skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had to look up "Schelling point", so apologies if I'm not fully grasping what you mean by it.

However, "organized around ethnic, cultural, and/or linguistic grounds" seems like another way of saying "social construct".

If you were to compare and contrast what you suggest with a social construct how would they be different?
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I don't want to defend Uber here, but I don't see what this letter business has to do with Waymo's allegedly stolen LIDAR. Why should Uber have disclosed this letter to Waymo?

Also, I don't see what's the legal problem with spying on your competitors. I mean, Google and Facebook are spying on their customers, and the law apparently has no problem with that.
1) those mainframes got people to the moon

2) nothing in bitcoin protocol precludes it from adopting more efficient solutions when such appear, what people seem to miss is that proof of work itself and energy spent securing the ledger will always correlate with value stored
Many people admire Steve Jobs, sometimes to the point of mimicking him by wearing jeans and black turtleneck sweaters.

Steve Jobs would sometimes answer to customer support calls. This was in order to understand the customer, their frustrations, and how to work through them with a better product.
wtf is a mindshare
There are a huge number of other food reviewers that don't have the same issues with demonitization, even if they have slightly less ad-friendly content. That said, it's a good suggestion; it's much easier to find a way to shoot down your suggestion than it is to think of it.
Also not a lawyer.

>would be that Uber would be forbidden from using the stolen technology or its fruits

No, that's pretty much already happened as part of the preliminary injunction. Uber has so far argued that insofar as Levandowski had and may have used trade secrets, they never made it into any production vehicles, and so firing Levandowski meets that bar.

If Google wins the lawsuit, there are probably damages to be had. In addition to saying "no, stop using this or any of its fruits", my understanding is that the court can order Uber to pay Google for the advantages it god. In other words, if the trade secrets advanced Uber's autonomous vehicle initiatives by a year, they might be liable for a year's worth of autonomous vehicle R&D costs, and also need to start over from not having any trade secrets.
This is a pretty good point. If you're the kind of person who has avoided getting a photo ID on purpose, you probably are staying well away from Facebook. The only targets I can think of would be homeschooled teens with no student ID.

It does however make Facebook even harder to use for anti-government organizing, though Facebook is already pretty clear about not wanting truly anonymous profiles.
As I understand it, this typically involves writing shaders which are logically equivalent but better optimized for the particular hardware. It's an odd situation, but probably better than asking game developers to learn enough intimate hardware details to write their own optimized shaders for each GPU type.
Maybe like Rare Pepes and PepeCash.
> Given the widespread unethical (and probably criminal) activity that was conducted at the highest levels of the company I would say there are even odds that there are some big skeletons in the closet that opening the books would reveal and that is why they have stayed private so long.

I don't think this can be understated. In the social and political climate of today, it would be hard (I think) for Uber to have a banner IPO. When you look at where we are, with sexual misconduct headlining the nightly news, I feel like Uber would generally like to avoid public scrutiny until the issue is not as hot.
> Yeah, but I suspect that the recent bad publicity is the truly damaging part.

Bragging about how they've done it before suggests that they don't think the publicity is likely to hurt them, either.
This to me is the most damning part of Uber's response. Can I believe you'd pay low 7 figures to someone extorting your 11-figure firm? Yes. Can I believe you would then, even on paper, retain that person on your security staff? No.

What makes much more sense is that the payoff bought off his silence, and that the "position" they offered him was a sop to his conscience.
I no longer tell many of my less tech-savvy to use 2FA for most sites. The notable exception being their primary email and a few others. I instead push them to use a system like 1Password that will let them generate unique strong passwords.

For a huge majority of people, the odds of them losing, breaking, or wiping their phones and misplacing or forgetting to save their backup codes is MUCH higher than getting hacked while using a 1Password system.
Question for the people here ... are there any good SOCIAL apps like this?

I mean, for example, being able to assign tasks to others (like in Redmine / JIRA) and be notified of progress/completion.

Or collaboration on notes and permissions etc. Straight from your phone instead of some google doc.

And maybe turning those notes into tasks later.

What would you use?
I'd imagine he's discussing the endowments of said universities, which are earning billions of dollars a year
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I'm confused. Are you talking about diamonds, the precious gemstone? Why are you capitalizing it?
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Got a pull request in for our startup to say we do software 2fa. Will be looking into supporting hardware 2fa too when we get the chance.

If you’ve got or know of a site using 2fa, definitely put in a pull request to show your support.
But the network effects aren't very strong. My wife and I used different taxi hailing apps, it doesn't matter.
I am unable to find the comment on Reddit, but there was a post explaining basically that GPU drivers, NVidia at least, are often very game optimized and hack built on top of hack. The drivers are very complex.
It doesn't make sense. If the endgame for Uber is self driving cars they'd have much longer runway if they were a startup doing only that, instead of bleeding money on both ends. They were originally an app company from the time when an app gave you easy access to capital. It's more likely the self driving thing was something they had to do to keep the high valuation as a tech company. It was probably an easy pick since it's something in vogue not too far from their normal business.
Pandoc is crap software. All the bugs makes it unusable for anything complicated.
Storage costs are hyper-deflationary. We have a NAS on a desk with 27 terabytes of storage and it cost under $1000 (with drives) and consumes about 40 watts of power. Ten years ago this would have cost closer to $5000-$10000 and consumed hundreds of watts of power. We bought it about a year and a half ago and already we could replace it for less than $500.

The idea of distributed storage at the edge is interesting but it's not something that would cost $250 million to build. We could probably build a friendly system for doing this for under $500k in developer time.

It's also a mystery how efforts like MaidSafe or whatever it's called this week have never managed to ship anything after getting multiple multi-million-dollar golden showers. Distributed storage of immutable content-addressable blobs is not that hard of a problem. BitTorrent kind of solved it long ago, albeit with a different UI/UX metaphor and use case. Just take those ideas and pivot them a little and wrap them around the S3 UI/UX metaphor and add payment channels or some other accounting mechanism and you're done. You don't necessarily need the sexiest tech. In fact sexy tech probably makes it more fragile and harder to use. DHT + hashing + RAID-type redundancy techniques + wallets will do it.

Everyone over-thinks and over-engineers things these days and it drives me crazy. Stop it. Intelligence is for the things you can't do, not for doing the things you can already do in more baroque ways. Intelligence is also for simplification. Complexification is stupidity.
Sia addresses both of these.

1) You have full control over which hosts you store data on; if Amazon makes their data centers available on Sia, you can choose to store at 1x redundancy with them. I will note, though, that erasure coding can get you many nines of reliability at fairly low redundancy, as long as the hosts aren't completely flaky. And you can do even better if you actively replace hosts as soon as they go offline.

2) The only thing you need to trust here is the client-side encryption code, which is fairly straightforward. And if you're really paranoid, nothing prevents you from using your own encryption scheme instead of our default one.

Disclaimer: I am a Sia core dev.
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Maybe at startups, but most enterprises self-host things - including Skype for Business (formerly Lync).
Nonetheless, Uber paid a $3 million settlement to the lawyer who wrote the letter in addition to the $4.5 million paid to Mr. Jacobs. As part of the deal, Mr. Jacobs was kept on as a security consultant, Ms. Padilla testified. His job: investigating the claims made in the letter his lawyer wrote.

Mr. Jacobs received $2 million up front and was to receive $1 million spread over 12 months and $1.5 million in stock, also spread out over 12 months.

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I think his job is one of those "I can do this job from home" Fightclub type jobs.
Are all games able to benefit if it's in the driver?
> when they realize a gain or loss.

Holding bitcoin while it goes up in value isn't realizing a gain or loss.
Good point, it very well could be. However, I'm inclined to think that this isn't the case, solely from how much positive feedback he gets, as well as how little negative comments he gets. I mean, finding a negative comment about ReviewBrah on any of the Chans is nigh impossible.
This is a difficult one. It's easy to point to codebases that indeed have been maintained for many years - but that doesn't mean they were designed well.

Look at a project like SVGEdit. It's by far and away the most popular open source project for in-browser SVG manipulation. It is the "most maintained" repository for any software in its niche. It is also a five thousand line blob of jQuery code.

That's an extreme example, but the point is: a project could become beacons for OSS development not because it is amenable to change, but because it is a very useful or prominent tool.
> If each workstation is doing data aggregation of the data it’s receiving from its peers, what does that require about its ability to read the plaintext data from its peers?

Uh, nothing? Encryption has existed for several decades?

I mean, I have no idea if they're actually using encryption, but "use logical reasoning" is not an explanation of why they necessarily must not be using encryption.

> As you should have discovered from the previous challenges, it would be impossible for peers to perform deduplication/aggregation with other peers if they were unable to see cleartext/plaintext data.

This is absolutely incorrect.

> The first thing to note is that the "hashing" algorithm appears to be something home grown, as opposed to an industry standard (md5, sha1, etc.).

This needs proof that this is what the actual client does, as opposed to just an example for a human-readable FAQ for readers who don't know what hashing is. (Also, I question the competence of someone who's writing up an analysis and thinks of MD5 and SHA-1 as their first industry-standard hashes.)

> 13.x.y.133	Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd

... This is an AWS host. Attributing it to Amazon itself is just incompetent. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

(Full disclosure: I am unaffiliated with Tanium and have never used it, but I think a couple of former coworkers from a now-failed startup now work there.)
How do you organize your notes? I find that after a while I end up with way too many .md files with long names to easily comb through and end up spending way too much time searching for old notes.
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Plenty of people are probably afraid of their Cisco devices.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/cisco_shippin...
Someone has to be putting together a first class on-premises voice assistant system. Centralizing this much sensitive data on Amazon is going to make it such an irresistible target for LEA and hackers. It's pretty much a guaranteed leak.
Tanium has more holes than a colander.

It has a nice interface for enterprise security staff. It is supposed to reveal security problems for enterprises. While it does a pretty good job to report common attacks, it is useless for identify above average hackers and introduces new vulnerabilities that are a hacker heaven.

In general, anybody that is after the enterprises's data will consider any enterprise software a huge honey pot.

If you are serious about security, invest the money that you pay for Tanium's licenses to hire security experts, instead than IT candies for below average security staff.
> The nested encryption scheme would have to be perfect as well, which is also a bad assumption.

If that is true for your security model, then encryption is always pointless for you[1]. Later on, you mention "security conscious" parties, which means you understand that security is a cost gradient, meaning one size doesn't fit all, and less-than-perfect assurance has value in some contexts.

Do I think the DoD is going to move all their storage to this? That would be idiotic. Do I think there is an achievable scheme like this that is "good enough" for a variety of use cases? I think the answer is pretty clearly yes; the difficulties of actually realizing it are elsewhere.

[1] Yes, OTPs exist. They don't count.
I didn't even notice that Amazon bought Cloud 9.

Coming from Sublime -> Atom -> VSCode it looks a bit like the older versions of the editors I used in the past.
It’s a legal question more than a technical one. Let’s say you have a breach where PHI is exposed. If you can demonstrate you were adhering tightly to the guidelines, you’re less likely to receive jail time and a company-ending fine.

Sounds like your boss wants to roll the dice.
Elaborate? I mean mining pools in China with the oligopoly bit. Are you saying that's not a problem? I would say the current bitcoin PoW scheme is inherently seeking to end up in a few actors having most of the power due to the higher and higher barriers of entry to mining on custom silicon. ELI5 why I'm wrong?
Is there even reason to expect exchanges to play along if the value starts to really go south? It's pretty obvious that exchanges would be practically out of business after a total collapse of bitcoin valuation, so a collapse would be an existential threat to them and existential threats are known to inspire desperate measures. What regulation would keep market makers from experiencing "unexpected technical difficulties" in a panic (e.g. until their own holdings are liquidated, and those of their friends)? There are many ways to add arbitrary friction and hidden prioritization to sell offers if you are not under the full scrutiny of all that regulation bitcoin aficionados want so dearly removed.

If you were forced to find buyers for your btc on your own in a panic, without the help of market makers, then collapsing nominal market rates would not be the main problem of "btc millionaires", getting that collapsed rate, or even just a significant fraction thereof, would.
> Obviously I can't verify this, but for example he had a professor who actively taught that nations are a completely artificial social construct, and as such all immigration policies of any sort are illegitimate and harmful.

But that's a very mainstream position in economics, with much stronger arguments behind it than ideological purity. And it's typically supported by libertarians more than progressives, since the arguments are weakened by strong government-provided social services.

This is what I worry about, when I hear people complain that their views aren't tolerated on campus. Are they really being shut down by intolerant professors who won't accept dissent? Or are they dismissing ideas they don't immediately find reasonable as far-left propaganda and refusing to listen?
I was just reading a review of a sous vide stick the other day that mentioned that issue. Fortunately, it supported Bluetooth...
I've used Sovren for an applicant tracking system, accuracy is good but could be better, support for HRXML is a must.
>Because ARM costs enough that it isn't viable to do a SoC layout you aren't going to ship millions of the chip, academic research (where the seeds for standards are often planted) just doesn't happen.

Is it license or fab issues? I thought that license is $0.X per chip, so it shouldn't make a difference (license-wise) if you make Y chips or 100,000 * Y chips. Fab costs change by overhead, but how would RISC-V help there?
You can't simply claim you are a bitcoinian and now all of your income and assets are referenced to BTC. You are still subject to the currency of your resident country. That is the basis of value reference. Not bitcoin.

Edit: if you bought it, but haven't sold it you haven't realized a profit and don't have to pay taxes on the gains yet, but you definitely have to pay taxes on the income as Bitcoin. If you are buying everything with Bitcoin you have just created an accounting/auditing nightmare for yourself, because you owe additional taxes on asset appreciation every time you "use" it.
You're aware that a Ponzi has a very specific definition, more specific than "scam," correct?

Neither Bitcoin nor Ethereum have a central operator generating returns for older investors by disproportionately funneling revenue paid by new investors to them. When the price rises, new and old investors profit equally. You could use BTC as a currency in a Ponzi, Bitcoin being a Ponzi would be impossible by definition.
Could be helpful at work: "Alexa, open the pod bay doors"
You're both right. The bulk of enforcement actions, on the basis of volume of actions, is against low-income individuals because they are the most likely to underreport income (especially under-the-table compensation received as cash).

However, the bulk of enforcement penalties is against the wealthy, because they are the most likely to engage in large-scale tax evasion. Though within this category, it's actually the mid-tier wealthy, generally small business owners, who are most penalized, as they are the most aggressive in claiming deductions and credits to which they are not actually entitled. The ultra-wealthy will claim whatever deductions/credits their tax advisors say they can, but it's not worth it to them to be aggressive since the savings is usually insignificant compared to the potential penalties, or the cost of litigating a tax action.
You might be the very person that the OP is talking about. You bring up topics that were resolved years ago in tax law and think they are new topics.

> I really don't think its that simple. Do you get taxed when dollars deflate ? do you claim a loss when dollars inflate?

Are you trying to argue that Bitcoin is on the same footing as USD, because it is not. Bitcoin is treated like gold or any other asset. It has a value when you acquire it and it has a value when you sell it. This value is in USD as far as the IRS is concerned.

> you really don't have to go in and out of USD with crypto currency .. you never have to touch USD again. sure they can try auditing your assets vs your salary and come up with some bullshit number you will then have to fight, but there will be many ways to come up with how much you owe

Your Bitcoins are worth a specific value at any moment in time. Again, when you buy it, it is worth X amount of value and when you sell it, it is worth Y amount of value. That value is in USD. Do the math like you bought or sold gold or silver.

> and what if you elect to get your salary in crypto currency? if that currency inflates what taxes are you paying?

Simple. You are paid X amount in USD and that is given to you in Bitcoin. Your employer is writing in their ledger that they paid you X amount of USD. If you get your paycheck in gold or silver or Bitcoin is irrelevant. Your value is in USD as far as the IRS is concerned and you and your employer will pay taxes on that.
They are not taxing bitcoin this way either, nor do they for a stock share that you own.

You're taxed on the realized gain (or loss) when you sell the asset.

The same as you are when you convert a currency back into USD.
For tax purposes, it doesn't really matter that you laundered the money. They'll get you when you use it.
Cool thanks. I will check it out.
> He seems to have been disavowing racists since the start

Pandering to racists since the start:

* Initial refusal to rebuke David Duke.

* "Rapists" remark.

* Violence on "both sides".

* Not mentioning the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance day.

* No traditional White House Ramadan celebration.

* Attacking the hispanic judge in the Trump U case because of their race.

* Calling for and attempting to implement a "Muslim Ban".

* Appointing Jeff Sessions, who had been denied a judgeship due to his racist beliefs.

* The dog whistling about the lawless "inner cities".

* Supporting the birther theory.

The list goes on and on.

Even when he does rebuke racists, it's never prompt, and always with a wink and a nod. If you don't believe me, go peruse stormfront and look at all the threads celebrating their "victory" when Trump says these things, they recognize what's going on.
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Just a thought.
Was just using it today to setup my Yubikey everywhere possible.
Why has Bitcoin gained so much in the past year?
Hosted here:

https://github.com/c9/core/

Notable tech: Emmet (snippets, HTML autocomplete), Engine.IO (web-sockets), MsgPack (message serialization), RuSHA (browser-based SHA1), Tern (code analysis, AST etc), Acorn (JS code analysis, faster than Tern)
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What bugs? I've been using pandoc for years (admittedly mostly for markdown --> pdf/html/docx, sometimes with bibtex and interesting latex tweaks) and never run into a bug.
Out of curiosity, what do you enjoy about D?
I guess this will compete with https://cloud.google.com/debugger/ eventually (if not already)
They don't necessarily know that. Imagine you've used this FB feature in the past. You get a mail from @facebookrnail.com that tells you you can just email them the photos without even opening the app now! Well isn't that convenient.

Now, it's fair to say that even in a technically safer implementation where the photos never leave the device, many users can't tell the difference, so this point doesn't hold a lot of water.

Still, I think making the uploading of scandalous photos to FB is a dangerous precedent to set in general. Will other services and startups that have users suffer from the same problem implement this feature in the same way, and guarantee user safety and privacy? That's a pretty high bar.
It is people like this and management's assumption that more people are like this than actually are.

What reason do you think they have?
Putting the privacy aspect aside, this is gonna be hilarious with people "abusing" Alexa for jokes etc. As far as I now, Alexa can't be restricted to the voice of a single/some people.
What is their actual purpose in tracking?
No worries, Chris, I didn't expect entirely new processor design to play in Intel league :)

Really hoping to get my hands on RISC-V-based SBCs next year.
I had a great deal of sympathy for him preventing being tracked until I read that he did it so he could play golf instead of working.
If it was a secret driving sauce, like the Coke formula, maybe the owner of that secret isn't interested in licensing it for royalties.