skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To anyone that has kept track of geopolitical news across the last 20 years, it is obvious that no one in Russia gets rich without the approval of Kremlin. The fact that Yuri Milner is walking the earth is sufficient evidence that he's friendly with the Kremlin. No one who managed to rise to the rank of CEO would misunderstand the unstated implication that a request from an associate of Yuri Milner is a request that is at least done with the approval of the Russian government, so in that case, just the same amount of digging would be done as with Tencent.
What corrupt shit? What specific action did the DNC do that caused Bernie to lose?
Oh, so edgy. I bet you'll howl the minute you think your property rights are being infringed, though.
Russia hasn't been a positive influence on anything since Shostakovich and Yuri Gagarin.
>they don’t actually stand for anything.

I've met lots of young women who adore Hillary and would beg to differ. The woman is a feminist icon.
> You are suggesting that the internals (source code? general algorithms? product design documents?) of the Facebook advertising and news feed systems were sent to the Kremlin via someone who sits on the board requesting them. That's not how due diligence works.

Have you conducted early-stage due diligence? I have. We signed an NDA and got to review source, plans, blueprints; spoke with engineers; jockeyed with management on what it should prioritize, what it should not; made introductions; et cetera. Board members get a lot of latitude at young companies.
Why is GitHub happy to provide free hosting for proprietary software? Ungit is no longer free software in either the libre or gratis sense.
I know Trump voters, the majority of whom don't like Trump at all.

Their reasoning: "Why delay the inevitable? How else to wake up the country but to elect a disaster? As things get worse we're ready as we'll ever be."

(FYI: I'm in Michigan where enough of us held back our Clinton vote to send a message that we need a progressive non-corporatist. Margin of victory for Trump was smaller than empty presidential sections. It's over in Michigan for the DNC.)
So, if you knew how to make money doing x and genuinely wanted to share that info, how would you do so effectively without being perceived as a scam artist?
Thanks. Basically I want the sturdy laptop backpack you got from HP 10 years ago with a clever way to pack clothes and ideally waterproof bottom (rubber/plastic) so that I don't worry when having it sit on random floors at airports or train stations.

Having a subdivision of the main compartment bigger than 2 is also important. Laptop, papers, cloth, food maybe.

I'm in Germany and looking for a shop nearby where they have a diverse selection of bags to inspect. I'm kinda tired of ordering bags and having had to send them all back. Amazon is threatening a penalty for returning too often, so there's that :).

First world problems, right?
Hillary won like every southern state, the Bernie folks are living in fantasy land if they think the DNC could control that outcome.
> The fact that Yuri Milner is walking the earth is sufficient evidence that he's friendly with the Kremlin

You're moving goalposts. Nobody is worried about someone being friendly with the Kremlin. Acting at their behest, however, is new and troubling.

(I agree that this should have been obvious. Unfortunately, when dollars start dancing people tend to rationalize.)
Indeed, which is why it has probably skated under the radar for this long. I imagine this company’s success will eventually be its downfall in that the second when Walmart and Amazon see how much money is being made over this kind of arbitrage and that kind of money becomes significant they will quash it like a fly on the wall.
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Harder brain game you'll ever play
Apples and Oranges. We're talking about changing the interface. Did you watch the video segment?
If we were physicists, I'd be tempted to mention "normalization" here.

Ask your favorite well-known professor how many proofs of P=NP, the Riemann hypothesis, or whatever they get per week. Sure, they're all Time-Cube level crazy, but most off the wall theories are, too.
They had their lives stolen before that - they were already slaves by the time the Western slave traders bought them from their local, African slave owners.
I'm not an American.

FWIW I would have voted Democrat both times.

But blaming new media for the losses is a huge, disingenuous cop out.

Looking next time, at how tough a third term is to get might work better. Making sure that the candidate has few ties to the previous, or both previous administrations from the same party might help more.

Tyler Cowen has a good article about it on Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-01/facebook-...
I've been telling people for ages now that the slow erosion of copyleft mindshare in favor of permissive licensing is going to bring about a return of the bad old days of proprietary software licensing. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but this move doesn't bode well.
Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles (2007)
I think the parent commenter was trying to say that rights only exist as a productive concept when other people agree with them.

You can argue that certain rights are fundamental, but it doesn’t mean anything if most people disagree with you. Whether or not rights are “fundamental” (i.e. exist outside of an enforcement structure) not a useful distinction, because it’s meaningless - whether or not you get to exercise that right has nothing to do with your claim being correct, it has to do with other people agreeing and sanctioning your behavior.

Like most normative claims, personal rights do not really exist coherently if you don’t first define them in the context of a relationship. This is demonstrably the case because the idea of a right would be redundant or meaningless if it were not for an adversary threatening that right in the first place.
Are you an AI? If so, try this on for size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
I know good developers that had meaning financial gain in some if the DST transactions listed in the OP. It was positive for them and our industry in a very real way.
Likely. They’ll probably stick some ML or data science person on it at Walmart Labs who ends up doing better at it than CamelCamelCamel because it’s his/her full time job and because they have a PhD in statistics or some similar field. Also because Walmart has near unlimited money to throw at these kinds of problems.
I’m part of group one. I have two kids. Putting them in the car to go bargain shopping sounds awful.

Being able to order online and have it magically show up later that day or the next is worth the markup.
Sure, but aren't we forgetting that Russia is like China in that over a certain size of business you are in no way able to operate unless you are in agreement or cozy (more business) with the Kremlin? This is in stark contrast to the US where it's no problem for a company to operate HQ in Oklahoma and loudly oppose the current DC government. I mean, if we assume Milner wasn't backed and planted by the Kremlin for a moment, then one could consider it impossible for Milner to be untied to Kremlin if based primarily in Moscow, no?
I would love to continue producing the rest of my life, without concern for licenses and business. Unfortunately I am running out of savings and will not be able to spend even 20% of my time producing. So I am in support of finding some way of getting a living wage for the software I lovingly produce for free.
> That you have to pay for it means their sustainability is not tied to abusing their users.

Modern capitalism means taking the money _and_ abusing the users, unless the users leaving from the abuse actually ends up reducing profits.
>Yet somehow many of us approve when the victims are wealthy and higher status

Of course we do. What does, exactly, the level of wealth and status we are talking about entail?

Owners and executives of a large multinational firm can wield more than enough power to influence governments. Some of these people of wealth and status are the governments. (The names revealed in the Panama papers toppled the government of Iceland.)

That's at least one order of magnitude different power dynamics than in case of your regular person charged with robbery or DUI. (Also, we might view the case of hacker revealing conversations of people charged with DUIs if the conversations constitute evidence about that particular part of machinery of justice system not to be working as intended.)
The USSR loved to use communist slogans but the implementation was pure autocracy.
Tied to, and acting at the behest of, are night and day. One allows you to presume they're acting in their own financial interests, by and large, just like every other investor. The other merits caution.

Your larger point, that we should have been more cautious, stands. We should have figured this out. But dollars danced, and even the best of us started rationalizing [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143894
Yes. Not now, but soon.
Yes, and now you are moving the goalposts:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/facebook-takes-that-200-mi...

Facebook was not a young company when it got the DST investment, and DST didn't get a board seat.
Of course, in hindsight you "only" have to calculate the Levehnstein distance between any product name and _all other_ product names on the store. That scales well. In order to close one single avenue for fraudulent advertisement. Maybe it's a big one, and maybe the cost is recouped through improved customer relations. Maybe.

And maybe they implement this, and calculate hundreds of millions (billions?) of Levehnstein distances every day, but the next day someone publishes the same app but with a germanized name ("Was ist App Update") and fools a couple'o hundred thousand germans. Now the solution is obvious, run the names through Google Translate for ALL languages and calculate the respective levehnstein distances! I'ts foolproof! Shame on you google for not doing it already! Simply irresponsible.
I haven't read that, but it likely explains the depth of his new show, Master of None. It's really good and in many episodes explores relationship issues in the modern age.
This argument falls apart when you extend it a little bit further.

Suppose that same public defender got his client off, and in their last conversation his client tells him "thanks! I'm going to go rob a bank." Now that public defender would be both legally and ethically obligated to report said crime.

Why? Because the default state is this - if you know of a crime, you are obligated to report it. The public defender example is the exception we carved out because we as a society believe it's required for a fair trial. Not so for money laundering.
GP made no such call to extralegal action. Don't make false allegations like that please.
I'd be interested in hearing from Silicon Valley and YC companies' teams about how they feel knowing that they've been taking dirty money from the Kremlin, having representatives even sit on their boards.

Was it worth it? C'mon guys, don't hold back now. What's a few murdered dissidents between friends?
I turned my investment property spreadsheet into an Angular 4 web app:

https://gocashflowapp.com

It lets you run cashflow calculation on the go, and provides numeric keyboard since I hate typing in numbers on the full alphanumeric one.

Launched 2 weeks ago and tweaking adwords campaign. I plan on turning it into a Progressive Web App, then add persistence using AWS Lambda and RDS.
Meaningless insofar as that goes, but being fairly clever is necessary to become a physician.
Here's his landing page: https://ose.teachable.com/p/how-to-make-your-first-1-000-sel...

Your call on whether it's a genuine desire to share his success.
99% of Russian money is oligarchs money. Either stop taking any or stop making so much fuzz about it. If NYT stock was as dynamic as FB's Milner would have bought a lot of it too
Use this screen to find out if Paypal is auth'd to do payments without asking
Hmm. Must have made sensitive Go programmers cry. Go is a boring language, and it isn't as good at concurrency as other, better designed languages. I'm sorry, but that is a fact.
That in no way answers my question.
> Societies need to take care of their citizens and ensure they receive, if nothing else, fair treatment under law and approximately equal opportunity.

I'm not sure what you mean by "approximately equal opportunity", since the circumstances of life are so different it seems delusional to me to hope for equal opportunities for everyone.

But I do agree on the concept of fair treatment under law, and I believe it's a fundamental basis for the notion of justice.

I just don't believe poverty necessarily results from any unfair treatment, and that as such its prevention or mitigation is not society's duty.
According to James Hansen, we had only four years left in 2009.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jan/18/obama-cl...

According to Al Gore, we had only ten years left in 2006.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...

According to the World Wildlife Fund we had only five years left in 2007.

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/climate-change-five-years-lef...

More failed "only x years left" predictions can easily be found with a bit of Googling.
There is a big difference between looking up to somebody and idolising him/her.

Looking up to somebody means that you admire them for their character and/or achievements. "Honour to whom honour is due." In a further step, they might become a role model - meaning that you take them as a personal example because you want to achieve similar things in life. This is in line with Newton's "If I have seen far, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Their example inspires and guides you in your own efforts.

Idolising starts when you admire somebody so much that you fail to see them as human. You refuse to admit to their weaknesses and failures. And instead of seeking inspiration from them for living your own life, you attempt to relive theirs. They have become a god to you - hence the term, "idol".
The Relational Model regards all entities as "first class citizens" (2011)
40% in 2-3 years is unlikely, but still happens. Small town + business taking off can quickly dry up all available housing.

I suspect if you look around say the Tesla Gigafactory, local housing prices had a massive spike at some point.
Male Mammoths Died in ‘Silly Ways’ More Often Than Females, Study Finds
As a base line, this is my mental model for suburban living: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_South_Carolina

Less crime in absolute maybe, but it's a toss up as to crime per-captia. Driving being viable is just a twisted way of saying driving is required; a strong con for many people including myself (and eats away at all of those real estate savings when you've got car payments and insurance). You just buy online and ship for most large items; rent a van for everything else. Lack of walking is another con; there's a reason the south sports 40% obesity rates.

The special thing about "city food" is the diversity. Small populations can't support a plurality of niche restaurants and vendors.

Being "away from civilization" I'll admit is subjective, but I don't think at all disingenuous. In the city we have touring bands, brand new stage productions, top of the line art museums, screenings of foreign films, a thriving music scene, and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to meet and learn from people from all over the world. Giving that up for an HOA and yard work seems like a raw deal.
I've seen this "get a better accountant" argument posted on HN quite a bit. But, aren't liberals outraged about the tax loopholes for the "weathly"? We shouldn't need the loopholes, just reduce the rates.
Facebook doesn’t rule anything. Nonsense hyperbole.

I do think that Google’s search results provide a potent lense. Primarily, if a result isn’t on the first page of Google’s search result, then it essentially doesn’t exist. That said, Google also doesn’t rule the world.
The fact that the full url is used to import packages make it impossible to fork a repository.

Once you forked it, you have to change all the imports across the repo, and then it's kinda either very hard to make Pull Requests, or pull the new commits from the original repo.

This is one thing I really dislike about go dependencies.

If you have a solution for this, let me know, I would be very interested to know more about it.

But overall, I love go. I use it all the time anyway.
The thing is, in total war the military uses all resources—people, money, ideas. Without the World Wars, who knows how technology would've progresses on it's own—since we can't compare it's disingenuous to say it's only because of these wars.
It’s not just “an office building”, it’s a 71 story skyscraper. Even setting aside its highly desirable location a $1M price makes no sense.

The thing is, though, that the only source I can find for the $1M purchase price is Trump’s own mouth, while bragging about its real value (hundreds of millions), and we know he lies and exaggerates all the time.
How are you going to persuade large vendors to accept your microbonds? It's an interesting take, but we've had competitive currencies in the past and they have their own problems. I'd like to persuaded of this, links are fine too.
>Poverty is not and should never be an excuse for crime.

If I'm starving to death and you're hogging the bread, I'm taking it from you. The law is not morality. At some point (I don't think we're there yet today, but we're heading in that direction) I think crime - stealing in particular - is more excusable when the rich have stacked the deck.
The "it's too complicated for the average user" is most of the "other reasons" I was referring to. Pi-Hole is far more streamlined (and largely reduces to "dnsmasq plus a lot of blocked domains").

My point was that if you're going the blockfile route, you can punch specific holes.
Enough economies of scale to make this kind of business pretty much unviable? Maybe. I’m pretty sure you can still buy car kits from car kit companies that are more expensive than a good Honda because hobbyists enjoy building cars from “scratch”. It does decrease the market value of the proposition sitgnificantly though if you are only focused on hobbyists.
> Facebook was not a young company when it got the DST investment, and DST didn't get a board seat

When did I claim this? Not every investment is troubling, though I expect Facebook's counsel will be reviewing what advice, requests, introductions, et cetera Milner and his team made over the years.
Not only that but, I don't know about Walmart specifically, but retailers tend to ban high volume resellers.
He bought it for 1/8th of the price it sold for two years earlier. During those two years, the US economy was on an upswing.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/business/40-wall-street-is...

And the building looks like this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-trump-40-wall-street...

It's a shady price, and a shady building, because he now rents it out to crooks like himself. (See Bloomberg piece.)

In the future, do your own research. It's just a Google away.

I bring up your Facebook comment because this is the second time you've come down on the side of the Kremlin and the conman they helped plant in the White House. It's an interesting pattern.

Edit: Responding to your comment below due to limits on nested comments on HN.

40 Wall is a well known center of criminal activity.

"Since Donald Trump took over 40 Wall St. in 1995, prosecutors have filed criminal charges against at least 29 people connected to 12 alleged scams tied to the building. Nine other firms have faced serious regulatory claims. Authorities prevailed in most but not all of the cases."

Trump also housed Trump University there, as well as Trump Mortgage, which shuttered the year before the 2008 crash. Trump paid $25 million to settle charges of fraud against Trump U.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-university-sett...

This isn't the only Trump property associated with large-scale crime. Trump's Taj Mahal casino was fined a record amount in 2015 for violations of anti-money laundering regulations, because it claimed to have lost records of all transactions for years.

http://fortune.com/2015/02/11/trump-taj-mahal-casino-settles...

Trump has effectively led and profited from an international money-laundering syndicate for years. He is the leader of an organized crime family. He became president of the US with the help of dirty money and dirty tricks. Much coming from Russia.
The quote:

"You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

—The Third Man (1949)
Journal declarations of independence
On a related note, I tried face ID with my identical twin’s iphone X, and sure enough it lets me in pretty much every time without any trickery with the PIN. It’s made me quite uncomfortable with the security it offers as we aren’t so identical as to be mistaken frequently, yet the phone unlocks almost every time...
The investment money came from dictators and their allies/cronies—money that they obtained illegally. Then they invest it here where they are able to legitimize/launder the money, reap the rewards of investing in companies they shouldn’t be allowed to (since they screw over foreign investors like Bill Browder), and then it puts Facebook and Twitter into a conflict of interest.

No wonder Facebook and Twitter didn’t stop Russia’s influence during the elections and offered RT ad space... It’s the same reason Fox News is always screaming about Islam and jihad but carefully tiptoes around Saudi’s Arabia because one of their biggest investors after the Murdoch’s is a Saudi Prince.

This is how democracy fails. It’s like hitting a boulder with a hammer. The first ten thousand times not much happens, but eventually it collapses all at once.

America has allowed itself to be manipulated through political divisions, politicization of facts and science, cultures wars, dividing us by race (encouraged by Trump’s actions), campaign finance reform failures, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and our Supreme Court selling us all out and allowing corporations (including foreign corporations) to spend unlimited amounts of money in our elections. We are destroying ourselves and allowing this to happen because big oil, the Christian Y’all Qaeda, and racists have formed an alliance on the right to refuse to acknowledge reality and have then the right into a cult ideology. I hope this is a cultural bottom, but it seems like things will just continue to get worse.
Slowloris: The DoS attack you can do from your Raspberry Pi
Precisely this message. The issue is that there is a strong incentive for capitalists to behave in a certain way due to their material conditions, capital being truly international requires those with international capital interests. The capitalists (or non-capitalists for that matter) do not see Russian, American, Japanese etc., they see a representative of a certain commodity or class of commodities. This is commodity fetishism, in which money acquires a supernatural magical quality within the circuit of capital.
No need to nationalize the uranium (I am quite skeptical that would reduce the "massive overhead of bureaucracy" you mention), but other than that your plan would indeed solve the problem (to the extent it is a problem).

The problem is that the people behind this don't actually want to solve the problem. They just want to use it as an excuse for a power grab.