skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not trying to defend the idea, but the domain will expire at whatever point the registrant doesn't fund renewal anyway. Is that potentially arbitrary sunset date "better" by virtue of being more distant? If the authors care to let the sites exist yet prefer to abandon stewardship now, they should transfer ownership now and to someone who cares enough to encrypt as needed.
Isn't tether the one that screwed up? They are the ones who got stolen from, why do other exchanges have to bend over backwards and issue updates?

If the attacker is moving fast enough, exchanges probably can't even respond in time. That shouldn't mean that they lose money. If tether reserves the right to delist coins at any time without much notice, why would you ever consider that a safe asset to accept?
Here's some more context:

Tether was originally setup as RealCoin. It originally had a clear bank account relationship with a Taiwanese bank. It had about $30mm. Then the bank cut them off.

Since then they've been floating without any announced banking relationship and they also changed their terms of service. Over the same time period they made a partnership with BitFinex and their supposed AUM has gone up over 10x.

No one really knows how much of that corresponds to actual USD or if anyone can actually withdraw. A famous twitter account (https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed) points out every day the ostensible discrepancies between the supposed AUM and public amounts.

I'm generally a huge fan of the goal of Tether (a stable USD backed cryptocurrency), but the proof is in the pudding (i.e the reserves) and your access to it, and both of these are rather questionable.

Full disclosure: I know and am friends with some of the current Tether team and was recruited for RealCoin in the early stages of the project. They are working on a hard problem (asset-backed cryptocurrency on the way that gets the most traction in the market at present, not necessarily the way that inspires the most confidence.
> The Alphabet chief, who has been referred to by Hillary Clinton as a “longtime friend,” added that the experience of “the last year”

They don't even pretend to be unbiased. "Hillary is my friend and she refuses to acknowledge she lost due to her own hubris. Instead blames Russia, so I am going along with her here".

> showed that audiences could not be trusted to distinguish fake and real news for themselves.

"The people don't seem to be swallowing our propaganda for some reason. The Manufacturing Consent machine has broken down a bit. Please stand by while tweak our algorithms to ensure they are force fed the proper version of truth".

To be more serious, RT is propaganda and a branch of the Russian government just like Fox New is a branch of Republican party. What is interesting is the other media (traditional TV and print news) and now the tech companies have also dropped the pretense.

Well at least things are bit more clear. Nobody is pretending anymore. That in itself is a step forward as well.
Many people have no choice in their broadband provider[1]--of those that do, their choices are often between corporations that also have significant interest in TV and cable TV (even moreso if the AT&T/Time Warner deal goes through).

Without net neutrality and with effective monopolies or duopolies in many high speed markets, these companies would have both the ability and the direct incentive to limit or restrict access to any form of competition--it would be bad business for them NOT to do everything they can to shut down Netflix, Hulu, et al and redirect people to their own distribution platforms.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...
They will, because in many places they are monopolists. If the law doesn't restrict them, the user has already lost.
This comment is in such perfect harmony with https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

Small mercies that Python community does not speak this.
I’ve tried this before and have mixed feelings about it.

1. Speed-listening certainly increases the number of words I hear, but does it actually increase the amount of ideas I absorb?

2. To what degree does speed-listening impact my ability to engage fully in normal-speed human conversations?

(Also, do some podcast producers speed up their recordings and edit out silences before publishing? For example, I suspect a16z does this with their podcasts.)
Meh I don’t consider it bad. It’s in FreeBSD. You want it? Run FreeBSD. Waiting for Linux to implement their “version” of capsicum, poorly, Might be a while. Plus you have other great tech like CloudABI in FreeBSD as well which makes it even more compelling.
And thus, Eric Schmidt applies the same patronizing wisdom used by the Chinese government when deciding that some search results are simply too disturbing to be viewed.

Schmidt is an authoritarian first and a technologist second. I really wish he were not so influential, and I'm frankly shocked that Larry and Sergey don't see this (or that they see it and are pleased about it).
Could https be used to track persons on the internet using some phase of the protocol? Perhaps the "random" number generated after a handshake is not so random and actually identifies you as a user?

Sure, your communications are encrypted by what people perceive as an infallible algorithm, and all serious websites with forms force you to use it, but at what cost?
Datasette is a great idea. Just wish the SQL parser was more strict. The following produce results which aren't exactly expected:

select breed, count(*) from [Adelaide-City-Council-dog-registrations-2013]
order by count(*) desc

select breed, count(*) from [Adelaide-City-Council-dog-registrations-2013]
group by breed, order by count(*) desc

The well formed, unsurprising query is:

select breed, count(*) from [Adelaide-City-Council-dog-registrations-2013]
group by breed order by count(*) desc
Its the attitude that closed source is OK that is the problem.
Post-script: Is this good news for Bitcoin? Oh this is great news for Bitcoin. If you don't believe Bitfinex's $600 million in liabilities are worth a copper shilling, the only option for getting your value out of Bitfinex is to swap your liability for Bitcoin, which drives up the price of Bitcoin at the margin.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but this seems to be an argument for BTC/USD going up on Bitfinex -- but not necessarily elsewhere. Is the market failing to price in the fact that "USD on account at Bitfinex" has a value which is not identical to that of "USD in a regulated US bank account"?
Windows also came with a media player. Should that be illegal, too?
Deranking is sensible when the site is explicitly part of a campaign to manipulate its visibility though, isn't it? Aren't you drawing comparisons too quickly?
In a bit of full circle irony, RT is where you can find Larry King today https://www.rt.com/shows/larry-king-now/
It all depends on how liquid those assets are. "Paper" billionaire or millionaire typically refers to situations where someone is a millionaire but wouldn't be able to come up with a million dollars in funds in the short term (in less than a week, say).

Paper ones might be able to take a haircut on their assets for additional liquidity, but that haircut might be enough to make them not a millionaire.
> What is interesting is the other media (traditional TV and print news) and now the tech companies have also dropped the pretense.

It is a relief that it's happened during the era when we can be sure that it was due to human judgment and not due to some sort of AI quirk.
I think a good benchmark is how you feel about the spending afterwards. There are many stories about people having regrets after spending a lot on addictive Candy Crush type games and swearing off them, but still relapsing to spend again and again.

I think the poster girl from the slides of 40-year old californian MMO player is artificially nice, because $7.5k for a typical Californian isn't much and the social aspect makes you think there's a human connection involved. But this is just the good-for-pr end of the whale spectrum.

(Of course the most artificial part is that she's getting paid by the industry)
Looking for tech blogs, I want to read your posts
I created a site for sharing links to articles of different topics. I did it because I am fan of technology and programming. The site started to grow fast in other topics except technology. Can you share some of your posts? I will read them all. The site is landesy.com
Touché. But the Omni Core Layer mentioned in the announcement implements them.
The browser providers have clearly made that decision for the vast majority of users: default safety trumps information access.

We've yet to see if users will either (A) follow the on-screen, flashing red prompts, or (B) be trained to click through the warning screens due to their sheer prevalence.

Even in case B, it's a non-negligible probability that browser vendors respond by disallowing click-through. Just another step towards (re-)making the web into a nice, safe walled garden.
>and the whole Russian influence on the election has so many holes to be a proven credible threat

I'm not sure the impact so much matters as the intent. Even if it wasn't really a big threat, and even if Trump would've won without any sort of interference (which probably is the case, but it is and will be impossible to truly know), the fact that they did it at all shows they're trying to game the system, partly by gaming Google. Google is now going to make it harder to game.

It is a bad precedent to de-rank results in this way, but I think this is a special circumstance. I agree that a better approach would be to provide warnings and context rather than merely trying to push things down.
Publicly elected officials on what level? The FCC? What powers are we giving them?

When I hear a Senator Dianne Feinstein scolding
a panel of tech giants, I don't hear a benevolent leader with our best interests at heart, I hear someone infantalizing me for their own gain.

If the topic is data retention, let's target everyone. No one should be safe unless they can justify it under scrutiny & demonstrate security.

If the topic is "fake news", then its a battle of definitions, & regulation is unconstitutional on any government level--no matter how you spin it.
To be fair, your original comment did not mention a disorder, and a reasonable person could assume a lack of a disorder from the comment alone.
Yep, you'd expect to eventually see a sustained divergence to price in an elevated level of counterparty risk (like we saw back at Mt. Gox). In the short run, though, arbitrage bots gonna arbitrage.
I certainly edit out those silences from my podcast.

Often when I'm listening back, those pauses are just too long, especially when you're the only one talking.

In regards to speed-listening, I just don't think it's a good idea. If you're rushing through anything (or at least feeling rushed), more often than not, you're not truly enjoying it.
Set this to your homepage: https://codepen.io/Yakudoo/full/YXxmYR/

And set your browser to open new tabs with your homepage.

Seriously. The gentle smile of playing with this silly little low-res lion can break you out of that loop sometimes.

Does not work if you tend to just keep on reusing the same tab of course.
RT does not have a “pro-Russian slant”, RT is a literal propaganda outlet for the Kremlin, disingenuously passing itself off as a news agency.
> Is this hard to make reliable? Do other Debian contributors have these problems?

My impression is that othrr Debian contributors do one of three things:

1. Use the 'bts' utility, which creates an email message for you in the right format, which adds something resembling client-side validation (with the usual races and uncertainties of client-side validation), and last I checked still depends on your local system being able to send mail as your actual email account

2. Use Debian for so long that the BTS syntax is second nature (this is almost where I am)

3. Not interact with the BTS, at least other than submitting bugs via the 'reportbug' utility

GitHub is miles ahead in usability by people who aren't already familiar with the system.
Aside from the accusations made by US intelligence agencies there has not been any data presented that links the Russian government with the stuff you mention. Surely there has been lots of mischief on both sides, but it's absurd to think that anything Russia did altered the outcome of the election.

If you look into the details the evidence is not there. The reason Russia is being blamed is because the US has lost the chess game in the middle east with Russia and will need to do something more aggressive to fight back, but can't do that unless Americans start hating Russians again. Let's not buy into the hype.
I remember seeing separate interviews with Richard Stallman, Steve Wozniak, and Andy Müller-Maguhn on RT about five years ago. Also, some early pieces delving into Bitcoin before that.

Has RT changed substantially in the last five years? Does it no longer interview people who are experts in their field?
The author mistakes increasing concurrent request as being some sort of proxy for concurrent users. Once you have maximized rps or maximized cpu, increasing concurrent just artificially hurts your average latency.

Max RPS equals number of users you can serve per second. Concurrency should just be tweaked until you eliminate the network latency of your test framework.
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I agree, ideally artifacts should be stored and cached, e.g. in a stored container or as a tarball.

Other than a local npm mirror, what do you think is the best way to store artifacts for new builds? Vendoring code is not a bad solution if it permits new builds to occur even in the event of a package manager outage. I see vendoring code as the simplest solution for small companies who don't want the management overhead of running a local mirror of package managers.

That said, I'm very much open to learning a new technique for handling this problem.
please cite five articles that illustrate your point.
We decided to analyze this scenario in detail, but the project was postponed at the time [1987] due to the lack of high-quality, high-resolution gridded weather data covering April-May 1986 for driving the dispersion model. When in 2016 the high-resolution regional reanalysis for Europe was published and extended back in time to 1980, it became possible for us to perform good-quality dispersion modeling.

Wow.
This is a term of art, defined in the relevant statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/4104

> Any United States person against whom a foreign judgment is entered on the basis of the content of any writing, utterance, or other speech by that person that has been published, may bring an action in district court, under section 2201(a), for a declaration that the foreign judgment is repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Also: https://i.imgur.com/qLcjUrh.jpg
My cousin turned me on to the Jaybirds X2. He's now switching over to the Jabras - they're good because they're waterproof and if you're athletic. Once the airpods solve the problem of sweat and lots of movement (I'm a runner), then I'll definitely buy them. When I did have them, I was most impressed by the microphone which STILL no one has been able to get the best isolation on the microphone, but the Airpods are the best so far.
You were more dismissive of one source over another so I brought it into question. I am very familiar with Vice's reporting for the past few years and while they cover a wide range of topics and have an appealing style of presenting their documented footage they politically lean very left. I find their reporting on average to be less credible in many instances than state-reported media because state-reported media is often bland and less opinionated and there's less of attempt to blatantly sway my opinion through a click-bait title and with skewed information and a moralizing tone.
Why did you link Schmidt with Al Franken?
We're ignoring the fact that there is an active malicious campaign by elements fueled by the Russian government in order to artificially inflate the visibility of news articles that the Russian government wants people to see. Deranking these articles in response is totally justifiable.
Another problem is that it's difficult to measure to the standards that we would like. You can't blind, so it's difficult to separate the placebo effect. Results take time to manifest, so you have long-running studies with problems with drop-out and survivorship bias.
Can you share some post at landesy.com?
If your design allows insecure setups without users understanding the risks in full, I think that's on the providers and not the user. If the user understands the risks fully, then it's on the user.

I think we are way far away from users fully understanding the risks, and we're still mostly dealing with people not realizing they're vulnerable. So I put this primarily on the provider.
I agree it's unlikely Russia altered the outcome of the election; Trump likely would've won with or without their influence. But intent matters more than results here. If a country tries to affect your country's election through deceit, even if they're not really that successful, it still deserves a response.

I'm not sure what "if you look into the details the evidence is not there" is supposed to mean but in terms of intentions, the Russian government did intend to help Trump win (or at least help Clinton lose) and did intend to achieve this goal in part through spreading misleading information. The evidence is pretty damning.
No, I didn’t mean to take it in an anti-intellectual direction, but the whole article is an ode to vaccination and the danger when everyone else has gotten the vaccine and you didn’t using folks that didn’t have the opportunity to be vaccinated and now live on a thread neglected by those who still should care. This isn’t an engineering article, it’s a warning. I’m not sure the put down response was warranted.
Possibly, although that depends on Australian law, may be impractical, and will be of limited effectiveness.
They are not fake, they have all of them. People from the US just can't access them anymore. Tether is the workaround so they can.

To add to the excellent summary of patio11:

The other side of the coin is that more and more exchanges are using Tether (USDT) as the only thing pegged to the FIAT world in any way (value wise), not having to deal with actual dollars and banks makes the legal side of running an exchange a lot easier and cheaper. So a lot of exchanges are supporting USDT for a reason way bigger than simply providing a trading marketplace for them. Think about exchanges like Bittrex and Poloniex, which volume wise are huge and don't offer any real dollars or euros.
How does starting your tech career in Silicon Valley compare to Seattle?
For ten people, shaving 0.3 seconds per page load would save 3 seconds of their total shared lives from sitting and watching a page load. For a million^ people who load web pages at least once, you technically have created an opportunity to save 0.3 * 1_000_000 = 300_000 seconds of cumulative lifetimes across them, which is 3-4 days of reality.

Practically, I'm not sure how I feel about this metric on the 0.3 second level, but I sure do understand it at the 5 second level. I've stared at useless pages that are stuck on some tracking JS so many times I can't count, so if those stop making me stuck, that's invaluable once and multiply that win by a million.

But that's just time. If you also consider the resources that are needed to execute the page JavaScript, we're probably saving megawatts of power per interval (totaled across all Firefox users) with each small efficiency gain. The changes that are "parallelize all the work" may cost more, less, or same amount of power; the ones that are "use fewer CPU cycles" will definitely cost less power. And so there's a very real theory that we could probably measure how many gigawatt^-hours Quantum has saved the world to date, which appeals to me greatly :)

^ I arbitrarily picked "a million" and "gigawatts". This does not offer any guidance whatsoever on specific or approximate user counts.

EDIT: My UPS says that my entire desk has a load of ~75 watts @ 120V, times a million^ users = 75 megawatts. I haven't the faintest idea how much power it takes to evaluate Javascript inefficiently, but saving 0.3 seconds of any amount of power times a million^ users per page view quickly balloons into reality-impacting figures.
Right now it's just your grocery list. In the future when it's sucked up into the algorithms used by the underwriters of your health insurance and life insurance, and you can't quite figure out why you aren't getting the healthy-eating-disguised-with-some-ambiguous-name discount, maybe your grocery selection is to blame.
Yes but wow is that an order of magnitude harder.
No, it just covers issues that are unflattering to powerful US officials and to the US in general. The regular US press has somehow been conditioned to write lots of stories that are critical of other governments, other countries' infrastructure, etc., but always to carry the torch of American exceptionalism.

Once we realize that American Exceptionalism is among the most evil ideologies of the modern era, it makes sense that other nations would want to offer a competing voice.

RT has not been criticized for the quality of its journalism, only for its source of funding.
http://hopscotchtheglobe.com/why-indians-eat-with-their-hand...
Trevor beat me to it.
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Well, it is "supposedly" backed up by USD.

A whole bunch of people have been questioning whether they ACTUALLY have that money, very recently, and surprise surprise, there just 'happens' to be a hack that happens right now.
Its hard to imagine they don't know about this stuff already.

Generally, they know about it, but they have to work to build a case against these people?
The Blockchain Might Scare the Gig Economy to Death
They're also being subjected to outright manipulative tactics that aim at where they're weakest emotionally and intellectually in order to exploit their resulting behavior.
The men I listed are examples of powerful Americans who are abusers of power. Franken is among them. The US media pretends that senators, presidents, etc., deserve some sort of bizarre deference. They do not, and we'd all be better off if they were assumed to be scoundrels.
Is anyone using letsencrypt using nginx+docker ? How do you take care of the chicken and egg situation when you spawn a nginx docker container - nginx cannot start without a valid certificate and you cannot generate a valid certificate without nginx.

I haven't looked into this for about six months - I just bought a wildcard SSL certificate for 70$ and called it a day.
In the short run, though, arbitrage bots gonna arbitrage.

Don't people who run arbitrage bots usually understand concepts like counterparty risk? Do they not realize that by moving money into Bitfinex they're potentially acquiring a large amount of assets which will end up being devalued?
You just named a very specific thing that I've been wondering how to fortify myself against. Thank you for the succinct endorsement, this is very helpful for me
A Lisp with a Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes Inside
"We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik" - so no, they're not banning the site explicitly.
Also the fact that identified Russian propaganda bots and troll armies have been sighted on numerous occasions disseminating RT articles. You'd be blind not to realize that RT is an important part of their machine.
eh.....I think the dust hasn't really settled yet on franken. also you are just wrong. the russian story is very real and very serious...
Aren't both Google and Crocs owned mostly by the same mutual & index funds, endowments, and retirement accounts?

Yet Crocs still makes far more durable products than Google! ;)
What exactly did Russia do to influence US elections?