skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and if the next city tells them to get fucked how many times can they manage to move around before they get the message?

Amazon is going to uproot huge amounts of engineers? Doubt it. I wouldn't move just to help jeff make a bit more.
i see, thanks for explaining that. I suppose 'disinformation' would be the most apt word for what you are meaning.
Nobody understands how cryptocurrencies work.
Congratulations on your project Oliver.

How far off do you think it is from a regulatory perspective before you can have the cars drive without anybody sitting in them?
No. There aren't two valid sides to every issue.
The Intel Management Engine is a backdoor. Speed variations in speculative execution are an inherent property of the technology. Until recently, few people thought this was exploitable, and it took a lot of work to figure out how to exploit this.
There is: IEEE Computer Society Professional Software Engineering Master Certification. https://www.computer.org/web/education/software-engineering-...

Actually, there are a bunch of testing / certificates
https://www.computer.org/web/education/certifications

There has been a number of attempts at certification/testing over the decades. The main problem is companies want 'cheap' programmers and don't want to pay for vetted, qualified software engineers.
when I arrived in Phoenix, it took me a while to understand what was wrong with the roofs here: often there is no gutter.

other oddity: some people water the lawn by simply flooding it (some front lawns are specifically lower than the sidewalk for that). At first I though it was stupid, then I saw people "watering" their lawn with sprinklers in the middle of the afternoon. I am curious what ratio of the water even reaches the grass.
Bitcoin has shown us exactly why centralized monetary authorities are so important, and that alone was worth it. With a decentralized currency you end up with something that is neither stable nor easily liquid, because it’s not in the interest of those who hold the most to provide either.

It was an experiment worth playing out.
Exactly what rad_gruchalski said.

I'm assuming that in this case the base container would be a 'ruby' container or something. You'd build an example container atop it running a bit of example ruby code - verifying that it behaves properly. Those behavioral tests could be used to verify that the underlying container is configured properly.

I suppose that's sort of what you're doing in the example you linked to above.
Could we get a title on this that's a little more accurate? It doesn't appear like this is an actual service but an effort to gauge interest which makes the title fraudulent.
You aren't being very objective about Assange. He played bait and switch throughout the election cycle acting like he had some kind of big reveal that he never revealed and he picked sides with Trump. He's got an agenda. It's not wrong to have an agenda, but he's manipulative.
Here's a blackhat business model:

1. Be an attractive woman

2. Get a number of spy cameras and invites these parties

3. Get photos of the richest people in SV in compromising positions

4. Move to your favorite non-extradition country.

5. Extort them over TOR for $1M in Bitcoin or else you'll release the pictures to all of their families, partners, boards, clients, and tech blogs.
WATCH STARWARS IN ASCII
I was right there with you for a long time, but the touchpads on PC flagships have largely caught up. I switch between a Dell XPS 15 and a late-model MBP daily, and while I still give a slight edge to the mac, the Dell works well too and doesn't cause any frustration/pining.
Peter Thiel is throwing his weight into Bitcoin. Surely there are more people out there like him, albeit less vocal about BTC/cryptocurrency.
Beyond worthless? That’s a spat in the face to all whistleblowers, journalists and lawyers who WikiLeaks worked together with to reveal dirty state and corporation secrets.

Did everyone forget Afghan and Iraq war documents already? Cable leaks? Journalists who were risking their lives?

WikiLeaks to this day hasn’t released a single inauthentic leak.
wow, so if you believe there is systemic 'infliction of learned helplessness' on pre-adolescent children, then it does warrant a 'grand-sounding name'.
no where near as manipulative as the rag you read that in, and he is in a much more precarious position as those reporters are.
yes, we young people are a completely uniform group. Thanks.
The EFF write up requires a bit of a caveat. The EFF states: "Oracle sent Rimini a cease and desist letter demanding that it stop using automated scripts, but Oracle didn’t rescind Rimini’s authorization to access the files outright."

That's true, but it would be incorrect to infer that the Ninth Circuit's holding in this case means that such a cease and desist is ineffective to revoke notice for purposes of the CFAA. To the contrary, the Ninth Circuit has held that where a defendant, "after receiving the cease and desist letter from" the plaintiff, "intentionally accessed [plaintiff's] computers knowing that it was not authorized to do so," the defendant was "liable under the CFAA." Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc., 844 F.3d 1058, 1069 (9th Cir. 2016).

The cease-and-desist letter dropped out of this case, because Rimini was accessing Oracle's website under delegated authority from Oracle customers, who had a contractual right to access the site. Oracle chose not to press the argument that it could limit the delegated authority from the customers by virtue of the cease and desist, I suspect because the wording of the cease and desist did not actually revoke Rimini's authorization to access the files. Oracle thus was stuck arguing that violating the TOS, despite otherwise having authorization to access the data, was enough to violate state-law counterparts to the CFAA. That latter argument was a losing one in light of United States v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir. 2012), where the Ninth Circuit held that a terms of service provided insufficient notice to alleged offenders to create liability under the CFAA.
>that they can destroy the reputation of a service (and a political refugee) while doing absolutely everything they accuse the service of doing, except blatantly and malevolently?

Can you show me where the NYTimes told Chelsea Clinton her mom should claim the election was rigged and refuse to concede?

Wikileaks destroyed it's own reputation with irresponsible releases with unredacted names, clearly timed releases to act as damage control for specific candidates, and generally just being unprofessional as hell.
I could not find a US state with that law, interestingly enough, despite being taught it in Driver's Ed. in Virginia, that doesn't appear to be the law on the books.

Most states' language is similar to California's 21801 which is must yield to vehicles "approaching frome the opposite direction which are close enough to constitute a hazard"

Not USA, but Ontario, CA actually does have this rule in 136.2[1]

Michigan found a 3rd option: If there are two cars going straight from one direction and one car waiting to turn left from the opposite, then it goes Straight, Left, Straight. This is regardless of the order that they arrive[2]

[edit]

I also find it absurd that this situation is not covered in every single States' driver's manual. After googling this, it's clearly contentious, and has been for years. If there ever was a situation that needed clarification it's this one.

I think it was New York's manual that had the section and had a list of questions "you should be able to answer" before proceeding (without answers provided). One of the questions was this situation, but I could not figure out the answer from reading the chapter!

1: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08#BK230

2: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(did15hikprdseomawdqif0jc))/...
> We're in the process of finalizing arrangements...

I find it a bit misleading that you don't state this more clearly upfront.

> We'll have our first flights within the next few months.

... if everything goes as expected, if not then you'll be liable with a whole bunch of angry first customers.
In China, everything has a price...
Just like NFL/NBA owners. Threaten to take the team to another city.
If every job is automated, someone will invent a new job that isn't. There will always be some people who will only be content when they have some amount more wealth than their neighbors, and will be willing to work to make up the difference.
Diary Printing
>> written in the accessible Javascript language so that anyone can contribute

Anyone that knows JavaScript.
You generally get around the "nothing at stake" problem by requiring validators (consensus-forming nodes) to submit a deposit that is subject to deletion upon proof of bad behavior. For example, if I get two conflicting messages signed by you in Ethereum's Casper network, I can present that data as proof to the Casper smart contract where you lose your deposit.
Chrome extension is marvellous for anyone who hasn't used it. Particularly useful for looking up docs of calls to external packages in Python repos.
Stop growth in that city and increase headcount exclusively elsewhere. Growth rate for headcount is something like 10-20% a year.
Uh, Timbits? They're a kid favorite.
I'd argue that new money (e.g. Kardashian, <$250 million in the immediate family) is a drop in the bucket compared to real American, old money wealth.

E.g. the kind where your son being set up to run for President in 20 years is negotiated at a private golf club while ensuring the references are lined up for his children to get into the right schools
I don't have an particular allegiance to "that rag". If you don't want to present the full picture, that's your issue, but you obviously have a dog in race.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...

Yes, it's a "rag", the facts are still there.
I always shrill about my passion project whenever I see this, but I suffered a lot of issues of quantifying supplements and habits to improvement so I wrote https://betterself.io (open-sourced)

It proxies a lot of improvement to productivity and sleep, (which are somewhat flawed as metrics).
We design our algorithms to not be necessarily reliant on more data for better performance. We recognize that fleet size and large-scale data collection just isn't going to be a key strength for Voyage, so we design our algorithms accordingly. For example, our classification stack required only 9,000 point cloud frames to achieve pretty amazing performance.
Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros – OpenAI's Greg Brockman
Black hole swallowing a star system. Flashes represent planets/comets/asteroids being swallowed as they circle in.

My theory could be the correct one, and maybe not.
The Ballad of Terry A. Davis (2017)
> Claims that are non-falsifiable are not really worthy of scientific inquiry. My personal conclusion, then, is that the question of consciousness is not a useful one.

Hm - ok.
Sure, non-falsifiable claims are against a typical "popperian" definition of what science is about. But then again isn't it worth asking yourself: even though a question is unanswerable at this time, might it still not be worth asking?
A lot of questions that were once impossible to falsify were at one point moved from the realms of philosophy to science - like, are human character innate or is it entirely shaped by the environment. This question was at one point a purely philosophical question, now less so. Still not easily falsifiable. Actually, most questions in science don't fall in the clear-cut category of being that easy to falsify. Because it's not obvious exactly what the question means, or exactly how one would falsify it. Sure, it's easy to do it when talking about physics but that's about the only field. Take many ideas in social psychology, economics, biology or even hypothetical ideas in physics - like string theory.

Does that mean they are questions that are not "useful"?
the cost of transactions has stayed mostly constant when priced in bitcoin. Like the article says, why always convert back to the dollar price?
How do we know he's not giving significant amounts anonymously?

Also a more pertinent decision is how much of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, and its effectiveness. Those dollars include taxes from the likes of Bezos
Yeah, because Microsoft is incapable of doing something for good reasons obviously.

Don't you dare give the ad companies shit for ignoring DNT though.
You're getting downvoted, but this piece from the Atlantic really made me deeply suspicious of Wikileaks' motivations. A chilling quotation from the article:

>“Hi Don. Sorry to hear about your problems,” WikiLeaks wrote. “We have an idea that may help a little. We are VERY interested in confidentially obtaining and publishing a copy of the email(s) cited in the New York Times today,” citing a reference in the paper to emails Trump Jr had exchanged with Rob Goldstone, a publicist who had helped set up the meeting. “We think this is strongly in your interest,” WikiLeaks went on. It then reprised many of the same arguments it made in trying to convince Trump Jr. to turn over his father’s tax returns, including the argument that Trump’s enemies in the press were using the emails to spin an unfavorable narrative of the meeting. “Us publishing not only deprives them of this ability but is beautifully confounding.”

A site that engages in leaking evidence of our government's wrongdoing is necessary. But it seems that they're starting to take a far more politically biased role and that the Wikileaks of the past is no more.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...
Driving a taxi was, since pre-1635.
Most vehicle recalls are not of the form: return your vehicle, we give you a new fixed one; but rather: bring your vehicle to one of our dealers and they'll perform some action to repair the defect.

The later is pretty analogous to issuing firmware and OS patches to mitigate the flaw.
> people are working on blockchain things all over the place, relatively quietly in the background

"Kodak shares have more than tripled since company announced 'KodakCoin'"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/kodak-shares-have-more-than-...

This is not the future I signed up for..
> "Now when it happens, or how or anything else, I don't know. We don't own any, we're not short any, we'll never have a position in them," he said.

"I get into enough trouble with things I think I know something about. Why in the world should I take a long or short position in something I don't know anything about?"

-

I'd believe him a little more if he had some stake in it, one way or the other.
> between Mountain View and the SJC airport is a vast isotropic region that’s been rendered devoid of natural landmarks

Stealing that description. I'd extend it up the peninsula too, pretty much to Millbrae. Stanford and the bridges kinda count, but don't exactly interrupt the isotropicness much.
At equilibrium, yes. Bitcoin's value seems to be changing faster than miners can acquire and set up new hardware. Also, it's probably not rational to buy hardware right up until the point the marginal gain becomes 0 if you expect the price is likely to drop in the future (are miners able to buy financial instruments to hedge this risk?).
Advertisers were never going to honor any significant portion of the population using DNT.

The correct approach is to aggressively fight back with technology to prevent tracking.
This has been a known issue in xbox 360 hardware since about 2010.

It just keeps popping up, someone finally thought to weaponize it.
I live in Australia, in the South East sub-tropical Queensland state. Originally from the UK and I complain about it being too cold in winter when it gets to 15 degrees.

10 years ago I would have been running to the beach in the UK at anything above 12. How times have changed.
>no where near as manipulative as the rag you read that in

Oh come on. I'd expect that kind of talk from reddit, but here?
I can't see what arguments you made as you've papered over everything. I've had to infer a lot.

> Frankly it astonishes me that you don't accept that income is more correlated to intelligence today than it was when a large percentage of the population were slaves, or when people were legally bound to the land they lived on?

That may be true. It is, however, irrelevant for three reasons:
1) intelligence is still not the dominant factor when it comes to income.
2) Even if intelligence were the dominant factor in predicting income, that wouldn't mean that poverty itself is caused by having too many stupid people.
3) The rate of genetic change due to any such program would be so slow as to be meaningless on the timeframes we need to measure the results in.

I think needlessly bringing up genetics sunk the ability for people to consider your idea, which is actually fairly mainstream.

Your idea bears consideration. Not because it would have much of an impact genetically, but because it could have an impact demographically. Since the largest predictor of income is your parents SES, decreasing the proportion of children born to low SES parents could itself have positive impacts as fewer children need to face the challenges of growing up poor.

Indeed, many have argued that the legalization of abortion had exactly this type of effect: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/-what-e...

Beyond just fewer kids growing up poor, propoganda/education supporting family planning and access to birth control/abortion can directly improve the future income potential of poor women.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/27/contraceptio...
Opinions are irrelevant. People will store the value they generate by working in any medium that offers them the most security and long-term increase of value over time. If a cryptocurrency is more secure, convenient, and less deflationary than someone's local fiat counterpart, why would they not store most of their value in it? If we go through 20 years of seeing Bitcoin outperform the inflation of a dollar, no hijackings of the blockchain, no breaking of SHA or ECDSA, why would I not store a majority of my value in it?
They are the only place a whistle-blower can go, without being hung out to dry; Your main complaint about them is that they sometimes, supposedly act like the rest of our media...
The same Oracle of Omaha who said;
"I was wrong on Google and 'too dumb' to appreciate Amazon"

Not exactly known for getting tech right (but right about nearly ever other industry)
I recently watched a fascinating documentary about the original Penn Station and the Manhattan tunnels, which were built entirely with private money by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Highly recommended.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/penn/
Wow, fuck apache.
>Did everyone forget Afghan and Iraq war documents already? Cable leaks? Journalists who were risking their lives?

Have you? Wikileaks is irresponsible as hell. Their leaks were unredacted and put the lives of informants at risk as well as exposing the names of people who have been victims of sex crimes and persecuted by corrupt governments.

People like Glenn Greenwald and the journalists working on the Panama Papers illustrate really well how irresponsible and biased Wikileaks is.
He's completely wrong. In his experience people talk about their value not in bitcoins but in dollars, that's because he's talking with speculators who are not interested in what decentralised and distributed ledgers mean. People who think that we're in a revolution of not just currency but also government talk about the value of their crypto in terms of bitcoins and not dollars.

Bitcoin is still young and the technology is immature. What we see today is not what we're going to end up with. But, at one point the idea of separating church and state would have seemed insane, now in a big chunk of the world having any religion associated with government would be unthinkable. Likewise in the future we could look back at the dark ages where centralised authorities managed currency and manipulated it for the benefit of the few.

The thing about revolutions is that people often don't see them coming.
I would guess that e-gold, from 1996, is a better candidate for the V1 of digital currency technology.
All of which means that print runs are already inflated just to cover the returned books that publishers don’t expect to sell

That makes no sense. Why would you intentionally overprint when it's common that they'll just come back at your expense? The rest of the article's narrative says that publishers print fewer copies than they would otherwise for that exact reason.
> The technology that's here to stay is blockchain, the currencies associated with them are irrelevant in the grand scheme for now.

But blockchain's validity is validated by miners, and miners stick around because they're compensated for constructing a valid block.

How does miner compensation work in the cryptocurrency-free environment, and if there are no miners, what are the guarantees that some central entity did not rewind and fork the blockchain?
Just because “your side” suffered when exposed doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t see massive value in learning the truth whenever and however we can.
> hoping one of the authors chimes in and clarifies

That is an example of exactly why not - the support behind React is huge. Even if we take their word that Nerv is great from a technical perspective, it doesn't have the same level of community support.

Not that I am suggesting we ignore anything new just because it has a smaller community... just pointing out a downside that should be considered before using it on production projects.
12 hour setup times and a 600 page manual should be standard, obviously.
Theoretically they can sell futures to hedge price risk. But if you really believe in bitcoin rather than the "fiat world," would you really trust a futures contract?
They do. The ASIC miners are placed on pre-order about two months in advance at a price reflective of the current expected mining output. With a healthy secondary market.
More than relevant ads?

doubt it.
If Napster disappeared overnight, literally nothing of value is lost. If Bitcoin disappeared overnight, millions of dollars of value is gone.

That's the game Bitcoin is playing in. It doesn't matter if it becomes a global currency, but if it's not being taken seriously and is just for playing around, there are a lot of people who are going to lose a lot of money. What you're describing is gambling at best, theft and fraud at worst.
It sounds like he and many others are investing in BTC itself, not the Bitcoin ecosystem. If you can get a 10x return per year just by hodling, why bother to develop anything? Even selling shovels isn't that profitable. When people say a (hyper)deflationary currency discourages investment, this is what it looks like.
There are very few good use cases for blockchains, a lot of companies are doing things with blockchain tech that are not suited and they would be better off simply using a traditional database and APIs.

But, for the right use cases it's revolutionary.
a hack job. how it that not obvious? and the dog i have in this race is the future of my country.