skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I disagree with you on the overall direction, but I guess the question here is how easy it would be to opt out of this sort of thing in China, given the extent of their "great firewall".

At present, in Western nations, it is somewhat easy to, say, self-host certain social media platforms (from Wordpress to Mastodon) for friends and family and whatnot that could be used for more private, less advertiser-monitored social media interaction. Assuming you get buy in among your friends, this pretty much avoids issues with advertiser and employer snooping that you have on large social media sites. You can then keep your Facebooks and Twitters for your "public face" (or ditch them entirely).

I don't know if the same applies in China.
This is what I don't understand. In the hypothetical case where we switch to using bitcoin won't early adopters be the only people with money? What about the 99.9(9?)% of the population who don't own any bitcoins?
> “[c]ontrols exist in production environments that render the described technique ineffective [..]"

That's a pretty naive look at penetration testing. Look, we have controls, so that CAN'T happen. Right.
The coins are there but since the private key for the wallet that is assigned ownership of them is lost they're effectively gone.

They could in theory be 'reclaimed' with a majority of mining power but it's hard to tell if coins are lost or their owners are just idle.
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Indeed. I didn't think about that, but given how gophers are into code generation, this could happen.
Is this really that surprising? To me, it just seems to be mirroring wealth inequality. 63% of total private wealth in America is owned by the 1%[1]. I'm sure the top 1,000 have a significant amount of that 63%.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/the-u-s-i...
same here. i work great in teams, masters in computer science, do really well in kaggle competitions, I understand when to use the algorithms, how they work, etc.

but in the very few ds interviews I had, I was tanked as soon I got asked questions like: whats the formula for a T test. I know what the test is, and when its not appropriate to apply it, but I don't memorize those kinds of formulas. the field is just too big to do that
How about on commuter rail? In DC, you can use a laptop on the commuter lines from Maryland and Virginia. You certainly cannot use a laptop on Metro, however.
Because that's how `jarsigner` (the Java application) signs. The code signature was fixed in Android 7.0.
Seems author has added an update after 6 years:

"..Updated 2015-09-25: So, about six years later, people are still reading this. I'm not sure how to feel about this; Looking at it now, it's incoherent, badly argued, and a lot of the details are simply wrong. But 1000 hits a month indicate that people still get value out of it."

But this article link is still quite handy for random proof of Go badness.
I fail to see what's incorrect about the title. The fine was for publishing a technical report about red-light cameras while not being a licensed engineer. You're making it seem like they are unrelated events.
That was also my impression. It's kind of ironic that a Data Science/Strategist writing would be so heavily opinionated and have so little in term of data.
Yes. And from my former state:

http://abc7ny.com/traffic/new-jersey-drivers-get-huge-christ...

> Since then, a federal lawsuit settlement awarded partial refunds to nearly 500,000 violators, and this year a computer glitch voided more than 10,000 violation notices.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/01/newark_netted_over...

> While the cameras in Newark have been turned off, Redflex continues to face a series of legal battles.

> The company’s former CEO was indicted in August on federal corruption charges, alleging she bribed a retired Chicago official in exchange for assistance with the company’s red light camera contracts in that city.

> In a federal lawsuit, a fired company executive has claimed Redflex provided lavish gifts and bribes to government officials in 13 states, including New Jersey, to secure new contracts.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/09/meadowlands_tr...

> With the research conflicting, Fairfax County, Va., sought other ways to reduce red-light violations and related crashes. It found that lengthening an amber light by 1.5 seconds cut red-light violations by 96 percent - a greater reduction than red-light cameras produce. But that's a problem if what you're looking for is ticket revenue.

And I could not find it -- but I clearly remember a Newark/Trenton mayor accidentally saying "We really need the money" when trying to speak for re-instating the cameras.

And then there's the pesky Constitution, which municipalities get around by making the violations civil instead of criminal. Less burden of proof.
From the top of my head:

- Calculator bullshit.

- Wifi not really disabled.

- UX hell in iphone X.

Only from the last 2-3 months.
Not trying to defend Roger Ver, but that is an awful interpretation. He wasn't shaming anybody for being poor.

He was just trying to emphasize, what in his view is a discrepancy between what some people preach and what they do.
Nope, it said "portion". It didn't say the size of said portion.
Right, but being in Ketosis is a precursor to ketoacidosis
Btc prices can still being manipulate by whales? (Honest question)

I know shitcoins can, because the Market Cap is low and it is easier for whales to manipulate the market.

But... This also happen with BTC now days? There are millionaires who puts all their BTC in one exchange? Jesus.. they are crazy.
That's why I would be worried about investing in Bitcoin futures. I could not find any information on how the settlement price will be calculated, but I assume it would be easy to manipulate the price for a short time around the settlement date.
That's also how I explain it to people on both sides; Japanese society basically has the extremes pulled in on both sides, which results in a lot of benefits, but also some downsides. And it applies to a lot of aspects of society, like prosperity, politics, altruism, etc.
Committed ideological Bitcoin supporters commonly believe in a network effect race condition spiral they call 'hyperbitcoinization' which models a world where a sort of event horizon in market adoption had been crossed, and everyone on Earth is forced to use bitcoin either directly or indirectly.

In this techno-feudalist scenario, being one of the Bitcoin 1% or even 10% means the world is at your feet, and if you've maintained good opsec, nobody may even know how much of their lives are your property.
Bigger story: some CME brokers will offer access to their retail traders. NinjaTrader (US) and RBC (Canada) intend to.
There's something that must be mentioned here: there are multiple visions for what bitcoin should be. Probably with much oversimplification, but as unbiased as I can be:

One side wants bitcoin to be a decentralized store of value, untraceable, unseizable, a safe heaven for your wealth that's completely permissionless to use.

The other side wants bitcoin to be a currency for the day-to-day life that is cheap to use, a global currency to escape the (possibly shitty) fiat issued by your state and the banking system. Basically money for "the other 6 billion people" or "the unbanked" or whoever else that needs it.

The two visions don't contradict each other, however they have different priorities, and they make different technological compromises when faced with a problem (decentralized scaling).

This doesn't take away anything from your question, but one has to consider this divide when looking for answers.
Anyone who has a miner can generate bitcoin. Only the FED can create new USD.
Christ are these people just looking for attention or what? Why don't they take a second to follow some kind of responsible disclosure policy?

Plus you can get bug bounty money probably if you do this the correct way.
I came to say basically the same thing - only your reply is much better worded and detailed than mine would have been.
I did something similar too - I was typing in the password while the Mac was being unlocked by the watch using that unlock-with-the-watch feature.

I was used to hammering return a few times to wake the machine up, then typing in the password, then hitting return again.

The few times I hammered return woke the machine, the watch unlocked the mac and the password plus the return key went into the app that had focus which for me also was Slack.

Is it possible that this user had the same thing happen to them? When I disable the watch unlocking, I can't make the password go anywhere but into the login screen (10.13.1 here with last weeks security update applied)
So in order for libertarian society to work as desired we first have to... evenly distribute the wealth? I don't think we'll find any libertarians taking that position.
What can a technologist do about climate change? (Bret Victor)
I understand the mechanics of the different races(Zerg for life) and you're right that it would completely remove the current "map selection meta" which I would consider as an important strategic part of the series games.
I don't completely disagree but I will try to at least bring up some contrary views.

> Untraceable money

Bitcoin is pseudoanonymous with it's public ledger, hardly untraceable. Look into Monero for a proper anonymous coin.

> Untraceable money means that corruption and tax evasion would be easier than ever.

A contrary point is that today corruption and tax evasion is only for the very rich, see the paradise papers for example. In a sick way this could give the common man more power and maybe make the world a little more balanced.

Also tax collection is already heavily based on social pressure and doing the right thing. It's not obvious that the threat of getting caught, compared to the social stigma, weighs more.

> Deflation means that the rich will get richer doing nothing while the poor won't be able to get a loan to bootstrap their businesses. Forget about trickle down economics, this is downright "trickle up".

I also don't like extreme deflation, but I also don't like the inflation based system we have today.

Inflation basically eats away at your savings. This is a bigger problem for everyday poor people compared to the rich as they have more investment options. Their buffer they hold in banks or in cash is smaller percentage wise, they can more easily invest in housing and they can more easily grow their capital as money breads money. The problem with rich getting richer is already present.

Without inflation loans would harder and would combat the very real problems with too much loans (housing bubble, student loan crisis, ...). It could also help to reign in fractional banking as it would get riskier/harder.
As far as I remember, there was already a Powershell script as part of their deployment mechanism in place to deploy the certificates in the first place. Just the certificate provided to this script was a wildcard one.

I agree on the reverse proxy part, but am not familiar enough with the product and Microsofts history to comment on that.
Most people not in tech or infosec have never heard of and are totally uneducated about the concept of responsible disclosure. Maybe it needs to be added to high school computer class?
> Imperialism is not capitalism, they are orthogonal concepts.

I would argue they are very tied, but that is a much larger argument not needed here. To give the short and incomplete version, they are both derived from the idea of exploiting others for profit. The level of exploitation is just much less in capitalism and masked behind the guise of fairness, ignoring power dynamics, original capital, and exponential growth considerations, etc. Again, this argument is very incomplete as stated here, but they are not orthogonal concepts. How much of a connection they have is a very valid debate, one not needed here fully though.

> extreme poverty has been shrinking. And now we have the mechanisms for almost anybody to get out of it.

Getting better does not mean that everyone can get out of poverty. We also haven't gotten that better. Most of Africa is still being exploited and most living there do not have any realistic means to get out of it. The countries as a whole still struggle on a macroeconomic level to get out of poverty due to the exact exponential growth issue seen in Bitcoin but with general investment.

The US is not representative of the rest of the world, and also is still far from equal opportunity. While we're on that subject, good luck easily buying cryptocurrencies (accessible to a non-tech audience) while living outside the US. Even my Canadian friends struggle getting Coinbase to let them.

Bitcoin is only really accessible to the tech community, an already privileged community.
If they are good stewards of the money and invest it well then they will keep it and we all gain from their investments. If not they lose it and someone, hopefully more responsible will have it. In the long run the right people (those who can make profitable investments) will have control over capital.
Sure, but what's the importance of that fact?
No one has classified Bitcoin as a security.

Per Wikipedia:

>The U.S. Treasury classified bitcoin as a convertible decentralized virtual currency in 2013.[1]
>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC, classified bitcoin as a commodity in September 2015.
>Per IRS, bitcoin is taxed as a property.[2]

[1]https://www.fincen.gov/news/testimony/statement-jennifer-sha...

[2]https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidan...

In the US it is classified either as a currency, piece of property or a commodity, and as of Monday it will also be available as a futures contract of a commodity.

Neither commodities nor futures contracts are consider securities, as they fail the clause of the Howey Test that would make them dependent on a single entity or management group.

This is why commodity futures trade is managed by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trade Commission) rather than the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission).

In fact, while some other tokens and ICOs have been found to be securities both in the US and abroad, no country has formally noted Bitcoin as a security - many treat it as a currency under a new classification for eMoney, Digital Currency or Virtual Currencies.
> The top 1000 holders of gold
> don't have anywhere near 40%
> of the market.

You're right, they have a lot more than that. Total world gold reserves are around 30K tons. The US alone has 8K tons, Germany 3K, IMF 3K, Italy 2.5K etc.

So just the to 2 holders of Gold have almost 40% of the market, and the top 10 have 80%.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve
I knew I shouldn't have picked 'rm -rf /' as a password
It's nvidia. You get CUDA and CuDNN, which means the standard suite of ML programs. AMD has no equivalent offering.
Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?
Help me understand why this strategy would fail.

Let's assume I got 100M$ with me.

Step 1: Purchase 70M$ worth of bitcoins.

Step 2: Spend 30M$ marketing bitcoins as the next big thing

Given that bitcoin is a pretty good product, the additional marketing would help convince people to invest in it.

Step 3: Convince 1000 other 100M$+ net-worth individuals to do this.

Step 4: Let it surge. Wait till the combined worth of 1000 investments above is <30% of the market. Pull out.

At this point there is about 30B$ of marketing budget. 3 times of what Samsung spent on marketing in 2016.

Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this. At this point, it's worth mentioning that 'Bitcoin is a great product' unlike the former case.

Doing above is possible with any public stock but it's probably illegal. With Bitcoin I am assuming there is no such check.

So what's stopping people from doing this?

Anyone else thinks this is how it's happening already?

Related article:

[1000 people own 40% of the market]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market
Designing Data‑Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable and Maintainable systems - Martin Kelppmann
https://dataintensive.net/

I have recommended this to everyone.
I'm interested in this because I know PE exams exist and there are licensing bodies for engineers. But what I've heard from most people is that they are a waste of time and money for someone holding an engineering degree unless you are the person who rubber stamps things at the end.

Does someone who knows more about professional engineering know if this law in Oregon is uncommon?

Beyond a free speech argument, it seems like the law is a bit flawed considering other related fields like science, math, and software may not have licensing.

Also, it goes as far as saying someone can't put "engineer" on their resume with solely a degree. Seems very far off the norm.
The headline implies that. The content of the article actually only implies that it throws off Waymo's patent claims... and they did drop their patent claims related to 936.

Keep in mind, headlines are rarely written by the author of the piece. The headline writer has a very different goal than the reporter.
The United States of Soviet Russia strikes again!
What college proves is that you have the ability to think and execute on at least a 4-year horizon. Modern day devs where a "framework" is obsolete in 2 years when a new fashion comes along, will obviously not see the value.
I think it's accurate. It was clearly retribution for criticizing their cameras, and he was legitimately an engineer.
I misread the title and thought it said NYC Subway Time Travel Map. Boy was I disappointed.
The battle in AI
Left Slack open with focus, allowed MBP to sleep, woke with space bar, login field had focus, tried with closing lid and opening while Slack was open and focused, again password field functioned as it should, unable to reproduce, macOS 10.13.2
The suit isn't about money. It's about having the law removed as being unconstitutional.
You've done a good job convincing me that it was a bad play. But I'm still not convinced that people would be calling it a bad play if it had worked.
Can you clarify what is your definition of "right people" in this specific case?
For the same reason they don't write about the criminal side of using fiat currency. Lots of users are criminals who sell drugs or rob people and are paid in pesky, untraceable coins and banknotes and do it just to receive those.
RE: 1, single name bespoke CDS are rarely traded nowadays especially given that more and more names are cleared now.
A lovely example of super-fast-loading 1995 webpage. Pure content. No garbage. We should find a way to get back to that.
Calculator bullshit is due to the animation of the button, and it will only show if you're really fast trying to calculate things. There are better third party calculator apps that don't have that problem and contain more features.

The wifi part, I did notice it. But, I think it's by design. When you're connected to wifi, click the wifi button on control center just disconnects your current wifi session. I've actually kinda grown to use that feature. I don't like hooking to xfinity hotspots much, so I click that away. When I get back home, phone automatically hooks back up to my wifi.

UX hell in iphone X... don't get iphone X. Or any OLED screens with burn-in issues.
You can’t change the underlying economics of a market by changing your billing model. All the billing model does is change the risk allocation between the parties. Court cases take a long time because each judge handles hundreds of cases (and civil cases take a back seat to criminal cases). Briefing on a motion, for example, might be done over a few weeks. Then the parties just sit and wait possibly for months for a decision. Trial calanders are booked years in advance.
First-ever interoperable Lightning transactions using real Bitcoin
AFAICT it'd not selling, but clearing - matching clients who wish to buy and sell, and takinga nice fee off the top.
It was a low blow. Sorry. I've been watching my uncle and father die slowly from melanomas, chunk by chunk cut out of their faces, their backs. My uncle still has a healthy deep tan.

And even last year I heard girls talk about building up a 'base tan' before summer. Roasting like rotisserie chickens under the solarium lamps.
So using one's brain requires an engineering degree now?
I worked at an open source shop where almost everyone ran Linux and used IRC for chat. For a while I made the mistake of having the screen black time lower than the screensaver timeout, so I'd unlock my screen and see my password go out in IRC. I ended up changing my password to something that looked like a shell command.
Exactly.

>At Least A Third Of All Women Murdered In The U.S. Are Killed By Male Partners

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/men-killing-women-...
Don't they also have all kinds of backdoors setup on those phones?
Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API
Yeah, you can find GTFS feeds for a lot of cities at http://transitfeeds.com/
Same here. Running 10.12.6
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is one of the better ones I've read this year. It's a fun nostalgia trip, if you played it, and it covers some interesting stuff about historical low-level game programming and quirks of early PC gaming.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0768B3PWV/
He is licensed - just not in Oregon. If I were a PE in California on vacation in Nevada, I'd still be an engineer even if I weren't licensed to practice there.
Except this dude on Twitter is. I wonder how many people in tech actually know about responsible disclosure.
I actually did speak to them. They are not hiring right now. However, good idea on using them as an entry to the network.
How are you thinking the switch would occur? It's not like the "old" currencies will suddenly lose their value, you'll be able to exchange them for a long time.

Plus, most people don't own that much currency anyway; they either get a paycheck (which can start coming in BTC) or an asset like a house, which is valuable in any currency.
This seems like a shameless money grab. Even the historical "enterprise" GPUs were never this expensive. Nvidia seems like they are just taking their new GPU design which is legitimate (Volta) and trying to cash in on the ML mania.

GPUS should be general purpose and with Nvidia throwing all their eggs in the ML basket and charging a fortune it might risk alienating their core users (gamers).
Using algorithm to commercialize everyone’s social media
I think most people have the same thought as you: They don't see how an agreement with their own insurer could stop them from suing someone else (or their insurer), but that's how Limited Tort works. You sign away your right to sue someone else if they injure you in an accident unless those injuries are extremely severe (loss of limb, death, permanent disability, etc.).

You can look up info on "piercing the tort threshold" if you're curious about specific injuries that are severe enough.
Thanks for sharing your experience!

Were you making it past the initial stage/screen interviews where every question is a buzz-word test? Were you ever interviewed by people who you'd actually work with and know what their team needs? What geographical area do you reside roughly, if I may ask?