skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 99.9% sure it's nothing to do with your tags and everything to do with some sort of speech to text analysis google is doing on your video.

In my case, I have a demonitized tutorial video on how to download and upgrade my software.

I was a bit surprised since it was a basic boring screen share video. Nothing controversial either, until I looked at the auto generated close captioning.

I said "Prosper202" but Google heard "pr0st!tut3" (I edited the actual word just in case HN also has auto block filters) But as you can see, it's obviously a not safe for brands keyword.

I've manually fixed the closed captioning with the correct words, but as of now the video is still demonetized.

So I think there's some sort of blacklist of words said in videos that will auto demonetize videos.

In your case, after watching your video with closed captioning I notice you use the word "explicit" a lot in your video. Once again given the context, it's totally safe. But there's also a very unsafe context that I doubt google is willing to automatically monetize without some sort of manual review. (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en)

You can request a manual review of the affected videos, but only if your video has 1000 views in the past 7 days. For most small channels wrongly flagged, there's no real fix (for the old video).

The only real suggestion to test out is to not say explicit in your next video.

I'm also interested in hearing from others with demonetized videos, that may be suffering from the same auto captioning and blacklisted words issue.
Or used the new Network Load Balancer (where prewarming is supposedly unnecessary).
I have to believe that the original author was astute enough to understand these numbers and the inadequate nature of the dividends, so I'm forced to think his 'solution' to inequality is solely about taking capital from the wealthy. This is just a convoluted way of doing that...
Cmmr Clyburn: Debunking Chairman Pai's Claims About Net Neutrality [pdf]
On, I will have to try again:) Thanks for the tip; I always thought Sphinx should be ideal, it was just too much work to get it working.
But if the user is only going to use trusted counter-parties to store their data then why use the distributed protocol at all? What additional functionality does it add besides just picking a provider like AWS or GCE and putting your data there directly?
Then how do you explain the Maersk blockchain-based insurance trial that they found very successful?

Bitcoin is not the only incentive that can be had in implementing blockchain technology.

There are a number of very promising use cases for blockchain, in education, healthcare, energy... none of which involve bitcoin at all.
Certificate problems.
Isn't most money used as purely digital anyway? When you get a mortgage, it's not like $300k of physical money changes hands.

So at a basic level quite a few (most) transactions are happening on a digital, abstract level anyway, so really the question is can blockchain be used to improve this model, and is there sufficient incentive for existing players to do so, or is there enough opportunity for someone else to come in and do so.

I think the former is what we're seeing banks start to explore today, while BTC and other cryptocoins have been exploring the latter.
Do you own one?

Echo has a history of requests. Songs that you play, apps you launch, basically all your requests. In my home I even have the requests to turn on/off devices. That info is sent to Amazon (obviously). And is available to you.

So there maybe some data that leaks that you wouldn't want to. For business this is important (meeting names can be confidential). Not sure how Amazon addresses these.

However, that's a bit different from always-on recording, which I doubt it does. I see no unusual activity in my home network, with 3 echos.
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On the upside of this, I've seen lots more creators including sponsors in the actual video. (This video brought to you by Blue Apron) seemingly with lots of creative control over how they present it. This seems like a much more sustainable method. Ad blockers can't do anything about it, and they are safe from random de monitization.

On the other hand it's more work for the creator, and for people just starting it may be impossible to convince anyone to sponser them.
Can't access the website. The SSL cert is wrong.
Unless the most basic definition of X relies on a central actor, like a Ponzi. In which case it's not only fair, but accurate.
AWS Lambda Doubles Maximum Memory Capacity for Lambda Functions
I’ve done it plenty of times when ad hoc testing lack of connectivity on WiFi or BT devices and the microwave is too far to walk. Works a treat. Though I generally used Cliff Bar wrappers (our devices were small, and I don’t like chips/crisps).

Though by about the sixth round of golf I’d be making myself a clean, permanent phone jacket out of Reflectix or something.
There's also https://bitcoin.tax/

I haven't used this product and I'm not vouching for it in any way, but it looks like a solid thing, and I intend to use it this year to figure out how much I owe for my trades.

It appears to have grown since I looked at it last, for $20 you get the ability to import as many transactions as you want from CoinBase, GDAX, and ~15 or so others, and you get your answer in a form that TurboTax can include in your returns.

Last time I looked, I think that it supported CoinBase but not GDAX. (So it appears to have grown since then.) I don't know how much I trust a tax service for $20, but I think I trust it further than I can throw a spreadsheet that I created and populated with trade information by hand...
> This is a net good for bitcoin and all crypto currencies isn't it?

No. A quote from the article:

"asking for detailed transaction information on so many people, simply for using digital currency, is a violation of [customers'] privacy, and is not the best way for us to accomplish our mutual objective.”

The point of the article isn't about regulation or enforcement; it's about the methodology of enforcement. If A business magically has more money than they should given their transactions in a year,
issuing a subpoena on their information is completely legitimate if they are under an active investigation. Similarly, if a specific person is under investigation, and they are suspected to be
evading taxes, an investigation into them is grounds to get their info from coinbase. It's not grounds to get my info from coinbase. People also try and evade taxes in the stock market,
that doesn't mean the IRS is entitled to investigate me just because I also happen to use schwab and made a trade on nasdaq.

At the end of the day, this ISN'T good for crypto currencies because it demonstrates that enforcement obeys different rules than other assets.
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Not to excuse anything here, but you wouldn't believe how _insane_ some business environments are when it comes to databases. And yes, by that I mean those systems that you wouldn't believe anyone would ever want to risk losing.

Depending on what you're working on, chances are there even are people who use _security_ as an excuse to basically prevent any halfway useful emergency strategy one could think of when handling data impossible to pull off (oh the irony).
Alternate headline: Bitcoin up +54% over the last 30 days. https://bitcoinwisdom.com/
We invite everyone to re-apply after 4 months. https://triplebyte.com/candidate_faq#question-15
Software changes. Any time you take up a dependency from anyone, part of what you are signing up for is tracking the changes in it over time.
This guy seems to think you can possibly outlaw Bitcoin. That is funny.
Doesn't Android at least have a debugging option to fake location?
You've been posting a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments. Could you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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renew your cert!

[edit to point out the irony in "Nanobox essentially becomes your DevOps team"]
The author of this article certainly don't understand social dynamics and various competing forces. On producer consumer systems, the ratio of consumers to producers is often 10X or less. This has been case everywhere from Wikipedia to Etsy to TV to movies to various blogs. The act of producing something is many magnitudes more expensive than act of consuming something. As all biological systems, humans tends to conserve their energy and that's the root cause of these symptoms.

Second, it is very important for these systems to ensure high quality content or otherwise consumers would stop consuming and then producers would stop producing leading to vicious cycle. On large scale systems like Internet, consumers are saved from quality issues by search engines and you can keep producing garbage without triggering vicious cycle. However on websites like SO this is often not the case because they rely on gamification. If you allow users to quickly accumulate scores in game effortlessly than other users who have to try much harder for same scores than overall quality would decline.

And no, SO is not in decline by any measure. In fact, SO has firmly established itself as go to website for vast majority of developers. Some even say programming is mostly reduced to searching SO these days.
Alternate headline: Bitcoin is volatile.
> A lot of what the American left has been preaching recently (the Russia-Trump story, for instance) has no basis in objective reality,

Collusion by Trump campaign with the Russian government is not an issue brought up by the left specifically (if anything, it's catnip for centrists; the left have bigger fish to fry), and that you're framing it as such makes me think you're using it as an excuse to ignore it.
You can access it. The LE cert expired about a month ago though
The judgement of the parents may have been part of why he felt compelled to leave town and get thoroughly wasted. Perhaps had they not been there, he would have been facing a very different mental and emotional landscape entirely and made other choices.

You cannot change one element of an equation without impacting all parts. Thinking you can is a common logical error.
I think it's a bit mean to go around calling them stupid, because you chose to make your course dependent on them. They (presumably) didn't promise you anything and don't owe you anything.
Gemini = fast and cheap

Coinbase = joke, expensive, slow and zero customer service.

Open gemini.com and coinbase.com and compare the current BTC price. You'll see the spread they make on coinbase... and we're not even talking about transaction fee
There’s a difference between scolding energy usage and pointing out that the design itself, even if efficiency of that design is increased, is what leads to this spiraling energy expenditure that powers massive computational hashing power only to support that currency and nothing else (no other social or technical goals). There are better ways to design such a system to do more than perform endless hashing that is merely self-serving. Furthermore, there could be innovations related to a trustless system that will make bitcoin itself obsolete; the future of bitcoin as leader isn’t guaranteed.

This isn’t related to heating or driving efficiency.
not for monero.
Could you elaborate on what these channels are and why you would want them demonetized? Are their videos actually sponsored by Disney et.al.?
The Tree That Rocked the Music Industry
monero.
2FA and unique passwords aren't an either or thing. There is a lot of overlap in what they protect against but it's not complete. Having a strong, unique password won't help again being phished but 2FA can help mitigate the dangers of password reuse.

I get that everyone's exposure to and acceptance of risk is different. I understand that sometimes the best you can hope for out of a non-technical friend is that they accept maybe one piece of advice at most, but I'd disagree with the priority. 2FA is extremely powerful.
> A lot of what the American left has been preaching recently (the Russia-Trump story, for instance) has no basis in objective reality

This claim has no basis in objective reality.
I predict at some point we’ll see a rap music video where they “make it rain” QR codes of high value Bitcoin addresses.
fixing now. Thanks for the heads up
> If that is true for your security model, then encryption is always pointless for you

I don't think that is true.

If your first line of defense is physical security that doesn't mean you don't use crypto. The person who can break your physical security can't necessarily break your crypto. Even if the crypto isn't perfect it may be good enough.

The point is that no one in the real world relies on crypto only. Everyone has a physical security layer and then crypto. That is just a fact of how corp, gov, and concerned individuals manage their data.

A distributed network with untrusted peers would radically change the accepted security model and in a way that I don't think any qualified decision maker would accept.

So maybe you can get consumers to use the network for the same thing they use Backblaze for, but Backblaze is already hella cheap, and I am pretty sure the distributed network will be more expensive, so where is the value prop to the people who don't care or aren't knowledgable about security?
Google Launched Datally to save your mobile data
>If anti-trust is your concern, make Google smaller. Regulate what % of marketshare they are allowed to control. Don't allow them to purchase any more competitors.

This is one method, but the massive natural monopoly over search and 'gateway to the Internet' isn't something that is particularly well served by market competition, as we can see here. If we break up google, another monopoly will develop. If we prevent monopolies from developing through strict marketshare percentages, companies will hover at the brink of these %s and lobby and bribe politicians to remove the rules. Which is what they have just done in other media markets, recently. So long as you allow the organizations to be driven by private profit, you will have to struggle against the natural market impulse for every company to exert absolute dictatorial control over as much as possible and expand its power, every moment, every year, every election, at all costs.

You should address the root of the problem (capitalism) not all the little symptoms. Require that companies that provide these public goods be run democratically, transparently by their workers as a public co-op. Nationalize them and make them all open source. There are other solutions.
I don't know about that subjectiveness. A lot of people masturbate.
The network effect.

You have the give your drivers a reason to use your app instead of uber.

You have to give riders a reason to use your app instead of uber.

The two reasons have to be good enough to build a large enough network for the rideshare system to work.
They have released their compilers - you can get them right now. They're just not free or open source.
Well, all of that is really just Hungarian Notation [0] with typesetting rather than extra characters, so it's not 100% necessary to fully understand -- just look at the definition again. The exception is standard sets, like the Reals or Natural Numbers etc. (which use the double strike through). But that's pretty standardized.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
Bumping blocksize is contentious hardfork because not everybody is convinced it is the right way to scale (and i somewhat agree). Segwit otoh was implemented as backward compatible soft fork. Segwit2x is a deliberate attack on the network and i’m happy it failed.

Overall everybody got what they wanted - big blockers have BCH, conservatives have original BTC plus the capacity increase from segwit.
Well if you do find someone who is working on that please let me know, the future wave of semi startups will thank you :)
Very cool! Ahhh this could have been a nice Christmas break side project but it seems it's not available until Dec.31st :(
One great way to get curl commands is the Chrome Developer Tools Network tab's 'Copy > Copy as curl' right click menu option.
It's true, I no longer see my gun channels in my recommended videos
Perhaps the right believes that the "consensus reality" which is just another word for what the herd thinks, is moving further and further from the truth. That kind of thing happens all the time.
It makes total sense until a human named Alexa joins your team.

There are humans named Siri too (it's a diminuitive of Sigrid) and, given the peculiar conventions of Thai nicknames, it's doubtless there's more than one human named Google.

You really can't win, short of being able to change your voice assistant's name (the humans won't change for a damn machine!).
The guts of the device are irrelevant to the user of the device. That was true of the original and it's true of this replica. As long as you can't tell the behavior from the original, and it's not relying on a connection to a larger system somewhere else, I'd consider it a success.
Never heard of it but the product looks pretty compelling. Is there any provision for running multiple apps on one server instance?
Can I save these documents on a dying machine from oblivion?
The problem is how do you get the private key engraved without sharing it with the jeweler or whoever?
https://github.com/jwdeitch/pg_migrate

Postgres migration tool; super simple and lightweight :)
The dying breed of craftsmen behind the tools that make science possible (2016)
YMMV. But I do this when I sell cars. I try to be up front with every issue I can, and take loads of pictures. Not only does it save people time, but I can basically say, "Well, I've factored all these things in already" and it's harder for them to use something like "there's a dent here" in negotiation, because I'm the one who brought it to the table. They also see me as more honest in my experience. Car sells faster.

On the flip side, I can only really get the true value of the car. If I didn't list the issues I could probably inflate the price and only discount on what they happen to find during inspection.
Thanks for the link! I've stumbled upon this site few years ago. Recently I tried to find it again, but failed.

This is such a great resource.

Edit: what brought me originally to the site was this - http://spritesmods.com/?art=macsearm&page=10

Mac SE with guts replaced by ARM board. With deyellowed chassis, functional screen, keyboard and mouse. Also a mod of diskette.
> Additional code always means additional bugs

What additional code?

> You can certainly avoid these things and use C++, but you can also avoid them by using C.

Right, but what you can't get with C is destructors and move/ownership semantics.

> I do think (possibly for the same reason) that it is harder to write correct C++ code than it is to write correct C code

The ability to write typesafe data structures with move/ownership semantics and specified interfaces while being a superset of C would lead some to say that this is not true.
I've worked with Oleksiy while he was hashing out this process the first time and it was definitely a colossal effort, which without his dedication would've not been possible. Definitely the guide to reference if you are going through a similar process; or maybe just call him up and upload some evergreen to help your company succeed :)
That is certainly true, but they were arguing whether it should be regulated. And regulation or not are always political.
Well FB owns IG so perhaps FB the company will become a holding company for all social products worth anything in the future.
There's a lot to agree with and disagree with here.

Sia is currently (barely) working and was built for $1.25M, so $250M clearly isn't needed (except maybe for marketing, which generally costs more than development).

I don't think the approach of "the simplest thing that could possibly work" applies to the decentralized/blockchain space. When money is at stake, attackers come out of the woodwork.
>>We used youtube’s official “DATA API v3” to get the top 25 related videos for 100k videos. We then scraped the related videos for information relating to monetisation status, views, etc. The corpus containing information of the scraped videos were then analysed in detail.

Anyone knows any such list readily available? I have been wanting to Scrape 100k video URL videos for my own content classification. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
That's the highest requested feature! Should be available in Q1 of 2018.
Hey, great question!
(i am filecoin/ipfs/etc employee)

I am going to give some definitions (please chip in case of my misunderstanding)
- “nobody likes you”: reputation is not central to Filecoin, so I guess you cannot be “not liked”. Whether you are trusted or not, the clients will pay you only if you have provided a proof of having offered a service. Note: Filecoin has pseudonyms, if for some reasons your address is not liked, you can create a new Filecoin address. So every “not liked” case eventually reduces to being a new user. TL;DR I will assume you mean “a new user”.
- “low-performance node”: Filecoin does not require special hardware, but off-the-shelf CPUs, and whether you have 1 or 1000, it should not matter in practice (all the operations are sequential). I wouldn’t consider the amount of storage as “performance”, your node can always participate as a small miner. If by low performance you mean faulty hardware, then you are really not contributing to the network. So I am going to consider “low-performance” to mean slow network connection.

Now, if you are a new node without much track record and with a bad internet connection, you could:
- participate as a Storage Miner in the Storage Market (your job will be mainly storing the file and generate proofs offline that you have stored the file, you will need just enough internet connection to be updated with the head of the chain) and every now and then (even with a bad network connection), submit the proofs to the chain. In addition, if you are happy listening to new transactions and have enough storage (unless you consider yourself REALLY lucky), then you can participate to mining Filecoin and earn tokens from transaction fees and mining rewards. My strategy would be to start with lower prices than the rest of the network, if you are also mining, block reward could cover for your lower prices
- participate as a Retrieval Miner, you might not be that successful in comparison to fast speed super connected nodes that have incredible amount of storage, BUT you could try to store and serve “rare” files or serve to nodes that are closer to you (since you could become their node of preference)

I took advantage to explain my reasoning so that others could find this helpful too :)
I will take a look at the paper, thanks for sharing, there is a lot the community can learn from the first wave of p2p file sharing.
I've heard anecdotes that this is indeed the case at Uber. Lots of senior engineers / techs are burned out but can't afford to quit without abandoning their options. Many of them don't do any work at all, and Uber is fine with it because they don't want a mass exodus before the IPO. This is not uncommon around the Valley, but I hear it's especially problematic at Uber. I'm sure it's a continued drag on earnings, but probably not big enough to make a dent in the driver payment gap.

But I honestly doubt that Uber will ever make it to IPO; at least not an IPO that pays off employees in any meaningful way. Their business model is basically "buy for $10 and sell for $8" -- it's fundamentally flawed, and they're about to get a whole bunch of competition in the form of self-driving fleet management. New challengers wouldn't have the overhead of Uber's legacy infrastructure / driver incentives / etc. and much of the tech that made Uber unique has been commoditized. I doubt their IPO will even cover the late-stage investment they've received; much of their valuation was based on brand value which has been thoroughly destroyed by recent scandals.