skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a good diagnosis of why Tech companies have such high profit margins IMO. Software is incredibly scalable: once you build a software, you sell it to millions of people, or build a platform that's used by millions of people. Tech is building off the shift of the economy to more automation and less dependence on labor. There's also the thing where entire new markets are being created and Tech companies are the only participants (e.g. rideshare, search etc.).

In most instances reasonable regulations allow for more innovation in the economy by making it easier for smaller companies to compete with big businesses, and to make sure that businesses don't hurt the societies and economies they operate in.

While there are good instances of over regulations, much like the myth of the welfare queen, I think its much overblown, and not an accurate diagnosis for the problems businesses are facing today in America.
There is nothing in the protocol that will prevent anyone from hoarding or buying large amounts of bitcoin because they already have the capital to begin with. Therefore you can think of those people as similar to institutions or the 1%. So bitcoin is just another investment mechanism. That's all. No panacea here, just an over-hyped new technology that helps create profit for the ones who already have money. One that currently is only available to people who have enough resources to risk. The panacea that "bitcoin" was touted as across the web and forums galore, is just utter bs. I see a world of many private blockchain implementations but nothing that solves these censorship and printing money issues you speak of. Since according to popular theory when you print money your currency get devalued, but bitcoin also goes down when a gov say we don't like it or someone decides to start cashing in at a large scale or overhype of an issue or underhype of another. The end result is the same, less value.

But here are your answers:

1) You live and take advantage of many things you might take for granted in a society that has a certain framework that must be maintained by service providers and it is maintained implicitly by the hordes of people on earth, when greed occurs or kinks in the system happen, printing money or not printing money are just tools to deal with issues.

2) Last time i bought something on craigslist, ebay, alibaba, amazon or from Sandy down the street i don't remember any censorship. I could be mistaken though. Maybe i did not think about something. I would like to see an example of this payment censorship you say largely affected your personal life.

Now definitely if you are trying to buy armored tanks, automatic weapons, drugs, women, censored dildos, yeah i could definitely see censorship. I just don't try to buy those things. :)

Don't get mad now, my sense of humor is an acquired taste :)
last time I had a messed up delivery, not that long ago - i did a report on their site, they emailed within an hour and had another one overnighted to me.
As the consequences of an accident are far worse for the cyclists in almost all cases I think the Netherlands' solution is a very reasonable one. So far I only heard a few fanatic car drivers complain about this. I think to understand you actually need to bike on a regular basis.
So far I've ordered twice from Costco, and once from Walgreens, using google express. Both the times my order got 'canceled' with no reason specified. There's no "why?" link/button/reason either.

When I went to Costco and talked to the folks there, they said they don't deliver via Google Express. And I've no idea what went wrong with the Walgreens order, and I don't feel like trying again either.

Google needs to set higher standards for themselves and their business partners if they want to compete with Amazon.
Bloody Hell, that code “snippet” just keeps on giving. Makes me feel a bit better about that tightly coupled ball of mud I barfed out last week. Lol.
> Is there a sequence number or unique request ID that gets used in UDP dns requests that is required in the response to be accepted as a response?

Yes, there is, but it's only 16 bits, so it can be guessed, as was shown a decade ago with the "Kaminsky vulnerability" (giving names to vulnerabilities is not a new thing). A workaround is to also randomize the source port, so the attacker has to guess both the query ID and the source port used for the request. The true fix for the "Kaminsky vulnerability" would be to use DNSSEC, since even if the attacker spoofs the DNS response, they can't spoof the DNSSEC signature.

Yes, this buffer overflow is in code added precisely to protect against an attacker forging DNS responses. Ironic, isn't it?
I... mentioned Nest.
The Portals Project
2014 article by the way.

This is something that's going to change slowly until legislators start rising bikes to work (not holding my breath). It's also something that may get worse - at least currently it's often possible to hear approaching cars due to engine noise. Quieter cars will make it harder for even fully alert riders to avoid approaching vehicles (I'm not implying that it's the riders' responsibility to avoid being hit, but it may be the reality).
Techcrunch - can't serve up page.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/steve-wozniak-announces-te...
you are talking about this as if somebody got into the brain of those undecided voters and surgically forced them to vote one way or the other. It was their decision, made of free will and if a nonsensical ad can sway them, the responsibility is theirs !

at some point human beings have to take responsibility for their own decisions instead of blaming everyone else.
Very nice job, my friend :) I'll recommend our team to take a look.
If you've killed someone using a vehicle you should be held accountable.

Would you use the same argument at a rape trial? People have, and it's utterly disgusting. "Why ruin this young man's life for a mistake," they say.

Being called "accidents" is bullshit. These things often happen for reasons.
Generally accurate though it's possible for one person to generate a lot of noise, and companies can talk a Glassdoor into removing reviews. (Generally on the basis of it pinpointing one individual)
5 things we learned from Waymo’s big self-driving car report
Does this roughly offer the same benefits that the old lisp machines provided?

I've never used one, but have heard people rave about how productive they were on them.
What was your motivation for starting the keto diet?
You know just recently I did my own research in this vein. I looked at the total number of USD in circulation, worldwide. In 1990 it is reported that the number of USD in circulation surpassed 1Trillion. If we make BTC the new "gold standard" to back every single dollar bill in existence, that makes every bitcoin worth about $100. Now, since 1990 was over 17 years ago, if we assume that the figure has perhaps doubled to 2Trillion dollars in circulation (somewhere between 1 and 2 Trillion certainly) then one bitcoin is worth about $50.00 One bitcoin today runs for about $5,700.00

Anyway, just a very interesting thing, because if you divide the total number of dollars by the total number of bitcoins, you get the figures above ($50 - $100 per coin) Which means, using my super simple maths, that bitcoin, as an international bank, is currently performing at 1/10th the cost :)
Have you had any actual problems with these "fly by night" shipping companies? Do "schmoes" not work at Fedex and UPS?
> 1. Cyclist younger then 14? It's the car drivers' fault. In any case. Drivers should expect younger cyclists to behave unexpected.

Do cycles have some sort of tag (like an 'L' sign), which helps identify such cyclists?
Could look more like a Lisp Machine...
"This is not a hard function to write in Haskell. You make it operate on a list of maps, which is what the Clojure one is doing too."

It's harder than you think. Just try it. I believe it's possible to achieve in Haskell, but it requires some rather esoteric type system extensions.

"But you do have to have static typing to make sure those signatures are automatically verified to be coherent."

If you want a guarantee, then yes, but you can get an good approximation of correctness with runtime specs coupled with test generation.
It's easier to kill a cyclist or pedestrian though, without much risk to yourself - maybe a few scratches on your car.

"But officer, he swerved into my lane" and you get a slap on the wrist, because the only other witness is dead.
Samsung Electronics CEO resigns, says company is in “unprecedented crisis”
> Like the article says, "Criminal law punishes bad intentions and bad acts, not traffic accidents.”

To be clear, the defense attorney of someone who killed a person with her car said that, not the author of the article.

I think driving a car with reckless disregard to the safety of others is a bad act. There may be no malice, but it's not behavior that should be accepted in present day society. At best, it's more selfish than is safe to allow in an area with even modest population density. That said, I'm not usually a big fan of punishment and don't care so much about whether people who do it are punished harshly enough.

More important is to keep them from doing it again. Someone who injures or kills another person with a car should, if their negligence was a significant factor, lose their driver's license for some time and have to take active steps to improve their driving ability before getting their license back.
The economy is not everything. It's better people use their money more rationally, rather than buying junk that they don't really need, which then falls apart and poisons our soils and oceans.

Plus it's quite clear to me that people are willing to spend their deflationary currency on the things that they believe in - the whole ICO market demonstrates it.
Accidents happen, so we try to prevent them with rules. If you don't follow those rules, then you are absolutely responsible for accidents. There might not even need to be an accident for a crime, you just need to break the rules, depending on your jurisdiction and which rule you broke.
You're getting the gist of it. Governments and advocates have already shifted away from the term "accident" and instead use the term "collision". The idea is that nothing is truly accidental and causes can always be assessed. Think of the 5 whys. Sometimes a driver is at fault, and since drivers are the ones controlling multiple tons of metal at high speeds any fault there is multiplied by that potentiality. That's my take at least.
This article begs the question: Is it possible to maintain a cultural sense of ethics in any highly profitable corporation? Are there any examples in history of notably ethical corporations that changed the world?
Or in China when tradition says the driver pays the victims hospital expenses or (generally lesser) funeral expenses, some drivers insure it is the latter. I have even seen movies depicting this quandry.
If a single entity owned all BTC produced it would be largely worthless. There would also be no speculative value in it as no one would have any horse in the race. The value of BTC is driven by the network of BTC and its ability to be used in transactions as well as a speculative instrument.

Given that, If your question is altered to somehow own all of it while keeping its value, i'd rather the 100B easily liquidated assets over 10B revenue yoy.
The easiest way forward for a rust kernel is not to start from scratch, but to port Minix3. Minix is an open source micro-kernel somewhat similar to QNX. The kernel itself is on the order of 4000 lines of code. [1]
Though small, Minix has quite a long history, is super-stable and looks like a sweet spot in kernel development.

The kernel could be ported piecemeal while always being able to boot during the transition. Similar to how remacs is slowly porting emacs over to rust [2].

And on top of that, you can use the rump kernel approach to run the device drivers, TCP/IP, etc. from NetBSD. So you immediately get a fully functional OS.

[1] http://www.minix3.org/

[2] https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs
Wouldn't this lead to cycling on streets being outlawed? Should it?
That’s exactly the same as saying “I was just drunk. I didn’t mean to run over that lady.” When the driver deliberately impairs their ability to drive, they assume culpability for any accident that might occur.
I generally will give a firm the benefit of the doubt and discount 1 or 2 bad reviews. When there is a consistent negative theme in the reviews then I trust it completely. I have turned down several interviews because of Glassdoor reviews and have bought up bad reviews during interviews. Everytime the HR person has confirmed that the reviews had truth to them and that they were working on the issue or it was already fixed.
When you make your order, they give a guaranteed delivery date. When they miss that date, they just send another one as fast as possible but still late. What does the guarantee mean?
The term "accident" is outdated and inappropriate. Please use the term "collision".
Friends sometimes let you borrow for free when some trust exists. (My friends let me borrow a lot.)
I am inordinately proud of the fact that I discovered neal stephenson all by myself -- and I read Cryptonomicon at one of those formative ages where it bakes itself into your head at a pretty deep level.

Judging by their business decisions, I have come to believe that a bunch of other would-be Secret Admirers work at some but not all tech companies, and this does inform my choice of services. I bet you $5 there were Tombstone jokes at Apple during the san bernadino fiasco.

edit: and people like Moxie are doing their very best John Cantrell impersonations and I am extremely grateful for this.
This is my biggest annoyance with the traffic act. "Running a red light" and "Running a red light and killing a pedestrian" are the same crime/penalty. I was hit by a car and injured while in a dedicated bike lane and the penalty was $50 for improper turn.

Society gains nothing by punishing any criminal. The punishments are there as deterrents and should be scaled to the risk/severity of the act. Any contact with a pedestrian or cyclist when at fault should carry extremely high punishment given the high risk. Any contact causing injury should carry a higher punishment.

There isn't a flat 0.002% chance. Many drivers drive dangerously and put cyclists/pedestrians lives at risk knowingly and repeatedly. They will continue to do so unless we make a change.
As a cyclist I hate travelling on the main road. Not only do I feel guilty for slowing traffic but all it takes is one inattentive knucklehead to end my life.

Yet, what choice do I have? Sidewalks are obstacle courses of pedestrians, trashbins, bus stops, sign posts, etc. Bicycle lanes are blocked by taxis/uber/lyft, delivery vans, double parked cars.
It is outright illegal to cycle on a sidewalk in many places. Here if you have a wheel diameter more than a foot you can't use the sidewalk. That exception is intended to allow little kids to use the sidewalk without issue.

It's also extremely uncommon for cyclists to hit pedestrians, and even more uncommon for those collisions to lead to a fatality. There's just not enough kinetic energy involved. Joggers are nearly as likely to bowl someone over and kill them.
>Completely made up and fairly meaningless

That's the total value of bitcoin at the moment. How is that made up and meaningless?
That feels like you're working really hard to avoid the ethical question. You have to choose whether to try to shoot the shooter. Police officers face this question far too often, and sometimes as an armchair judge, I disagree with the choice.

Do you have a better framework for pursuing morality? It seems like telling stories, asking questions, and thinking about them are the basis of all moral and ethical teaching, from religion to law school.
There's no way to definitely prove you wrong, and there's no way your presumption can be proven right.

Bitcoin volumes increase month over month, Bitcoin transactions onchain still increase month over month, or at least year over year so far, you can try to extrapolate days destroyed to see how much of the supply moves

But you will never know the purpose behind the transactions.

Payment processors releasing data wouldn't even give a picture of peer to peer purchases happening, and they aren't even releasing data.

People investing in mining cooperatives, mining hardware, and token sales for all manner of organizations, are all part of the picture. And this will be in the billions this year.
You're completely undermining the concept of deterrence. You're imposing a .002% chance of dying on someone else, you incur a .002% chance of jail.

If it were feasible, we'd never put people in jail for risky driving, we'd just have immediate unavoidable small punishments (example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/2...). But there's no way to fine someone $5 every time they pick up that phone in the car, short of a police state.
Not as dangerous as cars.
https://vimeo.com/84443645
In many urban areas at peak times, cyclists are likely traveling faster than other traffic.
how dare these dirty proles touch my precious package
And why you think that someone can make free WiFi hotspot and can't route that both IPs to it's own DNS server?
> I'm no fan of Facebook, but I don't get why they're to blame for Russia's meddling in the election.

Allowing a foreign national to purchase political ads is a crime. If Facebook knew the buyer for these political ads was Russian, they were breaking the law. $100k may seem like a pittance, but it is very unlikely that it constitutes the entirety of Russia's efforts on Facebook.

If there was any deeper collaboration with Russian persons seeking to influence the election there may be other crimes that were broken. This stuff is serious, especially considering the potential impact these efforts may have had.

And judging by how both Facebook and Twitter are soft-pedaling, scrubbing data, and not answering questions, both organizations probably know they're in potential legal hot water.
Do you think politicians pander and offer concessions to people that are motivated to vote?

Or do you think they spend a majority of their time trying to please non-voters and suss out the particular reason they aren't voting?
Cycling on a sidewalk is punishable by 6 months (!!!) in jail in my city.
"Usually, as soon as you get through the first interview, your papers won't matter much"

Unfortunately, getting that first interview can highly depend on those papers.
That's also known as "innocent until proven guilty". Should it rather be the driver's fault to prove that it was an accident instead of intentional? How might one go about proving such a thing?
That is a good point. What's a good LiPo protection circuit look like? Some googling led me to some basics that a protection circuit should have, does this look about right?

- Overcharge protection (prevent charging past the max voltage, probably ~4.2V but intentionally shrinking this window might prolong cell life)

- Short circuit protection (Like, a fuse? Would a PTC one work?)

- Limit charge current (0.5-1C for LiPos, 5-10C for LiCaps, etc)

- Undercharge protection; prevent discharge past a 'low voltage' value and (ideally) permanently disable cell or severely limit charge rate if voltage drops below the minimum safe value.

- (Ideally) Balance voltage between individual cells.
I never, ever once implied anything of the sort.
Some animal rights groups can be quite touchy, I don't think there'd be a lot of forgiving PR if a stranger uses a remote-controlled bot to injure/kill a cat over the Internet.

I never thought this would already be an actual thing, could you give me some links?
Glad to see Woz working on this problem. He has such a legendary reputation in the tech world for his engineering skills but few know of his passion for education. I hope this ends up being a large part of his legacy.
You are so right about all of this! Here are my notes from "the resistance" (distant, muted chuckle) This year, after my fourth experience with ageism in the hiring phase as a candidate, I was disgusted, frustrated, and fed-up. When I contacted an attorney about the outrageous level of age discrimination I recently experienced at an interview, he was skeptical, at first, saying that these cases are very difficult to prove. He asked me for the key facts-- When I told him exactly what happened and some other facts about the job description as it was posted online versus what was told to me about why I was not hired versus who they ended up hiring (a 20-something year old with none of the posted experience supposedly "required" at the job). He asked me if I had written proof of this. I said that sadly, I did. I also had a recording. (Yes, they are that irresponsible about their hiring practices)He said that it was one of the most clear-cut cases of age discrimination that he had heard of in hiring, particularly because I offered every single experience and skill requirement listed in the job posting while the job winner offered none of these.(no, the online posting/position was never changed) He wanted to take it on contingency without hesitation. He did warn me that going after discrimination in any form is best as a last resort (i.e. If I know I'm too old for anyone to ever hire me in tech), because I will be marked as someone who stands up for themselves and no company wants to hire that person. He pointed out that since they were a well-known company in tech I'd face significant blowback and shunning, even if I won, which he felt I would. He also pointed out that the compensation I can get from it is not what it should be. I told him that changing this in our industry is important to me. If more people filed EEOC complaints it might help, but I'm not sure. (FYI, I just turned 47)
Shining shoes in bars on 7th St in Rockford, IL when I was about 9-10 years old. 25¢ per shine (that's pretty much one of the most dangerous places to hang out or live in the US now.)

When I was 14 I moved to Hollywood, CA to live with my father and started learning how to build custom cars. Clients included Elvis Presley, Dick Clark, George Barris, Batman (I helped restore some "Batmobiles" at Barris's shop), and many others you may have heard of. I did that for about 16 years before learning to code. It was actually very good prep for that too. Reading Steve Jobs analogy of software as tools helped a lot with that.
What's even cooler is adding support for human annotations so users can selectively give colorization hints for different parts of the image to customize the output.
Things to consider when migrating to Firebird 3
It is a crime when you do it by purpose, not if it is an accident.

A cyclist could kill a pedestrian as well in an unfortunate accident, should we treat that as a crime?
this is so misguided.

This sums up my feelings exactly https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/918864859537829889

Be circumspect. Cover your tracks. Don't show you're biased. Be biased in private!
Not always, there are cases where the driver did everything right and still an accident happened:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/prozess-gegen-lkw-fahrer...
> Sicker when you realise she was on the phone the entire time.

THAT may be one of the things that starts to make a difference - in the time since that event many states and municipalities have put in much tougher 'distracted driving' laws that may be enforceable in a lot of accidents and which may improve results in civil cases.
Sidewalks are not bike lanes, and are not appropriate for biking on.
The absolute murder count in France is 10 times terrorism figure per year.

The murder rate is less than a third that in the US and twice that in Germany. Are these really levels of threat that people worry about.
It IS a great idea!