skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is going to spend time each month thinking about how much money they should bid to keep their data away from advertisers, to make people pay for something, make them think less about the purchase.

I think the people that would have been willing to spend money on FB to protect their information from advertisers have already left, and are not going back.
Austin gets looked-down-on by the SV types for being the home of many lifestyle businesses (I used to work for one). But y'know - they provide a product that customer pay for, they employ people, and they tend to be around for a long time, unlike a lot of the here-today, gone-tomorrow startups. There's nothing wrong with "boring" if it makes you money.
1/ Short term, so 50k tax is 150k gains

2/ Your possibility is correct - the IRS computes tax on USD-equivalent as of trades completed Dec 31; but the USD price crashed in 2018'Q1, and he can't pay his tax bill in crypto. He can deduct the USD-equivalent losses next year but only against capital gains, not his W2 income, and the tax is due now in USD.
>Why is fake news so prevalent?

Because of fake news?

I find this phenomenon kind of pleasing, intellectually tickling? I mean, like recursion.

Everyone asks why the phenomenon exists without realizing they are the sole creators. It's like a merry go round, each outlet trying to "catch" the baddies without realizing they are the problem.

The MSM and the people within are so desperate for clicks and views that they spend their whole lives hopelessly slinging bullshit, "fact checks", retractions, hyperbole, "OP-eds" which are actually propaganda disguised as opinion and every other thinkable form of garbage content aimed solely at manipulating us.

Then there's those of us who just sit quietly on the sidelines and laugh, and then we turn the talking heads off.
Minneapolis and Asheville both have decent tech scenes although I don't know if they have the tourist capacity to encourage tech people to move there.
No religious flamewars on HN, please. Upthread was teetering, but here it plummets.
The size of the shards depends on the data. ActorDB wants you to design your application around explicit containment boundaries (the actors). For example, a social networking site might collect all of a single user profile's data in one actor. Or there might be one actor for each grouping of a user's stuff (one actor for all of user X's photos, one actor for all of their tweets, etc.). So the size of those actors might not be "micro". You could decide to shard it further, of course, e.g. shard a user's photos by date. Since ActorDB supports cross-actor queries (though not joins), you can still query multiple shards at the same time.

But ActorDB does seem to promote inter-actor transactions, and a pattern I've seen encouraged is where you use shared actors (especially with the key-value store functionality) to keep some kind of central lookup table that your app then can use to find actors. For example, if you're modeling HN with ActorDB, you'd have a global list of stories, but each story/comment tree could be a separate actor, and each user would be a separate actor. Posting a story only needs to access the story actor, but to post a comment transactionally, you have to do a transaction that inserts the comment and updates the user's comment history together.
If you're referring to the mission of impressing the girlfriend, success doesn't seem likely.
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Steak has fat and the fat has a satiating effect. Sugar is the opposite.

There are people that eat only steak: https://www.biohackerslab.com/ep19-dr-shawn-baker/
Using words that do not directly harass, libel, or slander another person or group is harmless, even if those words are charged and disagreed with by the majority. The actions that people take upon hearing or reading words are solely their own.
This siloing of the internet is already occurring. Being multilingual helps a lot, but even then, one has to jump through quite a few hoops to find the info that you are looking for in anything other than your “main” language.
> It uses proof-of-work to establish consensus over points in time which are universally unique.

Did we really?

BTC vs BCH, Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic. Sigwitx2.

These hardforks technically break established consensus and rely upon social means (hey everyone: switch algorithms right now!!) to stay in order. At the end of the day, it seems to me that the "blockchain" is only as strong as the community's resolve to work together.

As far as I can tell, Bitcoin is turning into a governance structure. The current power players are the devs, who most people trust (and I see no reason not to trust them). And the social structure is organized on Github and forums.
Fox News and the Washington Post are about as different as could be when it comes to the level of their reporting.

Fox is straight up propaganda, to the point that it is ridiculous that anybody would even take them serious, they're about at the level of Russia Today. The Washington Post is more along the lines of 'manufacturing consent', and if they lie it is by omission.
This is called a Honeypot.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ssh+honeypot
Yes on 1600: Universal Healthcare for Washington State?
I just removed my SMS from Google auth, thanks! And set up an Authenticator (Azure). I would like to see a world where we start removing SMS (and old passwords) from existing accounts.
Anarchocapitalists are not strongly connected to the anarchist tradition, though they do inherit a thin thread via Benjamin Tucker, and American libertarianism. They are still anarchists in the strictest sense in that they are for the abolition of the state (open question of if property rights make sense in a stateless society), even if they got there via a largely different tradition. Classless and moneyless attributes are optional in anarchism though they are features of some branches of the tradition, in particular those that emerged from the Marx branch. I doubt Tucker, for example, would have claimed a moneyless and classless society as necessary attributes of his social ideal, and he was definitely a classical socialist anarchist.
Yeah, I'd love a version for Mac. I like what I see, but I've got a Mac-only setup. I wonder if you could make use of VSCode with Excel somehow?
That's because depressed wages are caused by the drive for ever increasing profits.
Nano/Raiblocks. Mainnet has been pushed to 300tx/s - theoretical max is 7000tx/s - Wallets available for all platforms.
Heres an interesting "letter to Mark Zuckerberg" from a professor of health informatics who has worked with the NHS for the last 34 years.1

It discusses the issue of "the creepy line" and how to manage it in terms of getting informed consent to use electronic patient records.

He suggests NHS has "25 years of data on 50 million people" but because consent is required they cannot extract much meaningful information from it.

He tells that in an effort to "get around" this problem, the government proposed the concept of "implied consent".

A former shipyard worker in one of the authors workshops evaluated this concept plainly as thus: "Clearly some London-based bollocks. Nobody implies my consent."

1 https://www.digitalhealth.net/2018/04/joes-view-dear-mr-zuck...
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Great writing. Cool project. What it sounds like is there's going to be piles of use-cases in different companies for something like this that are all different. I suggest a model of selling companies custom solutions to those that all leverage your plug-in or tech. You might license the underlying tech itself, too. So, the start could be something like:

1. Surveys on places with lots of Excel users worded to figure out what jobs they have that take lots of manual steps with days of effort. This is your potential market.

2. Maybe immediately create proposals for the ones you could handle easily as a one-man shop. That's some revenue to get you started.

3. Look for any common patterns in them you can abstract into generic functions or generators. This becomes part of your tooling.

4. Also, look for any kinds of analysis that happen pretty often in certain industries. Then, you might create some basic functionality to as industry-specific solutions that your customization work builds on. If not that, it could just be a marketing tool illustrating the value your software provides to that segment.

Those are the ideas that came to mind as I read your article. Good luck.
>The marketplace for ideas will ensure that true news trumps fake news.

Why would I believe this? It hasn't worked so far and I think there is some misplaced faith here. Perhaps the media is facing a backlash because of their basic hypocrisy in the modern era. CNN, Washington Post, NYTimes and more are quick to criticize Trump which I'm fine with, he's in a position of power and he's not handling it well, checking his power and public perception is literally the purpose of media. The problem is that the media has abdicated this same duty everywhere else where it has been convenient for them. An example is why is this criticism of Facebook so linked to Trump's election? We deserved this level of coverage years ago. Blaming this all on obviously fake news on social media sidesteps why people believe those things in the first place - conventional media has repeatedly betrayed the trust of people.

Take this recent article that was posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642683

There is a lot of good criticism of the author in those comments, how she pre-formulated a story, repeatedly encountered suspicious roadblocks in her investigation and then because she couldn't write the perspective she wanted, dropped the story entirely. What am I supposed to call this uncritical coverage of Theranos other than Fake News?

And even there I can't exactly pin it on that journalist, it wasn't just her that encountered these things and didn't write about them, it was lots of journalists which points to a systemic issue.

All of which is a really longwinded way to say this piece made me sad because it is the 'marketplace of ideas' that led us to an era of actually fake news. Journalists like Jenny Gold are simply responding to the incentives of that marketplace. And that other journalists inside this system, like Sandeep, have no creative solutions for how to bring back real investigative journalism which questions and speaks truth to power in all it's forms and simply rely on old clichés does not bode well for the future.
This is a clear example of survivor bias; there have been plenty of things that people thought were the future that turned out to be false, and the people who ‘hung on to the past’ and didn’t adopt those things won out in the end.

Betamax, 3D TVs, laserdiscs, segways, new coke, etc.
Why is it that whenever this guy says something's wrong with "blockchain", every example he gives is about something other than a blockchain? Like exchanges and smart contracts. Those are not the same thing as Bitcoin and Monero.
"Fun" anecdote on this: long ago, I used to teach Ruby and Rails, professionally. One of my old professors emailed me asking if I'd like to come back and teach as an adjunct for a single course the next semester.

The pay for the entire course was the same as our day rate was in industry.

Of course, as an employee, I wasn't making that day rate personally, but that's how far out of whack it was overall. It's really brutal. I would love to teach, but it doesn't make any economic sense: ironically, part of the reason I need the extra money is that I'm still paying off my student loans!
Were they unique and/or generated passwords each time, or was it a password you have used else where?

It is unlikely to be a Spotify breach, but if the password was unique to Spotify then that certainly adds a little more weight to the argument.

Usually it is simply a case of ‘credential stuffing’, where other data breaches are checked against other common/popular websites, with the goal of finding accounts that work and can be sold to others for illegal use (TV streaming services etc.)

Overview of credential stuffing can be seen here: https://breachinsider.com/blog/2017/credential-stuffing-how-...
These jobs that are worth less than $15 per hour are going to be the first to be replaced by machines so whatever happens we need a solution to give people at the bottom high(er) quality lives.
I think once they reach a certain age, people stop looking at vegetables as not tasty and they are simply not consumed as often due to either (a) the price or (b) the convenience.

Otherwise, vegetables can of course be delicious.
Nice, but this implementation should extend the voxels down to the lowest neighbor. This would close the gaps in the steep hillsides.

If you're doing it in a pure software implementation and with no tilted camera, you could optimize this heavily. You start at the bottom of the screen and for each vertical row of pixels you march along the heightmap in 2D and project the texels to the screen. You also remember the current hightest Y coordinate that you've drawn. If the new texel is projected higher than that, you draw another vertical line to that position with the texel color and remember that position. So you're filling up your screen from bottom to top in an extremely efficient way.
Unless you can point me to otherwise, I believe it is still the year 2018 of our lord and savior Jesus Christ as far as China is concerned in all of its international business and political dealings.
What kind of repercussions?
Thanks for the article, I've just learned many options I didn't know !
Are you using this daily? Just want to know if there are any gotchas I might need to check before I start using it.
I think he is absolutely right about his dystopian view on smart contracts managing stuff but forgets about that one trusted party we're trying to avoid the most here, that costs us the most money and that we need the least in real life:
Banks. That's what we neet the blockchain for.
> Fox is straight up propaganda, to the point that it is ridiculous that anybody would even take them serious.

Even conservatives, including some recent Fox commentators, are starting to acknowledge that with Fox’s shift from a fairly broad right-wing/Republican propaganda machine to a more specifically pro-Trump propaganda machine.
I think that putting some responsibility for security on the user is a good idea. All too often users are lax with security and don't realise the impact that has, say when their credentials are used to access a system illegally because they used the password "password", or poor security on their own PC sees it become part of a botnet. If you don't take security seriously when dealing with cryptocurrency then you can be taught a very personal and expensive lesson in no time at all.
I agree, though I think this kind of hierarchy should be shallow and high level, representing only typical search scope boundaries.
Have to try it to find out. That's what we are doing right now.
To "establish consensus over points in time which are universally unique"
> "Fake news" is an awkward word choice by the President

For context, it was the opponents of the President who coined the term. It was originally designed to discredit Pizzagate, etc. He co-opted it and turned the term against the MSM.

Edit: thanks for the downvotes. Where am I factually incorrect?
I have already read the wikipedia page, and it says "often by government regulation." So not necessarily so then.
See here for an example of non-governmental fiat monies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

of course "because someone says so" is an oversimplification of fiat; they need to do so believably which is why the United States of America has the resources to do it but I would not be able to.

Company Script is generally illegal these days, which is instructive - you need to distinguish between "it's impossible to have fiat money without government regulation" (false) and "it's illegal to have your own fiat money because of government regulation" (generally true). Nation-states even sometimes fail at fiat money, so regulation is understandable.

Bitcoin looks like something that has value only because people agree that it does. Saying that "bitcoin is a commodity" means what exactly? This trivially copied pattern of bits is a scarce resource? Proof of work is valuable in itself?
Rockstar shopping is inherently unsafe (2015)
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Once you go a little deeper with this line of thinking you'll discover that the vast majority of our news media isn't simply enough pushing "here's what happened and here's exactly what you should think of it", as bad as that is, but it's more sinister then that: "here's what you should think about, what you should think of it, and least of all here's what actually happened". Sometimes the media is playing favorites to make someone money or to make someone lose money. Sometimes it's purely political. In any case, real fact based reporting is virtually dead and will only get deader as news empires continue to consolidate.
Definitely for RCN. Comcast ads have claimed fiber but I don’t know whether that’s available or just planned since I won’t do business with Comcast.
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This problem seems to arise due to the implicit power that money carries, especially when it hits communities in the US that have their own culture and have eschewed using money as a proxy for power (maybe it was lower income inequality in earlier decades). Whereas NYC has always been about money=power=lifestyle, that was never the case for many communities, and it's being thrust on a lot of people who never subscribed to that, who live in places where they want to do their own thing in a low key way without worrying about construction or ever increasing prices. I can sympathize with their unhappiness, and I feel that way about Denver when I visit the area where I grew up. I also have a lot of relatives in Austin and hearing about how it went from a fun small town to a place clogged by traffic with spiraling housing prices, but is still the only simulacra of "home" to them, does indeed sound unappealing.

Edit: rereading my comment, it doesn't quite articulate my point, which is that people who want to be outside of this big noisy money grabbing game, and just get to be people, are justifiably unhappy about market determined culture interfering with their lives.
Imagine a few different personas, such as investment banker, retail store owner, and soccer mom. Then complete the following sentence: I need a decentralized time ordered log so that I can ...
I'm largely in favor of a $15 minimum wage, but I agree that if we were going to do this on a national level as opposed to local it would be prudent to phase it in over time so that there is time for pulling back if trouble beings to emerge.
I was going to say that just from the title, they're not really representing themselves as being git, but then in the body of the post, they actually use "us" to refer to git

> Git v2.16 adds a new fsmonitor hook that relies on the operating system to tell us what has changed. Doing so allows us to avoid the repeated stat()
"All research institutions get additional money tacked on to federal science and medical grants to help pay for general overhead. But federal rules allow institutions to deposit those payments into their general budgets, with no requirement they be used to directly support scientific endeavors."

"Universities and the federal government became partners in research after World War II. MIT was one of the biggest beneficiaries. The National Institutes of Health initially set the overhead reimbursement rate at 8 percent and it eventually rose to 20 percent for all universities. In 1965, Congress permitted schools to directly negotiate their rates with the federal government, setting ballooning rates on their course."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/03/17/harvard-m...

You are probably right that much of the money may technically not be part of the endowment but I'm not sure that the technicalities of what constitutes an endowment is very useful if they are still the main funder of the university.

If universities include up to 90% "overhead" that can be deposited into their general budgets with no requirement that it supports scientific endeavors then what do we really mean when we say the DoE / DoD don't contribute to the endowment? We mean they weren't "donations" basically? The article wasn't really about donations / endowment so other than using a slightly wrong word its not really relevant to the discussion anyway.

Furthermore more than half of MIT's R&D funds come from the government so this isn't exactly an edge case. Its the rule not the exception.
The world is not driven by economics (and its simplistic assumptions), it's driven by power relations and human nature.

Supply and demand is not the only thing to influence the job market -- power and knowledge asymmetries can do the same thing just as well.
Tagalog/Filipino (the national language of the Philippines) has 5, very similar pronunciation to vowels in Spanish.
Nope, its real. Slow but real. It makes a good backup DNS so you could use it to manually update your 'hosts' files.
Relevant article.
Replying to why decentralization matters

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/change-my-mind-abou...
Wouldn't want to upset the narrative that meat eating is unnatural and completely optional.
> the same religion can go to war with each other.

Sure, although the Troubles were about nationalism and civil rights and not religion. Religion did delineate the two main factions but there was little in the way of theological debate. It was an ethno-nationalist conflict.
The reason I bought that house in particular is because of the trail and green space. I think its funny(?) that he was complaining to (at?) me, and I'm part of the problem.

> Just because something is a net gain doesn't mean some people don't lose.

See also free trade. Consumers benefit, but some workers lose.
or to market the service.
Also "Atomic Accidents" (in the accident genre, but focused on early nuclear research accidents mostly). It's a surprisingly fun read for a topic where most of the people who are featured died horribly.
I get perhaps a feeling of "wistfulness" for how things used to be, but getting angry or hateful that other people now enjoy something too seems like an unhealthy attitude.
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They would still be collecting it for when you decide to stop paying for your subscription...
Yes but the workers have a drive for increasing profits too, and there are more of them. So that's not really a good explanation.