skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. With the 'owner' of BTC-e now facing extradition to Russia instead of the US, it appears that the US is rapidly losing control of the world monetary system. BTC-e was back up within a month as WEX, so it appears the US effort had no effect. There is nothing stopping someone from opening and operating a cryptocurrency exchange from a country without an extradition treaty. Even countries with extradition treaties are less keen than ever to extradite to the US, especially with the US facing war crimes charges in international courts. The US has made their position on torture clear. Other countries are concerned that by sending their citizens to a nation complicit in torture, they might face legal penalties or lawsuits themselves.

It's ironic, since the US gloated heavily when they took over the BTC-e domain. They thought that this would be another cut and dry Liberty Reserve, but this time they're caught in an international tug of war.
This is part of what I really like about California's top-two primary system - in a dominant-party system like we have, we end up in a situation where two candidates of the dominant party have to compete on ideology and policy, and the members of the minority party still get an equal say.

With regards to Alabama, the general vibe I've gotten is that the very large evangelical bloc in the state is conflicted - trapped between very strongly held policy preferences (especially on abortion and LGBT rights) and their views on personal morality. Moore has seen a large slide in the polls, including among evangelicals, but there are a lot that are willing to hold their noses and disbelieve for their preferred policies.

See this very interesting write-up: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-values-that-values-...
> That said, all the pieces are there to add a modern web UI with very little effort.

Any idea how hard to just inject some css?
In addition to contacting your gov representatives, apply economic pressure on the companies who seek to profit from this bass-ackwards legislation, namely Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.

If you are a Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T subscriber contact your respective provider and tell them you will cancel your service (or if under contract, not renew) if they continue to support the FCC's plan. Find friends and family who might also be current customers and ask them to file complaints with customer service.

Appealing to heads and hearts is certainly worthy, but when we grab them by the financial balls we will have their undivided attention.
It’s weird, I’ve been using Lyft as my only ride-sharing service for almost a year, but still catch myself saying “I’ll Uber over there in a bit” all the time. It’s definitely because saying “I’ll get a Lyft” is indistinguishable from “I’ll get a lift” and I was to disambiguate that I’m talking about a ride-sharing service, but I wonder how many other people do this and if (in several years at least) their trademark is in danger.
I believe the parent commenter is referring to other exchanges that trade tether.
This is a very legitimate question if the corporate death penalty is on the table. Maybe a better option would be C-level or VP and above have to go?
Document Fight Slows Inquiry of Affirmative Action at Harvard
Doesn't PCI work well in general? It has a large amount of overhead but we see very few credit card breaches from within the "PCI vault," while we see many Social Security number breaches and email/password combinations.

For example, the Target credit card breach occurred because malware intercepted the credit card information at the Point of Sale appliances before the information was encrypted and transmitted.

Prison time seems extreme, but Congress should should absolutely establish statutory fines (for companies) for breaches of PII. Then any company officer can save the company money by simply spending more on prevention because it will lower breach insurance premiums.
Glad you like it. It's in good hands indeed.
It would be a ballsy play of limited utility. For one, you're talking about Apple risking epic legal liability if they got caught. For the other, they'd be doing so for limited upside. They can only sell ads on the premise that they don't have all this inside information on their users.
Google is an immoral and sick company, if you work for the gestspo machine you should be ashamed of yourself no excuses.
Imagine having to fork over extra cash to your ISP in order to access your Bitcoin wallet. So much for radical decentralization.
By this logic, we should encourage murder, since it's always been around and sudden, violent loss of life can create jobs.
I'm curious why GraphQL isn't an option - if you're already submitting the request as a POST, what's preventing you from using GraphQL?
No, because YC doesn't take government subsidies to act as a dumb pipe. They also aren't a de-facto monopoly in any way, shape, or form.

All of the incumbent ISPs are charged with stewardship of public resources to one extent or another, if only because they require right-of-way access. The fact that many Americans have a grand total of one decent broadband provider to choose from is another factor that has to be considered, but often isn't.

Basically, net neutrality isn't a gift to the public, it's half of a longstanding bargain. The Trump administration proposes to unilaterally alter that bargain on behalf of corporate lobbyists who do not have consumers' interests in mind.
The journalist speculated about "evidence that the files were actually deleted" referring to the "hackers" deleting their copies of the extracted data.

Really? Evidence of deletion?
"But Eratosthenes knew that this wasn’t the case where he was, in Alexandria. Sure, the Sun came closer to being directly overhead at Noon on the Summer Solstice in Alexandria than at any other time during the year, but vertical objects still cast shadows.

And — like any good scientist — Eratosthenes did the experiment. By measuring the length of the shadow cast by a vertical stick during the solstice noon, he could figure out what angle the Sun made with the vertical direction at Alexandria.

And the answer he got was one-fiftieth of a circle, or 7.2 degrees. But at this time, in Syene, the angle the Sun was making with an identical vertical stick was zero degrees! What could be causing this? In perhaps a stroke of genius, Eratosthenes realized that the Sun’s rays could all be parallel, and that the Earth could be curved!

If he could then figure out the distance from Alexandria to Syene, since he knew the angular difference between the two cities, he could figure out the circumference of the Earth! If only Eratosthenes had a grad student, he could have sent one to make the trip, and measure the distance!

Instead, he was forced to rely on the reported distance between the two cities. The most “precise” measurement of his day?

Travel-by-camel. (So I can understand criticisms of his accuracy.) Nevertheless, his results were that the distance between Syene and Alexandria were 5,000 stadia. The question, of course, is how big is a stadium? The answer depends, of course, on whether Eratosthenes, a Greek living in Egypt, was using an Attic stadium or an Egyptian stadium, something still debated among historians. An Attic stadium was used more commonly, and is 185 meters in modern terms. Using this value, one gets a circumference of the Earth of 46,620 kilometers, a number that’s only about 16% bigger than the actual value.

However, an Egyptian stadium is 157.5 meters, and it’s conceivable that’s what Eratosthenes meant. In that case, we get a value of 39,375 kilometers, which is off by less than 2% from the modern value of 40,041 km!

Regardless of what the actual values were, Eratosthenes went on to become the world’s first geographer, inventing the concepts of latitude and longitude that we still use today, and constructed the first models and maps based on a spherical Earth.

Although many things were “lost” during the subsequent millenium, neither the idea of a spherical Earth nor the rough knowledge of the Earth’s circumference were one of them. In fact, anyone can perform this same experiment today with two locations at the same longitude, and with simultaneous measurements of shadow lengths, you too can measure the circumference of the Earth! Not bad, considering that the first direct, photographic evidence of the Earth’s curvature would not arrive until 1946!"

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/21/who-disco...
> looking at you, UA switching

Agreed, I plan to remove this. See:
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/771#issuecomment-2...
Wow thanks.
I had no idea how much my tinnitus bothered me until I listened to that and felt the relief. It felt like water was being drained from my ears!
Aren't the actions egregious on a case by case basis? Do we actually know what he's been accused of? It sounds like he's a little bit overly friendly...and that does not push somebody into a binary 0 for me. Dude makes good movies.
Assume management isn't willing to make it part of the stack at this time, and that's the end of the discussion.
You should memorize the numbers of a few emergency contacts numbers. What if your phone and wallet got stolen. How would you get home?
Not so surprising! It gave away the entire OS free just because it can use the OS and applications living on top of it to mine people's personal data!
450,000 people make the iPhone in Shenzhen, China. This does not include the parts that Foxconn itself can’t make. Although the 450k number is from a couple of years ago, it could conceivably be less now due to robotics and automation.

Then you have everything else made in Shenzhen, so we are talking millions more jobs.

The US imports 86% of its goods, or about $2 trillion every year. We’re the LARGEST IMPORTER in the world.

The fact that companies in other countries can treat their workers terribly is the real reason jobs won’t comeback (along with the fact that we’re missing about 30 years worth of manufacturing know-how and capabilities). Joseph Stiglitz, economic advisor to Hillary Clinton, made a great sort of anti-free trade proposal in his book “Rewriting the Rules”. His plan was to block or highly tariff imports for every country that won’t adhere to strict worker safety and benefits reforms. That is a great solution which offers rewards to the left and right and should be looked more into.
It's rewriting history and the present to claim that Robert E Lee is being stripped from any history books. That's just bullshit. So's the idea that rewriting history is worse than fighting for slavery.
There is sensitive data that isn't a password, and can't be changed.
Maybe it's just me, could "private GitHub coding site" have meant a private GitHub repo with GitHub pages turned on?

If that were the case, there would be no authentication whatsoever to access the closed-source site; the hacker would have just needed to guess the right url.
Tether is a large fraction of their volume and likely deposits as well. If all that money vanished overnight their customers would be extremely upset. Also, without Tether they could no longer pretend to have USD support. So many people are fooled by "USDT" into thinking that they have dollars.

Could Bittrex push all the blame onto Tether and just keep operating as if nothing happened? I don't think this would work very well. At the very least this would suddenly point a ton of law enforcement scrutiny in Bittrex's direction which might end the unlicensed money transmitter party over there.
I read things that say you should be able to tell that the horizon dips at each end when you're at 35,000 feet above average sea level, but I can't eyeball it there and tell there's bend. I can at 50,000 feet.
I can’t imagine this article will produce an interesting discussion. The article is entirely vague, and addresses the issues in only the broadest of platitudes, without even a single concrete example. The whole article could be more concisely written as “Some founders act in ways I morally questionable, and I don’t like it.” Not exactly fertile ground for debate.
Bitmvoin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Global Director Inside Sales
GoDaddy has an option to “mute the music” when you call in thank goodness. Nothing worse than being on hold for 10 minutes and can’t do anything because the music destroys any concentration potential you might have.
"One standard I use is GPS. If a GPS distracted us in physical space in the ways that other technologies distract us in informational space, no one would keep using that GPS."

Wow, that's a good way to bring the issue to light! How many times have I gone to the internet to look something up (Amazon, perhaps) and got distracted by other things? Although they are a big player in this space, this is why I really like google's homepage compared to (ugh) yahoo or MSN. Nothing trying to distract my attention from why I came there in the first place (initially anyway)
CosmicWatch: muon detector project for university students and schools
He seems to be a horrible person who’s done heinous things, but he’s not accused of being a pedophile (except on Twitter). Words have actual meanings, and using ones like pedophile outside their proper meaning reduces their value and impact.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/roy-moore-is-not-a-p...
Bread is fungible, construction workers (or any kind of employee or contractor) much less so.
> people don't actually care. It's just virtue signaling.

"Virtue signaling" is an annoying, low-effort way of dismissing something. Try harder. You haven't even provided any evidence. Here's an alternative proposal: People like doing things that they believe will make the world a better place, within their money/time/inconvenience budget, in ways that are limited by their attention. They're human - they have limited attention, limited capacity for simultaneously optimizing hundreds of metrics, and many competing demands that they're trying to satisfy, so they're not going to be perfectly consistent.

No, one person uninstalling Uber is not a massive blow against evil. But many people uninstalling it has been enough to send a pretty powerful signal that -- in conjunction with a lot of concurrent social and legal factors -- is causing Uber to do a pretty solid about-face.

(And it's not seconds, because depending on where you are, Uber may have many more drivers than Lyft -- people travel, after all, so even if Lyft is equal in your home market, it's not equal everywhere. You're also losing the prospect of alternating apps when one or the other is in surge pricing. If you're a heavy user of ride-sharing services, uninstalling Uber imposes both a time and monetary cost.)

Kudos to the GP and others for uninstalling Uber. And for every other step they've taken to try to improve the world by their own actions.

Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

(In his writings, a wise Italian
says that the better is the enemy of good.)

-- Voltaire

Don't let the pursuit of perfection stop you from doing anything that matters.
You're eliding the critical issue of consent. There are plenty of people who want to have sex with rockstars. There's no issue with that.
I believe this is a good idea.

I don't have money to buy expensive domains and designs, but I hope some people will.
The controversy surrounding BlockStream is fairly well known, but what is the connection between them and Coindesk? I've not been following that side of things.
I am very dubious that could happen, for two reasons.

One that the big centalizers have too much political influence, at least in the US, and let's not forget places like China and Russia where the governments to control the web.

But even if you passed some strong regulations, the centralizers would likely keep coming up with new innovations that would break the spirit of the laws.
Nope, they don't know. My non-tech friends are all using Uber / UberEats with no clue about the company, and the CEO. They just see an easy to use app to get what they want quickly.
(In the US,) You generally can't fire someone from the military, at least not without a lot of effort and paperwork.
Even less complicated -- Simply never touch people like this in work settings, period. Don't even ask, just don't do it.

The line between acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior at work is obvious.
Serious question: why? I mean, maybe as a really, really lazy hack if you've got free azure credits and don't ever plan on actually supporting Azure in your codebase. But that seems like a very, very corner case. Would anyone ever actually do this for something production? Why wouldn't you just write native azure support, it's not THAT difficult.
There is nothing in the biography about the Byzantine Empire at all, they're talking about the benefits of learning Greek play is the native Greek. And you're still missing the point that these were twelfth century writings, the Byzantine Empire they write of is not the one of Al-Farabi.

At no point in this tedious discussion have I said his writing was only preserved in the Caliphate, nor that he was ever "forgotten." I've made it very clear his ideas were ignored outside of Islamic philosophy, and it is contact with that philosophy that led to the it's influence in Christian philosophy. From my first post on this subject,

"I can own a book my entire life, it doesn't make me an expert on it and people I interact with won't gain an interest in it."

Good for you. Personally I find the whole "knowledge is divine insight" thing to be rubbish, but I can see why it would appeal to theistic philosophy.
IMHO the big problem is new/delete, which C++ many programmers treat as close to 0-cost - in the kernel you have to worry about interrupts, SMP, real-time issues and priority inversions caused having your code hang in ISRs trying to alloc memory - all that nice STL code, string code, etc etc it's full of new/deletes, it can't live in the kernel

C programmers: you're not off the hook - malloc/free are just as bad, which is why the kernel has it's own context appropriate memory allocaters.

And of course don't forget that malloc/free (and I assume new/delete) are not safe to be used inside user space signal handlers
I'm not sure everyone yearns to live alone 100% of the time, but I think everyone at some stage would like to have a place where they can spend time alone, and in peace.

After months on end of my neighbors slamming their car doors at all hours of the night, I'd quite like to spend a few weeks/months somewhere quiet, and preferably without cars (and their doors).
Well, if you want, you can live quite better than most immigrants at $90k+, even in the expensive coastal cities, it's just that you're setting yourself up for having to work throughout your 30s and 40s and maybe your 50s. A lot of people are fine with that. But if people took frugality more seriously, they could plan for retirement by their 40s or earlier. Working 3 years out West gives you several years to spend back home with your family without having to work during that time.

Sounds like you want to redistribute the economic gains? Good luck with that, we know where that leads. Economic inequality is fine if people are also raised out of poverty, like over a billion people have been since 1990 while inequality has raised. Inequality can be a good sign. (http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html)

At the very least, America can't have it both ways, being an economic power house and evenly redistributing the fruits internally. You might have a shot if you require Americans roll back into a farming economy where half the population farms for each other and the other half, but you'll have to kill a lot of people and take and salt a lot of land and forbid a lot of machinery to get it done. I don't think that's why Trump got elected. The voters don't tend to want handouts, they just want certain existing handouts to other parties to go away so they can effectively compete again in certain domains. Dissatisfaction with the economy in their area is a big component, sure, and Trump actually cares about making the country's economy better, and he's already done good things to help some areas out, but neither he nor anyone else will ever make e.g. all the state capitals equally economically viable with similar growth rates. Physics is against them, math is against them, human nature is against them, morality is against them. SV and other tech hubs will pass one day, too, just like the ghost towns you can visit all over the western states albeit probably not so dramatically, but that'll just be because the economic centers have moved elsewhere, not because they've been redistributed. Exploit their opportunities while they're there.
But certainly somebody would weld for 10k an hour, and therefore the person willing to pay that will have as much welding labor as they need, and everybody else will have to match that price, bamboozle their workers into taking less, or find some way to complete their project with fewer welds.
There are still hierarchies. Both male and female hierarchies are present in primates. It's not alpha and the rest, it's the whole alphabet and each level dominates the next.

Whenever the hierarchies are unestable primates can behave very violently. Hierarchies preserve status quo and reduce violence.

Also, the studies done with Bonobos were flawed as well, because they were only studied in captivity. Bonobos when free are only a bit less aggressive than chimpanzees, and they don't avoid all violence by using sex.
Laptops and desktops are by far the weakest link and a trove of passwords, tokens, code, logs, chats, emails.

They run browsers, communication tools, all sort of product experiments and testbeds, and they even connect to random airport/hotel wifi.

Attack a laptop and all software and hardware 2FA tokens are useless. A backdoor can sit around and wait for the user to press the button.
That's kind of the point - they are sounds you learn well as a 1 year old, not so easy (in my case) at 50
What has Janet Napolitano done? This is the first I've heard of anything having to do with her.
I wrote that with a bit of sarcasm, but yes, it was hard for me to take this article seriously, even though I did manage to finish it.
“Instead, we’re hard at work making you obsolete.”
perhaps this is why some people think it's "just fine" to undercut someone's authority while giving no mind to their responsibility.
they've already left in a sense, if you've got responsibility but not authority.
In addition to contacting your gov representatives, apply economic pressure on the companies who seek to profit from this bass-ackwards legislation, namely Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.

If you are a Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T subscriber contact your respective provider and tell them you will cancel your service (or if under contract, not renew) if they continue to support the FCC's plan. Find friends and family who might also be current customers and ask them to file complaints with customer service.
Haha, "laundry day". I love it. Or housecleaning day.