skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between "responsibility" in the form "you are now liable for the damages caused by the other party" (which is what you are looking at, I think?) and "people can come to you and demand you take down more content and you will end up in a position where they can force you to do that with injunctions" (which is what I am looking at).

I should verify, though, if your point here is partially that this would be different from ALS Scan v Cloudflare, as the latter involves "infrastructure level caching"? That said, in the case of AOL, the content wasn't just cached: it was being hosted. Is it that one was an awkward case of defamation and this one is more about copyright? But then I would say that Section 230 has severe limitations.

I guess let's look at this from another direction: why do you feel Section 230 is a protection that is relevant here but isn't helping Cloudflare on their other fronts? It would seem to me that the actual issue of concern (that Cloudflare can and likely will be asked to block DNS for domain names that happen to host or advertise things like The Pirate Bay) is not affected by the existence of Section 230.
I would argue that Ethereum is where it's headed. Ethereum does everything that Litecoin/Bitcoin does along with a smart contract programming layer built into it, and a great team of incredibly smart people iterating on the platform.

Millions upon millions of dollars are being poured into companies built around Ethereum for a reason. If you look at the open positions for Consensys you can see just how many positions and projects one company has going on.
Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15786780

HN user jatsign shared some of his inital gotchas two weeks ago.
What is causing the sudden rise in litecoin?
The recent speculation spikes have been pretty remarkable. I wouldn't be shocked if they occasionally exhaust hot wallets. I'd love to know what the process is - do they have coins in cold storage in the offices in safes? Bank vaults? Multi-person signatures?
Python Education Summit celebrates its 6th year in 2018
Rolls-Royce Autonomous Robot Race Finals Winner
> when it comes to a language it is entirely possible for people to not know that a language Q already exists.

I don't buy it.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=q+programming+language

> it is going to be hard to confuse the two languages when searching for resources, since majority of people looking for Q# resources are going to actually be typing in "Q#" and not "Q".

Again, I don't buy it.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=q%23+programming+language

Try harder.

> they add their signature # at the end which they seem to like to do for new languages (J#, C#, F#).

which follow Java, C, and System F.
Really, the conclusion: "There's many powerlines in Tokyo."

Well, no duh.
I wonder how much Microsoft really cared about this release.

Or someone could have made a mistake.
>(which should not be a problem anyway).

But it is a problem. And also a difference in philosophy. NTFS gives the user and the process the guarantee that the filesystem will remain consistent. Also as a user, I have a guarantee that the file I have open, represents a file that actually exists on the file system, and not a deleted file.
Congress is about to pass a tax cut which adds 1 Trillion + to the deficit. Anyone who thinks we'll be sending manned missions to the moon or anywhere else in the solar system is going to have to reconcile that with a 30 Trillion debt crisis looming on the horizon.
Less not forget the competitors to Ethereum too, such as EOS or Cardano. These should provide better scalability.
Ask HN: Fully online CS degrees? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899383 yesterday.
You can add it as search engine with search bar.
tldr; 10000% returns are limited to club members only
I'm not convinced that's true---although I'm not sure how much my perception is reliable given that I've never been inside a president's office. That being said, at least the perception within universities is that presidents are often responsible for some very consequential decisions.

The most obvious example is internal budget allocation, which can make or break entire programs.
Uber is specifically and wilfully shitty when it comes to employees’ stock. Large investors have always been able to sell, in part because they hold their shares in LLCs. Smaller investors, however, get blocked.

When the price started crashing, the big guys got out. The little guys remain locked inside. Something similar happened at Palantir. When a big little guy sued, things changed [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-18/at-peter-...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is neither legal nor securities advice.
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/aCcos
It is quite simple realy. If I pay x€ for y GB/Month, the ISP should not dictate what over the top services I spend that budget on, nor favor its own services (or those of 'partners') by selective exclusion of that traffic from limits that other are held to, or by hindering traffic from the non-partnered services in any way.

Now for the 'complicated' part. In practice it is not difficult to create a situation where everything is degraded. You just under-provision on a choke point. If you then sell alternative routes, or allow edge caches beyond the choke point, you technically didn't 'hinder' any traffic, you just provided such a lousy service to begin with that any not otherwise enabled service provider doesn't stand a chance of offering a decent experience on your network.

But just pointing to a technical situation where it is hard to write a general 'rule' that in any arbitrary case can unequivocally objectively and automatically say whether a certain criterion was fulfilled, and then saying that because it is hard or even impossible to specify the whole regulation should be scrapped, that is disingenuous. The spirit of the regulation can be perfectly fine, even though case-by-case judgement may be required to determine compliance.

Those that will say 'but you can vote with your wallet', I can see where you come from, but the reasoning is flawed. In practice telecoms is not an open market, and many households have near 0 meaningful choice. Strong economic network effects are inherent, and lasting competition has only been present under very strict regulation.
Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part 11: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching $5B
It costs about half what the US pays per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Bitcoin Is a Bit of a Miracle at Any Price
New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers
LTC creator was on the news Monday
Atom 1.23
The Sharing Economy Without Intermediaries [pdf]
That monitor isnt even close to as nice as the one included with the iMac.
What I feel after teaching my first web dev workshop
This -- "One of those former employees paid about $100,000 to exercise more than 20,000 incentive stock options (ISOs), plus a tax bill of over $200,000. The other paid about $70,000 to exercise about 5,000 ISOs, and then about $160,000 in taxes. Both former employees took out loans from family members to make the payments, and requested anonymity to discuss their personal financial situations."

Is how many many Silicon Valley horror stories begin. In the dot.com days it was "How working for a startup bankrupted me, and ruined my relationships." All because some situation forced a person to make the bet of whether or not their illiquid asset (stock in a private company) would ever become liquid. And that when it did, selling it would be more valuable than what you paid for it.

Clearly not everyone is as out there as the person mentioned in the article is, although I knew many people who had anywhere from $5K - $50K at risk because they had exercised and were holding. I had stock losses from the dot com implosion that I wrote off for over 10 years (at $3,000 a year) and it would have gone on for the rest of my life if we hadn't had a bit of long term gains to offset it later.
Qubes OS 4.0rc3 and latest UEFI systems
> And I don't want to use powershell. It's horrid in so many ways.

Name one that isn't just "Bourne Shell does it different".
Think Twitter Moments was the beginning of the end for Storify - testament to how well Moments has worked for Twitter, despite its early critics.
Your old Mac Plus could be worth $800+, Newton $1400
I think the same rules apply. You can exercise but you'll owe taxes and can't sell any shares to cover the tax.
While I appreciate and agree with the last section regarding replacing GitHub's "fork" model with something lighter-weight, it amuses and saddens me that the author puts a lot of effort into describing something that they feel is wholly novel... but is actually just the model already implemented by Gerrit (https://www.gerritcodereview.com/). There are alternatives to GitHub already! Some do things better than GitHub already! Give it a shot.
I dont mean to be terse, but why is this article on the front page?
Ask HN: Will tax bill lower taxes for SaaS businesses?
From the limited reading I've done on the Republican tax bill and my limited knowledge of tax law in general, I can't tell if the bill will lower taxes for owners of small to medium SaaS businesses or keep them the same. It sounds like corporations will have a lower tax rate, but service businesses (e.g. consultants, doctors, lawyers) are excluded from that. Does anyone have any insight into this?

(Obviously I'm not expecting tax advice...)
Safe to assume everything.

However:

When using Text Me Private (https://textmeprivate.com), there is no way for me (or staff) to see or read your text messages. I did write the ability for you to log your own text messages so YOU can see them in the log, however, this was never written so I (or staff) could view them. They are also encrypted so they can never actually be read from my end.

When using Call Me Private (https://callmeprivate.com), there is no way for me (or staff) to listen to your conversations, not even when you turn the record feature on, or for us to see who you called or who called you, nor do we have any interest in doing so. The whole platform was created to try and give everyone a chance at privacy with virtual numbers.

If you want to know, the only information recorded for business purposes on our end: virtual number | duration of the call | cost of the call

Whatever data you have between you and your friends or family or anyone else is none of my business nor the business of my company. We act as the service provider to give you a virtual number. We're not Google... we're not Facebook... we really don't care what you do in your own time, who you are talking to, who is talking to you, or what you do with your virtual numbers. No offense.. I mean, it's just really none of my business or the business of my company to know your business, other than the fact that... yay, you purchased a virtual number and you are using it.

There are a few spam measures in place to detect certain actions of numbers, and this is to try and curtail abuse of our service, for which it may flag your account.
This article from Bloomberg has lots of good quotes in it, here's one:

"President Hatch's compensation over the course of his tenure reflects his exceptional leadership," trustee chair Donna Boswell said. The school has raised nearly $800 million under Hatch, she said.
> "I remember hand coding an XFree86Config file almost two > decades ago to get three monitors setup."

Yeah, it's come a long way since then ;) It's 100% plug and play, at least with fedora/ubuntu/debian. Haven't played much outside that realm.
That's what happens when a business is trying to scale to meet crazy demand.
Exactly.

However, there's going to be some standouts.
Smartphones Harm Your Productivity More Than You Think
Non-profits are just like any other corporation in terms of how much revenue they want: the just want more. A company can imagine more ways to invest and make more. A non profit can think of many more things to do in keeping with its mission. Whether that's expanding a school or making the school nicer.

The demand for funds in insatiable, regardless of whom.
They are also requiring 40-50% margin per contract (1 contract == 1 BTC).
Why is this even news? This is the case for pretty much every privately-held company in the valley, because the tax law dictates that [1]. When Pinterest changed their exercise window from 90 days to 7 years, it was big news [2]. When you leave a privately-held company, you have to convert your stock options to stocks to hold onto them, and then AMT kicks in and taxes you on the spread and that often hurt a lot. But in the case of these employees mentioned in the article, they are guaranteed to make a huge profit in the tender offer.

Next up: evil companies in Silicon Valley invalidate employees' RSU when they leave the company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254299
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9253497
They don't really talk about it, but I'd imagine it's multi-signature offline wallets that require a few people and an assload of physical security to spend.
AR Studio (by Facebook) Now in Open Beta
That you can keep using Windows seamlessly?
My guess is that the there are a lot of newbies now on Coinbase (#1 app in the Apple AppStore). They are buying the cheapest “bitcoin” without actually understanding what they are buying. This has increased demand for the cheaper of the only three options in Coinbase thus increasing price.
>use that data to show the right ads to the right people

To expand on what you're saying here, YouTube allows offended people to bully them by contacting advertisers and saying things like, "YouTube is putting ads for your company in front of videos about hitler!!" And YouTube just immediately caves to that.

YouTube's response from day one should have been, "no, we don't put ads in front of videos, that's not how this works. This isn't tv where the ad is broadcast whether someone is watching or not. This is a website that plays videos you ask for. We (youtube) have data about you. We (try to) select an ad specifically for you. We did not play that ad for Pepsi because it has anything to do with hitler. We played it because (our data suggested) the ad is relevant to you. And then afterward, we played the Hitler vid because that's what you clicked on."

That seems like such an obvious, slam dunk response to me. I think the reason YouTube didn't push back in that manner is that they welcomed the excuse to start pushing political content they don't like off their platform.
Last I checked bash on windows is still segregated from the windows system proper. So you cannot call any windows utility/compilers from windows bash. You cannot write to existing files/directories either, based on WSL docs.
Hopefully these limitations will be removed.
If only there were a convenient way to enter rare characters on ordinary keyboards. There would be no more confusion between the musical note C𝄰 and the programming language C#. Or maybe the language would be called C𝄱 instead, confusing everyone to no end. (Those are three different symbols.)

EDIT: It appears that HN eats the "music sharp sign" character, but not "musical sharp up" or "musical sharp down".
> Not allowing market orders can be reasonable.

How do you figure? People in cryptocurrency are already not afraid of the rampant volatility so this move seems to protect the broker and not market participant.

This also raises another question - whether these guys have stop orders? Because stop orders actually become market orders once triggered and help people get out at whatever price possible. Turn this into stop limit and it tries to find the "best" price possible and many people left holding the bag if things go south.
I swapped to mac for this very reason, actually. Now that windows has WSL, I've been straddling the fence on whether to swap back (tried it back in Dec., might give it another try soon).
It will be interesting to see how this works over the long run. Without doing anything else to detect guns, how are they training the learning? I assume they are doing that somewhere else and updating (like the antivirus analogy they mention) but still seems like it would be fraught with false positives and negatives for a while.
AFAIK Most employees have RSUs now, which don't have these issues related to exercising options.

As the article mentioned, Dara has expressed that he would like to take the company public in a couple of years.

Not sure what his pay structure looks like, but assuming it includes equity, I would imagine it would be in his interest to go public
Why does the code start at line 100?
They are indeed largely interchangeable: A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity,[1] is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view (Wikipedia).

There's a minor distinction because non-profit status is awarded by the state, but income-tax exemptions are administered federally (i.e. 501(c)). But in practice, every non-profit university also fits the definition of a charitable organisation.
Can someone familiar explain why cryptocurrencies aren't a bubble? They both seem to exhibit similar characteristics.

Clearly, are shown by the site here, these aren't nearly as liquid as fiat currencies, nor are they really used to purchase anything.

So... What is it?

EDIT: upon thinking about it, MLM wasn't the term I meant.
> Q# is more esoteric than Q is.

That in no way negates my point. It's not a question of which is more obscure, but that the 'original' item is obscure in the first place.

One unknown language reusing part of another's name means that nobody's gonna be legitimately confused or misled here. Moreover, they derive practically no benefit whatsoever by piggybacking on the (limited) fame of the 'original'. Curl is a different story altogether.
PCA/SVD aim for maximizing explained variance, not preserving distance. They tend to "preserve" large distances at the expense of smaller ones, but that's not an explicit goal, nor can you bound the distortion. The [answer here](https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/176801/60) gives a pretty good intuition about why.

You can also compare them on computational complexity, where random projection (O(numPoints * numOriginalDimensions * numProjectedDimensions) smokes PCA or SVD which are cubic in the number of original dimensions.

And then there's simplicity. The random projection method turns on sampling from a normal distribution and then doing a matrix multiplication. There's a whole lot more about PCA to understand (standardizing your data, calculating the covariance matrix, eigenvector decomposition). I doubt I could implement it correctly myself, and I surely couldn't do it in high dimension.
> I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years.

And so therefore, no one else has either!

One of the big reasons Linux Desktop still sucks is the outright refusal of the community to acknowledge any of its problems.
Sorry English isn't my native tongue so I misinterpreted the second part, although it could be just because I'm a little slow on the pick up :v either was it's totally my fault.
But if Litecoin is more likely to be used as a currency wouldn’t that mean it would have to have no chance of appreciating with the same volatility that sent the price of Bitcoin to $20k?

Personally I don’t give a damn about which coin is the most practical currency, just show me which one is most likely to have a meteoric rise so I could throw a few bucks into it and pull out before it all goes bust.
ʻOumuamua: the first known interstellar object to pass through the Solar System
> Yes, seriously

With all the cloud offerings available, this is very fucked up. I can pretty summon a Top 500 cluster in minutes and can't use it to render my 30-second spot in 8K HDR for downscaling into broadcast...
As a former Mac user, I can say Windows 10's 4K support is getting better. The Fall Creators Update improved some issues I was having when running multiple monitors with different scaling. At Microsoft's current pace, I expect the remaining HiDPI issues will be fixed sooner rather than later.
Like you, I spend a lot of time analyzing the programming language ecosystem. I created LanguageHealth to help me figure out which languages are growing or dying.

I hope you find it helpful!
Yup, I was mentioning explicitly Orange, because a friend of mine got the nasty surprise after trying to enable tethering.

And this option was not in his normal subscription, although it was a subscription with quite a nice Data plan.

And this violates Net Neutrality because Orange is deciding what you can do or not with your paid bandwidth.
Awesome explanation and fun to read through. I hope this style of "intro" catches on. Reminds of the chrome comic way back when.
To be fair, the programs that are more profitable also have more money pumped into them, and those that are less profitable have less money put into them. So yes, many of them are unprofitable, but it also seems like the less profitable ones have much smaller costs. Of course, the school's budgets at those schools might be smaller too, but...
Without any details on whether this means funding SLS for another $4 billion/year to accomplish nothing vs. fund some real innovation like Blue Origin or SpaceX, it's kind of "Meh" as announcements go.
My understanding is that the SEC expects you to require proof of an alternate citizenship via a passport. Simply having a drop-down that users can lie about by clicking a box or using a VPN is not good enough.
Ive heard that they put in christian imagery just because it was cool and with no real purpose.
Onsite gyms and restaurants

how long until accommodation becomes part of the package.
PHK had a talk he gave to my local Linux/BSD group a few months back and it was a really engaging and fun talk, so it doesn't surprise me that this was a good read. I've used Varnish for fun quite a bit and seeing his talk made me realise why it's such a solid piece of software.
> Your argument isn't internally consistent. Webpack, Babel, TypeScript, Grunt, and Gulp are all implemented in JS (or TS for TS).

How is that relevant?

The problem is still that you end up with tools wrapped around tools wrapped around tools.

Building a usual nodeJS project ends up with the callstack in my process explorer being 20 levels deep, of node processes, some bash mixed in, and inbetween ruby, python etc for building the documentation with mkdocs and the SASS or SCSS
At private colleges I really could care less what they pay administrators. I do take offense at high salaries at state schools to include their athletic departments.

These salaries are on top of their guaranteed retirements and related provisions let alone all the ancillary benefits they receive while in office.

Their endowments should be taxed. Any school accepting government money for student educations, whether loans or grants, should be subject to increased scrutiny. We are holding medical providers to high standards of scrutiny because of their costs to the public, education should face the same.

Again, I could care less what a private school pays provided they are not receiving government money in the form of grants or assistance to students.
The corporate control of government is in play in the broad light.
Yes, this is recent news. The Wikipedia article does a good job of consolidating the information about this object in one place, however.
Not sure what you are talking about:

Promise.resolve().then(() => Promise.resolve().then(() => {throw new Error('Problem')})).catch((e) => console.log(e.message));
No, Google's AI Program Can't Build Your Genome Sequence