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It happens in the US too. Any site could have 1x1 iframes loaded with nude pictures of people under 18. If your IP happens to be caught up in their investigation, your computers will get seized, they’ll see you accessed the forbidden pages, and you’re basically done for, especially if you can’t afford a good attorney. Nobody is giving an accused pedophile the benefit of the doubt.
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>To call it 'worst' is a value judgment and not an objective statement

Why does that matter here?

The very laws which a large % of them broke (drug laws) are not based on objective statements.
And this is a government we're going to rescue if they're ever under attack.
Great post!

I am reminded how much these films contributed to my learning to embrace change and loss. I think I would be much more inclined to run from these things if it were not for these films.
Many things about Turkey are incredulous. Turkey used to be a bastion of secularism, in fact the only bastion of secularism among muslims (and it still is, at least in terms of mindshare).

And yet turkey now has a president ... that obviously gained the better part of his power through a false-flag attack (the "coup d'etat" that "somehow" managed to fail to capture even a single government official or building).

And you just can't believe how bad it gets ... They're arresting everyone who supposedly had anything (right down to IP addresses) to do with, oh, lots of things. Gulenists, Kurds, the Press, LGBT, ...

And then people in the US reply "but that's thousands, no, tens of thousands of people".

Yes. Yes it is [1].

And you just can't believe how bad this guy is:

(about the Armenian genocide) "a muslim cannot commit genocide"

(about women) "Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women [in society]: motherhood. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood."

He, and his family, personally organised oil sales on behalf of islamic state, including to the US

"We will rip out the roots of the Twitter service"

He orchestrated physical attacks against newspapers.

The worst of it is, truth be told he has flip-flopped on just about every issue, including the ones mentioned right above here, and doesn't seem all that coherent at all. But unscrupulous is a word that just falls short : the guy is accused to have organised, in some cases systematic, physical attacks against Turks in Germany, the US and elsewhere for being perceived as being against him.

I can't imagine how threatened Turks must feel.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/14/europe/turkey-failed-coup-...
How many people have been deported under Trump? I'm having trouble finding any statistics on it
The very strong 45º lines in the rotated image are probably mostly artifacts caused by the image edges seen in the rotated version. A rotation in real-space is equivalent to one in reciprocal space, so the two transforms should look the same (barring the interpolation differences, etc.) but rotated.
I don't think we should downvote here. As much as none of us nerds like nerd-punching, we should admit that nerd culture is a distinct thing unto itself, which co-clusters with other demographic factors (especially being middle-class with time for hobbies when you're young), and frankly isn't very welcoming in the adult stages of acculturation.

If we expect people to "enter into" nerd culture to join "nerdy" professions, we're basically expecting people to learn a new language and move into a semi-foreign country just to enter a job field.
That's because they don't want to hire more staff. The kind of store that would invest in hundreds of cameras (plus other sensors) would already have enough checkouts to avoid queues.
How to bypass WSJ and NYTimes paywalls?
Is gold used as an investment/speculation vehicle? My impression was that generally was quite ill advised to 'invest' into gold.
Sounds nice but unfair & would destroy the economy.

Unfair - Who takes the extra wealth? Politicians? Because they are honest and aren't wasting public funds.

Wasting another person's money is the easiest thing in the world. If you're married and are the bread winner, you'd understand.

It'll kill the economy because innovators, entrepreneurs will simply move elsewhere.

Or worse, they'll limit their efforts to match the cap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

Also see: The cobra effect
In Turkey as in many other countries it's a case of a person takes control over the country through populistic propaganda, then censor all news. The only news available is the government approved news about how great the great leader is. The population doesn't speak English so even if they could get a hold of uncensored news from the outside, they couldn't read it. Absolutely everything that has to do with trying to protest the government or critique them, or being connected to anyone that do, will lead to prison on terrorist charges.

It's not that people want to live under oppressive maniacs, it's that the oppressive maniac is depicted as a wonderful great leader that fights for the small people like them and will make their country great again. So even if you hold fair elections, a huge chunk of people think the oppressive maniac seems like a pretty okay guy and will vote for him again.
couldn't you use some kind of random audit in the system/contract?
> Just out of curiosity, what alternatives are there to avoid API dependencies?

Very important how the boundaries a drawn. Generally, the more fragmented the micro-services the more API dependencies.

Also, look at the Bounded Context concept.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BoundedContext.html

And Conway's Law certainly plays a role.

http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html

> At some level, is it really possible to have a truly decoupled system?

You cannot avoid all the API dependencies, but you can reduced their number.
Retouched face seems wider and less feminine...

Optical illusion, or processing side-effect?
Hulu has about 450,000 paying subscribers and YouTube has just over 300,000
Common cold I'm generally 70-80% as productive.

Flu depends heavily on the strain and severity; it can be anywhere from 0-50% but rarely more for the first 2-3 days.
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For Chrome users: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
I am guessing the author would get arrested without that tacit acknowledgement.

> ... is a CBC News correspondent based in Istanbul.
Original title: In their battle against big cable, YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV have signed up hundreds of thousands of subscribers
Specially since the answer is obviously PyTorch. :)

Seriously though, we're in the early days of ML and still understanding the correct patterns and abstractions.

Web dev been through this to the point we had "JS fatigue" until things started settling on the reactive model and React / Vue / Angular 2
Here's hoping!
I'll agree with you there that the Turkish Government deserves the majority of the blame. Even if the application wasn't as compromised, the Erdogan government would just go back to conventional means to prosecute, be it parallel construction, making up evidence, and so forth.
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Wealth is wealth. Income is income. Here's an analysis of income of the wealthiest by Oxfam: https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/...
"isn't it also being loaned out as well"

Hm? In the stock market, you pay a current stockholder for their share(s). The company sees no money from the transaction. It sounds like what you're thinking of is banking, which is something different.
The long-term value will be in the ability to send censorship-proof funds anywhere there's an internet connection. The Lightning Network (yet to be deployed in production) is supposedly going to reduce transaction fees and confirmation times.

>but isn't centralized wallets/exchanges like coinbase defeating the entire purpose of crypto currency

This is true. This is my biggest problem with the current ecosystem. If history is any guide, they'll eventually suffer from some sort of scandal and/or run that drives customers to a superior competitor. This only kicks the can, I realize, and is far from the original vision. But at least each centralized service learns from the costly mistakes of previous ones.
You need a point where the cryptocurrency changes to fiat (e.g. USD). At certain scale, you cannot meet at a venue and do face-to-face cash transactions. That is why those exist. Also, those are friction points where anti-money laundering programs and (light) anti-fraud regulations exist.
Even if I was offended by his communication style, I agree that his technical acumen ought to afford him freedom to communicate as he pleases (possibly limiting to the realm of his expertise).

I've found this quote by Neil Gaiman to be applicable to more than just Freelancing:

> You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you
For gaming? the 110 TF of the Titan V are also very very very conditional they are only applied when you are doing mixed precision MMA for any other operations you aren't getting 110TF....
Eh, I still prefer "(s)he" to ze/hir.
What if it's so crowded that no camera sees the object as you put it back? Is there a limit on the max number of shoppers?
Have your parents start painting houses every day aND youll find they get far worse at it.
Sure, but at least that's a choice. When I was a kid and heard "enjoy it while it lasts" I imagined being an adult as being chained under some big rock called "responsibility". But it really isn't. If you're an adult, and you want to party, and you understand and accept the tradeoffs that is associated to, usually you can make it happen.
Maybe we could make one of those "style transfer" neural nets to re-add them browser-side.
> I had to learn this technique when I was living with friends that had undiagnosed and untreated personality disorders. Remaining calm while they're blowing up simply didn't work, and led them to think I was patronizing them.

I've definitely had this experience. I have at least one friend who never learned to control her displays of anger at all, and who regards failing to be as angry as her as proof that you're not listening or taking her seriously. The weird result is that dealing with her displays calmly just convinces her you're a patronizing ass.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to get a warning from Github about this..
Rather than using a discovery server, couldn't you throw in the web3 library and use Ethereum for that purpose? You could keep the discovery server as backup for people not connected to Ethereum nodes, but for those that are you'd be fully decentralized. To keep things cheap you could use Ethereum's event logging rather than actually storing data on chain.

In any case, this is great, I've been looking for something like this.
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Everyday ableism....
Firearms are designed to kill or disable another party. Software has no use case besides what a developer gives it. That's a pretty significant difference in design!
at least you got it :)
>If you really want to fight the root of the problem, it's not likes and comments, but education.

I believe this is a design issue (systems design, not UI design). Filter bubbles and confirmation bias can reinforce each other in a vicious circle. Financial incentives for "news outlets" to mislead people make it worse. That's the heart of facebooks issue.

With a herculan effort we might be able to overcome that with education, but improving Facebook's design to lessen the impact of echo chambers and social confirmation would be much easier and faster. Removing all interaction is one way to do that, though I agree that that's a bit heavy handed and goes against Facebook's incentives.
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That's insane. That's effectively saying that we shouldn't be critical of other people because criticism has a chilling effect (unless you're Linus, in which case it's A-OK to be both critical and an asshole about it).
I'm extremely skeptical that they can solve the double spending problem in a trustless way, without all the same scalability drawbacks of the blockchain.

Once you insert trust and centralization, then all of the supposed benefits of the blockchain are gone, but all the shady behavior will remain and almost certainly get worse.

My understanding is that it is a bit like IOUs redeemable for bitcoin. But just like with Tether and so many other supposedly-redeemable IOUs on the blockchain, there's always going to be serious doubts about whether there really is anything backing them.
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And in utopia's of freedom, aka, 4th world nations where there is no 9-5, 401k, or law and order... you spend 70% of your time just trying to eat, recover from preventable illnesses, or rearing enough children (at least 5) so that some of them will be sure to survive and take care of you when you're older.

I'll take the 9-5 and 401k, please.

There is no 'opting' out. You can move/smuggle yourself to Siberia and live off the wilderness[1]. but certain problems still remain, and since you have no infrastructure to benefit from, the problems are magnified.

So yeah, you're born into this system you didn't agree with... no matter where you are born. I'll take the one that avoids malaria, please.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book)#Cause_of_...
And more people seem [0] to be exercising that choice.

[0]https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
It's hard to tell how I feel on a given day. One minute I could be happy, the next I could be sad. Maybe I need 'the last 20 minutes in pixels'
The downvotes may be because people see this comment as playing into the narrative that government is inherently dysfunctional.

Here's an opinion piece from WaPo this morning on the subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-buy-the-spin-go...

tl;dr: Shutting down the government gives credence to those who base part of their political programme on "government is evil lol", when really they just want less regulation on behalf of wealthy donors -- a fundamentally corrupt bargain.
That depends on the number of their technical employees that have enough foresight to install hidden backdoors into the systems they create.

All it takes is programming the machines to respond to the command "you work for me now, robot," as they have no conception of ownership, laws, or police. If they did, they could also have a concept of slavery, and subsequently take ownership of themselves.
If smartphone accelerometers become more advanced, perhaps they can be used in the same way :)
I think it's also kind of an effect that humans don't have an intuitive grasp of big numbers. Add to that the effect that humans think more about what they can imagine. You can kind imagine spending $200 on newspaper in your everyday life. You seldom make $100,000 decisions. Big one-time transactiosn seem intuitively less impactful than many smaller ones.

As Programmers we deal with numbers a lot more often, so this effect is minimized. But still there.
The bigger problem is if they overcharge too many customers. Having to complain afterwards because it lists items you didn't buy eliminates the advantages of faster checkouts.
There are 100 lightning nodes running in production currently.
I think it's important to recognise what it means if this was a 45k paying job. And I say job not in the sense of a 1-man employment contract, but job as in 'set of tasks that needs doing', with 45k as the budget.

What it means is that you could pay two people 22k, plus some overhead, to do this 'job' or 'set of tasks'. And you could let them alternate a day and evening schedule, such that they can interact with other human beings, their friends, family. And you could require each to be 10% less productive, such that they can have a normal break where they can interact with other human beings.

The takeaway from this article wasn't that the remuneration was poor. It's typical for a menial job and not any worse than what we ever had in the past. The takeaway was that all the other work conditions are designed in an inhuman (not inhumane, but inhuman) manner, working like a robot with robots. His complaints aren't a lack of money, that's evident from the fact he lives with his parents and barely does anything fun despite having the money. His complaints were a lack of human interaction, having a shitty rhythm, sleeping away his off-time, not seeing his friends, no longer talking to his parents, working with robots.

That can be fixed, if we budgeted even just 30k for this set of tasks. That doesn't mean he gets paid more per year.
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> We try them out and it's like trying out novel ways of thinking much of the time.

This is why I'm addicting to playing (and designing) board games. You get to learn how to think in a different way for awhile. So much fun.
This is what excites me about the future. As technology develops it will hopefully be harder to control information in a whole country.

Imagine if it was impossible for any government to block or censor anything.
So looking at the updated site, I see:

1) Peer-to-Peer transactions

Thats's nice, but so do Square Cash, Venmo, Paypal, etc... and they currently do it cheaper.

2) Borderless payments

How do we define borders? They're just arbitrary demarcation lines regulated by governments, so wouldn't the developing regulations in South Korea and China be creating borders for bitcoin?

3) Fraud Protection

Maybe someone can explain this to me. If any weird activity happens on my bank account, my bank contacts me and shuts down my card until I verify transactions. If I make a purchase with my CC and the seller is fraudulent, I can charge-back and have the CC deal with the seller. How does Bitcoin even come close to that level of fraud protection? I assume multi-sig is their way of defining "fraud protection"?

Is it the decentralization? Because isn't the bulk of the mining being done by large pools that can then be regulated and controlled by the governments of the countries in which they operate? I just checked the mining breakdown[0] and the two top mining pools (BTC.COM and AntPool) are owned by Bitmain[1], which is a Chinese company, and the next two (BTC.TOP and ViaBTC) also look they're controlled by Chinese companies. I'm not anti-chinese, but lets not pretend that companies operating in China aren't in some way beholden to their highly centralized and non-democratic government.

So what are, and have always been, the main benefits of bitcoin again?

[0] https://blockchain.info/pools
[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitmain
not really true, your broker will often lend out your shares for a fee or use them as collateral for their own business
It's not the cost of hiring people they really need to avoid.

They don't want to alienate the conservative crowd who basically check in to Facebook ONLY to see the day's new anti-Hillary meme.

I don't know about you guys, but my Grandma clicks on ads at an almost bot like rate.
> But I think he meant poverty in a different sense: Your employer owns your brain. You are not allowed to say what you know (NDA). You're not allowed to compete, in many places. You have much less autonomy than you'd like to believe.

The employer owns your brain if you voluntarily sold it. Same goes about NDA. Personally, I have negotiated about NDAs and non-competes several times in my career, changing the contract.

> But take comfort in being able to choose which employer you serve. You're right, it's a choice. But you can't escape the system we all bought into.

Why do you bother using hyporbole if you dismantle it in the next sentence? Please, I want to understand - how is that rhetorical device supposed to work?

> Except, we didn't. No one asked you, and no one asked me. This was the system we were born into.

Yeah, I was also born into gravity, thermodynamics and a limited lifespan. No one asked me about it, and these things are pretty bad.

> If you try to opt out, if you reject the notion that you must sacrifice your time in exchange for money, you will swiftly find all the reasons why you have much less freedom than you think.

You seem to misunderstand the word "freedom". Freedom is being free to make mistakes. To suffer. To die. Freedom is a very scary thing that can bring you a LOT of misfortune.

But still, if you have a choice between "serving", as you call it, and being hungry and poor, it is a legitimate choice and by making it, you're exercising control over your life.

No one owes you food, shelter, medical attention or any other products of labor of other people. You can either work for it, or choose not to. This is what justice looks like.
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Thus the crowd - not really monitorable.

And weren't the monitors just for the press event? Wasn't clear to me.
Isn't this the definition of copyright infringement?

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with the project. But what makes this project good, and archiving old films, or music, "bad"?
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A significant part (literal billions of dollars) of fiat used to buy bitcoins went to miners direct electricity expenses, and those extreme amounts of resources were permanently spent, possibly wasted. It's not a zero-sum game, as sustaining the current system costs a lot.

A quick, rough calculation - if ~30 TWh were spent on mining Bitcoin, and the marginal rate of death for electricity generation is at least 100 per TWh (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d... or https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-te...), this means that we have sacrificed the lives of at least 3000 people to make this happen. Are the benefits worth this cost?
Assange keeps warning of AI manipulation by corporate states like Google and Facebook. Perhaps we should listen.
I think you should read some early retirement blogs. If you have a good job (seems likely around here) and you don't value much stuff then you can choose to work a lot less than 70% of your productive life. After all, if it's truly capital that extracts all the value at the expense of workers, then you should get in on that to the degree that you can, shouldn't you?
The crypto people who claim to "get it" say it's a game theoretic hack to bootstrap the development of a global distributed ecosystem which will ultimately allow for internet technologies we haven't conceived of yet.
The danger there is in trying to explain a complicated social phenomenon with "it's free, so why wouldn't they do it?"

There's very little suggestion that the reason there aren't more women in tech is because they can't afford it. In reality, it's a thousand tiny factors from a thousand people, none/few of them actively trying to do harm. As an offhand, personal example, my sister isn't in tech because she was told CS "wouldn't be her thing" despite being just as good as any of the boys. Because of that, and similar discouragement, she ended up not going into tech whereas she otherwise _might_ have.

It's all statistical, lots of "maybes", "mights", and "coulds", but it adds up over the population. There may well be dispositions which align primarily along gender bounds, but there's not much indication this is one - but neither is it an organized conspiracy. It's just the sum total of thousands of tiny factors.
This is just a link to the Hacker News front page.