skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy hell, Facebook! For a cash-rich company employing some of the cleverest people on the planet, you're managing to be incredulously stupid here. People who aren't qualified to rate sources should not be asked their opinion. If you want peer review, do peer review... But ask-the-audience isn't that.

That all said, there is a redeeming possibility here. You could also do an in-house monitored, qualified peer review of select articles from popular sources and use those results to audit users. If somebody keeps hating on WaPo and pushing Fox you could make assumptions about the quality of their judgement.
>BYOD is likely supported, but provisioning installs the invasive device monitor

Probably not. Since they lock down which apps run or not, I doubt they'd trust some home rolled, untrusted, unverified install with unknown executables running.
As great as it is to sit in your chair and make snide remarks about him. The Linux Kernel seems to have a proven track record of success under that role

That is to say, it is the largest collaborative software project in human history

No amount of Linus being a "petulant child" can disprove the results of his style
This is retarded. No one is forcing you to work there
Thanks! Exactly what I was thinking and it's much nicer when you can actually learn from the examples!

The annotated source Rhapso is talking about is here: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVUvLMxTEaVBpiQBiBBdnv7ZTwt7pv8BxNhpPC...
> friends that had undiagnosed and untreated personality disorders

So you diagnosed multiple of your friends as having personality disorders? I'm guessing your not a psychologist.

> match their energy level

This is the exact opposite of what you should be doing. You are always to stay below their level to diffuse the situation. If their energy level goes down, you lower yours further.

You literally diagnosed your friends and badgered them to the point of crying.
The coin is how transactions are processed on the protocol and value exchanged. In the cloud storage example given, if I want to hire some storage I would need to have some storageCoin to pay for the storage. Because I'm not hiring the storage from a single centralised place I can't just pay the storage provider in dollars because there isn't one place to pay it. Instead the protocol can distribute the coins to the relevant hosts in the right proportions dynamically and instantly. This wouldn't be possible with something like Visa or invoicing.

The second advantage is this allows you to pay exactly for what you use and for how long you use it by effectively streaming coin in exchange for storage. So I can pay for exactly how long I actually used the storage rather than paying in advance for a storage limit or certain amount of storage that then remains empty most of the time.

I probably mangled that explanation but maybe it helps.
Will Facebook allow users to rate the credulity of other users? That might make this feature more useful ...
It is impossible for this not to be a political topic and I probably shouldn’t be even discussing it here, but whatever.

What would be the reasonable thing for the democrats to do right now? They weren’t allowed to see the tax bill. That’s what happens when something has the 51 republicans and it can’t be filibustered in the current environment.

Further, the republicans haven’t even brought a bill forward to be filibustered likely because they don’t have the votes in their own party.

I’m fairly centrist for this site but the republicans controlling every part of the government as well as already using their reconciliation power and blaming the democrats is so shockingly perverse in its cinycism. That’s before you even take into account the duplicity on DACA that has broad bipartisan support up to a meeting with the president last week.

Neither morally or strategically should the democrats budge on this.
I am surprised my esteemed colleagues haven't jumped on

> Immunity to content liability must go, too.

This would be quite a hurdle to quite a few sites if it applied across the board. To begin with, this site. Reddit. Etc.
>The regulators were so successful that pump and dumps are largely unheard of in large-cap U.S. equities.

Wasn't the 2008 stock market crash caused by the housing market being "pumped and dumped"?
coins, so many coins here https://www.coingecko.com/en
What 1% are compared to physical gold? I think only Bitcoin is usually compared to gold, Ethereum has a large supply and soft cap
Hmm. I didn't understand that they had such crosses to bear at the time. I just knew that they were acting irrationally. If they were rational, then remaining calm would have worked. It didn't, so I needed a different approach. I didn't work out until later that they had PDs and what that meant.

Nobody can know that another person has a PD until a pattern of interactions makes it clear.

Also, as you can see further down in the comments to your parent, iterating in that direction leaves the impression that you're being an armchair psychologist. I think it's important to retain the aspect of the narrative that you didn't know what situation you were in when you were dealing with it.
I switched to DuckDuckGo a while ago for all my personal devices/profiles and I have not looked back since. Quality of results is on a par to what I had using google.com. I still use gmail and youtube etc. Just change the settings in your browsers and you're done - takes about 11 seconds.

The barrier to entry for someone like DDG is actually quite low I think - just have a look at how their traffic is growing (https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html) and they're making a profit while doing it (http://fortune.com/2015/10/09/duckduckgo-profitable/). DDG has proven that you can make a growing, profitable business in search that provides decent results without needing a million AI engineers mining the search data. I don't know what Bing search is like profitability-wise, but I am sure it is doing OK.

I'd be keen to hear why you think that switching to another search engine is ridiculous? I cant think of any reasons why?

I have no data, but I reckon that most users wouldn't even notice/realise if they were using another search engine (of course, the HN readership would notice immediately - we're not representative) , and I also reckon that of those that do about half of those would only realise because the look & feel is mildly different! :-) Based on my experience I really dont think they'd notice due to the quality of the results.

But hey, I guess there are people who have niche queries they'll pull out to prove why DDG/Bing is inferior to Google. I guess some people dont remember what it was like before Google! The results from competitors are good IME.
May this be the way open source arrives to the masses? As a solution against planned obsolescence?

If people gets used to giving their old devices a second life by lending their old devices to a fellow geek, to install this "weird app" that allows them to keep using it, that could become huge exposure for FLOSS operating systems.
A Low Risk Monolith to Microservice Evolution
One way to reduce the Blockchain size is pruning:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Storage
I'd agree that the U.S. law enforcement probably takes a "better safe than sorry" approach to suspicions involving child porn and terrorism, but I think there's a big difference between what's happened in the U.S. vs what appears to happen in Turkey.

Turkey's situation, as described by the OP, is so interesting because it describes the scenario you envision -- in which a government really did go for a sweeping "take no prisoners" approach, in the dumbest way possible using Internet access data.

But FBI sweeps of child porn suspects seem to be very targeted -- e.g. tracing IPs of people who participate in known illegal sites or honeypots: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation-torpedo/

Having visited bad sites/URLs/IPs/searches may be used as circumstantial evidence. But Turkey seems to have used the pinging of an IP as the primary way of both finding suspects and the primary evidence for jailing people. I can't think of many similar situations like that in U.S. law. In fact, with child porn, you see courts making the distinction between seeing child porn (i.e. inadverdently) and intentionally seeking it out:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/sideshow/viewing-child-porn...

https://www.olemiss.edu/depts/ncjrl/pdf/cp%20But%20Your%20Ho...
I was mostly thinking about brokers. If I buy stock and hold it in my brokerage account, doesn't the brokerage use that money and stock to generate even more wealth? For example, they might loan my stock to somebody that wants to short that company.
Which is funny because that's the opposite of what progressives are telling us. That meritocracy is meaningless (and bigoted) and it's more important to have diversity than a leader.

Likewise, there are countless articles about how Linus Torvalds is a "jerk" because he doesn't temper his words and ends up offending people with thin skins.

I don't care about anyone's ideology. I'll I care about is results. And Linus has proven his yields results.
It seems the grandparent (authored by Linus, too) in the email thread is not available any more. Did Linus delete it?
Is there good documentation anywhere regarding the minimum set of blobs (kernel, HAL, modem, display etc drivers) necessary to gut an Android device back to its bare shell? I love these alternative OS projects, but really I think a lot of that effort may be misspent for non-purists like myself. Maybe sometime after a simple, basic UI and apps are running on the phone, then a complex project like Microsoft's Android app sandboxing could be attempted

Would love there to be something that provided just enough glue code between HAL and, say, Qt, alongside a bunch of shell scripts for gutting images of common handsets. But getting there myself, I've really little clue about this stuff, but I'm sure there is tribal knowledge buried all over the forums the Android dev community use
The simulation of an academic job search used in this study is not very much like a real academic job search.
This study was well designed, but it is harder to do a faithful blind replication of the hiring process in academia vs the public or private sector because job searches are much rarer, and most of the applicants are known - at least by reputation - by most of the evaluation committee - their future coworkers.

The researchers made a strong effort to obscure the goal of the study, but if you are an academic participating in an artificial candidate search, you are likely to suspect that one of the variables being tested is either sex, race, or both. The experiment where evaluators rated a single candidate addresses this somewhat, but even in that case the participants are almost certain to have known that there was no job search in progress, and very likely to have realized that there was a socially desirable response possible to be given at no cost. By no cost, I mean that this person is not going to show up and take space and resources that could go to your preferred candidate/collaborator.
Except that no what Bitcoin tried to be it wants to be a currency or a value store it doesn’t rely on the internet nor does it need an open internet bitcoin would work just as well for 99.9999% of its users including the mining syndicates if it would run on a completely closed network.
I have been listening to the AI-generated music at Brain.fm for about a month now. The focus mode really does seem to help. (I also like the sleep mode, but I need better headphones to wear to bed.)

Before I learned about Brain.fm, I was a fan of the isochronic tone generator at mynoise.net, which I would combine with the "white rain" generator in their iOS app.
2017 Year-In-Review Cryptocurrency Report [pdf]
I'll add a crazy one:

Don't go to an undergrad program where they inundate you with lots and lots of homework.

I went to an "average" university for my undergrad and a top one for my grad. Once I got to the top one, I was shocked at how much the workload was for undergrads (but not for grad students). The undergrad homeworks and exams were mostly grunt work - not the type of homework that makes you think deeply about the material (fortunately, the grad courses gave you that type of HW).

As such, students spent most of their free time solving problems that did not give them much insight.

My average undergrad didn't give insightful homework either, but the HW wasn't that demanding so it freed up the time to ponder over the material, etc.
The article specifically states "Provisioning Chromebooks for new employees is a minimal processing, taking no longer than 90 seconds worth of configuration settings." Other than the badly worded phrase "a minimal processing" I think you can reasonably assume you have your answer.

The article also mentions that "The model benefited the fact that all of Google’s internal applications are already on the Web". I'm just going to assume that means Google employees are using web-based remote access for development. If that's the case then their Chromebooks are really just expensive dumb terminals. We may differ on this but I personally don't see any reason to drop $1k+ on a dumb terminal just to say I own the hunk of plastic I do my job on every day, particularly when my employer will hand me one for free when I start my new job.

Based on that assumption I think you can also reasonably assume permissions around futzing with the needed browser plugins are limited and device compromise is handled how Chromebooks normally handle most problems: wipe and reinstall.
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” - Stalin (though the sentiment was not original to him. Variations on the same theme have been recorded as far back as 1880, at least).
Mijn zoon is nu bijna twee jaar clean en ik ben ongelooflijk trots op hem’
If you had witnessed the interactions you would not have come to that conclusion. They beat themselves up, they didn't need me to do it. When someone is irrational, their verbal violence cuts in both directions.

I am not a psychologist but I see one every week. I did not consider personality disorders until the person in question brought it up, and I had a lot more experience with such things later in life. All I knew at the time was that they were not responding to calmness and I needed to try something different.
monopoly of what? their own product? so?

I can use any search engine I know about. how about just force every browser to present a random list of search engines for the user to choose and lock in. Heck we can make it round robin three of them.

Facebook is a monopoly of what? Facebook. Twitter is a monopoly of what? Twitter. How do you share a website with competitors?

amazon gets competition but only for those who know to shop elsewhere or refuse to shop amazon. heck google rarely gives me an amazon result for shopping. wal mart competes with amazon but there are those who will never shop there, even target competes but again, same thing.
The bitcoin innovations that work for a currency, but not for a store of value are moving to bitcoin cash. Colored coins, weak blocks for fast confirmations, scripting, graphene... There's a lot of dev work going on. I am 100% convinced that currency + store of value > store of value. The degree to which Lightning "fixes" anything is exactly the degree to which it is centralized.

There's an anti-miner narrative that bitcoin core is selling, but in the end, the market will decide.
Remembering Apple's “1984” Super Bowl Ad – National Museum of American History
On the average you'll find them much less tasty than your modern palate is used to. Maybe if they spruce it up with modern standards like salt (which was uber-luxury then).
Step 1: eliminate centralized services. This would only make Bitcoin stronger if it's already a functioning economy that doesn't depend on connections to the existing financial system. If you can't buy and sell Bitcoin with traditional currency, it becomes far less practical.

Step 2: make use of Bitcoin illegal. You know, "ban" it. It's a plaintext P2P protocol, not exactly magic. If you control the network, you can identify Bitcoin nodes and charge their owners, exactly how law enforcement can enforce laws against other illicit P2P traffic. This would drive any remaining die-hard users to services like Tor.

Step 3: if Bitcoin is somehow still popular enough to be considered a problem, block Tor.
Does purchasing goods or services directly with bitcoin count as "handl[ing] the transfer into and out of crypto"? Doesn't "crypto" then simply become "money"?

Don't get me wrong. That vision of the future isn't here yet. Far too few vendors accept bitcoin today for it to be a viable closed loop system.
Maybe I'm dumb but I don't follow. If I invent a new messenger protocol, how does a cryptocurrency enable me to make money on that protocol better than any other method? Just because I make an ICO for my new protocol?

Seems like a bit of wand waving going on in your description there.
In your example, The Rest would still be the vast majority of the company.
Localization in JavaScript with c-3po
Cant upvote this enough!
Any change on the Bitcoin protocol seems to be extremely slowly adopted so it will probably take at least 2 more years to get any kind of adoption, Segwit adoption is currently only around 16%.
So perhaps you can help clarify one thing. In the absence of an exchange, if I wanted to pay you $20, how exactly would this establish itself as truth on the block chain?
> then with various repos containing shared code

What source control system?

Also, from the article:

> even though theoretically services can be deployed in isolation, you find that due to the inter-dependencies between services, you have to deploy sets of services as a group

This is the situation we are in, like you were.
What if Facebook is weighting the votes based on content consumption and interests of users? If that's the case, then it's possible to get some interesting results. We need to be doing experiments like this.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is: they are not unique, they are overwritten by later transactions in the same channel (if I send you $10, then you send me $5, the final transaction is equivalent to one with me sending you just $5). But the transactions are "time-locked" so they can't be registered on the chain immediately, and in such a way that if one side misbehaves, the other side can send to the chain a transaction with an earlier "time-lock"; the "time-locks" are ordered such that none of the parties involved benefit from cheating.
In bitcoin, miners receive coins in proportion to their computational power. A cloud storage protocol might work by paying out coins to miners in proportion to the storage they provide. Storage users get storage by paying coins to the "miners".
Study from 2014. I really wonder how it has changed in 2017+
Yeah, but, like 3-D spaces are like so last year. ;)

Also, paywall free version of paper:
http://brainmaps.org/pdf/graph.pdf
Yes, so it'd only work for people running things like the Metamask browser plugin. It'd be nifty because it'd be fully decentralized, but for now, using the discovery server as backup would keep it working for everyone else.
Yeah, that really worries me. OTOH, it's probably easier for a small company to police its users than a very very large one, so maybe it'd actually be an advantage for smaller competitors?

I think that the real answer is to mandate open protocols. The government has a real role in determining weights & measures used in trade (which it's rather shamefully ignored: I should be able to order a small, medium or large coffee or pizza anywhere in the country and get the exact same size); that same role could be legitimately used to describe exactly the right (though not the sole) formats which must be supported by a service.

E.g., the State could mandate that Facebook provide users a well-supported way to publish to or read from RSS, or for Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime & iTunes to share music.

There is a danger there, in that it's not exactly well-defined 'share music' means (are those services even comparable? what about some future service with a revolutionary new model?), but I think that it should be doable.
> Here's a framing I found useful: as a user of a library, you may not particularly use generics. But as an implementor of a library, on the other hand, they're extremely useful.

Agreed. Something that's been underlined for me since picking up TypeScript in addition to JavaScript. I can take or leave TS when writing a script, but I consider it indispensable when writing a library.
nope, encoders are definitely fundamental. You cannot give a DC (brushed or not) motor voltage and have it turn a fixed distance. The closest thing is steppers, but once they stall, you've lost feedback and positioning information.
What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?
Expected: 50
Actual: 0.4
Can you justify that? Other than jewelery and some industrial purposes what makes gold so valuable?
> I'm still surprised that no one has proposed a protocol to replace Facebook / Twitter.

Isn't that what WebSub[0] (formerly PubSubHubbub) is for?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
I can only refer you to Eric Evans book (https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complex...) and other domain driven design material.

Boundaries are by domain, and yes that's not a simple thing to define. Sometimes, domains have varying interfaces, which makes building micro-services more complex, especially when trying to adhere to REST/Swagger standards (something I'm not overly find of).

But keeping things as simple as possible is really the best approach.

All micro-services should be small. When I see someone say "big", then I'm guessing there are a lot of ad-hoc actions...those need to be broken down into their proper domain or relegated to a query service.
> In what part of the world is 1400sqft considered tiny?

America. I wouldn't call it "tiny" exactly, but it's on the small side. 80 m^2 for 4 people, though, is cramped by American standards.
It's not super clear which blobs are needed for particular devices - and it's different for all of them. I'm not aware of a single place to find what's needed - though the LineageOS device repositories can help a lot.

The plan, especially when it comes to modems and graphics acceleration, is to package these firmware blobs separately. Then, a user can choose at install time if they're alright with non-free blobs running on their phone. This has already been done for many phones for WiFi/Bluetooth chipsets.

This method also has the advantage of letting us move quicker - we don't need to wait years to reverse engineer modem firmware, or be required to spend the time mainlining every device we want to add in order to get the "essential" features for a phone.

(I'm a developer on the project)
Would income be a better metric?

Lots of things would be a better metric. Purchasing power (as you mentioned in your original reply) would be a much better metric (but obviously harder to measure). Someone who's got salary of $200k a year, a house, two cars and a net wealth of negative $100k should not rank below someone making $2 a day and lives in a shack in any valid metric.

Should they instead remain silent on this?

Absolutely not, they should do the exact opposite. Publish reports with meaningful numbers that have real relevance to the underlying problem at hand. All they're doing now is generating headline grabbing, easy to ignore, clickbait. I mean I get why Oxfam is doing it (sexy headlines get likes of Facebook), but I feel it cheapens the very serious underlying issue they're trying to talk about.
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Not really, that was much more of a systemic issue, so it's difficult to point to one entity responsible. Those problems built up over years.

Pump and dumps by contrast have a much shorter time frame.