skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love someone to try. If someone went to the trouble to accurately reproduce the unique ink application, the unique serial, and an accurate artist signature on an art that would be great validation for the project and would put a Lodrocoin print up there with a desirable fine art piece. :-)

Also if you're just leaving your Lodrocoin prints around in plain sight that would be the equivalent of leaving your wallet key taped on a post-it to your monitor. An interesting thing you could try with your art but it's also an interesting property of the art that the art is best "displayed" tucked into a drawer somewhere where nobody can see it.
The problem with money is too much, too fast, modifies the mindset of the holder. I know very good and smart people who earned money the ‘easy’ way change into douche bags or idiots or sometimes both. This is just another example.

To be honest I think he started out honestly with his true mission, not trying to scam anyone, but when he saw all that money in his bank account he probably thought “I guess I made it?” And decided to drop the whole thing.

The thing about people like him is, they are usually extremely careless and will eventually lose all that money without too much effort, either he will spend carelessly in gambling, or get caught by the feds, or burn it in some other way.

It’s usually always the same story. It doesn’t last. I studied someone who won a lot of money from a gambling business, to people who inherited a lot of money from family, to people who get money from investors without putting in much effort. They all usually end in the same way, they lose it all, and it’s usually because of bad management of wealth.

My hypothesis is that when they get money the shortcut way what they don’t get is the management skill that is required for having a lot of wealth. Money is fascinating, in what it does to the mind of the holder. How money reaches the holder, usually determines how long it lasts as well.

I’m studying a few more group of people, my hypothesis has not been wrong yet. People who work hard for their money tend to be able to make less go much further. They seem to be much more efficient, and are usually very good at turning 100 into 1000.
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> someone showing up and wanting to “discuss things” with you.

Yeah, there's more than a few cases of people ending up back in the US (or whatever country) in the trunk of a car. I may prefer prison over the constant fear of being "disappeared" by a bounty hunter or hired kidnapper [1-3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Sidney_Jaffe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Luster

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann#Capture_in_Arge...
So.. Java will slowly die.
Too late to edit. Why oh why did I omit the word "don't" in front of "have qualifications"? It was meant to be an honest question to fill a gap, not a weird confrontational thing.
Privacy Issues with the Internet's Most Popular Websites
They hacked his office empty and then somehow hacked him onto a flight out of the country? And then they hacked all of his social media accounts and those of the people who worked for him? And then they hacked a new picture of him on a beach holding a beer?

Or, he scammed.
Would someone here know how to go about recreating a physics sandbox using a virtual robot arm with cubes in a game engine editor like Unity/UE4 where we'd be able to apply ML?

Any suggestion is welcome
Through the increasingly popular (and unreliable, and hard-to-dispute) background check service that SV has created.

https://checkr.com/
Yes you are right regarding the visuals, essentially you can not be certain unless you check the datagrams on the network using tcpdump ( or wireshark for GUI ).
Tiny shrimp may be mixing ocean water as much as the wind and waves
Lost it at 'cornpaper'.

Thanks for the lighthearted take on the craziness!
Provide some examples of when this happened, why it caused harm, and to what degree the harms from this sort of thing outweighed the benefits.

One would generally assume that if someone from another department is commenting on something, particularly if they are a lower level employee, they are generally doing it because they genuinely believe there is some kind of important issue.

And even if it turns out that it isn't important, the time spent briefly annoying someone is generally going to be much less costly than overlooking an issue of actual importance.
Does anyone have a good sense of the current performance impact of crossing the boundary between JS and WASM? I've often thought it'd be great to be able to expose high-performance data structures (and other infrastructure-level stuff) via WASM and then make use of them from JavaScript, but I seem to recall that the interop performance cost is currently too high to make it worth doing, which leaves WASM mainly only useful for long-running tasks, such as game engines, expensive graph layout algorithms and so forth.

Edit:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/javascript-to-rust-and-bac...

> "The wasm-bindgen code generation has been designed with the future host bindings proposal in mind from day 1. As soon as that’s a feature available in WebAssembly, we’ll be able to directly invoke imported functions without any of wasm-bindgen‘s JS shims. Furthermore, this will allow JS engines to aggressively optimize WebAssembly manipulating the DOM as invocations are well-typed and no longer need the argument validation checks that calls from JS need. At that point wasm-bindgen will not only make it easy to work with richer types like strings, but it will also provide best-in-class DOM manipulation performance."
Good question - though half of the internet has been built by pretending to offer your service for free. So either we keep doing that or we have to admit that our whole industry has been lying to their users.
I agree that ad hominem attacks are generally counterproductive when your goal is to evaluate an argument.

However, when deciding whether to invest hours reading and discussing his latest arguments, the author's credibility is a factor.
Sure, but even then, you still have to make assumptions about what messages an object accepts. In other words, you have to have some information about the interface of every object.
> Words mean things and "social opprobrium" does not equate to "vigilantism."

They are not identical terms, but they are overlapping terms.

Using career pressure to punish someone for a crime they committed can fall under the definition of "vigilante".

"A person who is not a member of law enforcement but who pursues and punishes persons suspected of lawbreaking."

The distinction in my mind depends on intent.

If the intent is to protect yourself and your business against fall out related to a specific person then I would say it does not qualify as vigilantism.

To avoid people who have done things you don't like also doesn't really qualify.

However, when you actively encourage others to use social opprobrium to punish people, then you are a vigilante.

I'm not wholly opposed to vigilantism, especially given the failure of our legal system in this area, but we should be cautious because there are well documented risks to letting vigilantism run free. Ideally this sort of vigilantism should be a very temporary stop gap until we get the legal system fixed.
Also, probably the mechanism of choice would be likely be opening up a cash-settled futures market on a housing price index.
I'm sure it's going to go really well when you propose a contest in an attempt to marginalize a woman's perspective by calling her hysterical.
> a lot of it is in the normal banking system

Do we know this? (Also, nothing prevents big wires to Belize.)

> All of their communication up until this point indicated growth plans

Scammers lie.

> for an exit scam atleast [sic] a few disgruntled employees would have spoken up by now

Not necessarily. After Madoff, employees went dark while they talked to lawyers.

> You can't do this that cleanly with that many people involved

Pre-SEC America was rife with elaborate investment scams [1].

> What if this is a case of...kidnapping

What if it's the Illuminati? Occam's razor.

> Without wanting to speculate, but I want to atleast [sic0 put the idea out there

This is a bad disclaimer.

...

If you lost money in this, I'm sorry. Contact your local precinct and make a police report and then file a complaint with (a) the SEC and (b) your state securities regulator. (If you're in the U.S.)

[1] http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/history/usafraud.h...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. If you lost money to securities fraud, speak to a lawyer.
How so?

These are unregulated securities aren't they?

It would be no different than me selling you Monopoly money.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see what law was broken. Not defending this, just saying this is why we have regulations.
Well this sort of argument has been going on for several decades between the dynamic and static proponents.
I probably get as much out of reading to my daughter as she does. I absolutely love some of the stories. I will be very sad when she gets to an age when she no longer wants me to read to her. Mind you, a friend of mine was still reading to his daughter when she was 18, so hopefully I have a few years to go still!

Any recommendations for childrens stories that are a must read?
‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight
This is for extended support for Java SE8 only. Public updates are still available for SE9 and later releases. Java SE is transitioning to a Ubuntu-like release system with YY.M releases, some of which will be LTS will longer public update lifecycles.
You’re just proving his point. The opportunity cost of sacrificing so much for so long compared to not having to and being able to take big risks with a lot of potential upside.
CRYPTO INSIDER: Bitcoin cash is soaring
this is fundamentally insufficient, though.

if there's a hosted image from a facebook domain (e.g. a like button), unless that image is loaded after consent is given, facebook can already associate that users' IP address with having visited that web site by nature of sending the image over. in other words, facebook is tracking pre-consent (unless those images are loaded post-hoc, which is just not happening in today's world)

as a result, it's fundamentally impossible to consent before visiting a particular website, because there's no way to know what other domains will be triggered by visiting that website.

the only way i've found to defeat this behavior is by using ublock's origin's default deny policy which prevents all 3rd party domains from being accessed by default. it's a bit of a usability pain as one often has to add e.g. stack overflow's CDN to use its website "well", but does prevent visiting a website which has an embedded image hosted on a FB domain from being loaded, which defeats the more nefarious FB tracking.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-de...
I asked for a cite, you're giving me handwaves. It is not harassment to say "I will not engage in business with you if you employ that person." Libel is something you gotta prove, has many facets to its proof (fair-comment-and-criticism exists regardless of whether they're a public figure or not, actual malice tests exist for public figures), and has no bearing anyway on the base claim of "I will not engage in business with you if you employ that person."

This is not complicated. A person doesn't have to associate with people they don't want to associate with. (A business may be required to do business with people they don't want to do business with if the reason for their desire to not do business with them is because they are of a protected class--but that is, trivially and obviously, a different thing.)

Prosecutions are "very rare" because it isn't illegal.
Ask HN: Why are we ignoring social network aggregators?
With the Facebook leaks the alternative social platforms are getting more attention. But without the network effect they have difficulty expanding.

An aggregator that manages your social graph and multiple feeds will make transition between the networks easier. At the same time it will improve privacy since it won't run the FB trackers.

The aggregators were a hot topic ten years ago. Power.com was getting momentum before it was shut down with Facebook lawsuit. Is it time to build a better decentralized aggregator that will pave the way for better networks?
Eloquently formulated case against the blind acceptance of digital devices into our lives, and outsourcing ever more of what makes us human to algorithms. While we have always been talking of splintering of our attention, and the constant background anxiety resulting from frequent social media use, this article furthers the concerns in the direction of complex hard-to-understand algorithms mediating human communications using the signals harvested from sensors on smartphones.

I don't know when the time will come when we just say enough. No more wondrous technological conveniences that purport to make our lives simpler and easier with little thought or understanding of the great opportunity costs borne by the users. One terrific example is the plainly obvious alienating effect of this 21st century world of instant messaging from every corner of the globe, only to find the crushing effect it has on actual phone conversations even between close friends. The author nails this collective, global loss of empathy here with this example. Did any of the brilliant "technologists" envision this would happen? No. "Connect the world! Saturate it in social media. Good things ought to happen. Right?"

My fear is that that the widespread use of these attention hoarding devices and platforms is so oppressive that the thoughtfulness and awarness it takes to even formulate such questions will never come for the greater public. And so in this quasi-zombie state of tech consumption, harmful and poorly understood inventions will continue to reign supreme.

Dystopia? No, just look around you. The grip of tech companies (I work for one) is huge and I don't like the endless (and I hope involuntary) dehumanizing aspects of some of these technologies.

I cant be the only one who wants a world where people reach for their phones to talk to friends, or educate themselves about the world by reading books, instead of whatever poorly conceived alternatives we have today.
That looks more like they're going to charge for Java SE 8 support, not for using Java in general?
> When you lean to (your) left, the center of mass of you+bike goes left of the plane of the wheels, this causes the front wheel to rotate away

This does not seem correct. Why does it cause the front wheel to rotate away (right) ?

If you lean a stationary cycle to the left, the front wheel will turn left.
Wait, if I understand this correctly, this is only for java 8 right?

Java 9 and 10 will still be free for commercial use until further notice.
Any such configuration should be done separately. I could stand it being done in a pkg I would never install and which can only be depended on by other pkgs of this type (i.e., which configure but don't include artifacts except by depending on the pkgs that provide them).

It is beyond awful that what should be an unattended operation (install, upgrade an OS) isn't. It's completely unacceptable, and utterly intolerable.

Yes, I'm aware of "answer" files. That was SVR4's compromise: you'd put all interaction into one kind of script that can be run separately from the actual pkg installation and which produces "answers", and then you can furnish those answers at actual pkg installation time. But in practice most developers were not really aware of all of this. The cognitive load of SVR4 packaging was too high. Interaction and package scripting really complicates packaging. Please stop.
...a multi-vendor multi-implementation OpenContainerStack. What could go wrong?
There will be a larger public burden over time if cases like this go ignored. Setting an example is an effective means of prevention.
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You must be thinking of memecoin.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/memecoin/
This seems like a really big deal.
Fine, as long as you accept that the main purpose of reading a story aloud is to relax and enjoy the story together rather than to develop skills. Just as the main purpose of lego and similar toys is not to develop 'hand-eye coordination' but rather to build cool stuff. (Whatever claims are advertised on the packaging.)

This isn't a trivial point. If you read stories with the intention of fostering skill development you will neither inculcate skills nor get the most out of those stories.

>parenting coach

Ha. The idea that there exist professional parents who explictly know what they are doing (with footnotes and sources) is a major conceit in our present culture.
An interactive art installation that excavates messages embedded in Bitcoin
Apples to oranges. The existence of traditional banking systems does not negate the demand for alternative systems with properties that traditional banking is incapable of providing.

You're, of course, free to ignore Bitcoin if those properties don't appeal to you. But the fact that you don't see value in them doesn't change the fact that others do, and if those people choose to expend their resources maintaining that system then that's, frankly, none of your business.

If the cost of maintaining the system reaches a point where it outweighs the value it generates, then and only then will people choose to stop expending their resources to maintain it. That's why your concerns about efficiency are irrelevant to my point; no matter how inefficient _you_ might think the system is, it's obviously still generating enough value to sustain itself otherwise it would cease to exist.
That makes this an unusual choice, to say the least, given Dubai's record on human rights and free expression.
My guess is bad purchase tracking
It would be good if mods could change this link-baity title.

Oracle have a support plan that includes this kind of deadline.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
There's no such thing. brokep of the Pirate Bay fame fled to Cambodia for that reason and they just did it anyway. The thing about countries without extradition treaties is that they're typically less developed, and easy for larger nations to simply strongarm into giving them what they want.
I think it's worth catching him just for the principle of the matter. Catching him shows that it's not okay to steal money from people by faking an ICO.
Generally agree, but those are pretty damning comments showing a weak understanding of money mechanics, and this project is fundamentally about money mechanics.

The second comment is especially relevant as it deals with pricing, which is the thing this project is about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15792065

Author doesn't understand that prices are only determined by what people are willing to trade for, rather than them being some external thing that exchanges have to guarantee.
I've wondered this for a long time. As someone who pretty much despises ads, I'd be willing to just tell advertisers what I want to see and turn off adblock rather than have them guess what I want to see(which is usually either something I don't want to buy or something I've already purchased).

If they would just ask me what my interests are and stop allowing shady/malicious ads, I'd probably just turn off adblock.
The US can pull you out of the Caribbean easily. They have extradition treaties with every country there:

Bahamas, Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Kitts, France, Netherlands, UK

Cuba is the best shot there, despite there being an existing treaty. And they may turn you over for the right price (with the Castros gone, it's very likely Cuba is about to be more open for business).

The classic case, billionaire banker Allen Stanford:

"From king of the Caribbean to penniless in prison"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/sir-allen-...

US extradition treaties:

https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/71600.pdf
Maybe. On the other hand, Oracle can't do much about OpenJDK.
Has it been confirmed his twitter and amazon accounts haven't been broken into?

Can somebody confirm that first image (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbDvp9iXkAYaY6s.jpg) hasn't been photo-shopped? Those images don't have any exif data, but it looks like twitter's stripping exif info.
Your definition of toxicity may differ from mine, but a lack of diversity does not make something intrinsically toxic to me (even though usually one would typically want to try to reduce a lack of diversity)

For me toxicity generally implies an actively negative response.

Conflating toxicity with a lack of diversity would stereotype the dominant group!
Possibly https://snyk.io/ ?
Title should read "for using Java SE 8"

The article/topic is specific for Java SE 8 which is an old release and will have been an old release for several years when this goes into effect in 2020. Not uncommon to require commercial support for old releases, it encourages adoption of later versions (among being a bit of a blatant cash-grab).

It's not totally clear, but it doesn't seem like newer versions are or will be subject to this stipulation.
The problem is for other contracts that want to use upgradable contracts - before you could be sure/analyze correctness but now you need to consider the underlying contract's implementation can change in arbitrary way, it's outside of your control, ie. if the upgradable contract you're calling is hacked it can turn malicious towards your contract - something you didn't have to worry about before.
A long time ago I saw a documentary where a guy wore special glasses that turned everything upside down. He wore them all day except when sleeping, and masked his eyes when sleeping. After a couple weeks, suddenly the world was right side up again.

But taking the headset off, now everything was upside down.
Background checks have been around for a long time, and a new service has little to do with their availability to employers. The actual answer as to how an employer would know if their employee had gotten in legal trouble is the time they would miss as they got arrested, jailed, bailed, and then worked through the legal process.