skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too mention, Thiel wasn't the least bit disturbed by what Hulk Hogan said about African Americans in the very same case!

Thiel was more concerned about eliminating Gawker. It really reveals what he values as a person: himself.

Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley VC, financially supported a man, Hulk Hogan, that uttered this:

“I mean, I’d rather if she was going to f-ck some n-gger, I’d rather have her marry an 8-foot-tall n-gger worth a hundred million dollars! Like a basketball player!

https://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/hulk-hogan-fired-wwe-...
It's still separated, modularized, componentized, just on a web component level instead of a file level.
The tone of this whole post tells the actual story.
"Their grades are based on objective assessment of properties of underlying technologies."

What were the grades for apps/protocols that run on closed, proprietary basebands with, in some cases, DMA ? Or on devices with embedded, parallel computers that can run arbitrary java programs uploaded, at any time, by the carrier,
without the users' knowledge[1] ?

All fails, right ? Straight "F"s ?

[1] These are called "SIM chips"
Still can't prove those absolutely objective. They just work out with our human conceived models of the "physical" universe.
I have never seen this... which makes me wonder if I am the one BSing
Correct, but there's a difference between publishing what is in the public domain and publishing deeply private information, which they would have got through questionable sources.
Who says they don’t have exploits for their tech? Just as I would expect the PLA to have multiple exploits for us tech. Step out of the bubble you live in, espionage is real and so far there’s enough compelling evidence to question their motives. Just as there were constant rublings with Kaspersky, look where that went. Not only did their reaction turn out to be an attempt st saving face, researches showed that simply putting specific classification markings on blank files triggered the av to submit copies of the files.
I recently took a 4 month sabbatical and it was wonderful. A friend of mine at a new company called me up looking for help, so it ended up being only 2 months, but I've replenished my "oh shit," fund and will take some more time off after this gig ends in a few years.
What's the down-voting for? Seems like a perfectly legitimate comparison to a public company offering the EXACT same product to the exact same market segment.
If those billionaires play an active role in shutting down unfavourable coverage of themselves, yes. To my knowledge that hasn't been uncovered yet, though.

Don't get me wrong, in an ideal world all reporting would be independent, but I'm not sure how that model would be achieved.
you're not going to mention that he advocated for people to skip college, instead jumping right to startups? there's a conflict of interest here where the billionaire tells the kids what they want to hear (join a startup, become rich) and he benefits (from their cheap, tireless labor).
SyncThing seems to do fine on my smartphone in my home LAN.
Well "shutting down a garbage site for doing something bad" is quite different from "shutting down a site over frivolous complaints".

You'll note that Gawker lost their case, and Mother Jones won.
>No, they indicate your ability to work and talk through problems. I'm not sure where this idea that whiteboarding is about skill level came from. You can cram/study algorithms. But you can't fake the thinking process, or how you approach a problem. You can't fake your communication style. And that is what doing it in a stressful situation shows - how do you really think and communicate under pressure?

Right, and that's fine, so long as the interviewers are actually using it that way, rather than just, "did they reinvent this obscure algorithm? yes/no"

The complaint is that, in practice, most of them are doing the latter.
AWS rebooted PV instances to implement the Vixen shim ( https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01... ) from my understanding.

I do not believe that HVM instances (which would be closer to your KVM infrastructure) needed to be rebooted.
Has anybody (smarter than me) looked at the Bitcoin code and said "what if we try to change it such that transaction costs are capped rather than number of coins"? That would basically make the supply proportional to demand...or something like that.
So you accept the offer, get the options agreement and if it does not work for you then you find another job and move on.
>If I'm going to make you get up at a white board (and I might) it isn't going to be to write code on it. We don't hand designers white board markers and say "draw monkey draw" - because it isn't their medium and neither is it ours.

I haven't had to go through this process in years, but from what I recall, you are the exception, far from the rule.
Who cares? The problem isn't "sympathy;" it's the precedent being set. Ernesto Miranda was not necessarily a "sympathetic" person either and yet his case was important in establishing legal rights of people accused of a crime.
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Y'know what jph? I'm gonna try that.
That Gawker is dead should be celebrated.

To call what they did journalism is an insult to journalism.
I meant that in context of your entire comment tree; e.g. things like:

> Things that are actually health promoting, like having a full-time parent to care for the kids and primary breadwinner, eating right, exercise etc are boring and don't make VCs rich.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I see you implying something like "why do medicine, if we could eat less 'junk food', work less and smile more instead".

> curing Rickets and Scurvy by identifying the nutritional deficiencies behind then us totally not an advance in medicine

That's indeed the domain of medicine. Which will tell you, "you need more nutrient $X in your diet" as a solution to the problem, instead of "eat healthier" (for values of 'healthier' determined by current fitness fashion).
finally some quid pro quo
Something really scary that's silently happening is activists taking over well-known/"famous" publications and changing the narrative without changing the name:

- WaPo was bought by Bezos
- Local news stations (Tribune) bought by Sinclair
- WSJ was bought by Murdoch
- Newsweek bought by IAC
- GigaOM was sold off and has new writers
- Gawker now potentially being owned by a guy with a grudge

We trust many of these news organizations because they've been around for years or decades or even centuries. And many times, we don't realize that their priorities have silently shifted.
DOM APIs have much improved since jQuery first arrived, so while that was the case originally, it's become less true over time. It's definitely still less verbose though, for example:

$('.my-component div').css({ background: 'yellow' })

vs.

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.my-component div')).map(node => {
node.style.background = 'yellow';
})
> China and Asia, in general, has a very conservative "keep it to yourself, fix it yourself" attitude when it comes to problems, which can be very toxic.

I think the attitude is more 'don't stand out' and 'don't be different' attitude. 'keep to yourself' is a behavior resulted from this attitude.

Most native Chinese folks value group experience over individual experience.
Wow this is so cool. Really makes me feel like I'm living in the future.

Not sure that naming it tesla was a good idea though.
Are you saying women no longer tend to be hypergamous? That seems a bit of a stretch, to put it mildly.
> Everyone that wants to work in tech should instead navigate through the meetup/social space and build up a decent network for this kind of thing.

Yes, this is absolutely the best way to do it. There's a lot of anxiety and guarded interactions in an off-the-street hiring process, and it's hard for either party to feel fully trustful of the situation, and both end up taking a gamble. This is not entirely obviated by pre-existing relationships and experience (especially when new hires feel like their pre-existing relationship justifies shirking job duties), but it is significantly lessened on both sides.

We have this sanitized myth we've built up about objectivity, but the fact is that it's still about who you know, and most of all it's about being likable. Skill and competence are ambiguous areas that people can and do endlessly debate over, as in "If you can't invert a binary tree on the spot, you are clearly inexperience and incompetent" or "If you think you have to invert a binary tree on-demand without reference materials to provide value as a coder, you're inexperienced and incompetent", but in the real world, being likable and pleasant is the reason that people bring and keep others on board.

If you want to get hired, it's much more important to brush up on your charm and presentation (and maintain that standard throughout your employment) than it is to memorize a particular algorithm. There are always going to be new algorithms that you don't have memorized. Strong social skills will take you much further.
Learn what their goals and objectives are and position your solution to go after that.

Use tricks like “that’s a great idea, my only concern is that it might fail in X scenario, Y solution is similar but doesn’t suffer from that specific issue. What do you think?”
I agree with the ideal you describe, but I think it is naive to assume that billionaires buy news orgs simply because they enjoy picking up a good newspaper in the morning.
To reliably lucid dream, become more lucid (mindful, through careful observation of sense perceptions) in waking life.

Also, get a watch or app with hourly beep and do a reality check. Mine is 3 things: (1) close eyes (2) pinch nose and try to breathe through it (3) check out my hands.

All 3 of these are weird in dreams & reliably indicate that I am dreaming.
> It'd be very hard to make a protocol that essentially did both

They already had a protocol that essentially did both.

Once you have forwarding/routing i.e. what Skype called "super-nodes", P2P is a clear superset of "centralised".

Anyone who says different doesn't know what they're talking about.

> I'm sure there were other reasons involved in the decision, I don't pretend to know them, but from a business perspective alone, you choose one connection methodology and you stick with it. Anything more is wasteful of resources.

I'm not speculating.

I've seen engineers do stupid things that don't make sense; I'm not arguing that there are stupid reasons for it, and I'm not going to argue that there's non-technical reasons for it.

But technical reasons? I don't buy it. I need some convincing: If one protocol (the P2P one) does both use cases, then you don't need another protocol just to handle one use case. That's just not how protocols work.
I wonder how well this performs. I see I have roughly 2000 songs on mys sd card. I find it a little hard to believe that 40x that is enough to cover a big enough slice to be able to actually answer the question of "what's this" when it comes up?

[ed: i actually think I'd have plenty of room for 70k songs in high quality ogg vorbis vbr or equivalent - that'd frankly be more interesting... ]
The logical fallacies here run VERY VERY deep. You've attributed the entire problem to being a "Billionaire"
> publishing what is in the public domain and publishing deeply private information, which they would have got through questionable sources

You mean "reporting"?
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This means we can still trust Signal right? That's the app I use because some large security experts said it was one of the best.
I seriously doubt that.
Yep, it's a massive time sink. I'd want tips on how to make that time matter or be utilized better.
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You may not agree with the argument, but where is the logical fallacy?
I can bet my bottom dollar that Indians (who are Hindus) give me weird looks and comments, not based on environmental destruction but some moron who came up with this rule that Hindus are not supposed to eat beef (but meat from other animals is okay).

If you look up the original Hindu texts, it specifically says you should not eat meat, respect nature and animals; which means you should NOT eat any kind of meat.
Your correct I wasn't specific enough in my question. I should have included the qualifier 'in unprivileged code' after 'protected memory' up there.
The ultimate fuck you, above all fuck yous.

I have zero sympathy for Gawker but I must admit this is troubling. Poetic, but troubling.
From what I've heard on the ipfs irc, there should be a whitelist/blacklist feature so that you could make sure you're not hosting anything shady.
What you will suggest for starting with multi-cloud infra?
I in fact left the theater thinking "How about a Star Wars movie without any battles or explosions? Couldn't that be more interesting?" I wonder what's been done in fanfiction.
It would certainly force companies to actually read the resume in person before throwing out calls.
Whoa, please stop.
I don't see how buying a media outlet to shut it down is different to buying it to influence the coverage. Both are shady but perfectly legal.

I also don't see why how a single billionaire funding a lawsuit is that different than thousands of us funding a lawsuit by the EFF. If money = speech than those are both protected by the 1st amendment.
I can't speak for anyone else but I am certainly troubled by media consolidation in the US.
Well, they seem to not understand that they can jump over the net and escape the capture. They (wild cetaceans especially) are not very interested in establishing contact with another sentient species ( us). In all experiments on non-human intelligence, only Alex, the grey parrot, actually asked the question.

Having said that, we need to realize that we still do not have sufficient knowledge to argue either way. We are dealing with species who rely on sound more than humans ever would. We still do not fully understand what is going on there, echolocation has been studied for 60 years, last year new echolocation clicks types were discovered. Do not also forget that our knowledge is mostly about bottlenose dolphins, but there are many other species. Last year it was also reported that humble harbor porpoises are not as asocial as they thought to be, and in fact, communicate with each other via pulsed signals produced at higher frequencies not audible to their predators.
Yeah, but unlike Mother Jones, most political bloggers don't have millions of dollars to wage a multi-year war.

The general concern is that money provides one the ability to silence other people's speech.
Also, I recently gave in and ditched jQuery for React, and must say it's not that bad... It's quite a joy to use actually once you learn the concepts. One needs to look up all new JS "improvements" though to use it.

Especially in larger projects with multiple developers it keeps the codebase much more manageable than oldskool js.
A different way to look at it might be that in most cases, an illegal deed might be overlooked simply because someone didn't have the funds to see it through the court system. It's one thing if someone is funding endless lawsuits just to drive someone out of business, it's another for someone like Hogan to have a legitimate case, and for Thiel to fund his lawsuit. Thiel's funding of the case did not influence the judgement against Gawker, it simply allowed it to proceed further than if Hogan ran out of money.

I agree with what I think you're saying, that we should be careful about allowing someone to sue someone out of business simply out of spite; however, I think there's something to be said for someone with deeper pockets funding a legitimate suit. It might be comparable to things that the EFF funds, or that the ACLU takes on -- they have deeper pockets, and can take the financial hit that someone with a legitimate claim may not be able to take.

Imagine if Gawker published the same thing of some average middle-class person. They can't afford a high-priced lawyer, so likely Gawker gets away with something that, if it went to court, they would lose. In this case, the bully ran into someone who actually could fight back. As far as I know, Thiel didn't fund endless lawsuits just hoping to run them out of money. He funded a legitimate lawsuit that ended up with Gawker being found in the wrong for.
Huge amount of R&D, sure. But the mining ASIC market is largely dominated by Bitmain right now.
I am honestly torn. I have used kraken to make several thousands of dollars, but I am always at awe with myself for using such a shitty site. If any of the other exchanges could figure out how to validate faster, you would see an influx from people heading there just to avoid the common cloudflare errors that kraken users are used to seeing. I am tired of putting orders for thousands of dollars and having to refresh multiple times to see if they went through...
The only way you can know if a protocol is secure is if you have a lot of eyes on it trying to break it nine ways from sunday. This is nothing but a good thing.
All web frameworks solve basically the same set of problems. If you're someone with a very good knowledge of the web platform, who has seen these problems solved in miriad of ways already, job requirements usually seems rather faddish and arbitrary, I can tell you.
According to this page retpoline is "insufficient on Skylake and newer CPUs, where even ret may predict from the indirect branch predictor as a fallback; those need IBRS".

https://github.com/marcan/speculation-bugs/blob/master/READM...

What gives?
This is such a bizarre comment. Why would the NSA even try to get a Chinese company controlled by a former PLA officer to "play ball" and install implants? What reason is there to think the NSA can't intercept Huawei routers.* Why do you think the NSA makes decisions based on being "mad" (was it replaced by a seven year old without informing me)?

* It'd probably be more difficult for them to get at a Huawei, since the routers don't go through US export inspections, just like everything else made outside the US. However, the could still have the cooperation of or agents working for the shipping companies to help them in those cases.
That seems facile. I don't believe it. I guess we'll see.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Project Zero disclosed this to Intel, AMD and ARM on June 1 as stated in the blogpost [1]. I believe an independent researcher working somewhere else (or even at home) would have done the same, as indeed the parallel independent discoveries ultimately did.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
* not in current use according to Equifax. I'm hesitant to take their word at face value, as they've tried to mitigate the entire situation via PR already and claim many users [who were affected] were not affected. However the site was still live, and exposed to the public web. It's only unrelated to the specific event in the United States, but clearly indicative of a pattern of negligence.

I also wanted to add that the software in question that was compromised was a free and open source solution[0], not some top-dollar security program. And it was breached by relative simple XSS attack that even may have been carried out automatically. Beyond that it could just as likely have been a script kiddie who caught wind of the vulnerability on a message board somewhere and went hunting. I wouldn't call that highly sophisticated. XSS protection is the very baseline of internet data security...

I'd also like to point to a video posted by another user upthread (willfarvar):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI

FBI's Frank Abagnale speaks to the Equifax breach at ~37m (as willfarvar says, though, the entire video/talk is great)

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[0] https://struts.apache.org/announce.html#a20170707
Can we put an upper limit on the value by saying that it can't be worth more than it costs to destroy trust in the block chain by inserting invalid transactions?

If that would only require 50% of the mining hardware and some 10s or 100s of transactions (e.g. an hour a day or even a week of power). I don't know what it would cost to do that, but if it was only recouping sunk costs, and future income for the miner then it should be relatively easy to calculate even if it changes all of the time.

edit:
I don't see how as a store of value it could be worth something that is effectively uncounterfitable and well established like gold ($7T), which would set a $350k maximum. As a transaction medium BTC wouldn't be a good choice anyway even as a first mover.
I really like that example because it's completely reasonable for real world software to do, and the speculative execution would run off the page every time. Loops copying data end in speculative reads, and we like to align structures to power-of-two sizes for cache friendliness.
That's just one of the things that I don't like about React. I guess I'm old-school? I like Handlebars, Sass, and of course HTML/CSS/JS and I do use JS frameworks (Express/Feathers).
>Thiel may not be a saint, but it's hard to have any sympathy for Gawker...

But, neither has anything to do with the other when assessing their actions. That is, we can have disdain for both Gawker and Thiel.

This constant binary relativism is a recipe for descent into madness: Deciding everything by the logic underlying "Trump is deplorable, but I will support him because Hillary is worse" (or vice-versa) is not going to end well.

Yet, it seems that this "two-party politics way of thinking" is spilling over into all aspects of society.
Right, but in both cases a billionaire got to choose what qualifies as "something bad". That's the "principle" part I'm getting at here that worries me.

Let's not kid ourselves - Thiel did not fund this lawsuit because he was deeply concerned about the fate of Hulk Hogan. He did it because of the coverage he'd received from Valleywag, which, let's be clear, included outing him! I'm not saying he's wrong to be aggrieved. But the idea that, if you have enough money, you can shut down whatever media organisation you want... that concerns me.
im not sure i understand what your saying, doesnt seem to address my main point, which is: it seems unlikely that a very small group of rich people will use their money for public good in a more effective way than if that money were more evenly distributed among people. thats not even a normative statement, where is the logical fallacy?
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But Thiel being homosexual means he's a member of a protected class. How can we judge him now?
Did Thiel leak the sex tape to Gawker in the first place? Did he force them to publish it?

Gawker did something wrong and got sued. Does it matter who funded the lawsuit?
In some jurisdictions, even Apple unreasonably hands over data.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/apple-sets-date-for-china-d...

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-42631386
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watch the movie Office Space and do what Milton did.
I don't know why but Signal has always scared me - I think it was when I noticed it sharing my contacts with their server to "find my friends" when I never consented.

Matrix is looking good, but again not P2P only federated. This is why we are trying to do fully P2P end-to-end encryption like with https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi... .
I wouldn't be surprised if it does get a default install in Windows 10 eventually, similar to its relatives Mail and Calendar.
You have a "Portfolio" link in the sidebar that doesn't seem to be for anything, and a broken #contact anchor.
Very hard is a strong overstatement, nearly as dubious as saying they did it for the backdoors. It was either a license issue, patent issue, or just unwillingness to maintain the P2P code base in face of some features (mobile, conferencing) needing the centralised one too.