skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have vast means to prosecute sites like Backpage. As other articles have noted [1], the DOJ has refused to get involved in going after Backpage for years, which should be an outrage given the context.

The obvious conclusion is, it's all intentional. The DOJ has been told to stand down, so the SESTA pushers can build up a case for the need for new legislation, new levers of power & control over the Internet.

[1] "CDA 230 does not shield platforms from federal prosecution. The law very clearly outlines that exception to the liability shield, anticipating that crimes like child pornography and child exploitation would be prosecuted by the federal authorities. The US Department of Justice, for whatever reason, has not shown any inclination to pursue sites like Backpage."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16308066/sex-trafficking-...
Not mutually exclusive. Do both
What does this scenario have to do with "counter-suing" which you mentioned in your parent post?

WRT patent grants, there's a few tidbits here and there about implicit patent grants(https://copyleft.org/guide-next/comprehensive-gpl-guidech7.h... and http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence) but hardly any settled case law. At any rate, this is the situation with every MIT license, so I don't know why it's ominous.
Im sceptic none the less- usually buying into enterprise software, they try to lock there customers into a walled garden, where they are the sole provider of upgrades, new software and tailored products.

I have yet to see the enterprise software, that takes the step back like steam did and provides a plattform for cutomers to trade sofware additions.
Or in a lot of different formats and also for download on media.ccc.de:

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme...
All: if you want to understand how not to comment on Hacker News, take a look at this flamewar and never, ever behave like this on HN. It's emblematic of all that this site is not for. Note also the bannage occurring below.

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Yes, you're absolutely right. I missed that. Apologies.
Salt Lake City: what happened to the homeless?
I'm not a Googler/Deepminder, so I can't comment about what goes on inside the company.

However, Google is making a hardware investment in Tensor Processing Units. These presumably offer hardware acceleration for the static computation graphs that TensorFlow produces, and PyTorch wouldn't be any good with them.

You're right that--as of this time of writing--there are no good seq2seq with attention models in Keras. I think there are a few attempts on Github, but I haven't tried them yet. I don't know anybody else that has tried seq2seq w/ attention in Keras yet either.

Additionally, TensorFlow has a seq2seq module, and it does come with an attention mechanism. See https://github.com/google/seq2seq/blob/master/seq2seq/models...

Anyway, I think the best thing for folks like you and me is to just keep using PyTorch for research work, and use TensorFlow for certain deployment scenarios where TensorFlow is superior--like mobile apps and Google Cloud.
This is implemented in terms of calloc()/free(). Is this a joke? Or some kind of post-modern art? Genuinely curious, the use cases aren't clear.
Personal attacks will get you banned here regardless of how bad someone else's comments are.

So will flamewars, which you've unfortunately made this site worse by participating in.

Please read the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and don't do these things again.
> You won't become an expert over night, especially in your age (this sadly is a factor).

What do you mean "especially in your age"? Are you saying it takes younger humans to become experts quicker?
> The accreditation itself is fairly straightforward, but costly.

As is typical in Australia, to do almost any job you need to purchase that right. Even construction labourers (guys carrying out the bins and sweeping floors) and waitresses who serve alcohol, need an accredidation.
And this is how you do SEO-oriented content marketing, kids.

Rather light on the substance, few select links (with at least one pointing out) and lots and lots of precisous keywords.

--

Besides, the fact that a _file_ backup tool might need a near complete rewrite with a change of a file system should raise some eyebrows. It might be understandable for an imaging backup or if it was working directly with raw file system, but this one doesn't.
This breaks the HN guidelines badly. Please read them and don't do this again.

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$2000/40 years is still five times as much.
Uber petition over London licence loss reaches 400k
So you think the author's very intricately written, detailed arguments are "silly" and all you can offer in retort is an anecdote about how you weren't effected by the Bitfinex hack (which was a tiny part of the author's argument).
Your argument is "it's really good", "they've slightly changed it", "therefore they don't care about it"?

Presumably you'd be happier if the UI changed from week to week?
> But there are countries in Africa who can already do better by simply leapfrogging to bitcoin and ditching their national currencies.

I doubt this would do any good for them.

* Their currency would be totally exposed to 3rd parties.

* They would loose the control over the rates, which are an important tool to attract investments, if are stable and controlled well.

* AFAIK some chineese private companies control large part of the mining network. Basically the central bank would be in private, and foreign hands.

* The slow transactions would make it totally infeasable for use in everyday life, aspecially as people there have limited access to necessary technologies (stable network connections all round the contries, stable elecric power everywhere), so daily transactions of the ordinary people would either fall back to barters, or use some fiat paper money, eg. USDs.

I totally don't get how could you reach tis conclusion, your whole post is a SV bubble wishful thinking with some trendy bullshit, eg. software eating the FED, fed is replaced by code. Bitcoin does better than centralbanks. If some currency looses 30% of its value a single day, that is not a sign of health, and this happended the very week with bitcoin. Actually Bitcoin does its job worse than an african dictatorship's currency, if its job is being a fiat currency, which is useful for the people in daily life.

I doubt its job is that, so it may do its job well, but for this task it is unsuitable.
Hope you keep being positive when Flash, ActiveX, Java, Silverlight get reimplemented in WebAssembly.
Tesla Model S P100D Crushes All Competition in ‘World’s Greatest Drag Race’
Of this happens, it will be the major turning point of React + JSX "winning" the frontend world.

Another one is tooling, but the recent typescript Compiler can do TSX natively (no webpack config etc required).

The last one is size/performance, but afaik the guy behind inferno is now working on react, this all should union React's "forks" into a single force.

Interesting times we live in, lets hope that facebook does not fail on this.
Whoa. Attacking another user will get you banned here regardless of how bad some other comment was. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't ever post like this again.
There's nothing to think about, take the money, consider yourself lucky and don't chase a fantasy 400M that may never happen. The old adage is true, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Then you'll have the money to do the next thing if you're still hungry for it.
Yeah, to be honest the rare action movie that really made me invested into the action lately was The Raid (2011), which was shot in a way that made the action sequences look significantly more realistic and you didn't get the feeling that anyone has plot armor in it.

(It also got a huge amount of awards for it.)
Let me rephrase this for you:

It's great that some Chinese private entrepreneurs (connected with the intelligence services or not) are doing the fiat. That by itself is reason enough.
As a Canadian in the US to me this feels like a different kind of horror show. I play bridge and as a result I've been exposed to quite a lot of the elderly dying as a result of chronic conditions given the demographics of the game/sport. In Canada, it seemed we had a charity fundraiser 2-3 times a year for someone affected by some condition the government didn't want to cover due to cost. In the US, I deal with a level of convolution that might make the Byzantines envious but have a sense that the best plan on offer covers far far more than the rationed system in Canada. I think the Canadian system nets ahead on efficiency, but I'll quite readily admit that efficiency has some rather nasty tradeoffs.
> So basically the government was paying to provide an infrastructure for drug consumption.

So what?

> customer support. It's as if they were working for drug dealers. To me that's outrageous.

What's outrageous is that you'd rather see those people die. That's the alternative. To get them off the streets, registered and out of the risk of getting hepatitis or HIV is the beginning of giving them a chance to clean up. The government even competed with the drug dealers: they gave out free heroin to those that were already addicted.

And it's not as if any of this isn't a selfish thing by society, the cost of an addict over the longer term is far higher than the cost of helping them, so it is actually better for everybody.

I really don't understand these extremist viewpoints when it comes to healthcare.
The author of this could have picked a better value to fill in the guard area. For the x86 architecture, 0xCC is a good choice. It's an unusual negative value, a largish unsigned value, most likely an invalid address (if dereferenced as a pointer) and if executed, is the INT 3 breakpoint instruction. Other architectures would require different values, but at least pick one that has a good chance of blowing something up if used.
Yes, it is annoying but you can't say it is false. What is annoying is that he is actually right in practice. Most software developers including those in the industries where it should matter, do not care about latency or realtimeness, because in practice these things are so hard that no one really wants to pay developer time to bring latency from 100 ms back to 5 ms where it should be.

There are good technical reasons to go digital, and in theory, no drawbacks. Yet, is pisses me off that I need to boot a motherf%*$cking oscilloscope and wait several seconds.

I have spent the first years of my career at an AR company whose constant worry was to lower latency and maximize increase rate. I know this stuff is hard and as an unrecognizable handicap I now have an eye for all the small glitches in video: occasional fps slip, brief shearing, dropped frame, etc... I have yet to find a giant advertisement screen that had none of these.

Most people think 60 ms latency and 30 fps is good enough but let me tell you, we had a very different kind of reactions when we had less than 16 ms of latency (i.e. "one frame") and 60 fps display (or rather that annoying 59.94 Hz that TV asked us and forced us to feed to the software through a specific clock plug).

When people talk about the "analog feel", that's what they mean: full fps (usually 50Hz in Europe, 59.94Hz in US an Japan) and <16 ms latency. No glitch, no shear (though analog system can shear) and no framedrops. Very few digital systems actually live up to that standard.
He was referring to one of the showcased games on their website.
:)totally.
Tons of memory and a big smile :)
Skia makes use of OpenGL, DirectX or Vulkan.
If all you need is a server to host a bunch of git repos, there is also gitolite. http://gitolite.com/gitolite/

It doesn't have a pretty interface, but it works, and its requirements are minimal. I've had good success using it to host student repos in my classes for about 4 years.
You are talking about "flat-volumes", I also recommend disabling it. Even forgetting the issue you mentionned, it just makes volumes harder to handle and reason about.

I wonder if they would have ever implemented this "feature" if it wasn't the default (and only) behavior on Windows...
Personally I just go to wikipedia, jump to the "reception" part, and see what rotten tomatoes or metacritic tells about it.

People tell me I should not trust critics, but I really don't want to waste 2 hours of my time. Generally critics are accurate, and RT offers an audience rating too to give some contrast.
SV is becoming the establishment the set out to "disrupt." Twice the son of hell.
By the way, Backpage has shut down their adult services section. Their traffic did not drop to zero however, as seen at [1].

That means that Backpages has had other substantial legitimate uses, besides adult services. Craigslist also had adult services section, that it voluntarily shut down [2]. This begs the question: why is Backpage prosecuted, but Craigslist was not? What has changed between 2009 and now?

1. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/backpage.com#trafficstats

2. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/craigslist-gives...
> selling expensive items like gold bars or cash online

So as a consumer I finally have the opportunity to buy an expensive item over the Internet, get swindled by an unscrupulous seller sending me an empty box (if anything), and have absolutely no recourse? Is that the value proposition here?
Written in 2014 though
No problem with old timers, there are plenty of those here. But their stories check out and if they accuse someone it is as a rule backed up by some evidence. See the thread about Jerry Pournelle recently and some of the people commenting in it. But if you start making stuff up or making baseless accusations then you are devaluing your experiences. And the experiences you do have a probably far more interesting than the things that you throw out there to make it all look better than it was. To me it makes no sense.

On another note, chances are that you'll run into people here that already know you from other places on the net or that know who you are in real life and who know for a fact that the things you write aren't the whole story. IT back then was a very small world and a lot of those old timers are now HN'ers, just like yourself.
Accusing those you dislike of Virtue signalling is also the worst bit of self-branding from the right since the idea of accusing opponents of fighting for social justice. Or more recently, that their enemies are all anti-fascists.
The idea is that $60k CDN in a market where $300K CDN buys a semi-detached and $500k CDN buys a detached house is a good rate. To me I say if you really want to live there consider doing a 3-year tour on a TN in SV on a frugal budget and move back with your house paid off. Or do 15 years in SV then retire to a nice environment in Canada in your 40's.
I know but it's what triggered it and it's a little bit like the "dont tell people they haven't read the article" territory.
All ICOs and tokens are on Ethereum. While Bitcoin has had a script capability for quite a bit, it didn't get much traction.
I am also not a lawyer. But I don't think a "promise" is a legally enforceable concept.
Also PRs will be imported, milestones, labels and more: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/import/github.html#o...
And since fiat money at the end of the day is a question of trust thats exactly right. It just doesn't mean what the economist want it to mean. It just means, hey there is now another trusted currency.
I think starting a company in Canada has a first addressable market problem which leads to a revenue problem which leads to a VC investment problem which leads to a talent problem. I want this to be fixed because I like living in Canada better than the US but won't do it at less than half the savings per year.
and you can get groove subscription for free by participating in the microsoft rewards program!

though its 70k points/year makes it the most expensive reward.

There is a glaring downside to that service though. I can't open the website to stream the music from ubuntu. The website just doesn't load.
Definition of fiat

1 :a command or act of will that creates something without or as if without further effort According to the Bible, the world was created by fiat.
2 :an authoritative determination :dictate a fiat of conscience
3 :an authoritative or arbitrary order :decree government by fiat
> Apple is doing the meta tag version of the @viewport descriptor

Which means they are in fact NOT using W3C blessed standards.
Are your funds still at Bitfinex or did you successfully exit?
> Almost any barcode is assumed to be private information

I don't think that's really the case, I've deliberately embedded QR codes in images on Facebook. Your feature would be very annoying if it could not be toggled off.
Correct. I signed up with China Unicom last week, was required to use my passport, and was only allowed a single SIM card. Anonymity is nearly impossible.
No, he is right.

What the OP meant by creating money out of nothing was fiat currency, which we do have now.

If you decide to use a commodity also as money, that's fundamentally different, and econ textbooks can confirm this for you.

T-Bills are backed by fiat currency, not by a commodity.

The Fed, and also the banks through fractional reserve banking, genuinely do create "money out of nothing."

Check out A Monetary History of the US by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwarz. Here you will find a Nobel Prize winning econonist who wanted to dramatically reign in, or even end, the Fed and get rid of fractional reserve banking.
> This is why ICOs are such a big thing right now for westerners

How can you tell if it's westerners investing for the future or Chinese miners trying to get liquidity through any means possible?
I got a $160K base in Canada at a good opportunity and $140K base without too much effort. But I had a great pedigree, a ML + software background and my Resume had a 90+% follow-up rate. Admittedly this was Toronto which outside of Vancouver is unlike the rest of Toronto. You need to find the right opportunities though because a lot of organizations cap out at $110-$150K depending on who they are and what they value.
There is - its been posted multiple times https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242.
LMB means left mouse button. I remember first time I saw someone say LMB without explaining what it meant I was really confused.
Stack machines used to be common in mainframe hardware, back in the day.

http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...

http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400
The problem is getting the money out. Two issues : fundamentally you suddenly have a large amount of unexplained wealth, if you imagine that state authorities will shrug, smile and nod good luck to you think again. It is possible to use the money as a supplement to a middle class lifestyle and to find ways to get it laundered, but the first tactic is disappointing for people who wanted hot and cold running champaign on their yacht, and the second is very expensive and risky. The second big issue is that no amount of tumbling is really going to launder bitcoin, yes, you mixed it up with other people's tokens, but $4m came into the tumbler and $3m left in your direction, no court will fall for this... Just as if you put $4m in a bank account and then walked away with $3m from a different account at the same bank, the money followed you.
You're purposefully putting intent on software. It didn't send passwords, it sent strings that looked like a domain to a regex. It did not send a message to a DNS server "Hey DNS server, this is a password!" The user happened to want to use that string for a password.
In 2017, I don't understand why UIs are not totally configurable by now. It should be clear that people have different tastes. I am a fan of full-text dense interfaces a la Reddit but I know I am in a minority. I wish I could activate a content-only CSS.

Well, I do understand actually. It is about ads revenue. Fuck that. I wish this ecosystem finally dies.
They have the patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242. Just MIT is a good option, I don't really understand why they don't want to "fix" the patent grant to be like Apache 2.0 or Google's. Why relicense everything when fixing 1 sentence would fix the problem completely.
If you really think you have a say in monetary policy, I suggest you read Barofsky's Bailout.
See the difference in tone between London GM: "We are sure Londoners will be as astounded as we are by this decision. By trying to ban the app from the capital, the Mayor and Transport for London have caved in to a small number of people who want to restrict consumer choice."

And Dara, new CEO: "Going forward, it’s critical that we act with integrity in everything we do, and learn how to be a better partner to every city we operate in. That doesn’t mean abandoning our principles—we will vigorously appeal TfL’s decision—but rather building trust through our actions and our behavior. In doing so, we will show that Uber is not just a really great product, but a really great company that is meaningfully contributing to society, beyond its business and its bottom line."
Or of course consider how they went after Kim Dotcom, the effort that was put into crushing Megaupload and Kim over common media piracy.

Are we to believe that the DOJ & Co couldn't have smashed Backpage for knowingly allowing trafficking years ago? They couldn't have scooped up proof that the operators knew about that activity, a dozen different ways given the tools at their disposal? They could destroy Silk Road and get Ross Ulbricht, but they couldn't get the Backpage guys on anything? Bullshit of course, it's beyond obvious those guys knew what their site was facilitating, they were making a vast fortune off of it.

It all reeks of being allowed to continue as an enemy number one to facilitate legislation like SESTA.
> Deer Park is the codename for Firefox 1.1, to be released in September

Anyone remember Phoenix 0.1.0? Phoenix became Firebird became Firefox.
> Nestlé will buy cheap water from a source - and not just part of it but pretty much all of it. then sells it overpriced as cola.

You could also look at the situation and conclude that the most expensive parts of bottling and selling either coca-cola or water are the bottles, the water purification, the transport, and the retail labour. There is nothing suspicious about Coca-Cola and similarly-packaged water being roughly the same price.

It is not obvious that the difference between the cost of producing Coca-Cola and the price of producing bottled water is so different that they should always be sold for different prices.
As a statistician I just feel SO bad when I read this. The odds of anything falling outside of 2 standard deviations 10 times in a row are infinitesimal. Which means that you're wrong, it did not in fact do that.

Now of course in this case it means that your variable is not normally distributed. And it isn't: sea ice is receding and therefore comparing the mean year over year is different, whereas a normal distribution only applies to multiple measurements of the same thing.
You can't die if you were never alive to begin with