skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep it in mind that Proof of Work is necessary for this initial world of decentralized trust to be created, but after that, it is not necessary. Nearly all the other cryptocurrencies can bootstrap themselves using bitcoin and following Proof of Stake or some other non-PoW algorithm.

Even if Bitcoin dies, we still don't need to bring PoW again.
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> The law is all that matters

Agreed. Lets change it.
Right now, per your metaphor, all the chickens are being eaten. It's a clusterfuck out there with some of these ads. But I also don't want to go the opposite way and (to extend the metaphor) have a fox so vicious, it keeps _myself_ away from the chickens (a la AdBlock extensions), such that my favorite websites go away because I'm not supporting their revenue stream.

Google does not have an interest in showing you shitty ads. They have an interest in providing their clients with ads that are acted upon and that web users appreciate, and they have an interest in having a browser that does that with as little friction as possible.

I'd say their incentives are perfectly aligned with ours.
> payment in USD

Honest question: why? Can't your card / bank / PayPal do the conversion for you? (I say this as a Canadian who often pays USD with my Canadian card / bank account).
If useful, I wrote my own thoughts on ethics in software, after reflecting on certain experiences over the years:

> A serial tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley once asked me to design a “social stockade” for his financial services customers. It would lock people out of their social media accounts and tweet out/FB share to their friends when they hadn’t paid a loan. He pitched it to prospective employees as meaningful work that would reduce the cost of loans for the needy.

> I was horrified that his product was being built and that many others would likely take the role I was turning down. And he was hardly the first to pitch his “innovation” as providing only good.

https://www.nemil.com/musings/software-engineers-and-ethics....

If anyone ever wants to discuss something, feel free to reach out (see HN profile).
Glacier Protocol offers a solution.

https://glacierprotocol.org/releases/Glacier%20Protocol%20Do...
Why is the date relevant?
From what I've heard, countries like Australia are often the trial place for systems like this. So it shouldn't exactly be a surprise or concern that the US doesn't also have these services (yet).
The largest burden to raising code quality I have ever seen is the conflicting burden of maintaining product quality.

That is to say, many of the loudest proponents of code quality are the first to completely disregard the customer quality points in the product.

Yes, there are fun meta arguments about how higher quality code can let you deliver faster. Nobody is going to wait for you to get to that point, though. You have actual users and customers today. Their problem is not the code's intrinsic quality. Instead, they are trying to use the product. If you can't tie their concerns to visible metrics that you can move more effectively than someone else, then you are likely just yelling at your peers. Not helping your customers.

And please, do not make the mistake of thinking you can push massive changes without breaking things. You will cause regressions. Period. If the changes are truly needed, you will make up for them with more rapid progress afterwards. Don't punish your users, but don't lie to them either. Respond and get so that you can measure your impact before they contact you about it. Reach out, apologize and make right.
Really, how much wealth do you need? I don't need a yacht or a mansion. I also don't feel the need to take on a lot of risk in the hopes of a yacht and mansion.
This is true in theory, but in your example does your small company really have the leverage to take them to court anyway?

They have more money than god as you say, how can you hope to win against them in any reasonable amount of time? You would almost need angel funding, but if you have that anyway can you really not compete with them?
Well sure, I think there's some figure about how increasing income up to $70k makes you happier and then it doesn't anymore, that seems about right in that it's mainly about being securely 'not poor'. Moving beyond that and in to the extreme wealth zone many are concerned about making their good fortune last, watching the markets everyday, that sort of thing.
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I cannot believe I am saying this, but I am rooting for Facebook to build a competition against Youtube.
FWIW, I'm well past 35 and I'm very familiar with the business practices of Microsoft (so happy that the 'Micro$oft' meme died out) and BillG and I don't give a rat's ass.

Yeah, I was pissed off that I couldn't install Windows 3.1 on my copy of DR-DOS. So what?

He built a successful business using very aggressive and hard line tactics that left a swath of destruction in its path. Now he's using his wealth for good. Let's stop dwelling on the past and focus on the good of the present.
Those questions seem self asked.

I'd want to know if?they tried or interested in tiny short term gifts to help a person today, right now. We have gofumdme. But no way to give the coworker $200 to fix her car; $35 for gas; $100 till next oay; or one year of Uber so they dont spend 1.5 hrs pay to from work. Some silent gates ambassador who knows help when it's needed
The point is that a person without money doesn’t have the luxury of sitting at home letting their teeth rot out while the person with money can, if they choose to, go out and live life to the fullest.

Money doesn’t help you make the best life choices but it expands the spectrum of possible life choices.
Got any more cool info on permanent ocean structures. Or large ocean structure engineering in general?
Whenever I hear about these ethics courses I'm mainly curios about what non-obvious substantive content being taught (because there is apparently enough to fill a semester-long course). Anyone who has taken one of these courses care to share something they learned that, before the course, had never considered?
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In America, "Liberals" are "The Left", while in other countries, "Liberals" are "The Right". Many internet discussions on economic policy fall into misunderstanding due to these types of terminology differences
> I genuinely fear the future of email

Email is already the worst form of communication. Spam has basically made it useless.
Internship should definitely be doable. I don't know how long they can be, I presume 90 days (US business travel visa is 90 days). Certainly a good way to get contacts.
You could write a book filled the caveats you should have on such a generalized statement as this, and 2-3x revenue is certainly the exception rather than the rule. Plenty of business sell for a year's gross revenue or less.
I think they missed an opportunity by not naming it WeeBSD. That's the hostname I gave my pi running FreeBSD.
There is an experimental RFC currently being discussed:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-di...
The technique is derived from the H2O Casper work (and by the same author).

I have a Javascript service worker implementation here:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cache-digest-immutable

Note: This is still based on a Golomb-coded set (GCS). Current proposal under discussion is to use a Cuckoo filter. Takes slightly more bandwidth but allows removal when browser caches evict items.
Underestimating competition is never a good idea, especially publicly like this. Horse carriage drivers also laughed about automobiles... initially
On the other hand, 24 hour screen time is not healthy either. Sitting there hitting that dopamine all day every day is not going to lead to success, especially if they are participating in more passive activities like youtube or mobile gaming. Even going to a friends house to watch youtube is probably better than sitting at home, as a social activity rather than an individual one. Additionally, being bored and or having downtime is beneficial for ones mental health.
Technologists aren't doctors. Doctors are a necessity because people have an incessant need to stay alive. Technologists aren't a fundamental necessity to society. We are business people. The only rules/ethics that govern us are business rules/ethics. Some might argue, "but technology is required for us to survive". It's not. We've survived plenty without it. Technology is required for us to thrive.
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I'm in a similar situation right now: The company thinks that any feature-wanter who's loud enough is automatically "one of the product owners" (always plural, always ambiguous) with the ability to tap an outsourced development house for "additional capacity."

I regularly come across months-old new code that the main team wasn't even consulted about. Reinvented caching layers, eval'ed code in database tables, file-download endpoints that accept any path from the browser, and code with so many immediate red marks that the writer can't possibly have been using an IDE.

It hurts my pride that I've been here for years and can't seem to change the pattern, but perhaps at some level it's basically codependence [0] and I have to leave the sick corporate-entity until they really "want to change."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency
Have you seen the shadertoy implementation?
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsX3zf
He refers to the following paper.
http://hhoppe.com/ravg.pdf
(paper author) You are correct that the 'natural' moth maxes out after about 20 samples/class. It is not yet clear whether this is an intrinsic limitation of the architecture (the competitive pressure on an insect is for fast and rough learning), or whether it is just an artifact of the parameters of the natural moth. For example, slowing the Hebbian growth parameters would allow the system to respond to more training samples, which should give better test-set accuracy. We're still running experiments.
Nobody really cares? You know, we're on this forum called hackernews?

You might want to pack up that opinion and take it to some place called "consumernews" or something (they might call it "productnews" these days). That is where nobody really cares.

While most of the "FOSS diehards" get it just fine. People want convenience. It's not that hard to understand and you're making yourself look like a fool if that's your claim. Doesn't mean convenience is the right way forward, even if people want it or don't care.

Since when is "people don't care" a viable argument for anything, the people that don't care, don't understand this.
I really wish that there was still a free version of QNX around. I enjoyed playing with it.
Two Paragraphs in the interview are actually talking about the topic area / science, the rest is devoted to a political discussion and isn't terribly helpful / insightful. I was pretty disappointed in what I thought would be a more meaningful piece from a relatively reputable news source.
Ah well, I'm making ~$140k (salary) here in Florida. The Nerd Wallet COL calculator says that's equivalent to ~$260k in San Francisco (or $210k in Seattle), so maybe I'm doing alright :)
I don't know. Maybe there is still a small benefit but I think their main reason for participation is to steer the effort into a favorable to them direction. Some benefits will come out of it but any real progress will be blocked or massively watered down because it would cut into their bottom line.
If the law is the only thing that matters, then it follows that more regulation will come.

Maybe try self-regulating before putting more power in the hands of the government?
I guess you're lucky your account wasn't frozen too?
I did, but while it looked like a nice IDE (as an aside, I was a Lucid Emacs user), what amazed me about the Jupyter example was the interactive C++ interface with GUI display of objects.
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> If that is getting into a little trouble somewhere down the street, so be it.

That sounds like a wonderful way to get killed by either the law or your neighbors if you're the wrong social status.
How would you determine which kid to steer towards what? Nobody will like all of the fundamentals but that is just how things are. For me the biggest determinant factor for whether I liked a subject or not was the quality of the teacher. However "make teachers better at teaching" is not really a scalable solution.
This is great news. Regarding the several comments along the lines of "there should be a way to pool resources across many companies to fight trolls", there are in fact several such orgs (beyond EFF, already mentioned below). The three I'm most familiar with (and of which we are members) are:

1) RPX, which is basically just troll insurance. http://www.rpxcorp.com/

2) LOT Network (LOT=License on Transfer): http://lotnet.com/

3) My favorite: Unified Patents, which actively files IPRs against NPEs: https://www.unifiedpatents.com/

There may be others and I'd be glad to hear about them. I recommend every startup join at least these three - the annual fees are modest (free in some cases) and potential benefit is enormous.
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Yeah. On the whole, it is less. ;)
Ditto. It's nice to see this kind of hubris and dismissal be beaten.
> That is because overwhelmingly your just giving your mortgage company an interest free loan due to the fact that they apply the over-payment to the final payments and don't adjust the amortization schedule.

I'm pretty sure this is NOT how it works with my mortgage company (BofA) I make principle-only payments that reduce the principle, which immediately affects the amount of my monthly check that goes toward principle/interest.
This is why you want to do some work in the interviewing steps to see if the company you're considering has a culture of code quality and mature engineering processes. "What do you need to do to release code?" "Do you do code reviews?" "How do you set aside time for refactoring?" and so forth
Two weeks is decidedly not 4 hours, no matter how you try to relate them. I could write the Falcon Heavy takeoff sequence in two weeks. (joking, of course, but the compression factor of 4 hours over two weeks is overwhelmingly and obviously higher)
That could be, but no other music app (Spotify, TuneIn, Tidal or Flacbox) have this issue for me.
To be specific, we've survived without monetized, big money-driven technology.
> policymakers hold the power

The cynic in me tells me that the winning unethical companies hold the power over the policymakers.
Maybe he created it himself? Consider that.
It is foolish to fully rely on UpWork on any other similar websites without strong legal representation in place.

Threatening legal action against UpWork gets you far in these situations.

These SV companies think they can do whatever they want and sometimes need a harsh reality check that they must obey laws, especially as more and more people depend on them.

I can't wait for GDPR and alike to start regulating these atrocities against privacy, security and fraud like behaviour.

If anyone from UpWork is reading this, know that not I only I have personally closed my account, I will do everything in my power to keep hard working, honest engineers from your platform.

And help them in any shape or form should they seek litigation against you.
Well said. Those of us who came from a business background remember our business ethics in university well. The running joke, from start to finish, is a thank you for compiling together the things we should walk carefully and carry a big stick while doing.
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I like their goals, but the traditional academic implementation described in the article and in the syllabus the article linked to won't achieve them.

If you want people to learn behavior, you can't lecture them into it, nor will talking about case studies or writing papers help. Look at the behavior those classes teach: analysis, reading, writing, debating other people's behavior.

Active, experiential, project-based, exercise-based learning will do the trick. Many professors think "flipping the classroom" or having more class discussions is active or experiential, but it rarely is.

You have to get students acting on their values, feeling their own values conflicting with each other on projects they care about involving people in their lives that they care about, having others depend on their actions, having to perform on something they created, not spelled out for them in a case study. Then they learn empathy, compassion, responsibility, initiative, self-awareness, and ways to act in challenging situations.

If you want to be an artist, you have to practice making art. Art appreciation classes won't hurt, but they won't help, any more than reading about or discussing lifting weights will build muscle.

The classes they describe are ethics appreciation or leadership appreciation. Well-intentioned, but limited.
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I've done this very frequently on pet projects - except I'm both people. There are projects I have where I'd grab a drink, and bang something out for a few hours in the evening that works - and then, in the cold, sober light of day make sure the underlying ideas are still sound and refactor it to make it more readable.
Detecting a similar script should prevent the proxying from working, but if the script is bundled into the main JS of the site (as many sites do now) it would be basically impossible to stop w/o blocking JS altogether.

Not sure if browsers can fingerprint script execution patterns, that's way further down than I go.

Script blocking will probably work most of the time, just as blocking certain urls gets rid of most ads.
But there used to be such a thing as free content.

Like the Flash animations I used to watch on albinoblacksheep and newgrounds in middle school, and early YouTube.
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The one method that become very popular in Brazil since the 80s is the "whole word" method. The child is supposed to memorize the form of the word instead of decoding it. No need to say that's not efficient (as the latin letters allow the sound/sign conversions), it overloads memory, and in the end, the child takes longer to learn. The standardized tests in Brazil show that.

Now, for why phonics and syllabic method had been replaced with the whole word method here in Brazil... that's another and long story.

EDIT 1: typo.
The US is in dismal shape compared to the UK and now Australia--And its pretty infuriating.

Although from what I understand on March 16th, 2018 the US will at least get same-day ACH. However, it will still be batch processed only two times each day--During banking hours no less!
https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...

There is a NPR planet money on why the US has such an archaic system:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/epis...

Their hypothesis? Unsurprisingly, perverse incentives. Wire transfers in the US, which usually carry a high fee ($30) are very lucrative for banks so they don't have much interest in eliminating the need for wire transfers at the moment, but it appeared that there was growing interest in moving to real-time eventually.
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There isn't enough dough for that.
Have a software equivalent of the AMA, have licenses to practice, and that’s solved.
Actually the SWIFT mostly runs on Oracle Tuxedo. Not sure if this is the case with the instant transfer.
True, and I could see this becoming a tool of oppression by "big evilcorps" if it were possible to do. I guess its a fun thought experiment though. I generally like the patent idea, if someone comes up with something innovative then they should see the upside. I wonder if a time window would improve matters. Get a patent and you have X number of years to produce something sale-able or publicly available for consumption.
Because a lot of people don't want all the other stuff that comes with having a facebook.
You cannot change human nature. You can only save yourself. Is that cynical? I wonder...
That's the nice thing about arXiv. The first four digits of the paper's number tells you the month and year it was first published.
Because there are all sort of signs that Facebooks decline has begun. Read yesterdays top posts on HN.
Too bad Hillary didn't win, she was another black man who could have taken the title. There was a similar buying frenzy leading up to the 2016 General Election.
Sourcify is connecting entrepreneurs directly to pre-vetted overseas factories
Big respect for the German courts for not only having common sense but putting their foot down about it, making it explicit and taking it very seriously. I hope that many other countries follow its example.
> but 6 years ago machine learning hadn’t taken off... I definitely would have gone for CS instead.

I thnk you're doing it wrong because that's exactly why there's so much demand for CS PhDs right now.

Rewind to mid-2000's when the CS postdocs/phds graduating over the past couple of years were choosing to major in CS. They were warned that everything was being outsourced to India and advised to choose a "real" engineering field, or perhaps finance/physics/math. It's hard to imagine today, but lot of smaller colleges/universities were killing CS majors back in the mid 00's!

So not only is there a shortage of CS PhDs in the pipeline, but the ones that made it through came in with a burning passion for the science (as opposed to the money/hotness). This combination of input bias and restricted supply is what makes the current labor market so damn hot.

In 3 years, that will invert, and some major struggling to justify its existence because it's hard but has "no future" will blow up. Rinse and repeat.
I don't have a workflow as such, but being a programmer, I've tried to automate as much as I can through AD group policy and scripts. Most weeks I don't have to spend any time managing them. We're a biotech company so people here are mostly non-technical (IT) and rarely install random software, etc..

Security: I lock down most machines so that they can only run executables from certain directories, streamline windows updates through GPO, strict firewall rules, etc. At the router level, I use cisco's meraki service, which manages VPNs, content filtering and router firmware updates, etc for me.

Machine Management: I use RDP if needed. I have a 'request support' script that sends me a message if anyone needs anything.

Machine Imaging: I have a clean W10 sysprep-ed image with our LOB software, office 365, etc. I have a deployment script that sets up the partitions and images the machines, etc. I'm looking into getting Intel's ME for our office so I can do that over the network without physically going to the machine. We have two locations and its a pain if I have to physically go to the other one.

Storage: We have networked drives for every user and those get backed up every day through veeam, along with all of our VMs, etc.
This coming from the same YouTube CEO that can't even be arsed to update her own channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg7fzx4PEk96-7Ec2Ol2dJA

And it's not like nothing happened in those past 4 months..

"I wanted to start a YouTube channel [..] to test and to use all of these creator features myself"

She probably gave up after her videos were reported unsuitable, blocked, demonetized, silently delisted, ..
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You're right, whenever I see embedded FB-video on forums or reddit I avoid it. If its really a must-see video, I open it in incognito mode.