skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you use this domain name?
What would be your unique idea of using this domain name: RandomBloger.com
makes it legally OK for Chocolatey to package it than I think most people here are acknowledging.

Chocolately never distributed Fiddler packages. This is just a basic misunderstanding of how Chocolately works.
> The ones in 1989 were violent all over Eastern Europe

That's the point. Because the 1989 were violent, allowed for 2017 to be effective. Peaceful protests are easy, but peaceful and effective is hard.

> Anti Trump protesters that destroyed private property are just vandals who can't accept the outcome of a democratic election.

I can agree with that. They\ ones that came to DC burned a few trashcans, broken windows and set a car on fire. What they perhaps didn't realize is that DC has pretty steep penalties for that kind of stuff, and now many of them have felonies on their record (in US those are the more serious charges that stay with you for a life and often prevent people from getting a good job in the future).

Also Chomsky has pointed out that Antifa is a great gift to the right.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/noam-chomsk...

That's an interesting way to think about it, but perhaps correct as I think in aggregate their action alienate more people than it inspires and in general fail to make the government afraid so their demands are just not heard and paid attention to.
Is that a lot or a little? How am I supposed to judge? It looks like SpaceX is well over $1B with a B in funding in total now. In comparison Blue Origin just gets money from Bezos, so "no" funding?

Big wikipedia list of private space companies (no funding info): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_co...

Overall venture funding going up (from 2015): http://fortune.com/2016/02/22/vcs-invested-more-in-space-sta...
Sorry if I sounded harsh, I actually appreciate your correction, but was trying to mainly say what you said in the second half of your statement.
Also divide and prove purity. Both are trivial for bitcoin.
Musk should do a SpaceX ICO
Founder of the first ICO platform here (April '14, SWARM) and early contributor to the Ethereum project.

I half-left the industry for a few reasons:

(1) Current crypto-markets highly favor "smoke and mirror" hype-driven approach to product as opposed to a user and product centric approach.

(2) Most "businesses" in the space are basically about skimming money off the top of a frothy market and effectively encouraging the scammy parts of the system. I suppose I could be making a lot of money this way right now but would highly violate my personal ethics to do so.

(3) It is exceedingly difficult to tie any sort of standard value to a blockchain-issued token, partially because of the complex regulatory framework around such offerings

(4) The libertarian bias of the industry effectively forces a massive head on collision between the incumbents (e.g. the SEC) and folks trying to circumvent their control, also effectively guaranteeing some version of "blood on the streets."

That said, as someone who founded the first platform dedicated to these topics I obviously think there are a lot of positive elements that are possible. Including:

(1) Streamlining and adding efficiency to capital markets by removing middlemen

(2) Funding novel highly sophisticated technological projects that would be difficult to get funding for in the VC world (Ethereum, DASH)

(3) Creating broader incentivization than exists in traditional funding models such that users of a product are directly incentivized by its success

(4) Allowing for novel forms of governance and organizations that are not bound by the legal system of any specific legal jurisdiction (e.g. DAOs)

All of these ultimately have high value. However, I think what we are likely to see is a major phase of consolidation after the current hype cycle wears off (much as what happened with "the DAO").

The reality is that ICOs are mostly scammy and useless projects at the moment with a few shining examples.

DISCLOSURE: I don't mean to critique any particular political philosophy in this post. If I have criticism it is more directed to tactics and strategy.
User from Poland here. It's quite the opposite.

Facebook here is very "trigger happy" about removing posts that have even slight nationalistic flavor or cast just a shed of bad light on any minority - and most of middle eastern countries seemingly fall under that umbrella.

Have seen numerous screenshots of deleted posts and user accounts suspended for days or weeks, circulated on social media as examples of Facebook's overly eager execution.

A particularly egregious example was posts by one refugee from certain middle eastern country who simply documented the abuses she was subjected to, as a woman, and as a religious minority. She is a notable speaker at conferences and universities, telling her story. One of the post that got removed and had her penalized was screencaps of threats she received. Yes, posting screencaps of threats sent to her over Facebook by a third party got her penalized. All in all, many of her posts removed, her account subject to multiple suspensions, as far as I recall.
Not to mention that's less than 10% of Amazon yearly revenue from AWS alone.[1] Gambling an entire business on the fact that nobody will find out you're giving away their proprietary information just for an extra bump in revenue of a couple points does not sound sane to me. For another perspective, the profit AWS generates is multiples of that entire $900M.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-cloud-business-hits-o...
Nearly all the revenue in ads has now been captured by Google and Facebook, which is the far greater challenge for publishers.
You are protecting investors from competition. Harming startups, harming founders, employees and consumers.
Mental health needs to be a huge priority.

I have several teenager relatives all depressed.
The constant social media and comparisons to the top 10% of people in beauty, intelligence, money, and etc are destroying them.
Ive caught my teenage nephew and niece watching tons of plastic surgery qa on youtube.

We really need to get our primate impulses in check.
Im hoping the research on brain implants will help overcome our ugly genetic history.
It's likely an artifact of the nitty-gritty details of SpaceX's corporate structure; usually when you see something like this, it's reflective of a clause in their corporate charter saying something along lines of, "from now on, all additional equity stock issued for fundraising purposes will be in the form of a warrant that will convert to common once the preferred holders are able to cash out."

- fmr investment banker
Im not sure why you posted this? Is this important? (honest question)
If you can't see the utility then you haven't done any due diligence. Most here just want to read a headline and add their opinions.
MarsCoin has a nice ring to it
This is my take as well. The announcement, features, and marketing material are clearly geared towards larger media companies and broadcasters. Which is where Elemental was strong, and a big part of why AWS bought Elemental.
I think he accidently replied to you rather than post to article. See his other CO.ments in context. 5 years...3comments...2 today.

My two cents
He actually was arrested (and convicted), for lying to gain access to a Senator's office: http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/100105-filmmak...
Neither the Power Mac G5 nor 1st gen Mac Pro use any standard motherboard size or mounting points.
I can definitely see the utility in a censorship-resistant digital medium to store wealth. To me, this latter use case has a lot of potential to serve the unbanked (as well as the banked).

Some use cases I can think off the top of my head:

(1) You are from Syria and need to flee war and escape into Europe – however bank transfers into Europe are almost impossible if you are a common Syrian. Bitcoin allows you to take your wealth with you, in your brain, as you escape across the border, by just memorising your twelve word private key.

(2) You are from Venezuela or Zimbabwe – The government has issued capital controls and is devaluing currency by the day. You transfer your wealth into Bitcoin in order to offset capital erosion due to hyper-inflation. When the situation stabilises, you transfer your Bitcoin back into fiat.

(3) You are Saudi billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal. The government freezes all your assets in a political coup. If you have a portion of your wealth in Bitcoin, you could protect them from government expropriation and anonymously transfer them to associates or family members abroad.

(4) You are whistleblower Julian Assance and have been cut off from the financial system as a way to censor your speech. Bitcoin allows you to have an unbreakable digital "Swiss bank account" that the authorities are not able to reach.

This reminds me of Peter Thiel's recent words about Bitcoin: "it's like a reserve form of money, it's like gold, and it's just a store of value. You don't need to use it to make payments."

Reference

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/26/peter-thiel-says-peopl...
I think you nailed it in your second to last sentence.

It's not often I'm back in the Windows world, but when I am it feels like going back to the early 2000s.. ending up on very skeevy-looking sites trying to hunt the "Download" button that isn't a banner ad. Anything that can take that away is worth it.
Chocolatey is scriptable, it handles the downloads, checks the checksums, it's easily searchable, etc.

For various reasons I don't use it much anymore, but it's really convenient to go to a new machine after a rebuild and just run a standard script of

choco install -y vim;
choco install -y python
# ...another 20 lines

and I'm up and running with all my standard apps. Having to download all those apps, verify the checksums and go through the install wizard can easily take a couple of hours. It's especially useful if you're spinning up a lot of vms.
I'm not quite sure where you're getting the $300k from, or what assumptions you're making around retirement spending, but my point was that there likely wouldn't be much of an inheritance to give if one assumed retiring on $1m even in today's dollars. Assuming ~20 years of retirement, that's $50k/yr. Many people's medical expenses would eat that up quickly as they get older, and that's not even getting into other living expenses, whether they have their overpriced home paid off, etc.
Re-read my comment? I asked what countries would be SECOND-world with that definition.
As a white middle class male and native english speaker in a western country, deciding to ride my bike to work or the shops was the first time I ever felt like I was in a minority group.
I'd be willing to give it a try once just to see if they have ideas with which I'm unfamiliar.

How much are these flat fees for an hour or two of their time?
That’s probably the same game rules Elon is playing, make the best tech, get competitors licking their chops, they make it main stream and bring down prices of essential parts down. The market is so big even if they come out ahead, he still wins
Interactive US Budget – 2016
I am sorry, but you are misunderstanding or deliberately distorting history. I admired a number of things about Malcom X and his movement, but he was always a marginal figure across the whole society. 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. Bannon and his ilk want nothing more than for violent left wing people to act like it's 1968 in Paris. They will be branded as terrorists and the real destruction of our democratic institutions will follow. We need to attack this clown cult by voting and the courts when, as he is trying to do now, Trump goes after the census, voting rights, and the rule of law.
I hate the term "meeting" as that's merely a super-class of event. Technically a lecture is a meeting, a movie screening is a meeting, a concert is a meeting.

I find things are more productive when there's an actual expectation about what people do when gathered.

* brainstorming
* problem identification (a type of brain storming)
* solution identification (a type of brain storming)
* Question and Answer* (I tend to not find these very productive)
* Presentation (possibly of answers to submitted questions)
> If software vendors are making publically available a url from which to download packages, then as far as I'm concerned they can pound sand. What does it matter if I fetch its contents via a shell script or a browser?

Is there any point arguing that? If Chocolatey refused, then Telerik would remove the public download. If Telerik insists on asking for email addresses or showing a TOS before allowing a download, then that's what they're going to do.

You're technically correct, but it's not a technical issue.
To be fair, a caratoid drip of pure Xanax is more exciting than watching flashes of advertising blast past you at carefully limited speeds.
Well, Pinterest also has over $1 Billion in funding, if that makes you feel any better.

Sure reality is more nuanced than that, but it's a fun comparison to make.
No shit - by the time a company hits a public market, accredited investors are the ones who cash out. ICOs, invested in with some research and diligence can finally spread the wealth to the rest of us.
I would see it as less a false dichotomy than just recognizing that these issues are not always orthogonal.
And when it goes wrong the practitioner will lie in your medical records to cover it up. When it goes even more wrong and the person is dead they'll just say "s(he) had serious issues". Having said that, I've seen it do wonders for some people.
I hope you didn't buy that domain name with no idea what to use it for.

I also hope you're not asking people to come up with a unique business idea for you.
Blockchain is hip.

Don't underestimate the value of buzz.

In a meeting last week, with middle aged consultants who are work with IBM and the like - they ware all 'block chain this that'.

Those buzzwords help companies like IBM and other consultants generate business, and make them look like they are on top of the trends.

Nobody seemed to really understand it or it's implications - those 'pesky details' are for the Engineers!
The mass incarceration of African-Americans effectively eliminates the Second Amendment rights of a large segment of that population. (Many have observed that mass incarceration, via the drug war, began soon after segregation became illegal: When one tool of mass oppression became illegal, another was developed. There is some evidence that Nixon intended the drug war to suppress blacks and hippies.)

And more importantly, law enforcement responds much differently to guns possessed by black people and guns possessed by whites. An African-American only has to put their hand in their pocket or reach for something, and they are shot. White Americans are encouraged by some in law enforcement to own guns and to use them to prevent crime. People talk about gun owners stopping criminals; you would have to be insane to be black and draw a firearm anywhere around police officers or white gun owners, and especially at the scene of a crime.
Typically funding is wanted to pay for things.
Well, that's cellular (Verizon) + fiber (Fios), which includes "rental" fees and the like, for a family of three. So not just straight access.
> Those groups cannot begin to challenge the government with violence.

Voting is obviously better. I was just explaining why those protests in Romania were so effective in contrast to the protests here. I remember the science march, the women's march, occupy, which lasted for a long while. Good things came up from those sure. But there were just not an effective way to make the government listen or do anything, at this point in time, in this particular country because the precondition where not there for it.

Organizing and planning for next elections, having a desirable platform that resonates with voters (in all states, not just on the coasts) is the way to go. Without that things, and focusing on how many scoops of ice-cream Trump had, or how long he shook Macron's hand is also not a valid strategy, and it just sets the stage for a re-election.
Basecamp example is good but they do veer a bit away in terms of pricing. The price is too low still for any customer to have pull, but at $100/month, it also leaves out a lot of people. Not sure if there's a point in any of this. I guess I'm just adding on. Since the saying still works if $30 or $100 a month.
Is psychiatry becoming the new eugenics?
The less visible you are, the easier it is to throw you under the bus. For example, suppose you don't give any interviews, never sign anything for the company, never pitch to investors, etc. Then, it is easier for them to pretend you never existed later - even if you make the entire product. So, I suggest you be at least somewhat visible and offer to help your business partner with some of these things in addition to coding.

Also make sure you agree in writing to a percentage of the company rather than a total number of shares, and make sure you're privy to the final cap table.
An add blocker will take away the banner ads part at least.
GCP Online Meetup #36 – Counting Sheep with Spanner
So I can see if anything is on fire. Also to remove that pesky Apple logo.

I use the panel I cut out as a cooling pad for my macbook. That thing can put out some heat.
Because the justice system depends on entrapment and fraud?
This commit really reminds me of the anime "Psycho-Pass". They use an algorithm to detect criminals and stop them when their "score" goes above a certain threshold. Really interesting concept.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/13601/Psycho-Pass
The uva scandal and other hoaxes has made people lose faith in the media.

The lack of faith is also a bipartisan issue. The alt left and alt right are growing and hate the msm.
Makes me think of this piece:

https://alittlemoresauce.com/2014/08/20/what-my-bike-has-tau...

(Of course some folks object to that piece: http://grist.org/cities/please-people-stop-using-bikes-to-wh...)
How much were the classifieds pulling in before in that 80%, do you know? I know classifieds used to be huge.

Craigslist could probably pull in multiple billions a year in profit and 10 figures in revenue if they went for revenue a lot more. Company value would probably be close to eBay level.
Also, I can reasonably trust that the community would flag any issues like getting a malwared version of software. It's sometimes not easy to find official sites for some software and the skeezy download.com style sites are always high on the search engine results.
No, a tiny, tiny fraction turn out to be true. There are thousands of new ridiculous conspiracy theories every year. That one proves true every decade means nothing.
From my perspective the fake "Bernie Bernstein" calls claiming to be from the WP, the disproven claims of an audio tape of WP reporters offering 1000$(sp), the claims that Olde Hickory House didn't exist at the address which were disproven by newspaper ads and other evidence, the claims that the county was dry at the time Moore was alleged to have bought girls alcohol (it was not and the pizzeria actually served wine) -

All of these come together to be a flood of unvetted claims to keep Moore ahead until the election. It doesn't matter if they're disproven because many voters hear about them and take them as gospel without ever hearing the other side of the story.
“Neither”? Yes, Ninite is closed, e.g. https://ninite.com/help/notfeatures/more.html

But alternatives aren’t:

Chocolatey - Apache license - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

Homebrew (for Mac) - BSD license - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

Scoop (as previously mentioned) - Public Domain - https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop

Comparing Scoop to Chocolatey: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari...
When it comes to racing, the new push into e-sports is really exciting to me because it adds a huge element of accessibility. Cars are expensive, and actually owning a car that you take on the track is expensive and time consuming, but with a racing wheel, a PC/console, and a VR headset, you can get a pretty visceral and convincing facsimile of a high performance car.

The first time I tried racing in VR (in Dirt Rally), I had the brilliant idea of using a Group B car. On a flat screen, it just feels really fast and requires intense focus. In VR, you really feel like you're sitting on a rocket and the car is trying to kill you.
What type of product are you working on? If it is a consumer app, then it is probably not a good idea to share things that are planned, because it is the nature of the business that plans change. You might not be able to avoid this with a B2B company - in that case I've seen a more personal touch (personal email / phone call) work well.
Were not punishing today’s men for what yesterday’s men did.

We’re punishing today’s men for what today’s men were still doing. And what yesterday’s men continued to do into today.
> The idea that every problem can be solved peacefully isn't a bad one, but it's just something you have to accept in faith, not something you can ground in truth.

No claim about the future can be grounded in "truth", but I can give a very strong factual basis to peaceful change: Centuries of history, in all the democracies in the world. No other means, including violent revolution, has achieved more positive change for humanity.
Why don't you think they have one? Let's take a second and think about how awful Facebook would be right now if they didn't have the protections they have in place already.

Taking an isolated incident of community reporting taking down some posts and accounts doesn't show in any way that they don't have protections against bot rings. What if it's legitimate users who have a vendetta against the protesters? Obviously, that doesn't make the end result OK, but that wouldn't be some weird evidence of technical neglect by Facebook.
> taxing wealth is a strange thing—it makes people feel less interest in becoming wealthy

If we're talking about how people feel about their tax system, I think we need to talk about how a huge portion of the US misunderstands "tax brackets", and seems to think that paying more taxes when they're "bumped to a higher tax bracket" is a thing, and that there's some strategy in avoiding getting paid marginally more than some threshold. (Since tax brackets apply to marginal income, this is incorrect; you're still taxed at the lower rate for your income up to the threshold.)

This is almost certainly causing people to behave in ways that are economically irrational for themselves far more than any tax on large wealth (let's say, for the purpose of argument, $100M or more) would be. Yet there is no campaign to fix people's understanding of tax brackets so that more people feel incentivized to make more money.

If we're talking about an actual rational response to the tax system, I would much rather have $102M in the bank and get taxed on half my savings over $100M than have $99M in the bank and get taxed on half my savings over $100M.

> and thereby causes fewer GDP-building things to happen!

Why does a tax on wealth cause fewer GDP-building things to happen? The rational thing to do given a tax on wealth is to spend your extra wealth on services you're interested in, donate it to charities you support, etc., all of which seems like it increases GDP more than investing it for yourself would: it produces additional revenue for organizations, which produces jobs, which grows the economy.

I'd believe this argument for a tax on income, since it disincentivizes people from making more money, which means they're not spending that money because they didn't make it, and also they're voluntarily refusing to do profitable work they otherwise would have done. (I don't think I agree with the argument, but at least I understand how it works.)