skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant excerpt:

"The Chinese government is building one of the world’s most sophisticated, high-tech systems to keep watch over its citizens, including surveillance cameras, facial-recognition technology and vast computers systems that comb through terabytes of data. Central to its efforts are the country’s biggest technology companies, which are openly acting as the government’s eyes and ears in cyberspace.

Companies including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc., are required to help China’s government hunt down criminal suspects and silence political dissent. Their technology is also being used to create cities wired for surveillance.

This assistance is far more extensive than the help Western companies extend to their governments, and the requests are almost impossible to challenge, a Wall Street Journal examination of Chinese practices shows.

Unlike American companies, which often resist U.S. government requests for information, Chinese ones talk openly about working with authorities. Tencent Chief Executive Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, and Alibaba founder Jack Ma both have voiced support for private companies working with the government on law enforcement and security issues.

“The political and legal system of the future is inseparable from the internet, inseparable from big data,” Alibaba’s Mr. Ma told a Communist Party commission overseeing law enforcement last year. He said technology will soon make it possible to predict security threats. “Bad guys won’t even be able to walk into the square,” he said.

In practice, China’s internet giants, which have benefited from trade policies shielding them from foreign competition, have little choice but to cooperate in a country where the Communist Party controls both the legal system and the right to function as a business."
If Judge Alsop said "you covered this up" it would be a statement of fact. He would follow that statement with serious sanctions and the lawyers involved in the coverup would be in serious risk of being disbarred.

When he says "On the surface it looks like you covered this up" he is putting Uber and their lawyers on notice that they had better convince him that they did not in fact cover it up or their world will be filled with hurt.

Update: See "Ethics in Discovery: Where the Rubber Meets the Road"[1] page 17

In an extreme example of discovery related misconduct experienced by the Commission, the defendant intentionally withheld relevant evidence through tampering with documents, lodging baseless objections to production, purposefully misleading the court and the parties, and
delaying in responding to permissible discovery requests.

Sounds familiar... and Fry's got hit with some serious sanctions (trial sanctions, not the fines).

Ultimately, the Court struck the affirmative defense to the harassment claim, deemed improperly withheld documents presumptively admissible at trial, ordered a jury instruction that one of the justifications for firing a plaintiff was pretextual, permitted EEOC to argue adverse inference at trial, and imposed $100,000 in sanctions ($25,000 to each of three plaintiffs and $25,000 to the court). In addition, the Court appointed a special master to review and report to the court about defendant’s compliance with outstanding discovery requests.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/labor_law...
You should try making the same video with a parser written in Golang and see if that get's demonetized as well.
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My interpretation is that he would disagree with your definition of 'socially useful' in regards to black market purchases.

I'm not saying Bitcoin doesn't provide a value of exchange, after all, it could be said that the storage of gold for holding value is also not a 'socially useful' function.
this would be an extremely dirty dataset, as there is no incentive to not put your videos in as many categories as possible. if you can only have one, people will still put it in the most popular category a large fraction of the times I'm sure, not the correct one
I think they do not understand it well. Or, they do understand, but it just rubs them the wrong way. Probably because they are either ardent money printing Keynesians or all-powerful-state loving social-democrats.
Depends if its treated as coinage or as a good - I don't pay CGT if I buy gold coins and sell it for a gain when it goes up in the UK for example
same for me. I don't even want to move it out of the exchange because it costs too much.
I'm sorry, are you arguing that it is all right for Google to abuse it's monopoly position because it is a monopoly? At least, from the advertiser's position?
Feedp arse r maybe?
A very large percentage of the popular packages have ceased to concern themselves with Hack compatibility, so as the languages continue to diverge, the benefit of Hack taking advantage of the PHP package ecosystem will decrease.
For the video I uploaded yesterday, in the source for the video I can see:

"excluded_ads": "46=14_14; 59=14_14; 76=2_2_1,2_2_4; 102=1_1,1_3,2_1,2_3; 106=1_1,1_2_1,1_3,2_1,2_2_1,2_2_4,2_3,14_14,17_2_1,17_2_4"

EDIT: This may just be the generic variable in their source code, I'm not sure how to get the value specific to my video.
> Centralized institutions do provide a safety net, but is there anything necessarily wrong with a group of people saying they don't want or need that?

Not at all! However, within the context of cryptocurrencies, I can't help but note that there seems to be a certain tendency to blindly idealize decentralization, and especially to blindly demonize regulation, without giving any thought as to why things are what they are right now.

> regarding the Mt. Gox situation. You present it as something that should have never happened in civilized society, but I think it's growing pains on the way to something better.

Here, I disagree. Growing pains are no excuse for being as reckless as they were. If your clients entrusted you with hundreds of millions of their USD (either directly, or through Bitcoin), then I don't see "but startup" as a valid excuse; you owe them a certain amount of diligence in your conduct.

Note that this isn't investors losing hundreds of millions on some innovation gamble (à la Uber), but on an operation where there are literally hundreds of years of precedent to learn from, namely: exchanges.
You would think that these people would understand that bitcoin, from a financial perspective, behaves like disembodied gold. A store of value outside of legal control.

So much so that, very likely that's exactly what its creators hoped to achieve. You mine it after all.
The IRS has a page on it https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidance with this linked pdf https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
"Past performance is no indicator of future returns"

New things come along, and they don't have to make sense in the old worldview in order to be good. So the analysis of 60 year olds, even the really smart ones, is less valuable than it sometimes appears.

HOWEVER -- the opposite is also true, "flavors of the month" come and go, and proving worldwide utility takes more than convincing a lot of people to buy for a period of time.

It's going to take years to see the outcome and who is right. Humans are absolutely fucking terrible at predicting the future. Don't buy the hype.

Do your own research, run your own experiments, and hedge your own risk.
> Bitcoin's continued growth requires the addition of new coins to pay for the cost of verifying transactions

Huh?
Citing the black market is not the best evidence for utility. Global remittances is clearly a market that overlaps very well with Bitcoin and I would argue that Bitcoin can achieve the same features at lower cost.

However the skeptics are correct that this particular use can be satisfied by very many other cryptocoins, so it's not unique to Bitcoin.
Fusion 360 has a beta website based version that should work on linux.
In my state goods purchased from out of state are subject to use tax which has some differences with sales tax.

(like you can pay an income based amount to cover small purchases up to some total rather than calculating the exact tax due)
What would they use instead? Perhaps the people you know stopped buying drugs from the internet. People in general haven’t.
I used Evernote for years before bothering with the web clipper, but when I started running into dead links in my years-old notes I realized it was essential. Now I use it pretty often to make sure that a note doesn't become impossible to understand because its context is gone. It's also great for recipes, which I often find on personal blogs and other sites where you can't depend on a link being permanent.
Depending on what you use to write there is probably a live preview. Vim does it. :)
Please don't make personal attacks here.
When "conservative speakers" has expanded to include literal white supremacists it's somehow hard to empathize with the plight of the conservative mindshare among the educated.

The first amendment gives citizens the right to hold ideas free of government prosecution; it does not include any mandate for the population to buy into any of those ideas. Trying to sell a philosophy of "fuck you got mine" to young people might be an uphill battle.
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The utility of Bitcoin, and the value it provides right now, is almost entirely the returns it provides relative to a fiat currency during the period of hyper-valuation.

If it fails to continue growing relative to the perception of the people buying it, it's value on the market will plummet, and that will likely cause a run on the exchanges.
If many of these originate with some large player like an exchange or a miner, shouldn't we perhaps be able to trace it back to that place, and notify them. They might of course already be looking at it now that it has been made public. Actually, you'd think that they would have noticed their money getting lost.
They do understand it but this disagreement masks a deeper issue -- they think economics functions just as it did some years ago and others disagree. With differing underlying assumptions, both sides' arguments are rational.
I am setting everything in my home up with it's own email account and gear.

Additionally - use something like a raspberry pi or an appliance that will remain with the home. If I decide to rent it out, or leave it behind, its not tied to me, but is still manageable.
That seems like a reasonable idea to me but I think part of the answer is that a mind boggling amount of videos are uploaded to Youtube every second. Tracking categorization abuse seems straightforward in theory but good luck automating that reliably over millions of videos especially when you know that some very dedicated people will try their best to game the algorithm in their favor.

People will start using the "blood and violence" category exclusively if it means they're less likely to be demonetized, rendering it useless. Or the other way around: if this category means they get fewer views they'll try their best to be always nearly avoid it, except of course it can get very subjective and some people are going to be flagged "blood and violence" even though they argue it's not that violent and channel XYZ did worse and didn't get tagged etc...

When it come to moderating Youtube, and given the ridiculous amount of content hosted there, you shouldn't think "how would I do it" but rather "how would I design an algorithm that would do that". And suddenly it becomes a lot less obvious. You can't teach algorithms common sense (yet).
But a loan is an enforceable contact. You would have to marry the loan somehow with something that would give it teeth. This is an interesting problem.
I believe your assessment of "government ban" is a good bet. People forget that governments always want to control the money; I believe they'll let bitcoin go for a while to gain national acceptance - and then outlaw it in favor of a self created currency. Then, since having all money be digital and tracked is useful to a govt, they'll introduce a country wide one.
I mean, in the case of the whistleblower, I'm not sure what you do in this case if you're them aside from this.
Which is why there should be a law against this type of behavior. There probably is; I'm a programmer, not a lawyer
> you would have benefited from the tax of previous generations so why should you have a free ride?

Is there another choice?
The series before this one was about Golang and they all got demonetized too.
This is actually a fantastic interview and I'm surprised it isn't higher up.

I remember first encountering CoderPad a few years ago and being immediately sold on it as a development hiring manager. It's an excellent product and I'm not at all surprised to see it achieve such success.

I actually ended up finding a security issue in it back then, and Vincent had it resolved within two hours of me reporting it, which I was extremely impressed with.
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I'm sure you know The Man evolved the Internet from ARPANET so they clearly knew of its existence. Unless you meant to say that The Man didn't think much of tracking people on the Internet until it become economically viable when it reached critical mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_In...
CGT is very high in the USA compared to the UK and the rest of the EU - which discourages investment as opposed to buying safe T Bills or Guilts
Good money and bad money are well defined concepts in the context of greshams law
As the American right-wing moves further right and further way from participating in consensus reality, it should be no surprise they are increasingly less welcome in spaces dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

If you reject not only the politics of your opponents, but the value of fact itself, why should they listen to or accommodate you?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/a...
Monero.
It seems like those users were at the highest levels of Uber. Travis and Corey were directly communicating, as has come out already.
>>>https://www.recode.net/2017/8/15/16151986/travis-kalanick-an...

So, there are a lot of legit questions as to why Lewandowski was using it to communicate? With whom was he speaking? When and why did he decide to use self destroying communication?

I'd imagine the best practice for hiring a employee that could have a potential conflict of interest or be in violation of an employment agreement would be to document the great lengths the new company went to make sure there was no IP violations and keep records of everything. Though, one could argue that Uber saw value in destroying evidence and create doubting, where the truth would most certainly be damning.
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> there is no incentive to not put your videos in as many categories as possible.

We are talking about how to incentivize people here... why suddenly decide that there's magically "no incentive" for something?

Youtube is free to also de-incentivize people for using the wrong category.
> to tax large university endowments and make other tax and spending changes that might adversely affect universities

Why shouldn't major universities pay their fair share to help society? Most of these elite universities literally pocket billions of dollars at the end of the fiscal year. Major universities have essentially evolved into corporations.
I'd guess that approximately zero Nobel-winning economists are keen on the idea of proof-of-work replacing trust. That is the ultimate issue here.

For the important transactions you mention, presumably an escrow service is needed. This reintroduces the requirement for trust in a third party.
You can't accuse GP of twisting the 'self destructing message' app thing when the original source says it was for malicious purposes (you could arguably accuse the original source, except...). I'm also highly skeptical that it is at all legal to use such an app for communications you are legally required to preserve because you are aware of the possibility of a lawsuit.

> Jacobs: Uber's use of encrypted ephemeral systems was dessigned to protect sensitive info and ensure we didn’t create a paper trail that wd come back to haunt the co in any potential civil or criminal investigation. [0]

> Judge quotes Jacob's atty letter: Uber employees went to Pittsburgh to educate the AV group about ephemeral, encrypted communications "to prevent Uber's unlawful schemes from seeing the light of day" [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/CSaid/status/935555627815813120

[1] https://twitter.com/CSaid/status/935569588309327878
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A crock. If the CEO gets a bonus, and everybody else no raise and some layoffs, how exactly can that be called compensation from investors?

Wages and bonuses are set by CEO decree. And they, across the board, set them as low as they can get away with so they hit their quarterly numbers and get their bonus.
they've done so much gratuitously evil stuff, the good faith is gone
> I know at lease two people that transferred their money in to BTC before filing for bankruptcy to side their assets.

Hopefully actions like the above continue and those two people go to prison.
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I've been trying to follow along with the article in Python and nothing is working. The article says that private key "KyTxSACvHPPDWnuE9cVi86kDgs59UFyVwx2Y3LPpAs88TqEdCKvb" is "4300d94bef2ee84bd9d0781398fd96daf98e419e403adc41957fb679dfa1facd" in raw bytes, but decoding base58 and hexlifying gives me something completely different:

In [17]: hexlify(base58.b58decode("KyTxSACvHPPDWnuE9cVi86kDgs59UFyVwx2Y3LPpAs88TqEdCKvb"))
Out[17]: '804300d94bef2ee84bd9d0781398fd96daf98e419e403adc41957fb679dfa1facd012774e1c4'

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Perhaps we should outlaw dollars for its environmental cost, the fact that it inflates (which encourages consumerism instead of conservation) and the fact that a huge percent of it enables immoral wars.
Eh, I'm not an expert on this, but as I understand this project is about firmware that needs to be flashed onto devices. The kind of thing where people in the old days formatted a floppy disk and booted from that. So I think your comparison is incorrect.

I would expect more clients to pop up once this gets a bit more traction.
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China's art factories produce both art and a series of articles about the production of mass-made art.

Every few weeks there is a story about this here.
Do you have time to link the specific product if it has been working well for you? I personally wouldn't even mind a referral link though most get downvoted, especially if they lack a disclaimer.

Something that can reliably connect to random/miscellaneous projects would be really useful to me!
Please avoid getting too wrapped up in the metaphor. You don't mine it, there's no TNT involved, that's just a word.

And it may behave "like" gold in some respects but in many other crucial ones it does not.

BTC is not a useful raw material in any industrial process. It requires a P2P network and extensive global infrastructure, so it won't still be sitting there inert in 1,000 years, when the Power is out, in a crisis. BTC can't be alloyed with other cryptocurrencies to produce other value added products.

You can't put BTC leaf on your fancy pastries. There are no other downstream businesses that specialize in assaying the purity of your bitcoin.
Whenever a person owns two kinds of things which are money-like (fungible, liquid, universal) they will prefer to pay using the bad money. Bad means things like "diluted gold content", reckless behaviour of the emitting central bank, etc.

In the case of a widely adopted blockchain like bitcoin, "bad" could mean something like "technically inferior". Or in terms of tail risk: "hacked" or "major bug discovered" or "encryption broken".

These tail risks caused by blockchain's complexity would be a sudden event. Unlike e.g. USD or EUR becoming bad money, which is something that unfolds slowly and publicly over many years.
Bitcoin isn't even a good currency for the black market anymore, there are other cryptocurrencies that provide more anonymity
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No, the title is 'I is="the walrus"', which lacks the angle brackets and, therefore, any hint it has anything to do with HTML.
I don't know anything about this, but it might help if you provide information on what you want to do with the data.
I used this tool and was able to follow along with the ones I checked: https://github.com/matja/bitcoin-tool

Most likely the discrepancy is that you're using raw base58 instead of base58check

$ ./bitcoin-tool --input-type private-key --input-format hex --input 4300d94bef2ee84bd9d0781398fd96daf98e419e403adc41957fb679dfa1facd --output-format base58check --output-type private-key-wif --network bitcoin --public-key-compression compressed
KyTxSACvHPPDWnuE9cVi86kDgs59UFyVwx2Y3LPpAs88TqEdCKvb
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Shopping with cryptocurrency has always seemed safer to me, personally.

I keep all my BTC/LTC/ETH in Coinbase wallets, and whenever I want to send money from those wallets I need to go through multiple 2FA prompts. My debit/credit cards have never required anything more than a static number to be used online.
This is just the way Judges do sarcasm
Good point: Mbed OS is only for ARM-based processors. The main difference lies in the vast number of drivers it offers, which is the reason why you already have 100+ supported boards today. In comparison, FreeRTOS would run on any MPU but without drivers you won't go far.
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I'm surprised that you were able to save more money in London than Budapest.

Rents in London are prohibitively expensive. Did you share a place?

In Toronto my min-expenses swallow 50% of my salary.
A good example of how it was supposed to work - it really is hard to figure out where the ship is actually heading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage#/media/File:...
Commodity exchanges are actually largely unregulated in the US. The existence of a large complicated federal law called the "Commodity Exchange Act" may at first blush make you think otherwise, but the CEA establishes rules for futures exchanges (including commodity futures exchanges), not commodity exchanges.
My point is mostly that it that Jupyter far from as bad as spreadsheets (at least commonly used implementations).

Correctness of machine learning is a complicated problem generally.
Richard Hughes works for Red Hat - I think they are sponsoring his time:

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/
Nice! Argentina had currency controls and this effect happened immediately.

Gresham's law could happen if the governments...banned bitcoin!
Bitcoin doesn't care if economics laureates don't like it.
Why would the same principle not apply to any situation where a person owns two kinds of money (both fungible, liquid, universally accepted), regardless of exchange rate rules? People will always prefer to hoard ("save") the better of the two and pay ("get rid of") using the worse of the two.
This.

There is likely very little USD in any of the major exchanges, they are all almost certainly running a fractional reserve given recent price hikes.

When the Tether nonsense implodes there'll be a bank run on all exchanges and major liquidity crunch.

There's basically no wait to safely profit from this other than being out of the market.
Hyperbitcoinization is not something any "traditional" economist will like.