skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met a gentleman around 20-25 years ago that told me the story of the "$500 hammer". Years ago the press went crazy that the government was overpaying for tools for military projects. This guy gave me "the rest of the story". The cost for tooling is what it should be for a limited run of "special metal" tools. I'm guessing the tool manufacturer had to shutdown their normal operations to supply Skunkworks with all new tools. It would have cost a fortune. Not to mention the secrecy surrounding why some company wanted titanium tools. I don't recall if he mentioned the tools were make of titanium, but he did mention that the chrome bake on normal tools had caused problems on the SR-71 project. I'm glad to see that this little tidbit of information was covered in the article.
Greed. They want the short term profit from it.
Are we looking at the same charts?
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
I seem to remember that in some pools you had to initiate a payout to your wallet through the pool website. Payouts weren't automatic.
“Losing an hour of sleep impacts my work significantly.” - John Carmack
PayPal turned it around because they are a fiat-only company.

Coinbase is a Bitcoin-Fiat company, and fiat is reversible while Bitcoin is irreversible.
But what does Coinbase has to do when people do stuff like this:

http://fortune.com/2017/03/19/irs-bitcoin-lawsuit/

Though the claim was lowered to 20k:

http://fortune.com/2017/07/10/bitcoin-irs-coinbase/

But with BTC prices increasing even this might prove troubling and net more than 14k customers which coinbase reported earlier:
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-irs-update-ed9c966c7747
> If you think the current sitting POTUS is an innocent victim of politics, then I have a bridge to sell you. Uber has used similar PR tactics in the past to deflect/detract from their actions.

I think the point that the great great? grandparent top post was making is that whoever is in charge of dealing with the media at Uber is doing a horrible job.

Also, I am sad that we don't talk about the policies and rather focus on the personal flaws. I think there would be a chance of a compromise if we debated on policy. I mean if we talk about just personality, what makes our Honorable Governor of New Jersey eligible for office? Not a fan of 45 but really I think politics has become too polarized.
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No, my sentence here was about GDAX: «GDAX are the most law-abiding/professional, plus they have high taker fees (~0.25%) which make wash trading expensive/impossible» You somehow replied to me implying fees could be zero or negative on GDAX. They can't.

Bitfinex traded $1 billion, not $1 trillion: https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitfinex/ ($1,168,128,071)
This is almost certainly what actually happened.
Guys, I thought NASA is not supposed to disclose it's military affiliations publicly?

"As reported in PM, NASA is currently the revisiting the supersonic spy plane concept. It recently awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Skunk to test the feasibility of the SR-2, a supersonic drone that would fly almost twice the speed of the Blackbird. The idea is that speed would play the role that stealth once did in beating enemy air defense network. "
well I must have some other setting going on because i have 3 rows of 5 and the other setting is at 24 which both can't be true... 15 vs. 24 total.
I never quite know how to think about them. On the one hand, they’d changed an entire industry in a way that people wanted but was getting serious resistance from the entrenched players. They had to break a lot of rules and go around a lot of people with a whole lot of connections to get where they are and in the process made a lot of enemies.

I expect blowback. I expect negative news. They essentially pulled it off by looking at every day as combat where fighting dirty was rewarded.
I propose a new law, similar to Godwin's.

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Trump approaches 1"
> I propose Donald Trump use the NSA (legally) to steal all of this information to track illegal immigrants who pass between Mexico and the USA border who don't have a passport on file.

> Wow, that's really fucked up, huh?

Well, fucked up that you're picking specifically on the Mexicans, sure (it's not right to ratchet up enforcement on just one nationality or race). And more than a little heavy-handed on enforcement.

Other than the obvious hyperbole, it's enforcing the law. Selective enforcement and non-enforcement of laws that you disagree with isn't a good thing; it allows those laws to stay on the books past their usefulness.
> [ .. ] not deactivatable, and not replaceable ...

Because they don't want people bricking their computers.
Meh, Uber is one of the good guys, compared to other American multinationals.

For starters, Chiquita Bananas intimidated farmers and union leaders with AK 47s and hired militias in Colombia [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Aiding_...
Clinton’s public image and she is so unlikable we got Trump.

Funny and the DNC did everything in their power to make her their candidate over Sanders. I would have voted for him instead of an independent.
It’s extremely easy; there’s an entire concept of themes, and it’s trivial to switch amongst them. Somewhere I’ve got a GitHub-circa-2012 theme for it just to mess with people.
I'm sure you'd love to live in the world of Fahrenheit 451, there they have no 'walls of text' and only big tv screens with colorful images, multiple per room.
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>The only practical use cases for bitcoin as a currency are money laundering, selling drugs, evading capital controls and tax evasion so the least regulated exchanges are going to draw a lot of volume.

I think it's somewhat realistic to envision a future where there is substantial transaction value of legitimate, legal uses. Maybe that future isn't probable, but the idea that the price of bitcoin would ever reach its current price seemed rather unlikely at one point, too.
It is not the fees but anonymity which these exchanges guarantee to a certain level. But with the increasing prices is making it hard for people not to get greedy and do something stupid.
I didn't realize that this was actually a book until digging around a bit more for less garish alternatives: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0918024765
They used his machine for mining over the years but never paid?
Seems like lots of people here are sharing their experience with #emacs. I like it a lot, and think that it would be part of the ideal #workingset for me. However, I have never found a nice 'jump-to-definition that worked for most languages I edit on emacs. I tried ggtags, ctags, pygments. I think I had trouble setting all of these up, and they would not work for many languages I was using. I have not found a good resource on how to get a nice 'jump-to-definition set-up, and did look within the last 6 months. Maybe something new popped up?

Edit: I think I had trouble with Javascript, React and/or Ruby.
how so? why does citizen A get to publsih a book but citizen B does not? Who decides if citizen B's book is political ? Why is citizen A's book against global warming ok but citizen B's book against homeschooling not ok?

Publishing generally goes through a publisher even if that publisher is only Amazon Kindle. Corporations (even 1 person corporations) are involved almost without exception
I disagree that Lyft would not exist; Lyft invented the UberX category. Originally Kalanick complained about Lyft's creative interpretation of the law, before succumbing to internal employee pressure to introduce a competitor. Years after its introduction, Kalanick admitted that he didn't believe in UberX until it demonstrated its success.

That said, almost all of the notable legislative and regulatory battles were conducted and won by Uber.

The wrongful actions by companies do get forgiven eventually, as toxic executives leave (as in the case of the CEO, Legal Officer, and now the CSO), but no public is foolish enough to immediately absolve any company of wrongdoing. Uber will have a reputation for sexual harassment long after it meets or exceeds the standards of other large companies.
I literally settled yesterday for a far too small amount with Turkish Airlines, because my bag got "lost" four weeks ago (Frankfurt-Istanbul-Singapore).

So .. yeah. I'm convinced it was stolen. And the airlines treat you like crap when that happens, basically shrug and do nothing for a month.
Perhaps a more pragmatic solution would be like truth in labeling laws on food cans. I.e. the company collecting your data must explicitly say what it is collecting, in a standardized format specified by the government.

Like if an app is going to transmit your email address book back to headquarters, it must specifically disclose it is doing so, otherwise the app maker is subject to enforcement action.
There's chiselapp.com, but one of fossil's strengths is you don't need that kind of service. Just drop the fossil binary anywhere convenient and off you go.
This is a good reason to buy a machine that is not all Intel (or all anything else)
Sure, but Apple has been researching and applying privacy-preserving techniques like differential privacy. And they do a lot of their machine learning on-device (e.g. face unlock is entirely on-device).

Really the big outlier here is Siri, I'm sure they could make Siri better if they were willing to hoard data, but Apple has demonstrated that they value user privacy much higher than the incremental improvement they'd make with Siri, and violating user privacy would likely hurt their business a lot more than making Siri a bit better would help.
The FCC is about to kill net neutrality. It's time to protest
On top of the command-line user interface being much easier for most people (it’s not as orthogonal as Mercurial, but it’s much more consistent than Git’s), the ability to have bug tracking, code, and wiki in a single executable, where all assets (not just code) synchronize, makes kickstarting a new project with full hosting environment ridiculously simple.
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I never did manage to trace Feynman's story back to a source, but nevertheless, also something Derek Lowe repeatedly covers for biology/chemistry on "In the Pipeline": a lot of the 'cell lines' or 'reagents' used in lab work turn out to just not be what they're supposed to be, either because they never were or they degraded into something else in storage or something. So to give a recent paper he blogged, there's something like 30k papers using "immune system cells" which are actually just HeLas; presumably the cell lines in question got contaminated or swapped somewhere along the way, but that raises the question of what any of those papers mean...

And of course there are similar issues with mice. You have all the different strains which are genetically different, but they'll also be genetically changing over time through drift & selection & mutations, so your Wistar-XXX may not be the Wistar-XXX from 50 years ago. Or mice chow - sure, the label may say it's the same but when was the last time you checked? (Think about that paper about how all sorts of lab animals, supposedly fed constant diets and under constant controlled environments, keep getting fatter over the past century. Something is changing; what? Genetics? Food composition? Micronutrients? Lab infections? Microbiomes? Measurement tools themselves?)
Sometimes I think what real estate agents can't say goes too far.

https://realestate.usnews.com/real-estate/articles/what-your...

The three that stand out are that a real estate agent can't mention crime rates, school ratings, or that a house may not be wheelchair accessible - even if the buyer asks.
The tripping block that always gets me out of the emacs flow is integrating org-mode with things my co-workers use to communicate (lately that's and Asana, Jira, and Quip, tomorrow who knows, it's hard for me to dictate choice of issue trackers or wiki based on what integrates with my admittedly nutso setup).

Even if I were to get everything working, then if I were to ever switch jobs suddenly I'm back at square one again.

Emacs and org-mode are perfect, _if_ you don't have to collaborate with anybody.
You may or may not want to remove your information, especially if you change phones. Someone getting your phone number could charge rides to your account if you don't unlink your credit card information.

It's also good hygiene to delete accounts. I don't typically do it, but when a company offers an easy delete button, I won't refuse.
81% — that is a very precise number.

Folks should be using short lived aws tokens to avoid the possibility of having tokens in source control: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentia...
The first sentence of the article explains this:

>> "Mouse experiments with the popular club drug ketamine may be skewed by the sex of the researcher performing them, a study suggests."

A persons gender identity disorder is psychological and as they're still biologically female I doubt it would matter.
I want this conversation to keep going.

I only have anecdotal data, from personal experience. I have encountered _one_ instance of false accusation of sexual harassment in which the accuser was out to take down the accused. High-school aged students. If the accused had not had an audio recording that contradicted the accuser's repeated story, the accused may well have been expelled from school.

But..

I have honestly lost count of the number of incidents in which the accuser was willing to suffer the consequences of making such an accusation, while also dealing with the trauma of harassment and assault. About fifteen of those.

Age 16-24 is hard for everyone. Learning to negotiate boundaries, I have seen the resilience of the kids these days, the work they put into thier social matrix, and the positive effect of open discussion regarding appropriate sexual behavior.

A consistent pattern of bad behavior by people who have some power over their victims -- even after direct confrontation, after the message that such behavior is Not OK -- well, that is in fact pathological.
I think Spacemacs (which is an integrated emacs + evil + a whole lot more) is probably the best upgrade path for a vi/vim user. I even got one of the fellows at the office to upgrade from vim using it!
Objectively not true, because people go from not having the condition to having it over a period of time. Unless you're contending that they always had it but went from not experiencing it to experiencing it after an especially loud concert or something like that?
AWS News Blog
Via twitter

> One way to make sure you feel constantly behind is to pull in the AWS blog announcements via RSS into your startup’s Slack.

https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/933153078030696448
I'm from the US and would love to get that service.

Fellow Americans, does it exist?
Yes. Surprised to see this is only half the way up the page.

Data breaches wouldn't be the issue they are if banks were liable when they were fooled. This is definitely Don Quixote windmill territory though, the banks have a well-funded lobby.
That won't solve the problem, because there are plenty of good reasons for people to share information with companies that they don't want to share with everyone. In the case of the Equifax breach, people shared personal information with their lenders; do you think they're going to stop doing that if they're informed?

See also my reply to @pishpash below.
I wanted to display a Twitter feed on my static site without using the hard to style and tracking script riddled default Twitter timeline widget but Twitter only allows getting a JSON feed of that data with OAuth so I made a Lambda function which runs once every half hour and caches the Twitter timeline on S3 which I can then use a simple AJAX request to retrieve. The code is here: https://github.com/eberkund/tweet-reader-lambda
Most "average people" I know (admittedly on the other side of the world) have some name recognition for Tesla the company (they make expensive cars and batteries right?) and would probably struggle to tell you who elon musk is, let alone have an opinion on him. The tech bubble has thick walls sometimes...
Troy, I've been "Pwned on 21 breached sites and found 4 pastes" — this doesn't even include the multiple SSN breaches I've had from Blue Cross and Equifax.

Who has been held accountable for all of this? me. I've spent my time and effort protecting my data because these 21 sites couldn't. When can we start holding these companies accountable for our data? Why aren't there significant consequences here?
I'm from South Dakota, where pheasants are plentiful. I have seen zillions of them in cornfields, not a single one in a tree.

Then again, we didn't have many trees....
10 figure campaign. Total spending on Hillary Clinton 2016, at all levels and by all sources, was at least $1.7 billion. They spent $1.2 billion just trying to defeat Trump and half a billion dollars versus Sanders in the primary.
In the same order of magnitude as Git. The only DVCS I’ve seen handle this well is Mercurial, and then only when you’re using all the Facebook plugins (like remotefilelog) that effectively re-centralize it. (This is also the same conceptual direction Microsoft’s going with their Git VFS; I just don’t think they’re as far along yet.)

Honestly, there are times Subversion’s a fine option. If your repo is 24GB, you may be in one those times.
> CACert is a weird example because their model was completely at odds with how everybody else (yes now including Let's Encrypt) does things.

Well, CACert insisted on validating people but it turns out that it's not really necessary to know your customer to issue DV certs according to Baseline Requirements. Let's encrypt understood it and just did a minimal required job to be accepted (it's still a lot of work).

Instead of verifying people I'd gladly see X.509 replaced with OpenPGP w.r.t. trust model so that I could see who trusts who and why. OpenPGP has a mode of hierarchical trust with trust signatures, additionally they can be limited to a domain, that could be used to give people power to issue their own certificates for their own domains.
I use fossil to host personal projects, both code and a few text documents.

- The command line UI is much, much nicer. Things Just Work™ as you'd expect, no scouring stackoverflow involved.

- Built-in wiki and issue tracker that both work really well.

- Zero setup & compiles fine on everything from Haiku to QNX.

- The web UI works well with JavaScript disabled. (GitHub works alright, at least better than most webshit, but not quite as well as fossil)

- Managing it is really easy. Your repository is a single-file SQLite database—including code, wiki, issues, everything. You can even put the repo in dropbox or bittorrent sync or something and access it anywhere.

A lot of these really just boil down to "it's really simple to manage", which is exactly what I want for personal projects.
> is an alt-right meme and shout-out to Milo Yiannopoulos

Wait, since when? The way it is phrased, and often the discussion it prompts, is certainly transphobic/homophobic, but any context I've seen it in (which hasn't been for a good few years) has been totally divorced from the alt-right. Did I miss it getting picked up by those groups at some point?
Most of my life is figuring out how to get people who've made a whole bunch of stuff on ROS a way to migrate that stuff, and a platform to migrate it to, when they get to a point where all that cobbled together R&D work needs to turn into something safety-critical.
Are these strategies actually effective? I want to believe this will help, though wondering if we’re better off pitching in to fund a lobbying campaign like MegaCorps do.
No. I have fast cellular internet but pay $10/GB, and I consider that a pretty good deal (total for me + wife is $45/mo, including cellular and data; in Portland, OR). Your 4G internet is cheaper than most people's wired internet here in the US.
> What I'm actually saying is that SV is NOT different than anywhere else.

And I'm saying you're wrong. SV is different in the extent to which people pursue joint success rewarded by equity. (Go look at the AngelList job listings versus job listings anywhere else if you don't believe me.) It is also different in the extent of its economic success. This is not coincidental, and neither is the SV bias against ostentatious displays of wealth.

> what this has to do with a majority owner not being able to spend proceeds because there exists a minority owner

Because in the cases mentioned a founder (who is often not the majority owner by the time you get to later rounds) is cashing out ahead of everybody else. It's not like the employees and investors are getting buckets of cash. Just high-living founders.

Especially when the company is not even profitable, this sends a terrible signal. If someone has built a profitable company and rewarded investors and employees proportionally to how they've helped the founder, that's one thing. But when the founder is just pocketing cash that could be instead used to help the company succeed, that's different. It makes it very clear that the founder is looking out for himself first.
There is a historical context to why the fair housing act was instituted. For example, I am a minority that lives in a county that was infamous for being "whites only" just 30 years ago.
If their chargeback rate was as high as you said it is, they would be kicked off of the acquiring networks (visa, mc) and be prevented from opening merchant accounts.
He has lived alone on an island. No one else lives there. Not "he has had literally zero human contact."
You've got your history wrong. Lyft actually launched their ride sharing service before UberX. So don't take credit for Lyft's existence.
Have you ever worked a construction or labor job? I don't recall ever having to act in a servile way.

Service jobs on the other hand were the most humiliating experiences of my life. We were expected to take harsh abuse from customers while issuing apologies.
Jonathan Blow on Success and Ethics in Software Development
I use 1Password for 2FA, but this is pretty awesome!
No, that's an ancient 4chan meme (source: haven't been there for years).
It was a witty remark and not unsolicited. I'm wondering whether you've been digging through his profile just now, or you keep a list of people guilty of phrases like "I don't like my speech being dictated"?
He also gets a lot of heat in leftist circles for his anti-union tactics & rhetoric.
>spray it to induce rage or hate for example

no need for provocteurs at pro^H^H^H riots anymore!
That's effectively what the European General Data Protection Regulation covers.

The good news for European citizens is that global organizations are accountable for safeguarding their data. The good news for global citizens is that European organizations are accountable for protecting their data too.

The gap? Non EU custodians of non EU citizens' personal data.

That's a big gap!

We need a Global Data Protection Accord.
There are specific laws against housing discrimination and targeting that don't apply to other products.