ing around 0 and 1. I wish people would respond rather than try to hide my commentary.)
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They already do so.
Was it actually ever a MtG exchange? I thought the domain name was purchased for that purpose but it was never actually used that way.
Chinese equity stake in the airport and port will likely result in significant Chinese operation of those ports.

And surely, that's got to have India thinking a little bit - it means that the PLAAF/PLAN now have a potential forward operating base literally in their backyard.

And if China can continue to assert leverage on Sri Lanka, then they might even be able to forward base onto Sri Lanka itself without official argument from Sri Lanka.

I mean, I doubt it, but it seems like a viable play.
Unless you're exaggerating to make a point, you should qualify your challenge to indicate that you're talking about old-school "brain wallets" that nobody uses anymore. Every modern wallet app uses BIP32/BIP44/BIP39 standards that guarantee a minimum of 128 bits of good entropy.

Yes, people will still refuse to back up their wallets by writing down the 12- or 24-word seed phrase, and others will get phished. They'll lose their funds, just as they already do with their Steam and eBay accounts. Your point is valid that Bitcoin allows a tremendous amount of control that many people will use first and foremost to shoot off their own limbs. But brain-wallet crackers are no longer a threat.
Oh, there were signs. Just because you couldn't see them doesn't mean they didn't exist.

I moved my coin from Mt.Gox about a month before the last major hack because just the thought of using it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Something was amiss and I felt it.

The most glaring issue was that of inexplicable server load. When you are dealing with a service that handles money or valuable assets, things like this are very bad omens and should never be brushed off. It was clear that either A) the website was experiencing unusual traffic (in this case, I believe what came out was that the one of the attackers were testing their method.. supposedly this same method was used in the Silk Road hack) or B) the staff was not equipped to properly and securely run a server and were an attack to take place, they would not be ready to handle it. One bad security practice with such a critical service is indicative of generally bad security practices and lack of accountability.

You have to pay attention to your gut. If something feels amiss, and the service is critical, you have to assume that something is indeed amiss.
Yeah, the EFF also tries to have it both ways, starting off with the inflammatory sell-out headline and opening of the press release, and then claiming that the bill is just stalled until next year, has wide support in the legislature that is what enabled it to get so far despite the late introduction, and has momentum for next year. It's a real failure at coherent messaging.
It's actually quite simple, any website that makes my laptop fans spin up gets closed out. None of the websites with ads trigger this behavior. The cryptominers do. If you look at actual CPU usage you will notice the obvious difference.

This makes sense, since the entire idea of crypto currency mining is to use CPU cycles to mine the crypto currency. While ads is just some basic tracking and graphics.
I think the exact nature of content of ads brings open all sorts of investigation / interests in others outside of simple election meddling. It'll likely expose the reality of everyone being not only being targeted, but facebook building an advertising platform that makes it easier.

The other thing that surprises me here is that people are all of a sudden concerned that russia may have tried to sway an election as if this hasn't been going on since the dawn of time.

If anything is learned from this I hope it's that people should be more subjective even with things that seem to support their own personal opinions.
While I sort of share this sentiment, it fails to acknowledge that BC mining is potentially a better use of our CPU cycles than feeding morally dubious ad networks.

As long as someone is upfront about the whole thing, I would honestly not mind. It feels like an improvement over the current status quo.

In fact, since CPU cycles are so easy to give away, I'd probably end up doing so more readily than having to pull out my wallet and run through the hassle of registration and payment.
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