skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am sorry, but you are misunderstanding

Quite possibly, I only remember stuff I read a while back and don't know the details.

> he was always a marginal figure across the whole society

I don't disagree that he wasn't marginal, he was. But he wasn't unknown. He advocated violence for self defense. Read "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_bal...

He doesn't say that people should go and commit indiscriminate violence but there is warning that violence might happen if violence against blacks continues. He mentions someone throwing a Molotov cocktail and how unheard of it was for black people to do that. The implication is, this stuff will start spreading fast and quick if the current course continues. There is also an interesting parallel made how the US Army was defeated by guerrilla fighters in Asia, that was a very pertinent remark and appeals to what was on many people's minds at that time.

I think those who were in power certainly knew and were aware of Black Nationalism, Black Panthers, them buying and training to use firearms.

> MLK "won" because he and his allies got the federal government, the establishment media and many liberal Republicans (the convention then) in Congress on his side.

I posit that it happened because there was threat of something like Malcom X was saying happening. I am probably wrong as am only am amateur, you seem to know a bit more about it. So I'd like to hear more on this if you have time or patience.
I don't see why this is a blanket terrible idea - a ban on loans with interest, which are the only sort of loans that are economically rational for the lender, is a moral principle of one of the world's most popular religions (Islam) and used to be a moral principle of another (Christianity) until it was corrupted by capitalism in its lands. So we must at least concede that the idea of a world where loans are forbidden is well within the Overton window.

A world where people don't need loans seems like a pretty good world, honestly. I've been fortunate enough that my parents were able to finance my college education out of their savings, and I rent my apartment because I don't want a big mortgage, and my life is I think better compared to people I know with student loans and mortgages. A world where everyone has the same access to resources that I had is a worthy goal, and if we can fund that by banning loans, seems fine.
The website was down for about 5-10 min for me when logged in, although their homepage was working, and I was able to push changes. The site is now back up for me.
GitHub is up for me. I'm logged in
>There's pretty much nothing that fits this bill.

The OP's assertion was that bitcoin must have some use other than as an investment vehicle if it is to survive long term.

You asked the OP "On what principles do you base this assertion?".

If you arguing that bit coin is useful outside its use as an investment vehicle, and must be so to survive long term, you are agreeing with the OP.

If you arguing that bit coin is useful outside its use as an investment vehicle, but it doesn't have to be to survive long term, you need to provide an example of something that is not useful outside it's value as an investment vehicle that has survived long term.
> I can give a very strong factual basis to peaceful change: Centuries of history, in all the democracies in the world.

Isn't there just as much (if not more) history for e.g. autocracies? Couldn't you make the same argument for autocracies a few centuries ago? How is the mere existence of democratic history convincing of anything?

> No other means, including violent revolution, has achieved more positive change for humanity.

Wasn't it violent revolution that led to many of these democracies in the first place?

And how in the world am I supposed to argue with abstract claims like that? If you'll claim no other means has achieved better, I'll just claim that, actually, other means have achieved better. I'm sure you're convinced now, right?
Poster Child for the Era.
MLK Jr. benefited hugely from Malcolm X being the bad cop to his good cop. Exactly what the second commentator is talking about.

All the social gains made by social democracies, the nordics, Canada, FDR, etc. were made under the backdrop of a real threat of bloody communist revolution.
That was my thought in response to "Can anyone make money on the moon?".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15782634

I'd call it "Moonbucks".
S.A. had their revolts against colonial rule as well as the US.
This kind of stuff is pretty tricky. If you only account for average human suffering, not only do you not account for happiness but you fall into the trap of concluding that it's best to kill all people suffering.
Off the top of my head I'd guess it's $30M for the rocket launch itself:

- SpaceX charges $60M per launch.

- Elon said fuel is $200k-$300k when explaining the value of reusability.

- majority of cost is probably engine, followed by fairing, which Elon has said is expensive enough to want to reuse.

Keep in mind that there're a lot of operational and R&D expenses, and the launches have to cover that too, so I assume a healthy margin on each launch.
How rationally impaired do you have to be before society throws up their hands and stops you from being taken advantage of?

OK, you've convinced me. When do we make our move on the gambling halls? Before we shutter the taverns and the churches, or afterward?
Just 4 comments in 2hrs? Hallmark of a mature technology.
Dan Rather, one of the last anchors doing his own reporting, got fired after reporting a bogus GWB story. A staffer was somewhat responsible for airing it, but that was the price of letting the staffer vet the story. I could probably think of some others that did make the news, but overall you're right. Typically The misinformation is front page and the retraction is weeks later, if at al, and as far from prominent as they can make it.
This is using the wrong tool to solve the problem. Could it work? Sure. Is it a good solution? No.
Actually, the Romans put taxation up for bid, tax farming. Isn't that a libertarian IRS? The winning bidder bid the highest rate and then was granted the right to extract it from the province.

Cicero made his legal bones prosecuting Verres who had plundered Sicily. Yes, it was a province but Sicilians were also Roman citizens and it was a Roman province. Verres actually crucified Sicilians at the beach facing Rome. Not a nice guy.
Maybe they're using all this money to also do stock buybacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA
Well, let's be real you can hardly criticize someone without pathologizing it.

In the 1970s, people were worried about kids reading comic books and garbage novels.

In the 1980s-1990s, people were worried about kids playing too many video games or watching too much tv.

Now we're worried about internet addiction as though kids get itchy and cold without their fix. We can't just say "don't spend 8 hours/day watching TV. Go outside" - we have to use the language of healthcare.
ARM's already been in most of those places, in nearly reverse order of your timeline. It started as a desktop CPU, was then in a PDA (Newton), game console (3DO) and phone (Nokia) - all of them by 1997.
I have a reasonably powerful desktop computer (i7 3770, 12GB ram) and tumblr seems to be the only site capable of consistently crashing firefox and chrome every 30 minutes with only a couple of tabs open. I have no idea how they managed that.
FreeBSD is definitely the best OS to put on the G5. I have a dual core 2.3 GHz model with 8GB of RAM running perfectly on a ZFS installation.
> This week he began accepting investor funds, hoping to raise $220 million

Do we have any proof that Ashutoush has actually raised anything?
I prefer the RBAC and YAML policies Conjur provides... https://github.com/cyberark/conjur
But now it's less of a team sport and more about the driver. That can be good or bad, depending on what drew you to motor sports and F1 in the first place.

Merc-AMG's team make things look easy, but I guess that's because the audience just isn't liking the technical expertise required to consistently perform like they have.

F1 cars ultimately have to answer to physics, but F1 games are up to the designers and the game engine, which may not accurately represent everything (I trust they are trying, I have to believe people working on F1 2017 also love F1 the sport). Ultimately though they have to make tradeoffs because they can't fully represent physics, so that may mean advantages through game code. Maybe damage doesn't get applied to the car as it should or maybe there's network issues with collision. Smarter people than I could probably find some exploits.

Significant coverage also goes to drivers outside of F1 races, as they are multi-millionaires with planes and expensive cars. They probably aren't signing eSports drivers for multi-million dollar contracts.

I'm totally casual at F1 2017 though. I don't even have a wheel, so this opinion probably counts as much as my opinion on F1 aero design. :)
YouTube includes, among other things, livestreaming.
Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google [video]
Yeah, everyone could see that whole internet thing would never work out.
I'm not USian but yes. My country was part of the "coalition of the willing". It was not a proud moment in history.

Geopolitical and economical reality means supporting the US straight into hell.
Wrote a rate limiter in C. It broke when time got adjusted due to day light savings . Didn't take into account negative time delta. It was an ahuh moment when I realized the next day
I wish SpaceX was traded on the stock exchange so I could buy stock in it. I had to settle for buying some TSLA.
Didn't sound like the real race had any except 13th/14th? but I watched a bit of the video and there was tons of excitement and I can't say I've ever cared for F1
Elon seems pretty bent on having SpaceX do regular trips to Mars and back before IPO. I would guess that he will ensure that SpaceX stays within the private company rules so as not to go public until the Mars trips are commonplace.

Also, does this mean that SpaceX could raise funds indefinitely without going public as long as they come from the same source?
> Or go a step further do what nobody has the balls to do: tax wealth

"Nobody?" Other countries manage it.
Part of getting people to pay you is - how easy it is to pay. One of the things I think are exciting is that projects like MetaMask basically integrate cryptocurrencies into your browser, making transaction very easy, safe (as safe as crypto at least) and anonymous, no matter if the entities participating in the transaction are in Yemen or London.
yeah, reCAPTCHA is not CAPTCHA mate. reCAPTCHA isn't even allowed in CN. If you're looking for an international captcha service, peep funcaptcha
Instagram cost 19 billion. You can buy 73 of the worlds largest container ships for that amount of money.
I do not, frankly, care. Regulation should be uniform. If we do not care about Grandma Suzi being swindled by investment peddlers, we should allow people to invest into ICO and buyer beware. If we want to protect Grandma Suzi, we have rules and if a hot shot ICO investor wanna be happen to be hit by those rules so be it.
The $10000000 question... generally speaking, am I safe from a potential drive-by infection if my PC is behind NAT? (Assuming, of course, the router is not infected or vulnerable and my computer is not DMZ)

Or is there some new attack vector that can pierce those machines reliably?
I don't see the urgency in drugging the bottom 10% when they have natural reasons to feel miserable.
It's increasingly common for financially well-off people to marry other financially well-off people, perhaps contributing to income inequality. So, if you both share parenting duties (1-3 hours a day of individual work plus daytime child care, and being flexible with night time duties), it's doable if one of you has a high-paying steady job and the other is taking on more risk. In fact, with marginal tax rates in CA and NY approaching 50% it might actually be more efficient for one spouse to receive compensation through building equity.

Alternatively saving a lot of money before you have kids and living frugally by working in a lower cost metro area or renting outside of SF/Palo Alto can work. It's obviously a risk so you and your family has to be on board.
This is why curved computer monitors make sense, and curved TVs don't (multiple viewers in most?/many cases).
people i know are using it less because of how buggy/slow it has gotten and how hard the basic activity of curating your boards has become. i also now avoid clicking anything related to pinterest because they break the web and make it hard to visit the source website and view their site on mobile. Too many walls around that garden.
AWS announces new PDP-11 instances
AWS has announced new PDP-11 instances. Useful for airlines and Motor Vehicles Departments looking to move to the cloud without upgrading existing infrastructure
And it is an amendment to a previous filing, basically it just re-opened the previous round to allow another $100M in investment at the same terms.

I have seen this done when someone comes along who would really like to invest in your privately held company but the company doesn't want to go through the whole process of evaluation and term negotiations of a new funding round. If your current investors are ok with it, you re-open the previous round (same price per share so only your post money valuation changes) same terms and same rights. If everyone signs off then you collect the money, issue the additional shares and carry on.

At the time (July of this year) they were valued at $21B so $100M is about .5% of the company. I'd probably take that deal if I had $100M to spare and Elon would let me put it into SpaceX :-)
I liked the older term they used to use for "trickle down". They used to call it "horse and sparrow" economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#Critici...

"Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'"

It feels more honest that way.
In accounting, M has long been used as 'thousand'. Therefore, MM was used for million, as it's a thousand thousand.

This is something that I didn't think would be this contentious. It's an old standard.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/181917/mixing-us...
I'll briefly address this having worked on multiple sides of this argument; Your examples were all sorted out pre-NN.
The Skype/GWallet issues are more related to mobile carriers having control over your mobile devices than anything else.
Your carrier controlling your device is not something that would be sorted out by NN, and for the most part "the market" has sorted out a lot of phone control issues.
> Can you show us a comparison of GDP growth rates, before and after wealth taxes were promulgated?

Two hours before saying that, you said:

> ...every time it's been tried anywhere it's been a disaster for the overall economy: capital (and wealthy people) flees.
BMW to bring electric car range to 430 miles
> Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses

Maybe it's more that Facebook thinks it's horrible when people kill themselves, and that if Facebook's tech could help prevent suicide, inaction would be immoral.

Most of us accept some level of State interference in our lives for our own good. Maybe we are going to have to have that discussion about involuntary interventions by corporations, too.
Awesome! I had an account on OSC for some of my graduate research. Fantastic resource.
Vue vs. Reactdingding
The street I live in the East Bay doesn't even have a sidewalk, or a bike lane for that matter.
"...Tumblr is the home of some of the most creative online personas..."

Funny. I thought it was a porn site.
>I don't know if Apple can make enough money on workstations to keep their attention, so maybe those days are gone.

Then they need to partner with hp/Dell/Lenovo/whoever to build the hardware and sell the software to run on it.
A couple of good replies have already been written, but I'll add another, using the new gold-standard often used to advocate censorship: The Russians pushing out disinformation to help Trump win the US election.

Millions of Americans weren't instantly converted from open-border advocates to wanting to build a Wall and limit immigration, thus supporting Trump, because of a few Facebook ads.

Propaganda doesn't work in a vacuum. You already need an actual issue to be its catalyst. And censoring anyone who speaks of it, even if it is in an exaggerated way, is probably better in the long run than letting it fester until it really blows up with much more force.

I would same thing for this new idea of hate speech that some people prefer to ban.
> Mr. Wessler said prosecutors should be required to obtain a warrant when they seek more than 24 hours’ worth of location data.

When even the defense is saying that you don't actually need a warrant to search phone GPS records, only to conduct long-term nonspecific espionage then the goal-posts have moved so far beyond anything recognizable as rights and into a land of bizarre technicalities with arbitrary bright-lines in the sand completely devoid of the intented meaning of the bill of rights. Here's the only question they should be asking: did you get a warrant? No? Then fuck off.

If you want to submit evidence to convict someone in a court of law, you have to first demonstrate to an unbiased third party that you have the right to gather that evidence. The meaning of that amendment was plain to common people in 1791 and it means the same thing in 2017. Warrant first then you can use it as evidence.
Instagram cost $1B, Whatsapp was $19B. In hindsight, Instagram was a steal at that valuation too.
It did implode but there was google, eBay, yahoo, amazon that emerged.
This $100 million is a follow-on to a $350mm round started this summer, bringing this year's total to $450mm. This puts them up to $1.68 billion in funding, including their $1 billion funding from Google and Fidelity in January 2015. Latest valuation is reportedly $21.5 billion.[0]

A conservative estimate of annual payroll on /r/spacex from this week was $700mm.[1] Each Falcon 9 costs about $62mm, though some of the oldest contracts are for far less and government missions are more (plus Dragon). Cash-flow-wise, payments are broken up over the separate phases of the contract. They have launched 16 rockets this year, 8 last year and 6 the two years before. (Not counting one failure in each 2015 and 2016 — though we know SpaceX earned at least part of its CRS-7 milestone payments by getting off the pad.)

[0] https://equidateinc.com/company/space-exploration-technologi...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7fk828/estimation_o...

[2] http://www.spacexstats.xyz/#section-launchhistory
I stand corrected, I am very interested in this.

my mother in law escaped from Romania under communism and has quite an incredible story. I also had a great opportunity to visit and drive those most of the northern (mostly Hungarian) areas this past spring and thoroughly enjoyed the area, the only time I was able to communicate with a local was in Toroczko (far outside of 'city' areas -- might be butchering spelling) where I heard some sad observations about the state of affairs. absolutely loved my time there though.
TechCrunch's own title is better here. The only "sign of suicide" comes after the fact. Detecting "suicidal posts", as in the original title, is more useful however.
Jellies is a kid-friendly, parent-approved alternative to YouTube Kids
I too have spent a ton of time doing this. It's a product of Rails architecture and the prevailing design philosophies in the Rails community.
It seems like Intel/ARM processors are just needed to launch CUDA kernels these days.
There's loads of casinos though:

https://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/united-states/map

And aren't states mostly the beneficiaries of lotteries? Here the revenue is supposed to go to schools or something.
Techmeme summary: Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Jellies launches on iOS as an ad-free, $5/month video service for kids, which handpicks all of its videos and aims to be a safe alternative to YouTube Kids
What they said in 1999 about Amazon com
Also consider http://0install.net/

Should get a lot more interest IMNHO.
Turnbull's magic-mushroom NBN is slowly unravelling
Give me a low-latency link to a remotely controlled F1, and I can forget about all the drivers... Besides, F1 with the introduction of halo is already alienating its long-time fans, making cars slowly matching the ugliness of current IndyCar chassis, so many fans will seek to escape watching those monstrosities off to e-sports, where they can drive pleasant cars. For me this was the last season I was watching F1 unless they come back with open cockpit. I will watch Roborace once they go live, as those cars simply look stunning and at some point will be much faster than any human-driven cars.
Consumers do suffer when lastmile carriers don't work to find solutions, however the solution is for customers to complain to their provider. The more people who complain the faster it'll get fixed, NN absolutely won't solve that, and to be honest I think it could make it worse.
Yes this is a problem when the notebooks grow, but where do you draw the line, the work flow Jupyter uses is perfect for exploratory coding, but it gets complicated quickly
Techmeme summary: Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: How SSNs plus birthdates can still be leveraged to access tons more data via US FAFSA site, after an IRS tool with a similar flaw was disabled in March
This is really accurate. Keeping people depressed and addicted works for Facebook, in the alcohol industry, food, gambling and so on.

And now a company with extremely powerful AI capabilities want to fine-tune the addiction algorithm to maximize profits.
The money is definitely still there in ads, and growing nicely! As others have pointed out, Google and Facebook have hoovered up the lion's share of the new revenue for themselves, which is arguably starving off the wider ad-supported ecosystem in many ways.
Their journalism generally is very good, certainly better than the majority of British newspapers and tabloids. Their opinion articles, however, range from decent to atrocious - I tend to ignore the 'Comment is Free' section now, unless I'm familiar with a piece's author.
And as someone who, I suspect, would be in the second group as well, I feel like we do the tax increase part way too much, but we don't do the annual bonus part nearly enough.
Chocolatey is riffing on (or an addition too?) Nuget, the package manager for .Net.

Chocolatey Nougat (Nuget) geddit?
Diana can't just "decide to take her profits" at whatever price she'd like. If she wants $1m but Charlie isn't interested, she will have to lower her price until he is. This is how exchanges work, cryptocurrency or otherwise. If a stock falls to zero, do you think that Etrade dips into its own assets to provide an "off ramp" to its customers that weren't able to sell in time?

You're essentially saying that the exchange should artificially prop up the price of bitcoin with its own money during a panic.
NASA's Space Internet: Disruption Tolerant Networking
Governments are political beasts, if they are working correctly they respond to the will of the people, and if the people decide that "something must be done about financial scams" they make laws.

It's how democracies work
The punishment is happening before the punished is deemed guilty.
Haven't F1 been running on all manner of rules to put the driving more on the driver and less on the electronics?
This is a pretty good update from the looks of it. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised by the low votes and comments? I did expect more though.
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