skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newstatesman in the UK for a left wing weekly, politics centred periodical with minimal arts section and the book reviews are essentially ideological articles. the Spectator is more popular and a Tory/ right wing weekly with almost half of it devoted to culture, books, arts etc. I found the arts component of the Spectator to be relatively free of ideology.

Recently I bought both and compared them. I found the writing quality in the newstatesman to be more variable, with a few Excellent and a few utterly awful articles. The Spectator is overall of good quality but nothing really stood out.
That list at the bottom is not exhaustive! It's just a few enforcement actions that the SEC wants you to read. They also do worse things.

For instance, the SEC threatened to prosecute the DAO [1], which was certainly not a "clear unethical practice", or "flagrant violation" of securities law -- just a bunch of people voluntarily putting their money into a pool to vote on what to do with it. They could even withdraw their money at any time.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf
You're describing complex issues, not controversial. Controversial issues tend to be controversial because people assume a conclusion, and then defend that to the death - facts be damned. When a sufficient number of people on either side of a topic engage in this behavior, suddenly we have a controversial issue.

So for instance on this case, I agree with you. I've no doubt women get paid less than men on average. And tall men get paid more than short men. And fat men get paid less than non-fat men. And I suspect that if we broke it down into hair color, you'd also find discrepancies there. Differences do not mean discrimination.

A problem would be if companies were unlawfully actively discriminating against people. As you yourself said, that is almost certainly not what's going on.
Very cool! I had this exact idea of a service a few years back, but was one of those things I never found the time or motivation to actually do. The results seem very nice.
The news in general is so awful these days. It's gotten to the point where I rarely read the comments section because I already know exactly what the majority of the audience's opinion is. I know what Rush Limbaugh's audience thinks before I read it, and I know what WaPo's audience thinks before I read it. That's evidence of a pretty serious herd mentality.
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I work as a penetration tester on that team right now, and I would say the biggest perks are:

* You get to legally hack into big-name enterprises that usually don't have bug bounty programs

* You get to interact with clients, educate them on security and help them make their security posture safer

* You really get to hone your craft here, as everyone works independently and Accenture is pretty generous with investing in your education (in my experience)

* I really love people I work with - everyone is friendly, helpful, intelligent and humble (most have their OSCP credentials)

This is a small practice inside of the big organization and its growing fast. If you are interested, please apply, or contact me pavel.romashkin@accenture.com for questions/references.

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"What Morandi could achieve if he went outside...", "What Yves Klein could achieve if he knew red, yellow and green...", "What Roman Opałka could achieve if he knew about for loops and printers.", I could go on like this for a while.. This is not how art works.
Society shouldn't ban everything that hasn't proven to be socially beneficial.
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All you have to do let them know that you still want them to invite you next time, even if you say no now (or regularly).
I just happened to "know a guy that knew a guy". Places like upwork seem too much of a crapshoot.

People with those talents should congregate on some webaite. They could easily get side work that pays better then their day job. Since PCB's are dirt cheap these days, it feels like there's a missing marketplace.
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There's room for more than one player in the market here, it's a super important sort of tool where the open source versions are all pretty mediocre. OSS solutions tend to be statically configured, which non-engineers don't tend to have access or ability to configure. That's not to say you couldn't OSS something here, but it'd be a real effort to host.
Yes the arrow is very useful when you are driving a rental.

Talking of rentals it always seems to take me ages how to figure out how to adjust the seat.
It's not that hard to do that now with gold, unless the amount you're talking about is truly huge.

$65,000 worth of gold is the size of an iPhone X.
So, then, teach your kids that.
How is it misleading? Pixel C is the only Pixel tablet Google ever released, and Nexus 5X and 6P were the last phones from the Nexus line, before they switched to Pixel line. Ending support for these devices means ending "major OS support for Nexus phones and Pixel tablet". Support for earlier versions had already been dropped.
> It's a bizarre worldview that positions technology as the master, not the servant of mankind.

Your comment is at odds with this statement. Blockchain and smart contracts appeal to those who want lines of code to have the final say in transactions. Most people want our institutions to make those decisions!
There's a very naive assumption in the article that Blockchain being incompatible with GDPR issue can be resolved by altering GDPR.

I think it is impossible: GDPR is specifically designed to prevent sensitive personal information from leaking and information about one's financial transactions is one of the most sensitive pieces of information there is.

So, if GDPR versus Blockchain case ever reaches any EU court the only possible ruling is to outlaw the Blockchain technology (at least in it's current incarnation).
> The government has no obligation to clean up anything

And yet, when millions of individual investors lose more than they can afford that's often what must happen to preserve the peace. If Bitcoin went to $100 today, at the very least we'd see a massive hit to unemployment and disability rolls.
You either end up with useless imaginary currency, or you have to launder it to turn it into currency you can actually spend.

You think the government won't notice if you buy a lambo and you can't afford it with valid income?
Most non-US banks are really, really, really disinterested in dealing with US citizens, because of the regulatory burdens.

Unless you're pushing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars around, they'll probably tell you to go pound sand.
"The Commission has determined not to pursue an
enforcement action in this matter based on the conduct and activities known to the Commission
at this time"

I mean... it sounds to me like they did their due diligence. The PDF contains an in-depth look at how existing securities law intersects with what this group was doing. That's exactly what the SEC is supposed to do.

DAOs are new and unfamiliar. They looked at what was going on and decided not to pursue further action. That seems quite reasonable to me.
Not just a public blockchain, any blockchain. Say an employee leaves, they should have the right to have records removed. The internal Enterprise Blockchain doesn't allow that.

But because of hype, every big company has to have some sort of blockchain somewhere, for no good reason. The EU will get a lot of bad publicity while actually doing something very reasonable.
I am disappointed as well. The web interface is sluggish over a VPN.
It’s really heartening, albeit surprising, to see carbon removal on the list.

It's heartening because carbon removal has to happen. It's surprising because, unlike afforestation or biochar, which produce useful products, there is a very small market for CO2. There is in fact no market for CO2 separated using direct air capture (DAC) because it costs an order of magnitude more to separate CO2 (>$300/T) than its value on the market ($15/T). (Ironically, the biggest market for CO2 is for enhanced oil recovery, which is exactly what it sounds like: it allows more oil to be extracted from oil wells.) So, the real question is, who is going to pay for it?

The companies currently operating in this space (e.g. Climeworks, Carbon Engineering) are doing so at a massive loss. In the case of Climeworks, they are pumping the CO2 to a greenhouse. On the face of it, this seems great because the CO2 is being used, but the problem is that the plants would remove the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere whether they were grown with captured CO2 or not (they might just grow a bit faster in the greenhouse). In fact, the energy required for the carbon capture process means that the carbon footprint of the plants grown in the greenhouse using captured CO2 is likely higher than if they were grown outdoors!

For direct air capture to be economically and environmentally sound, there has to be a second step in the process where the CO2 is converted into a marketable product (so that the product displaces emissions). This means something like converting CO2 to plastic or fuel that would otherwise be produced using petrochemicals. Carbon Engineering recently announced that they are pursuing this. Of course, in addition to the technical challenge, they’ll have to get those fuels to be cost-competitive with current fossil fuels.

The other thing to keep in mind is that CO2 emissions from man-made sources total 60 GT per year. To put this into perspective, the amount of oil produced globally per year is about 5 GT. Which industries are big enough to handle all of that matter?

What is YC’s angle here? Is YC also considering carbon utilization companies? I personally feel like pursuing standalone direct air capture companies is a bit like putting the cart before the horse.
If your mother's secret recipe calls for Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, Velveeta processed cheese, or Jello mix, here's a hint: It probabally isn't original.
Are you thinking of node.js and JavaScript? There are many other ways, platforms, languages and frameworks to make web apps and web sites.

I think your complaint is nonsensical, over-generalized at best.
It depends on what your preferential definition of "alone" is. For some it's environmental quiet, for some it's freedom from personal attention as you mention. But still, in a denser place there's a ton more non-human factors (like advertising) battling to inject themselves into your attention.
A coin is considered a security if it satisfies all three prongs of the Howey Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co.

1. Someone invests their money
2. In a common enterprise
3. With the expectation of profits from efforts of a third party

This is a boolean and statement--all three cases must be true for it to be a security.

As an example of how the SEC interprets these three prongs in application to cryptocurrencies, read their statement on the DAO: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf

If the SEC takes enforcement action against a token, the case would go to the courts, and then the courts would be responsible for deciding if the SEC's interpretation of the Howey Test is valid or not.
> the way around it is fairly simple: use a bank account on another country

Willful money laundering isn't a "simple" risk-reward decision.
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Waiting for google.google to become a thing
> and still runs like a charm.

Not according to the rest of the world: http://bgr.com/2018/03/06/iphone-6s-speed-test-old-vs-new-ba...

edit: I guess I was wrong, though I can't find any evidence to suggest that the 5s is exempt from this behavior other than "some reddit users reported it doesn't happen to them"
This is a fantastic result. The main issue with Ruby has always been the tradeoff of speed for an expressive and powerful language. In my experience the ecosystem around Rails is amazingly productive vs other languages and getting this much of a speed increase makes choosing it even more viable than it was already. Excited to see where Ruby and Rails go from here.
I think nowadays they use Microsoft PowerBI for dashboards/reporting
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> I tried a lot of variations on it and then had to concede that the person who wrote the recipe got it just right.

Part of this phenomena comes from 20th century cooking (especially for sweets): the ingredients are mass produced to high standards of consistency, and hence there may be one just right recipe (especially if you're backing in a climate controlled kitchen at sea level). Consider, instead, artisanal bread baking in 2018. Your flour comes from a food coop which used to get it stone ground by an Amish cooperative, but now switched suppliers to a local farmer -- and the recipe needs to change. Your sourdough starter turned acidic because you went away on vacation and it sat in the fridge -- change the recipe again! It's an unusually damp and chilly day, and the loaf is sitting out during its second rise -- you'll need to change the recipe!

Of course this is part of the thrill of this sort of baking -- that you have to understand the underlying processes, not just the well-made building blocks, to end up with good results. Sort of like switching from running OS X or Windows to, say, Linux from Scratch...
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I own no cryptocurrencies, and I have no idea why it is any more challenging to track than trading stocks, you buy at one price and sell at another.

What am I missing?
What she calls a yo-yo, I call ping-pong! An inspiring video. She is a demo coder to the core.
Crypto is only effective in that regard if you're able to opt-in. The problem is, you eventually need to interface with the fiat currencies for your "wealth" to be useful. The first step an oppressive regime would do is to just ban exchanges.

Acquiring this "wealth" of crypto would be impossible in an oppressive regime in the first place.
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LOL. I feel like they should be able to distinguish between ICOs and exchanges.
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> For instance, you can see our OP meta data here [3].

Do you e-mails end with @idp.gluu.org? Or how would the RP discover that the domain is not "gluu.org" but "idp.gluu.org"?
Good article. The author suggests that news in print is accurate. I believe that more times than not, it is more accurate than online news. However, it does not eliminate bias.

I get my news online by scanning CNN, CBS News, Fox News, and BBC. I view ALL news as being biased (online or print) and by looking at several sources I figure that the truth is always somewhere in the middle.

Some other benefits of printed news (even if still biased): the ads in print stay where they are. They don't hover over the article I'm trying to read and force the reader to click 'X'. They don't start playing video clips. They don't have ads switching in and out and moving around. Print also has no way of tracking what I read.
It definitely won't make cryptocurrencies worthless, but it could tank their value if they start chasing exchanges and adding burdens to new customers on exchanges. If regulations like this start popping up in many countries it could largely do damage to the boom in the field.
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Scientists just made a jellyfish potato chip
And get paid in BTC?
Is not my duty to compile and spoon-feed for you a list of curated texts on basic biology. You can easily obtain this list of sources with a little effort by your part. Just type "biology handbook" in google and you will have more than you need to satisfy your curiosity.
The 5s was not throttled.
I'm using the definition of house in wide use: the profits you make on gambling or a trade. See:

https://www.quora.com/What-does-Im-playing-with-house-money-...

The idea that one should factor the origin of the money put into a bet is ridiculous. It's your money either way.

> IIRC, the idea of "house money" was invented by earlier researchers who tried to explain why people would bet more after winning.

These guys, I think:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1424076
This isn't surprising. Google has had their device EOL plans up and public for many moons now: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#nexus_...
Agreed on D&E, but I think it really does need an update now.
When I had a weekly newspaper subscription, I didn't just skim, but stress out about what I 'had' to read or 'should' read. Real paper feels graver and more important to me than the web.

Same with both Harper's and Lapham's Quarterly, which I really should read some day. Them now being two years old.
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Nothing "must happen". This is just a cop out to avoid letting people suffer for their own mistakes. Instead the government dumps the cost on everyone else.

If there's no bailout at the taxpayer's expense, what do you suppose will happen? Riots? Revolutions?

Nothing will happen except millions of people learning a much needed lesson.
Someone is making money from my DNA and it isn't me!

In all seriousness though, with as much good as this data can do, it belongs to the public, not to the highest bidder.

Also, regulations go ignored and legal protections are only available to people who can afford a lawyer who can prove wrong doing.
I want to add another suggestion - try a podcast like “The Daily” from NYT. It’s about 20 minutes long per episode, and covers one or two of the most important issues of the day. It’s a more human/meaningful experience for me, because you hear the voices of people who are directly affected by the news (such as the students from parkland). It adds an emotional depth, and I feel like I can stay up to date with current events without mindlessly scanning dozens of articles. The host, Michael Barbaro, is fantastic and pleasant to listen to. Give it a try!
Is this the same oppressive regime that surveils, firewalls and filters the internet and other forms of communication that this idea depends on?
> Still not a security as it's not intended as stake in a business

What matters is if the expectation of profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party, not whether the investment is a share of a business.
Nice to see lot of Tamil love in there.
Google released couple of Nexus tablets, the Nexus 7 was my favorite tablet ever.
No no, what happened is the DAO imploded on its own a whole year before the SEC even looked at it.

The DAO was hacked in June of 2016, and the SEC didn't release that article until July of 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)

When the SEC says:

> The Commission has determined not to pursue an enforcement action in this matter based on the conduct and activities known to the Commission at this time

What they mean is:

> We chose not to beat a dead horse, because it's already dead.
From the article:

> Update: it was [an accident][1], which Linus responded to in his usual fashion.

> [1]: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1603.2/01926.html

Those who only know Linus from his rants might be surprised that here "his usual fashion" means:

- Acknowledging that the root cause was Github's documentation being misleading.

- Not blaming the contributor for being mislead by Github: "I can see why that documentation would make you think it's the right thing to do."

- Admit that the ease with which the accident happened is a deficiency in Git's UI.

- CC the Git maintainer to discuss improving Git to make it harder to do this by accident. (Which eventually lead to the --allow-unrelated-histories flag being needed to do this kind of merge.)
They dropped “fair and balanced” last year, IIRC.
you dont really need to go to an exchange to get crypto. Lots of OTC sellers, miners, etc.

There were actually a few news articles about people in 3rd world countries that survived thanks to btc, though I can't find any at the moment.
Cue: the forgetting curve.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16534480

(It applies not just to recent learning, but institutional and cultural memories as well.)
This is contested now--in part due to the sugar industries tactics of trying to make saturated fat the evil.

They didn't control for nitrates/processed meats either in some of the studies.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0095ZMPTU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Bonus content: Terry Davis randomly shilling TempleOS in the comments.
I think that protective tone they're taking is PR. These potential enforcement actions are for your safety because we care about protecting investors.

Not that it's a power grab in the crytpo market.
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CSS Grid does the opposite of what you claim – it fixes the mixing of concepts that previously tied HTML elements to their layout, not make it worse.
Does it though? I though IPFS only has gateways because browsers don't speak it...

Which I guess makes you right.

Let me revise my opinion to say that if there was native browser support for IPFS then we could call it distributed like bittorrent.
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writing in assembly is such a joy ... cuts to the essence ... such speed, power and danger ... especially when doing graphics pre gpu ... your post inspires me to get back on that saddle ... loved back when I found how to control one pixel then over a few days implemented bresenham's line algorithm then had objects moving in 3d with perspective projection all in a few pages of code, of course no libraries ... electrical engineering majors who get assembly as their first programming course like me are exposed to programming in the spirit of a chainsaw haircut

great post
The new home 2.0 and especially Dash are leaps and bounds above what home was like before I think. You do have to enable it (still beta) but I think it'll be really nice once it's finally released.
what are the open-source alternatives, if you don't mind me asking?
Merritt Island / Cape Canaveral area.

In a work environment, I in no way brought up the subject of anything controversial race/religious/ethnic related.

At the time I worked for a market sector that does a lot of telecom-related work overseas and in developing nation environments. Probably with a higher than usual percentage of ex military people.

What i meant by "As a random white person", by virtue of me being pale skinned and from a northern country, other people took it as tacit acceptance that they could raise their bigoted views towards me... Basically the sort of folks who go on endlessly about how Sharia Law is coming to the united states, and barack obama is a secret muslim kenyan communist manchurian candidate.

What I have found in the US is that racism is alive and well everywhere. In the US southeast it's more overt.
GDPR defines "data controllers" and "data processors," who both have obligations to the "data subject." Who qualifies as the "data controller" may be ambiguous in this situation, but it's a reasonable proposition that every node would be considered a "data processor" for that data.
State Farm also obtains your mileage data from "third party providers".

https://splinternews.com/how-car-insurance-companies-spy-on-...