skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fun and well-told anecdote. Maybe correlation in this case was indeed causation. But…

There's less consensus among scientists than there is on Quora. A few interviews and quotes:

* “Ecology: A world without mosquitoes”, Janet Fang, Nature, 21 July 2010. https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

* “Zika Raises the Question: Are Mosquitoes Necessary?”, Jason Bittel, National Geographic, February 7, 2016. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160207-mosquitoe...

* “What If Every Mosquito On Earth Went Extinct Tomorrow?”, Ria Misra, October 15, 2017. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160207-mosquitoe...

I'll tentatively add that this topic came up at a dinner with Pardis Sabetti https://www.sabetilab.org and George Church http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/. At the time, neither of them thought mosquitos were an essential part of any animal's food chain. Except that I'm not 100% sure we were talking about mosquitoes at the time – maybe we were talking about some species of bats. :-(

[By the way, Grayson Brown's quote “the ecological damage […] would make eradication not worth it unless there was a very serious public health emergency” may sound clueless or heartless. Charitably, maybe he was referring to eradication in developed nations only, and maybe the full interview – which I haven't listened to – makes this clear.]
Telegram is FSB's spyware. Their main office is in St. Petersburg and telegrams are still not blocked in Russia but in Russian television they always talk about ducking crazy super duper Telegram security and how difficult is to beat for FSB
Meyer's most interesting sentence is the last [1], about the extent to which he achieved his research goals at ETHZ:

[T]he story told in this article is
one of glaring, unremitted and probably
definitive failure.

What wonderful and unusual honesty.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05078.pdf#page=95
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But of course they have concluded that random mutations won't result in the same.

In fact they have not. We need to be careful of course, but Crispr when you are careful is less risky than just hoping that the next random mutation is good.
I'm from Minnesota... Mosquitoes are very bad here. Yes, there are times when you will run from a car to a house because the mosquitoes are eating.

But eradicating mosquitoes is a bad idea. My hunch is that in most cases, they act as genetic pollinators, incremental vaccinators carrying the latest news of disease so that animals can react.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730

Enjoy your trust in big parties still?
I think.it's security issue I manged to "steal" my family google acount and their freinds with their permision
you can't beleive how many I got in few seconds.
so I reported as security issue....
Going through your browser settings really is quite the hoop.
Do you remember this story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/investigation-into-...

US Gov sent $14B in cash, on pallets, shrink wrapped. All went missing...whoops. Nothing was done, nobody cared.
I think the the term “non-profit” is more about how an organization spends the money, rather than how they make it. Non profits and charities definitely bring in money through channels other than donations...
I'm not defending this person or the complete absurdity of his statements but an Op-Ed can be written by anyone, the only stipulation being that the not be affiliated with the newspapers editorial board and ethics dictate there should be a disclaimer if needed. The disclaimer here was certainly disingenuous at best though.

A more disturbing trend is that these same Ed-Op pieces are then referenced and used by shills and politicians as "proof" that this is something that the average citizen wants. See the following:

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/12/13/procter-gamble-...
The same way people should be able to discern fake news from real? Sadly, most people just aren't that discerning.
Yeah. If you have to be beer buddies with people you work with you don't understand what professionalism is.
Me neither. But now I really must find a way to work it into casual conversation.
Of course non profits are allowed to make money.
This is more of a fault of the citizen than a fault of the currency.

A US woman could of used paypal to move cash to Islamic State and it wouldn't be nearly as buzzy, but since it's bitcoin it's easy to scapegoat
same. is it just US stuff?
Can anyone verify any of this?
proof of digital asset ownership.
Netflix is big enough now. They can tell people that use ISPs that throttle Netflix they can’t have 4k content unless they switch to another ISP.
I'm both someone who believes Bitcoin is in a bubble, and someone who holds a decent amount of it.

I never liked the word "Bubble" do describe these things because they rarely pop like bubbles. Physical bubbles inflate relatively gradually and pop very rapidly. Asset bubbles usually don't. The Nasdaq bubble took roughly 6 years to inflate and 3 years to "pop". The real estate bubble took about 11 years to inflate and 6 years to fully deflate. IMHO "balloon" might be a better term.

It's possible we could wake up tomorrow in a world where Bitcoin is trading for $10, but I doubt it. Even if today ends up representing the peak in hindsight, I'm (literally) betting that it will take years to fully deflate.
A good place to promote this would be with secular homeschoolers. Those homeschooling for nonreligious reasons are often dealing with a bright kid interested in advanced subjects. They often need lay explanations that make advanced subjects approachable without dumbing it down.

A lot of stuff is intentionally overcomplicated. My oldest was furious when I finally explained to him that algebra is basically renaming the blank space in an equation as X so you can more easily move the blank space around.

He had been doing algebra in his head for years to infer stats in games while simultaneously feeling baffled and intimidated by formal math, like the concept of algebra. He had assumed all variables were like E=mc^2 where letters stood for specific concepts, not for floating "=___".
Uh, this isn't about sympathy. I'm just pointing out that once you add the levels of taxation, it's about the same as the income tax rate. What looks like favorable treatment is just the government taking multiple cuts of the profits, where for wages it just takes one bigger one.
> There is no good reason for any of these devices to have a public IP address.

That's a bold statement to make for someone who, I'm assuming, has absolutely no idea what these systems are or what the company wants to do with them.

Security policy is super easy when you don't actually have to get anything done.
This is exactly the motte and bailey argument that gets under my skin. The motte is "all media/opinions are biased", which is trivially true and easily defended, and the bailey is "this op-ed is acceptable", harder to argue, unless one uses the motte to advance it.
Funnily enough the few reported instances of actual voters voting multiple times this past election were (almost?) all people attempting to vote multiple times for Trump.

One such instance: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/2...
that would be worse
Firefox has a tendency of resetting it's settings. I think the UI calls it "Refresh", but it's basically yet-another-nagbar that we all know and hate.
is being disagreeable sufficient claim to argument?[0]
is there a profit motive in balance?[1]
people with vast weapons of control, deception and war shape reality, is it balanced?[2]

[0][1][2] no
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Foreign corporate income tax, which averages around 8%.

CA Corporafe income tax, 9%.

Federal corporate income tax, 35%.

State personal income tax, 0-12%.

Federal dividend taxes 15-20%.
What about ethical messengers like XMPP, Matrix, Signal, Wire?
I would have said the same thing until they integrated the W3C Encrypted Media Extensions. It's clear they lost their way some time ago.
If you clicked on the link about shield studies you'd see it says they're opt in, did you not getting prompted about it?
"We realize this is bad as well and we are on your side. It's just that the cosmos (fortune) has cast this upon us all. Woe is us! ... Unfortunately, you'll need to buy our other product to do this."

Edit: a word.
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HOLD THE PHONE

The support thread links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass.

That page says, in a clearly delineated box,

> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game.

PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS INCONSISTENCY.
Telegram is not encrypted without secret chat
It's a shame the transaction and subsequent flow of money can't be traced on a tamper-proof decentralized public ledger the way it could be with cash...
> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game.

How does it not occur to them that this is a clear lie?
Doesn't this work?

http://chalkdustmagazine.com/feed/
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Why do you assume that this isn't what happened in this case?
Bitmessage.
It's email and mailing lists alternative based on block chain
You should opt in, not opt out
I think Apple and other corporations should pay zero in income taxes. Because taxing investment makes no sense. Let alone sextuple-taxing it like we do today.

And your googling is in accurate. Apple pays 24.6% in taxes.
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This seems pointless because an attacker could just proxy the login back to your bank. Well, not pointless -- it raises the bar attackers have to pass -- but not a real solution. Or am I missing something?
> but what establishes validity is science/the scientific method

My examples were to show that there are knowledge claims where this fails.

> seeming to you to be the case

That isn't my argument. My argument is inductive over the prior examples.
Apparently the addon is installed anyway, it just doesn't "change anything in Firefox" if not opted-in. I have to wonder why install it at all if it's not to be used.

Mozilla really needs to be more transparent about this kind of stuff.
I've done some scraping work -- one of my rules of thumb is to always assume the worst of their site and try to be as gentle as possible.
One of the key features of something like Signal is not just security, but authentication: if I'm talking to my girlfriend over Signal and it tells me that her key suddenly changed, I stop talking to her, call her, and ask her what's up (and, to be fair, it's happened twice so far due to changing phones). It's supposed to stop a MITM attack, so that someone cannot pretend to be her and continue the conversation.

What will your authian bot do, however, if the key changes? Will it happily continue communicating with the new, possibly malevolent recipient?
Where is said source? The Github & Gitlab orgs are empty. Seems like this post is a bit premature.
> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game.

That can't possibly be true. I had it installed, and I'm on my work machine using Firefox Developer Edition. I didn't opt in to any ARG.
Also, I’d recommend an iPad with cheap styluses to reduce computer typing. e.g email, surfing, HN responses, etc

https://www.amazon.com/Stylus-LIBERRWAY-Universal-Capacitive...

Unless the Mind Body Approach works, I don’t see many people cured of RSI (i.e it can easily return).

Simply remove the physical keyboard whenever possible.

My feeling is that voice as a user interface might arrive soon:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte...

Once people accept it, phones, tablets, and computers will get a better voice interface.
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This isn’t about billionaires. A poor retiree in CA with Apple stock is losing close to 60% of their dividends to taxes:

The reason capital gains rates are lower than individual income rates is partial compensation for the effects of inflation. If inflation is 2% per year and your investment increases 20% over 10 years, you lost money but still owe taxes. During high inflationary periods this effect kills the stock market, because taxes make investing becomes a guaranteed loser.

The reason dividend rates are so low is that the money has already been taxed multiple times in its way to the shareholder. Foreign, State and Federal Corporate income taxes. Your 20% dividend rate is just the tail end of about 60% in total taxes, including state income taxes too.
The original thread from 2 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_loo...
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No doubt this is a PR nightmare and a poor joke but the whole privacy angle is a bit of leap. I can't imagine the online marketing team emailing engineers and saying - Can you pull us data about "x" condition so that we can write a tweet about it? That doesn't happen and surely someone in some form of legal/audit will remind the online marketing that they are not supposed to be privileged with this information so they have to spin a story.

Now what they do? Take a random number and bad movie and create a story. But it backfires. Not only the poor joke angle but with people questioning their privacy policies.
I was in the US an H1B worker highly skilled in a top company. I wanted to be a US citizen. US is a great country. But I have to wait 10 years minimum (India queue) to get a greencard and my wife cannot work because is an H4 visa holder. So I left US and immigrated to Canada and is a citizen now.

US should stop taking in people thru diversity visas and family categories, but skilled people like me who wants to contribute and make it big in life are made to wait forever. Your loss US, your loss.

US' immigration system is broken. Diversity visa system & the entire family tree of that person moving to the US in the course of time. What a burden to the US taxpayers !. While skilled workers like me bringing high value to the US economy are being pushed away. US immigration system is a joke. Take a cue from Canada's express entry system and learn.
It... more or less passes the test?

I mean, it defines matrix-vector product in a nice but abstract way, and then in the next paragraph explains why we chose that definition. And it does say "this, this here is the one important idea in this book", which it gets many points for.

I really would prefer a textbook to start with "ok, here's something we want to do. Lets figure out a formula for it. Now lets give it the name matrix-vector product".

Same for matrix-matrix products.

I don't know any really good linear algebra books, in my school it was taught the worst possible way (define a field, rote-learn the mechanical operation of matrix multiplication, talk about vector spaces for a while, talk about matrices, first mention linear transformations). Some people on this thread gave other suggestions, I'd start reading a few and choose the one I connect with the best.

Anyway, I really learned linear algebra from using it.
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Traditional embedded systems used micro controllers. Or for plants they used PLCs for automation. People have been warning for years that connecting factory automation (or power plant control) to the network gave it an interface to the whole world. IT insisted that it would be on a subnet or in some other way "safe". And besides, no hackers in the PC space knew anything about the hardware and software in these systems.

The world is converging to point where everything is just an SoC capable of running a full OS and applications. IoT is just marketing taking advantage of the capability.
exactly so far I am yet to see something useful implemented on this technology...
If anything will be done by the US government to try and serve a deadly blow to cryptocurrencies, it will be them using a terror attack "funded by Bitcoin" as pretext to raid a large US exchanger and seize assets. There is a greater than zero chance this is something we will see play out in the next 24 months.
You think having advertisers change text on unrelated websites you visit is an acceptable tradeoff?
Yes, but why save this statement until the end? The abstract and introduction say nothing of the sort.
Yeah, its so intuitive for the average person to type: about:config in address bar and scroll through hundreds of oddly named parameters to turn off spyware.

Comments like yours are illustrative of a certain mindset. When you encounter the complexity of domains you are not intimately familiar with (court system, law, finance, etc), and those complexities are designed specifically to make it hard for you to protect yourself, I'm sure you are just as understanding as you are now.
AIM had a surprisingly large effect on all of today's social web: https://medium.com/@jrdnbwmn/the-legacy-of-aim-4321761ec9ff
Apparently it's getting loaded anyway for some people that say they had "Studies" disabled and/or "Studies" itself became re-enabled.

The whole idea of slipping paid advertorial content into what are billed as "research" kind of gives the lie to this whole thing and is why I never turn these on in any product. Which is also why it's now "opt-out" by default, and why it will eventually not be an option at all. It's all for our own good, you see.
Use of clearing for financial markets. You'll be able to verify that party A has the instrument and party B has the currency without needing to go through a separate company.
> Satellite mounted nuclear weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...

> anti-ICBM missiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_sy...

> ground to space lasers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra-3

> "killer satellites"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrebitel_Sputnik
> and so far nothing has been demonstrated that could explain anything that science can't.

Science hasn't explained how science works, nor can it. Every precondition of science (causality, mathematics, etc.) goes unexplained by science.
I found it notable not because of the Bitcoin transactions themselves, but because of the implications and possible effects of news like this.
Is this for real? It certainly doesn't read like a joke. I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know exactly what to make of this, but I'm very cautious when people advance new theories about infinities. The combination of grandiosity and animated gifs on the author's website (http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/arithmetic.html) does little to reduce my unease. But anyway, how do you accidentally agree to publish a 100 page article?
There is some argument about terminology, whether the notion of blockchain includes the peer-to-peer distribution and consensus mechanism (eg proof-of-work) or not. (In my view, it shouldn't.)

Git uses a somewhat extended version of a blockchain (a directed acyclic graph instead of just a linked list).

I think it's a cool technology, and has many applications where you want an immutable sequence of records. But it's not a panacea, and the current hype is overblown.
It seems to be developed by Mozilla employees, which is less terrible than allowing actual third-party addons, and it's disabled by default, but still - pretty distasteful.
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In the Preferences, scroll down to "Data Collection and Use", and disable everything.

I know that you only need to need to turn off "install and run studies", but this has now cost Mozilla all telemetry data from me, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
Hopefully, it's a bug, and that addon wasn't intended to be installed (much less active) universally like it is.

That doesn't make it OK, but it would make me look at them with suspicion instead of hostility.
>Someone somewhere is pulling strings.

From what I understand, isn't there a small minority of users who own a vast majority of BTC, meaning they could crash the market at will?
I just tried to sign in via Adium and got "Received unexpected response from https://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/clientLogin: Invalid DevId" so I guess it's gone.
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so who was the DNS hosting provider? one of these?

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/best-free-dns-hosting-providers/

DNS is REALLY a weak link. Another one is the border gateway protocol. I recently read about all GOOGLE, FB, Apple,etc traffic being redirected through a single Russian address for a few minutes.

So how does a third party get access to the creds to allow messing with your DNS hosting account? Social engineering? Or are there holes we need to know about?
> The voters elected a Republican government.

The majority actually didn't. But election system is skewed.
Great to see Manuel Oriol get a mention. He was my thesis advisor at University of York and one of the best professors I've worked with.
I think what they mean is that the addon doesn't do anything unless you opt-in. Still, why install it at all?
The Soviets had and the Russians still have anti-ICBM missiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_sy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_s...

Killer satellites were developed starting in the 60s and deployed operationally in 1991. It seems reasonable to think that some pre-operational capability might have existed in 1988: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/is.html

I'm not sure where the nuke satellites and lasers came from.

When it comes to answering the question of "what would a post-war world look like?" the only significant system out of these is the nuke satellites causing an EMP. That could (and probably would) have been just as easily done with standard ICBMs so I don't think it changes the answer very much.
I actually took screenshots of my buddy list for just this reason. I will eventually put it into a text document. Seeing all my friends’ old screen names brought back so many memories. Was well worth the ~15 minutes it took me.
You don’t just show up to the bank asking for a loan “because I want it”, you have to state what you want it for and how you intend to repay it. The bank will then assess if your request makes sense, and whether you can afford it, before granting it.

I guess a bank wouldn’t loan money “to help refugees” or “to buy bitcoins”, so anything she’s stated was likely false, hence fraud.
Yep, from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Shield_Studies:

> Participation in an individual study is opt-in

Though I do see some people now claiming the addon got installed without them opting in. Probably a bug of some kind.
What the fuck Mozilla? You can't just sideload extensions that are literally ads. There is no universe in which this is even a little bit okay.

http://qutebrowser.org/
I'm in Germany and it was installed here.
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Site is being blocked by FF and Chrome due to insecure certificate configured.
I checked out FF for the zillionth time the other week after the Quantum release hoping to love it, but the deep Pocket integration was just too offputting. Turning it off requires some Googling. There were other irritating commercial things too. It’s a shame. FF is probably the most important open source project in the world and it’s a shame they do stuff like this. I’m still on Chrome :(