skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the thing about bitcoin is that anyone can buy bitcoin. If you're poor, you can have coinbase buy $10 in bitcoin a week automatically. It's an investment of a quality that isn't really available in other forms, and accessible to poor people and middle class who are excluded from things like venture capital and other things by securities regulations.

HODL doesn't mean never sell nothing, it means don't try to trade in and out of bitcoin to time the market.

Nothing wrong with spending some bitcoin, that's not opposed to holding, just better to spend less bitcoin than you're earning from your salary each month.
Is your hypothesis that wealth turns people into assholes, or that only assholes are capable of generating vast amounts of personal wealth?
So what's the current status of the upstreaming work? It sounds like there's a good start discussed in the paper, in removing a lot of conditional and duplicated code and using some more cleanly separated layers, but that was two years ago, what's happened since?
As the article you linked shows, there’s a different burden of proof in that case, though.
I didn't laugh until I looked at the diff in the commit. Then I couldn't stop laughing.
There were about 400,000 bots posting political messages during the 2016 U.S.
presidential election on Twitter, according to a research paper by Emilio
Ferrara, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California.
Anything by Peter F. Drucker. If you've never read Drucker, you owe it to yourself.
Innovations don't make the device.

I know at least 10 people that bought an Android phone after owning an iPhone and every single one of them switched back. Really, after years of using an Android people don't switch back because of familiarity.

PS: I am not saying Android is strictly worse, just there are meaningful positives on the iPhone side.
The question is whether bots are bad enough for the user experience to make people leave.
> Please join me in my effort and do finish your projects. Your users will love you for that.

Will they?

If your users are programmers, they might love you for that.

For pretty much all other users, they will want more. "It would be great if your app did...". I would argue that users now expect software to change and add more features.

And why wouldnt they, when pretty much all software they use is doing this? If your app isnt growing and changing, to users it way well look dead: "It's abandonware".
> If our journalists are perceived as biased or if they engage in editorializing on social media, that can undercut the credibility of the entire newsroom.

Continue to be biased. No problem there. Just don't make the mistake of showing that bias too much.

> We can effectively pull back the curtain and invite readers to witness, and potentially contribute to, our reporting. We can also reach new audiences.

Don't lift the curtain too much. Or people will start paying attention to what's behind it. That's really straight from the Wizard of Oz. A Freudian slip perhaps.

But it is true in a way. To manufacture consent effectively, there has to be a minimal veneer of impartiality. Someone glancing at them in passing should be able to say "Look, the free and unbiased press at work".
> But it makes no sense to single people out only if there was an accident.

A driver could reasonably argue that one distraction or another didn't significantly impair their ability to drive, but when it results in an accident, that question is answered.

I do, however believe that distracted driving should result in something more than a $50 fine.
They're not, but sometimes there are no bike lanes and cycling in the roads looks dangerous. What am I supposed to do?

Well, I'm a bit split between getting off the bike (and walking next to it), or cycling at a walking pace (and taking up less space). Depends on the situation, really.
Anecdotal, but I left in some part because of the noise created by bots.
If you read the article in your azcentral link, you'll see that Woz did announce Woz U himself.
Wow, dollars in the world is $20T or some multiple? That's a great figure! I did not know that. Yes, $1T was the figure in 1990 but for physical dolla dolla bills.

I was attempting to link USD in circulation to BTC, not paying attention to BTC market price. With your updated figures $21T USD in circulation makes each Bitcoin $1M yes, your math checks out. ($1M x $1M is $1T ... were we to somehow make BTC our new Cryptographic "Gold standard")

With each bitcoin worth $1M, that makes each Satoshi about ... a penny?
It seems to vary a lot by product. I had awful billing support on GCP (quite some time ago now so it might be better now like the Googler who replied to me last time I talked about it on HN said it would). Project Fi support has been fantastic though.
Sometimes you can catch this in an interview, too, when you ask what happened to the previous person in the position (I always ask this question).

Usually it's simple like "they moved on" or "they were promoted". One time I got an angry, "Well they just couldn't handle it here!" Huge red flag
Rape and accidental or negligent homicide aren't comparable because, by law, you can't accidentally rape someone. You have to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally rape someone for it to be a crime.

When people say that a rape was a mistake, they mean they made an error in judgment or something else.

When we are talking about a car accident, we mean that they didn't intend to hurt anyone.
I do think we need to think through the moral implications of torture, because it's not as simple as "torture doesn't work."

Yes, torture might not work on average. And not even in the great majority of police and anti-terror investigations. But that doesn't mean it never does.

We know torture can work in very specific circumstances. If you have a person's phone that you want them to unlock, torture can get them to do it. It works because you can verify what the person tells you immediately, so there is a direct link between them telling you the truth and the torture stopping. If you are willing to go to any length to get them to unlock the phone, eventually almost anyone would break.

Of course the issue is that such situations are rare - usually you don't have such a direct link. The person will say anything to get the torture to stop, true or false - more likely false. It may be impossible to verify what they say, or it may take months or years. So it's pointless, and much more productive to use a non-torture approach in those cases.
JIRA Cloud Down?
https://status.atlassian.com/

Their StatusPage is telling lies :(
I upvoted you because it's a good point, but if you're discussing interpersonal behavior, does it really matter if someone living in poverty in the American deep south is in the top 2% globally for PPP? Studies like this are not looking at the world as a whole, they're looking at interpersonal relationships, by definition very local or regional.
Depends on the BBS. On the one I was on for a long time, many people used their real identities and even got together IRL.
I think the turning point that "normalized Doxxing" was the anti-Scientology brigade a few years back.

There are other bits and pieces here and there. "Forum Invasions" in the early 00s were frowned upon, but Stephen Colbert's call to edit the Wikipedia "Elephant" page basically normalized that practice somewhat. Furthermore, while Forum invasions were considered poor-taste, they are extremely effective in Reddit (at least a few years ago) to "Vote Brigade" certain topics to the top page.

These actions are frowned upon, but the blood is in the water and people are now accustomed to their efficacy. Like sharks, the trolls smell the blood and enjoy their newfound powers.

Furthermore, when these online attacks are looked upon with favor in the mainstream (see South Park, which glorified the anti-Scientology fervor, and of course Colbert), it only led to more widespread acceptance of these tactics.
How big of a deal is this from 1-10?
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> Imagine the carpenters were like programmers. You bought a chair. You bought it because you've inspected it and found out that it fulfills all your needs.

Then, every other day, the carpenter turns up at work and tries to improve how they make chairs!

Why can't they just stop changing how chairs are made? I like my chair, but I go back to the store after a few years and they're all different! Carpenters, finish your chairs. Those ideas you have? Stop having them. I like chairs how they are now.
Neither of those links provide any insight on his actual involvement. They say roughly the same thing; 1) Wozniak announced today, and 2) Woz U is named after Wozniak. No mention of any substantial involvement.
So there’s not chance the brain does back propagation right? I wonder what it might do instead?
The real question is how many of those bots are spambots and bots attempting to pose as real people, as opposed to bots that are open about the fact that they are bots? There's plenty of top-shelf novelty accounts on Twitter that are also bots.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Excusing greedy behavior won’t make it right, ever.
How do you define rich?
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But that's a bad argument, which is often used by drunk drivers to justify their behavior. "I'm fine, i've never gotten into an accident." And they do.
> If it learns that an apple can be red, green and even yellow - how does it know how to color it?

I dunno, does it look more like a red apple, a green apple or a yellow apple?
The leaving party should have well thought-out positions for the exit negotiation.

What happens to EU citizens living the in the country that wants to leave, and vice versa? What kind of international agreements and contracts should replace what the EU provides? What about obligations to retirement funds of (former) EU employees?

There's a myriad of other questions to discuss, and given the number of states involved, two years is a very short time frame to settle them.

The reporting I heard about the current brexit negotiations might be biased, but I get the impress that the British government doesn't even seem to have well-defined positions on most of these issues, which slows down the negotiations.
If you found the article interesting, i highly recommend this book: "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness". It is a fascinating description of how cephalopods are the closest thing to intelligence that is built vastly different from us. The author also explores philosophical questions (à la Thomas Nagel) What does it feel like to be an octopus? Does it have multiple selves? The book doesn't have all the answers and sort of fizzles out at the end, but definitely one of my better reads this year.
There are tons of fake accounts on Twitter. It doesn't take much to get hundreds or even thousands to engage with you (follow you, reply to your tweets with a common hashtag, etc.).

I thought a year or two ago that Twitter was avoiding cleaning house and removing the obviously fake accounts because they were simultaneously trying to show growth on the platform and if anything removing these bots would hurt their growth metrics.
From a usability standpoint this is really interesting. If I don't have to think about moving to spark but instead just code within the restrictions of the subset of Python that is really neat.
This is a textbook case of something every first-year statistics student studies: voluntary response bias.

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

If I remember, things like these tend to draw out extremes, but the missing middle tends to be more moderate.
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Yes, you provide a handful of full data keyframes and reconstruct the details of the stream from the middle out.
I think it's worth noting the distinction between OS and kernel is a bit messy. I think that you could argue that this together with a kernel creates an OS (In the same way that Linux + GNU creates an OS). You don't have to write the kernel yourself to create an OS, just have a kernel. It is kinda false advertising though - it's like saying you wrote an "OS with CoreUtils" when you just wrote a set of CoreUtils. It's still really good, but not what people are thinking of when you that.

That said, I agree with you that it kinda stinks this doesn't have its own kernel - it really is just a GUI without it. It surprises me that so many people are blowing it off as no big deal. Writing the kernel is not a simple detail, we're talking about a lot of functionality that is missing that takes a lot of work to get right.
Well, that on the other hand does indeed make sense, depending on the context. The only question there could be if it's a good idea to use a garbage collected language to directly[1] interact with hardware.

[1]: Well, at least directly enough for LINQ performance to be a problem.
So the Gestapo was worse than Hitler?

I've recently been talking to my therapost about this. I'm not sure there are many jobs where you can be an "ethical producer" under capitalism. It's a shit system that requires 10-20% (at least in the US) of people to be in poverty.

Even if every single person in the United States was capable of being a physician, we still would require 10-20% to work shitty jobs and live shitty lives. Yay America!
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Sometimes I think we Western people are basically evil, or to be more precise, willfully ignorant. We live in our sheltered world eating organic food thinking about how good we are for drinking "fair coffee". At the same time a lot of our companies are polluting the third world and exploiting poor workers there. We finance civil wars often for economic benefit and destabilize countries.

So I wouldn't be surprised if one day the global poor would say "enough is enough".
This was true on freenode for me. I’ve never told
anyone exactly who I am, but I’ve got some actual friends there I would feel comfortable meeting in real life.
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2.4 is pretty low in my experience. My first check when looking into a company is usually Glassdoor and anything below mid 3's is a pretty strong negative signal, at the very least that satisfaction is largely dependent on team. Mid 3's and higher and generally people are satisfied regardless of what team they're on or how high on the ladder they are.
Surprised this hasn't happened sooner, IMO Google controlling the online UX/AI for products sourced from brick and mortars is the only viable e-commerce competitor to Amazon's continued dominance.

I'm a happy Amazon customer so I wouldn't switch, but as it's always healthy to have competition, I'd be a customer of both.

Either way handing over the user-facing UX to a major tech company doesn't bode well for the long-term future of Brick and Mortars as Google's brand will only become stronger with consumers who'd be a front for their suppliers that are ruthlessly competing in a war for the lowest price.
Yes, effectively we are experiencing deflation against fiat as the price is going up... and also %80 of all bitcoin has been mined, at the next halving and the one after that the rate of new supply will be cut twice.... which means over the next 8 years, its all going to be about adoption of the ecosystem.

It may turn out that bitcoin is not used for buying daily necessities for awhile, but there are a great number of potential new businesses that will be built on and around bitcoin.

Just like the internet gave us Amazon and Facebook, bitcoin will give us next generation companies that are quite different from the current economy.

"Bitcoin is the internet of money" is really applicable slogan.
Honestly this seems very "meh." Like others have said, I am getting the vibe that Steve (or some other company) is using the name to attract attention to a very unremarkable product.

> Woz U will offer an app to help people understand which field of tech they’re best suited for, so they can set up their curriculum accordingly.

If you follow that link, you can see a very (very) poorly-designed application that is built by a company called Coder for Rent, LLC. This doesn't really invoke a sense of confidence for me - sounds like someone with an idea just reached out to the first app development team they could find. However, looking into this company, they have a website: https://www.coderforrent.com.

Following that link will redirect you to the organization I am guessing is teaming up with Woz for this: Coder Camps, with offices in Redmond and Scottsdale. Steve Wozniak is not listed anywhere on the "Team" page on Coder Camps' website, so this has to be some kind of business partnership. I believe that even more after seeing the page for the Woz U application in the App Store: the first 'screenshot' is his image covering the screen. Below his face is one of his quotes: "Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."

I get the vibe that I am supposed to think all of the smart people will be using Woz U because "Steve co-founded Apple!"

Anyway...back to work.
Like any other theory in science. Nuclear power or glow in the dark toys, usually both, if enough time pass
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It's a shame that hostile foreign governments can do this to us without a strong retaliation. We should be doing the same to their social media platforms, such as VK and OK, but it appears that we are not. Though we are more than capable of equal retaliation.
I was super interested to read how they defined "rich". Is it just networth greater than X? Is someone who saves diligently for 50 years to get X also rich in their definition?

Sadly those details appear to be behind a paywall and it seems what they really wanted to determine was the relationship between greedy attitudes and social economic status although their summary does use the word rich plenty, again, without defining it.
I tried for a fixed number of bitcoin per month, but they, not being fools, didn't go for it, and I get a USD salary converted at the exchange rate on the date of payment. This has worked out quite well in a bull market, though.
Have you looked at Quill https://quilljs.com/? I was looking at text editors yesterday for a new project, where I want to represent images as either custom tags or placeholders that get transformed (in the system the image is known by its storage ID, not a URL) and Quill looked easier to work with than ProseMirror.
The super wealthy proclaiming without citing evidence that the mega wealthy are evil or cheated somehow is a pet peeve of mine, it just seems petty when you put it into a global context.
Just remember that the difference is in circumstances, not humanity: it’s not westerners who suck, its a majority of people. Whoever is on top at the time just had the opportunity to hurt the most below.
Who's we? Not everyone in the western world is ignorant of their actions externalities
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The next line which you left out:

> He told Bloomberg that he has discovered that the same group of 1,600 bots tweeting extremist right-wing posts in the U.S. elections also posted anti-Macron sentiment during the French elections and extremist right-wing content during the German elections this year.

So of those 400k political bots, 1600 were identified as talking about fringe topics.

Not to mention it's not clear how this fits into the bigger picture? What percentage of ALL of Twitter accounts are bots? How many of those bots are active? How many actually have an audience of real people, not just other bots? For ex: 400k fake accounts, with few real followers, out of hundreds of millions of real users talking politics may not seem as significant...

Not saying it's not a 'problem', but it needs to be understood in context, especially considering the constant news coverage and outrage.
Won't competition be both good for Amazon and for consumers? Right now, Amazon is a monopoly (because of Prime and good selection [although still lots of room there for improvement], and I also use Amazon Prime a lot, but a second option would probably improve things, I think.
Unfortunately, this education is no different(or better) than the education you can receive at any of dozens of colleges around the country that teach the exact same thing without the branding hype. Looking through the computer support curriculum, nothing is original or new. It's just the same old thing every other college teaches for the same course. No new spin or intuitive way to teach it.
There are many reasons for regulations to exist, most of them are pretty terrible. There is a typical reaction that if people are bound by some limitation, and some other, then we should create artificial limitations on the latter.

Regulatory capture, increasing costs, increasing tax revenue, all things that are not aligned with the general public. Just by the opportunists on the other side of the table.
Depends on the bill. But yes, you can use a bitcoin backed credit card for a lot of bills, and the biller gets paid in dollars which are converted from the bitcoin balance on the card.

It is a bit of a challenge.
Based on your description, it seems your approach has a number of flaws, which would lead to "closing out" the report of a security hole, which is a catastrophic failure in your approach.

Someone would have to go to the store in question to investigate further, in any case. Whether I offered the cert here publicly or not won't change that. I've given enough indication of a serious security problem that it merits investigation. Someone is trying to insert their own cert on a particular URL I was visiting when using the Apple Store Kahala Mall wifi.

Whoever performs the investigation can easily look into the specifics of the cert itself. Your response was detrimental to the process in addition to coming across as abrasive, and your follow-up simile related to the mechanic is further insulting. I recognize you are an expert in your field but it's not a way to work with colleagues. I offer this criticism with only the best of intentions, as someone who can well-relate to your line of thinking on such matters.
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That seems really exciting. When that occurs I will most likely switch over. Unfortunately you can't quite host it your self yet: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/issues/2
How reliable is that? I mean, how honestly would you answer such a thing?
> I read into the investigations on FB/Twitter and they only found 10k-100k ads/posts bought by Russians on each platform.

Those numbers aren't ads/posts, they're dollars. In September, Facebook confirmed that Russian operatives spent $100,000 on psyops advertising.

Keep in mind that (1) $100,000 is 15-25 million impressions reaching millions of highly-targeted people (Cambridge Analytica is now under investigation by the HPSCI), all amplified by the targets' engagement, and that (2) FB is sharing only 100% confirmed activity discovered during very early, self-investigated findings.
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All the companies mentioned are in business where network effects dominate. They absolutely can't stop growing, because there are no second places.

The problem here is that the playing field dictates the how the game can be played. This is new marketplace and new dynamic without established rules or balance. Governments slap sanctions to Google, Facebook and Amazon from time to time, but they don't do them consistently or solve the real underlying issues.
What a total strawman comment that is.

The free press is necessary for a functioning democracy, Silicon Valley is not.