skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't quickly find a link/reference, but I remember reading a couple years ago that, when shown images/photographs, in the West we spend most of our time looking at the foreground objects, while in the East (might have been Chinese specifically who were tested?), they look at the background more than westerners (which is not to say that they look at the background more than the foreground)
Mohamed Bouazizi in 2011 is the only comparable in the list from what I can tell.
Offtopic, but did you notice the 3-4% spikes on Saturdays? And the dips on workdays.

I assume workplaces have a lower adoption rate due to enterprise inertia. Or is there another explanation?
"It has been asserted", i.e. that assertion is false and most ICOs are securities.
With markets going crypto-crazy, SEC chairman weighs in
But that's not how (good) writing works. You need transitions to connect, compare, or contrast ideas and that doesn't mesh well with a tweetstorm.
"I don't see why PSA should be being 'monetized'. That's irrelevant to the argument."

It's relevant because we are discussing which videos can and cannot be monetized - some are not intended to be monetized.

"comfortable to watch" - is actually a perfect way to communicate a complex and nuanced issue, in a simple way to various audiences - internal, operational, close ad partners, long tail ad partners.

It reasonably summarizes the otherwise reasonable policy.

And yes - someone talking about explicit sexual subjects for whatever reason definitely falls in that category, because advertisers would be weary of it. Google wants it that way for obvious reasons, and it seems like it's working.

Finally - there is nothing to report here. It's great that we get some insight, but this has to be a fairly naive view of 'insider reporting'. There is no story. Google has a reasonable policy for determining which content is good for ads, in general, and which is not. They seem to be acting professionally on it. This is people doing their jobs reasonably well especially with nuanced things.

If this story were about content removal or censoring, it would be a different discussion.
The fee does go towards hosting the campaign page. Also GiveHongBao doesn't charge for the deployment of the campaign contract--- that is paid out of my own account, so charging a small nominal fee felt fair to me.

I think an interesting point is to compare the fee to what GoFundMe and other similar sites are charging.

My motivation was mainly to make a competitive version that took advantage of Ethereum's native advantages:

- It's Global. You can use GiveHongBao anywhere in the world. You can't use GoFundMe unless you're in the western world

- It's direct. Your donations go straight into your wallet. You don't have to wait for a minimum donation size, nor do you have to wait for a certain time.

- It's cheaper. Ethereum transfers are a flat fee regardless of size (vs. credit card processing fees). I thought a fair thing to do would be to mirror this and charge only a flat fee (for hosting, etc..) then pass the savings on to campaign creators.
Just some kind of capped option.
I built something just for email. https://dndemail.com keeps your inbox empty and only delivers your new messages on a set schedule. That keeps me out of my inbox and focused on my real to do list.
The OP was originally pointing to ArsTechnica.

One of the top comments there suggested that the solution lies in relying on DNS which provides "globally unique" names.

But the commercial CA system already relies on domainnames. That is its weakpoint.

The author at ian.sh shows how additional checks by third party CAs, e.g., business registration, do not necessarily solve the problem either.

The best proposals I have seen for solving the problem are ones that have no reliance on third parties, e.g. certificate vendors, domainname vendors, etc. Another way to think of non-reliance on third parties is "middlemen". If they are necessary, then the system is vulnerable.

It is a very old problem that apparently has never been fixed. Today solutions that try to avoid middlemen do exist. But comprehension of why this is necessary is apparently still small-scale because focus remains on the commercial CA business, which seems to be at odds with any system that needs no such middlemen.

This author, who many HN readers know, explains it much better than I can: http://sprunge.us/NHTK

Users or businesses can create and exchange their own public keys directly. (Think of HTTPS like SSH.) They do not have to rely on third parties to assist them.

One does not need a third party CA to perform effective encryption. Have you ever wondered if browser warnings are an insidious way to keep commercial CAs in business?

Public keys are globally unique. Names are not. One could combine them (e.g. key fingerprint plus name) to form an identifier that is better than a name alone.

Recap:

Names alone are not enough to perform effective disambiguation via ICANN DNS or major-browser sponsored CA system. Volunteer-supported Wikipedia actually does a better job of disambiguating names than these commercial services.

Public keys can be generated directly by the named entity they represent instead of by third parties. Middlemen are unnecessary and cause the system to be vulnerable.
But I, as an user, want to be able to block domains, inject scripts and see what Chrome is sending to Google on my own devices (which is what Google doesn't want me to do). That's why I can't support these protocols...
Given that they can penetrate it, it's very possible that they do nothing to your skin.

You're right, this isn't rocket science - it's a blend of electrical engineering and biology.
I like how Apple got a pretty wide range of different “Pro” use cases for these early previews. There are scientists, photo/video editors, developers, and a musician I think.
Well, they probably moved some of those funds into longer term bonds, so there could be some liquidity issues. But those would be unrelated to the price of BTC, and would be only temporary. There should never be solvency issues for a vanilla exchange.

Things look different with margin trading though. Margin trading implicitly implies a loan from the exchange to the trader. If the market moves too much against the trader, exchanges typically automatically force their positions to be closed. The problem is that if the price moves too quickly, the proceeds from this transaction may not be enough to cover the loan to the trader. So then the trader can end up owing money to the exchange, and it may be difficult for the exchange to get that money. That can lead to solvency issues.
Also heard about this here -

http://www.wnyc.org/story/public-comment-broken?tab=transcri...
But it also continues the idea "Only the rich may get richer. These things are not for the little guy."

Unless we want to equate "Not having a great deal of money as someone who is too stupid to know how to invest."
This is a super nice list and exactly along the lines of something I've been looking for.....but not for PHP or Javascript. Anyone have an idea where a similar collection of projects involving Java/C#/C++/C would be found?
First thing for new CEO, add more countries. Last time I checked they still missed a number of countries including Sweden. Strange that they couldn't fix this in their first two years.
Thanks for the feedback. I didn't mean to be shady (honest)!

The main problem is that the EFF doesn't have a publicly disclosed Eth address (they do accept BTC) so I just decided to support them by pledging to donate to them. Of course, nobody on the internet knows you're a dog, nor if you're honest ... :/
> I doubt that's on their roadmap for the coming century

I'd bet on seeing open source drivers in the kernel at least within the next 5 years, probably sooner
And that's the only circumstance where anyone is killed by police, right?
This is what makes Docker for Windows useless to me.
If you promoted an in-game currency as an opportunity to profit on resale, you would have similar legal problems. Especially if, like Munchee, you did it for a video game that didn't really exist yet, so that your in-game currency had no plausible value other than for speculation.
Much appreciated, good sir.
Admittedly, given every casino I've been in permits smoking, it's not like casinos were otherwise great on cancer-avoidance.
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I used to use KX/kdb/Q/K daily for several years. I wrote a full implementation of reinforcement learning (15 lines), a lightweight MVC framework (to show reports and tables in an internal webapp) and even a Q syntax checker (abusing table as a data structure to hold parse trees). Good or bad, for the longest time, Q was my "go-to" programming language.

Based on that experience...

1) Yes, but that's not huge by modern standard.

2) Q is a DSL version of K. As others have commented, K is a pretty clean implementation of APL, and Q makes K more approachable.

3) I have to agree here, but Q for Mortals makes up for it.

4) It is really fast. As we all know, a vast majority of us actually don't have terabytes and terabytes of data, especially after a reasonably cleanup / ETL / applying common sense. I suppose it helped that I worked in finance, which meant my desktop had 16GB of memory in 2009 and 128GB of memory on a server shared by 4-5 traders.

Finally, Q was never intended for general-purpose computing nor a widespread adoption. At least when I was an active user, the mailing list had the same 20-30 people asking questions and 3-4 people answering them, including a@kx.com (= Arthur Whitney, the creator). Back then, I'd say there were at most 2-3k active users of Q/K in the world. Now that Kx Systems is part of First Derivative and has been working on expanding their customer base, perhaps they have more...?
Reputation and expert advice cover this. Check Yelp to see if anyone got crushed to death before you dine and you should be fine. Snark aside, there’s a lot more transparency now than when these laws were designed. A lot more competition too. The market will weed out truly bad actors.
M-Pesa is a centralized service run by Vodafone, quite the opposite of blockchain. It only resembles blockchain in that it involves electronics and it's recent, but by that standard, we'd call credit cards or PayPal "the original Blockchain".

And as far as I know, it's denominated in Kenyan shillings, not in its own currency (i.e., hype about M-Pesa does not result in something with Bitcoin's to-the-moon valuation relative to the prevailing currency in the land).

I suspect that most Bitcoin detractors, whether those who call it a Ponzi scheme or simply those who oppose proof of work, will be absolutely thrilled with the growth of more centralized electronic money transfer systems that are denominated in existing fiat currency. I know that I've been personally happy to use Square Cash, Apple Pay, EMV cards, etc. in the US. No mining, no or low fees, high security, quick, and suitable for small transfers.

And the fact that this is how M-Pesa works is an extremely strong existence proof that Bitcoin is not needed by the "African farmer".
> Breaking it up allows each sentence to be reshared more easily, which seems like it has interesting possibilities.

That's not a result of the length restriction; it's how quoting works -- right here in this very comment, I've chosen to only "reshare" one sentence from your comment.

As for the interesting possiibilities that could arise from mixing and matching transcluded tweets: either the mixing and matching are going to be done manually by someone assembling a series of quotes (a process not unique to twitter) or it's going to be the result of whatever order they show up in your timeline -- I think the results of that could be interesting if it was a random process, or if there were any way to influence the order apart from whatever twitter thinks will maximize user engagement.
If the casino owner were going around the taking furtive pictures up girls' skirts, would you still think it was clearly on the up-and-up? The fact that it is private property doesn't mean you have unlimited rights to do what you will to other people there, particularly without their consent.
> Of the top my head, it is estimated that 10% of our GDP is in off shore havens, think about that infamous 1% moving just half of that 10% into Bitcoin ..

The IRS would crack down on this as with any other tax avoidance scheme. Offshore havens are probably safer since many rely on loopholes.
I think that going to school should still be seen as an investment, just a more reasonable one. If getting a degree won't help you get a job, I don't think the government should be fully paying for it - you should have to make financial sacrifices too. I guess mostly I just don't want to be the one paying (through taxes) for useless degrees that don't help the economy/employment, maybe that makes me selfish but it's my opinion.
Frankly, this is nothing to be terrified of:

- re viewing your naked body: this only gives blurry black and white reconstructions. Frankly, nothing to make a fuss about. I doubt anyone would even be recognizable on those images.

- re safety: this may be a valid concern, but if there is a health effect, it will be tiny, because we are already bathed in microwaves all day long.
> Future society needs to schlep a history of current societies banal social media content along with?

That seems kind of dumb, but with Moore's Law still mostly working for storage, it's also cheap -- certainly cheaper than building actual libraries. There's also currently no way to mark URLs as temporary, so we can't distinguish the permanent from the ephemeral. Finally, it's far cheaper than having everyone who wants to save URL content archive it on their own personal box (plus however many backups), which is what I do now if I really want to use something again.
If I had to point at one thing Go did exactly right, I'd choose the "OOP" bit. Inheritance is an anti-pattern. Interfaces is the way to go.

Maybe the only thing I'd add is a compiler warning when an object which does not declare itself as interface X but complies to it is used as interface X. (Typeclasses would be even better, but it opens the can of worms which is the support of generics.)
> I had no idea that you believed your lack of opinion and offence somehow invalidated mine.

Not at all. Your opinion is hilarious, but everyone's entitled to an opinion.
Thanks for the great explanation! If you don't mind, I had a question about '3.' I get how it's used in making your larger argument, but as a thing in itself I'm kinda lost. Part of what I'm wondering is how it's okay to say 'L(W) = 0' when earlier you described L(W) like 'L(W: wavefunction) => X: wavefunction'; so is the zero in 'L(W) = 0' just shorthand for something like 'L(W) = (f(x,t) = 0)'?

(I'm also curious why mapping to the zero function ends up being the central criterion for physical possibility—but I'm guessing that's a rather deep subject ;))

Edit: NVM I see what's going on with 'L(W(x,t)) = 0' now: the equation is equating the full evaluation of the nested functions on the left (using the x,t params) with zero. When written like 'L(W) = 0' it looks like it's equating the function returned by L(W) with zero.
But wouldn't transaction fees, which are already really rough for people making a first-world salary, be even more unsustainable if that fee is a whole day's wage (or more) in the places you're describing? And how would those areas of the world have that level of connectivity?

e: for making a huge sale of crops or something to another nation, then 1 transaction fee is not bad compared converting at a %, but you'd still need to convert from Bitcoin to a local currency to actually use the money you made.
But until that happens, a casino is consistently getting false negatives. What happens when the trinket for sale as you're exiting Cirque du Soleil looks like a machine gun to the system? Suddenly, you've got dozens of people held up at the entrance. At best, that's a customer service annoyance; at worst, a bad actor could use this to their advantage.
These rules will only apply to companies within the jurisdiction of the SEC, correct? Hypothetically, I don't see how the SEC could shut down ICOs from companies registered outside the US, even from Americans.
> I thought it was "universal" because it was meant to replace all social welfare programs with a basic income..

No. Universal just means everyone gets it. In fact, the word "universal" is redundant in the term "universal basic income" because "basic income" is already an income that everybody receives. It forms a base upon which you can build further income.

Some people believe that basic income should replace existing welfare programs, but it doesn't have to. After we implement a high enough basic income, we certainly might discover that we don't need some of these other welfare programs anymore. But in my opinion, there's not really any reason to shut them down ahead of time.

> But what about it requires to be at the federal level?

It's hard to implement a basic income if you don't issue your own currency. Currency is issued at the federal level, so that makes it a natural choice.

If you tried to implement it at the local level, you'd probably have to raise taxes or something... or create some kind of local or alternative currency. It's not impossible, but it's certainly less efficient.

> Does that mean smaller governments can't have UBI?

In a way, yeah. You've got to have a stable currency in which to pay the basic income. The smaller the government, the harder it is to maintain a currency. Furthermore, the amount of the basic income is constrained by the productive capacity of the economy. There's a limit to how much spending the productive economy can absorb. So if your country has a very resource-rich economy, you might be able to get away with a higher basic income.

But it's a continuum. The most efficient basic income is probably a worldwide basic income. Since the United States controls the world's reserve currency, they could probably pay everyone in the world a basic income in dollars without causing inflation or anything. But a country like Mexico couldn't do something similar.
Something similar happened to Microsoft employees:

* "Microsoft Employees Face Tax Nightmare", AccountingWEB, Apr 19, 2001. https://www.accountingweb.com/tax/irs/microsoft-employees-fa...

* "Why Microsoft's Stock Options Scare Me", The Motley Fool, Feb 17, 2000. https://www.fool.com/archive/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/02/17...

* "Gates Regrets Ever Using Stock Options", Martin Wolk, NBC News, May 5, 2005. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7713133/ns/business-eye_on_the_eco...
It's the human interest factor. The idea is that people will pay more attention to a problem if they can put a face on it, otherwise it is too abstract and you lose half of the readers outright.
Are the people who receive these prerelease sample devices from Apple required to write about them in a positive light?
Twitter isn't a venue for writing and tweetstorms are more akin to outlines than essays.
I wonder if Clinton didn't have certain associations - Bill, Weiner, Weinstein (the Clintons were warned about him and met with him after the election to make a show about the campaign, only to later feign shock and distance themselves), would those accusations against Trump have had more power?

I know that's not your main point, it's just important to point out culpable people like the Clintons were instead of seeing them (or the campaign) as victims.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-wei...

In late September, emails show, he was discussing a documentary television show he was working on with Hillary Clinton. He had long raised campaign cash for her, and her feminist credentials helped burnish his image — even though Tina Brown, the magazine editor, and Lena Dunham, the writer and actress, each say they had cautioned Mrs. Clinton’s aides about his treatment of women. Now, Mr. Weinstein exchanged questions about distribution rights for the show. “I am hopeful we can get a good price for this,” Robert Barnett, Mrs. Clinton’s lawyer, replied.

Two days later, Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, interrupted a vacation in Hawaii to field advice from Mr. Weinstein, according to the emails. The Wall Street Journal was reporting on turmoil at Amazon Studios, one of Mr. Weinstein’s business partners. He recommended an aggressive response that involved hiring some of his own team, including a libel lawyer who “makes sure everyone sticks to the right narrative,” Mr. Weinstein wrote. He added, “I’m happy to coordinate with whoever you’d like, as a friend of the court.” Mr. Bezos declined to comment.
It really depends on what people could potentially do with my data. Maybe I’m too naive right now, but what’s the worst case? (Assuming we’re talking about corporates. I don’t think it’s reasonable to suspect it’ll be possible to pay governments to keep data private)
Chrome 62.0.3202.94 on Ubuntu 16.04 works fine for me.
> If this is the "correct" way to learn, the problems are not with the user.

OP's advice was essentially to first learn how to use a tool in a sandbox before screwing up mission-critical services. I really don't understand why you perceived the need to learn how to use a tool in a sandbox as problem that lies somewhere else other than the clueless newbie who's taking his first steps.

Letting toddlers learn how to ride a bike by installing training wheels doesn't mean that bicycles are flawed or poorly designed.
For what it's worth, I remember there were several high profile VCs accused of harassment, with several of them resigning or being pushed out. Scoble was also accused.

So yeah, I think tech is changing for the better.
thankfully susan didn't have to set herself on fire :)
found a bug: if i click next after completing a level before the "you won" screen pops up and subsequently click next level on the "you won" screen i can skip two levels ahead
Have you tried this out in recent Windows releases? We added 24-bit color support [1] to the console in Sep 2016, and built a colortool (that supports solarized) this summer [2]. Most of this should work, and we're all ears for things that don't.

1. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/09/22/24-b...

2. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/08/11/intr...
You're joking, but that was the first application I thought of.

It would be really interesting to create a low-throughput fallback network for neighborhoods using something like this. Though I suppose RF or optical are still quite a bit more practical.
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No control group, wildly high variance. The data is ridiculously noisy, and the results aren't statistically significant. The normal range for aluminium concentration falls within the margin of error for the measurements of the study.
I drew some UI on paper and had a hand-full of use cases and some 1000 mile architecture. I got a round of, "I could use that," from some of the intended audience.
We're talking about Las Vegas, not Texas.