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I think extradition is the last thing he should be worried about in the wild west world of cryptocurrency.
My understanding is that they group the owners together, then issue CDOs such that some are paid before others. Those which are paid last have the highest risk, but the largest rate of return. If you believe house prices are safer than the rest of the market does, you'd buy the high return high risk CDOs.

It's also my understanding that they aren't issued on a geographical basis (beyond the country or state level). However, that's not to say they can't be, if investors take interest in distinguishing rural and urban mortgages.
It would be nice if the author provided some examples of posts that they found to be toxic.
What is the definition of "toxic"?

For the record, obviously not 10% are "toxic" (based off of my personal definition of toxic).

But what if I considered comments that are off topic or slightly factually wrong as "toxic". By that definition, 10% would be possible.
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With ublock origin and a hosts file, I can't remember the last time I saw an ad.
I read it as drawing a distinction between sexual assault committed against someone with whom the firm has an actual or potential business relationship (e.g. hitting on a founder when she pitches you) vs. one committed against someone with no such connection. Certainly the law would not distinguish these two — I didn't read him as suggesting that — but one's business associates might.
Since you took a jab, I'll reply.

I'm anti-some-vaccines, as they are all different and contain different chemicals or strains. It's like saying someone is "anti-drug", _which one_?

Vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe”, according to our government. That is, we know vaccines have serious/deadly side effects, but the ends should justify the means.

It's interesting that parents are held responsible if their child is harmed, no one else. That is why vaccines are required to be "properly prepared and marketed, and proper warning is given".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-152.ZD.html
That's very true, although I am sure that IT experts wouldn't be particularly happy being called "programmers" if the tables were turned. Then again, I could be wrong... it has surprised me over and over how few programmers care about being referred to as IT. I personally prefer having my specialization be explicit as opposed to being generalized or misattributed.
That's a non-answer though. That process point alone means no prize need ever be rewarded. If you actually wanted to get results from this, you'd have this panel selected in advance so that people could just the fairness of the panel before engaging. Not allowing for post-engagement "Ha ha I demand Milo Y. is on my panel and he thinks this is fine to say to a woman."

Of course that's just one of many red flags.
Those instructions are for the development environment which is simpler in a few key ways (e.g. one doesn't need to deal with SSL certificates). But yes, that'd be the starting point for a production installer for other platforms.
I define "oil-rich" in such a way that oil revenue is the dominant part of the economy. This would exclude the US and UK, for instance. (In fact, not even Canada might qualify by this metric.)

Of course, this is almost tautological, since any liberal democracy worth its salt ends up with an economy that does a lot more than simple resource extraction.

I would have to research the other Western Hemisphere examples you mention, though with the levels of corruption and often outright civil war in many of them, I would question whether they qualify as "liberal democracies" (or perhaps I should add the qualifier, "stable").
Don't be too demoralized. With crimes as with legal business stories you only tend to hear about the large successes. It is nice to think that if only your morals weren't as strong you could be a criminal multimillionaire, but it is doubtful in reality.

As a parallel there are thousands of kids setting out to become the kingpin drug-dealers glamorized in media and most of them end up dead, in jail or working bad dead end low level dealer jobs where they make less than minimum wage.

There are now over fifteen hundred different alt coins most of them languishing in complete obscurity and failure. Nobody knows the exact statistics, but I am sure the vast majority of the reported ICOs were failures too. The ICO market is unregulated so that it does not show when the promoters are buying their own tokens ... I guarantee you that most ICOs were basically propped up by the promoters in order to make them look successful so that they did not really make anyone any money.

The major difference between this and the drug dealers, is that the police have not moved in yet, so people are not going to jail yet.

So it is always better to work in creating real value and making an honest living. And don't worry about what would have been if you were a successful criminal. Consider the infinitely more likely possibility of what would have been if you were failed criminal, or just an impoverished barely-getting-by criminal.
A16Z also funded 21.co's earlier iteration when they made terrible mining rigs. The cynic in me says they believe the instant liquidity + their brand name will paper over all cracks.
“If you use Amazon EC2 for running your Amazon Kinesis Applications” is the key there. You don’t have to use Amazon EC2.

Amazon Kinesis Application does not imply EC2. They use on-prem examples in a few Re:Invent presentations. It is just an HTTP API like most everything else within Amazon. You will see other services spell out their bandwidth out charges much more clearly.
Hopefully for investors it is a stunt.

Posting a selfie and meme is a recipe for arrest, so to me the brazenness of the founder is a vote towards this being a very insensitive "April fools style" marketing strategy. Time will tell, but they certainly made the top of HN if that was their goal.
It seems like 10% is such an absurdly high minimum.
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I said it was unsubstantive. The combination of tossing off a dismissal and throwing in political flamebait guarantees lame arguments that are always the same. That's what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm pretty sure this is just a PR, bet the website will start functioning in a few days.
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Why have facts when you can just dump the term "toxic inhumane wasteland[…]shaming[…]…excluding women and people of color" without a shred of evidence and running away?
Nowadays the low offers are for those competing in the International Maths Olympiad and similar competitions, so they can spend less time on the irrelevant A Levels.
wtf. That wasn't the conclusion. Halve that. Disciplinary action might be legally justified. It would clearly be a dangerous case to lose for the University (setting up some nasty jurisprudence, among other damages), so it's unlikely to happen.
My adblocker detects approximately 44 trackers on that page, including one from connect.facebook.net.
I agree with the sentiment of this article. I think the focus should certainly be on the network effects of offering superior value to users. Doing some seems to do really well at creating a self-building network.
We’re focusing on the unknown target for basically all future work; this stuff can work with the emacripten target, but it might take some PRs to configure it, etc. We’d be open to people hacking on such a thing, but it’s not where the team is putting in any effort.
I started a cryptocurrency art project I think could be really interesting[1]. With all these ICO scams and the amount of cryptocurrency marketing spam everywhere it's made it very difficult to get any sort of traction or feedback on anything in this space.

Make it possible to quickly get fat stacks of cash in any space and watch the space turn to crap.

[1] https://lodro.gallery/lodrocoin/
Take a look at Vespa. The recommendation use case is featured in one of the tutorials: http://docs.vespa.ai/documentation/tutorials/blog-recommenda...
You may be right at least for cities with decent commuter rail systems. I'm most familiar with Boston and, if someone is working in town and doesn't want to live downtown, there are quite a few nice inner suburbs that aren't that far away along a rail line.
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I don't know how one would define toxicity for the purpose of this challenge, but I am certainly baffled as to how people accuse StackOverflow of being a 'toxic wasteland'.

Some people can be a bit curt or even rude with poorly worded or low-effort questions but I can't say that's something I see there in even 1 out of 25-50 questions I see.

I suspect that some people get frustrated when they first try to ask questions and get rebuffed because they didn't follow the rules of the site. If you hop on there asking open-ended opinion questions or asking something that can easily be found with search, then yeah it might get closed rather quickly. Doesn't make SO a toxic community by any means.
She already stated it as fact, isn't that enough?

You should "just believe", not shame her into having to provide proof backing her accusations.

We're in a post-factual world. If she says it three more times it's true by default.
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Theoretically, once something is updated all you would have to do is check the diff. Still tedious though.
Hrm...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20nsa&sort=byDate&pre...
I've found it more of a cultural phenomena. I haven't seen so many useless acronyms used anywhere outside of USA and maybe UK (to the lesser extend). A good practice is to use the full form when first used, add acronym in parenthesis then use it when mentioned next, for example, Hacker News (HN) - not doing it is simply rude imho, unless it's a really well-known acronym for the intended audience (HTTP, IP, CPU etc.)
I believe that ICOs are a scam, but with how brazen this is, How come no one is suspecting that the guy got hacked?
It's really weird that even stack overflow as organization admits that they have diversity problem and they are looking for ways to fix that.

Why this person needs to question that, it's already been accepted? Then he includes so many caveats to this challenge that it looks that he's the only person who needs to believe that stack overflow is a totally fair and unbiased environment.
Great thoughts! I completely agree that learning to code is a lot about trial and error. One of key things that we decided to do with Grasshopper is make it possible for people to write real code, but on their phones. From the very beginning, it's possible for users to "go off the rails" and write code, run it, and see what happens. We didn't want to do fill-in-the-blank stuff, since there's only one right answer. We constrain the code editing environment to be relevant to the puzzle at hand, but that's mostly so we don't overwhelm beginners.

We also have a Playground (available in the left-hand menu) where users can just play around using the Grasshopper coding environment.

Would love to keep getting your feedback on how we can make everything more real and keep that magic. :)
The issue isn't that the questions/answers are toxic. It is that the flagging system is used toxically.
Last time I went to one of the Bay Area node meetups, that given meetup was being sponsored by just such a company. Can't remember the name, unfortunately.

The idea was though that you'd feed them your package.json and they'd let you know of any vulnerabilities, iirc. Or maybe they had a private repo of packages they'd checked? Can't remember.
Before you read this 2000-word treatise, know that the author, Preston Byrne, has a history of misunderstanding fundamental concepts about money and markets.

Example 1: He believes Bitcoin is a fractional reserve system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15792314

Example 2: He doesn't understand that market participants bring liquidity to exchanges, so he thinks exchanges themselves go bankrupt if market prices decline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15792065

I don't have a horse in the Basis Protocol race, but I have little confidence that this author understands the basics.
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When the news uses "Pharma Bro" in their headlines and plays into the outrage you know he is not getting a fair deal. Martin is learning a valuable lesson about staying low profile when successful. Shkreli was a scapegoat mostly because of his public/social media persona, cockiness, and arrogance. Bene vixit, qui bene latuit— "He lives well who conceals himself well."

Meanwhile the bankers that led to the financial meltdown get no jail time, many still are executives earning tens of millions in salaries.
Does uBlock Origin actually have any effect on ads or sponsored posts in Facebook?

I run ABP and there are still ads all over the place in Facebook. I've taken to reporting every ad I see in my Timeline as spam.
Ahh, ok to be clear what they are doing is not legal. Mob 'justice' is however rarely prosecuted to it might seem legal.
What happened to websites like this?
Thanks for the perspective!
> I suggest that by remaining in his position he took very few consequences, and that in almost any other walk of life a person with less privilege would automatically lose their job after being convicted of sexual assault.

Is this actually true? If, as a random example, a waiter in a restaurant were convicted of sexual assault on the subway (as in the story here), how would the owner of the restaurant even know about it to fire him?

I think things work exactly the opposite of how the author of this piece does. The person under question here had his career end because he was famous in his field. But 99% of people are not famous. Rather than "privilege" shielding him, being rich and famous was his downfall.
JavaScript has a low barrier of entry, sure. That doesn't equate to the language being incompetent though. Every language has its incompetent developers. With Node.js you can perform some incredible systems automation cross-OS and it performs extremely efficiently.
When you write it that way it makes me wonder why there isn't a DataClass type
Indeed. Seems like a pretty clear-cut case to me.
So in this wonderful future we're building anyone who wants to safely execute a transaction should be a specifically skilled programmer? Sounds more dystopian than other possibilities
It's been years since I looked at any of the telephony standards but... why is phone number spoofing still a thing?

Your telco knows what phone number you pay for. Can't they just not connect calls that claim to be coming from not-that-number?
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This might not be a great long term strategy, I'm expecting one or two buzzfeed-like websites to be put up against the wall and shot over this. I've always dealt with the cookie notifications by using ublock to simply block that element, I never click "ok". I've never had a website actually stop me from using it when I do this until google changed their search page a few weeks ago.

If you're running a website with one of these, I strongly suggest you make sure you record whether people accept and actually boot them off the site of they don't. GDPR article 7 section one requires a website to be able to demonstrate that I have given consent, and recital 32 requires that that consent be specific and unambiguous. It's doubtful that "by continuing to use this site you agree..." statements will be satisfactory, especially if you start the tracking the instant they hit the page, before they can click that ok button.
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Kaczynski has written two books since his incarceration:
TECHNOLOGICAL SLAVERY (2010) and ANTI-TECH REVOLUTION: WHY AND HOW (2016)

His essential points, according to the preface to Technological Slavery, are:

1)	Technological progress is carrying us to inevitable disaster. …
2)	Only the collapse of modern technological civilization can avert disaster. …
3)	The political left is technological society’s first line of defense against revolution. …
4)	What is needed is a new revolutionary movement, dedicated to the elimination of technological society. …
The way it actually works is this:

Private employers can fire you for anything you do on social media, whether you associate yourself with your employer's name or not. This was just covered in a training I sat through--given by a lawyer with experience in this area--a couple weeks ago. It might not seem fair, but that's how it is.

It's more complicated when the employer is the government. This is what popehat's blog post covers.

> My opinion would be this: you should be able to express yourself as a private citizen any which way you want, withinn the law.

I suspect you might not feel this way if you ran a business and one of your employees caused huge controversy that threatened your business. You would probably want to fire that person to save your business.
I got a chuckle out of that
Learning comes in different ways.

Also, some people who want to learn how to code may be older and they can't travel back in time to code when they are 11.
that part is true, the part about ads isn't. Also AFAIK GDPR doesn't let the companies to glue all possible data processing purposes into one consent and indefinitely - there should be a clear message also on the timeline of data processing, what data is collected (not just cookies) and informing that I can withdraw my consent at any time.
Only if there's a country willing to prosecute and he's in a country with an extradition treaty.
Serious question - who's buying all this crap?
I love that Peter Norvig left an improvement to the __post_init__ method in the comments section of the JetBrains blog. I wonder if he uses PyCharm?
I'm the CTO of Grasshopper and am happy to answer any questions folks have about how it works. :)
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Are there any benchmarks comparing WASM with Neon on Node.js?
Please cite your sources with regards to the assertion that it is "illegal" to not associate with somebody who you think does bad shit. I have a First Amendment in my back pocket--one that, if I'm being frank, I understand--that disagrees with you.
You must realise that the chance of winning is independent of the 'entry fee' for this game. You could argue of a ROI or something similar in terms of decision making for entry, but that still has no effect on your chances.
>Personally, early on, I made the mistake of thinking that an investor rejection somehow reflected on the viability of my ideas or my business, that they knew something I didn't.

Spot on. An idea stage company is a theory. Validation occurs through real users. To become despondent because an investor didn't believe in your theory is not allowing yourself to really test the viability of your project. If users don't buy into your idea then you have a problem, but you have to play the experiment out.
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-- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper
I think.. its a guy/cismale
Discussions about Elon Musk and, specifically, Tesla has become quite the lightning rod around here with negative sentiment rising. Here's a little tidbit of info that I think partly explains it: a lot of it is driven by schadenfraude. "Investors have placed more bets against Tesla than any other U.S. stock, with short interest hovering around 25 percent, according to S3 Analytics."

So I suspect a fair amount of posturing and astroturfing amongst the detractors mixed within those who have are more sincere in their positions.

As always, be skeptical.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/tesla-may...
Neat that you can look at and download the free projects.

One of the things I'd look for in a product like this is easily doing rater reliability & interrater reliability.

Optimally I'd love to see a project also allow for easy semi-supervised labeling. I don't see an API for grabbing data points for a model you are training to label and put them back.
I'm currently looking at some of our txn stats on Sift/PayPal, it seems like we could get by there with some simple internal rules.

Definitely something I'm considering.
Of course I looked at the graph. Even though women earned more degrees than men in 2017, for nearly the entire history of the country, men earned substantially more college degrees than women. Thus, men currently hold significantly more than half of the college degrees right now. We're talking about prevalence, not incidence.
Probably Egypt, based on beer brand.
> .. vs a luxury resort in a 2nd world offshore haven or a yacht

Unless he wants a life of paranoia, he's limited to countries who don't extradite to the United States [1]. Since his face and name are known, as well as his wealth, he'll likely have to share a good fraction of his proceeds with local officials to stay alive.

[1] https://www.internationalman.com/articles/which-countries-ca...
I don't think the timing really supports that theory. If you look at the percentage of dual income households, it pretty much peaked in 1990 (and plateaued). [1] Yet, 1990 was really just around the beginning of the current interest in certain--mostly coastal--cities. For example, I think Boston was still losing population in the early 1990s.

[1]
So could you forge the artwork or otherwise use it to transfer to the Lodrocoin to yourself?
I think SO has gotten what I would call more rules bound. When I started participating in 09 and there were fun code golf challenges some open discussions etc. Now its very strict questions must be directly answerable no discussion no challenges.

I don't understand what people find toxic about it. It just seems to be vague. Maybe I'm not getting something. Its fundamentally a site where people help you for internet points that seems on its basis to be the definition of non toxic.
If you glance at their whitepaper, stability analysis, or old FAQs they had up, it’s clear they’re thoughtful.
Therefore, comments like these underestimate the founders:

“Please. Figure out what a government bond is, first. Then we can have a little chat about scalability.”

"electric boogalo"

"But you need to study politics, economics and history to learn things like this, which I understand are not computer science and are therefore unpopular"
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Yeah, good point. I didn't think that through very much.
There's nowhere you can't be pulled out of these days, except for Venezuela and North Korea and you don't want to go there.

And if it's China that's after you, they'll plainly kidnap you and return to you to China. Russia will just kill you.
This is just a publicity stunt, some no name guy who sells books and has negligible twitter followers. Hence publishing on Medium.

Just because its on Medium it doesn't mean anything, its like linking your personal Facebook page. He took a twitter poll of 20 people.
The screenshotted example is nothing new, I've seen that specific thing at least 6 months ago. I don't think it has anything to do with GDPR, and as others have already mentioned it is not likely to be legal under it.