skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the tweet about SO being a toxic wasteland, but OP really undermines his point by being so combative about it. Especially when he turns around and says stuff like:

> If someone really believes that Stack Overflow is toxic then they should back it up with actual data and not hysterical and slanderous remarks.

It's poor form to call a woman's opinion "hysterical". There are other words that can convey a similar meaning without the heaps of sexist baggage that "hysteria" has historically implied. I suggest "inflammatory" here.

It's pretty telling that of the few comments on medium, two are actually people from SO trying to distance themselves from OP's "challenge".
It's not significantly higher. And we are talking about the population as a whole. I'm refuting the point that "many more women than men are college educated now". This is incorrect. See my other response regarding incidence vs. prevalence.
Stack Overflow's semi-hostile approach to asking questions you can look up yourself was one of the most useful lessons I ever learned. It forced me to explore all my options before asking a question, because getting called out for not doing basic research was pretty embarrassing.

Maybe I'm an outlier here, and maybe some people don't appreciate that barrier to entry, but it seems to work. I don't think I've ever run into any really hostile or offensive comments while using Stack Overflow.
You might want to re-consider your claim of my ignorance of history and maybe think if I might have a point, even though it opposes your opinion. Nevertheless, certainly you're not claiming the USG knew that expending X resources on the early internet would result in Google?

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For those reading this who are perhaps a bit more open minded, it is not clear what the future productivity gains will be from moving capital allocation out of the hands of central banks into the hands of Bitcoin hodlers. To beat a dead horse, If 51% of energy is devoted to securing btc, but capital is allocated in a way such that productivity increases x%, where x offsets mining/transaction costs, what's the problem?
Tesla can start selling killbots, guess what, that probably isn't going to happen
The dark web/deep web/dark net/whateveryouwannacallit has many legal things sold on it. My favorite story was a few years back, a vendor there was selling drugs. However, they also had their own coffee blend, and they would send a bag of their coffee with every purchase. Turns out the coffee was phenomenal. The vendor started getting so many requests to buy the coffee directly that they were able to just start selling coffee. I don't remember if that got them to stop selling their illegal merchandise, but at least they had one avenue of semi-ethical income.
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Because, while undoubtedly talented, he's more than a bit of a bullshit artist and has no problem making proclamations that aren't true.
Yes, that was referring to the idea of going further than sending to voicemail.
Here's the rub: if we go after this guy, our tax dollars will pay for the pursuit, pay for his extradition, detainment, prosecution and jail time. When people ask "why are my stupid investments your problem," this is why. Unless you're willing to pay a private investigator to hunt down your scammer, you're shifting your burdens on the public.
Yes. Though AI is already in an arms race (mostly US vs. China/Russia).

Likely: Future AI will be decentralized for exactly these reasons. We don't want a single bad actor to control it. Security agencies are now warning that Russia is building a large botnet in the case it needs to go to war, and wants to disable enemy infrastructure. The US has similar needs.

Well designed game theory makes it possible for adversaries to cooperate. So it is no guarantee that Alice is always susceptible to Bob's attacks. Cryptography provides methods that can't be attacked if properly implemented. Defense and offense also can have differing costs: It can be way (computationally) cheaper to create defenses for Alice, than it is to craft adversarial offenses for Bob.

Though the risk is real: Spam preceded spam-filters. There was a short period (in internet years) where spam was more effective than our methods to counter it. So intelligent self-modifying worms/viruses will probably precede intelligent self-learning anti-viruses.

We also see both inverse reinforcement learning (learning about the policy of another agent through observing its behavior), adversarial RL (forcing another trading bot to make unprofitable decisions), and computational arms-races (who has the lowest latency?) between High Frequency Trading firms.
I agree that the lack of standards and baselines in the fraud detection space isn't ideal. One example: some fraud products will build models using human labels as the target to be predicted. Radar, on the other hand, tries to predict whether a charge actually turns out to be fraudulent (we use dispute/chargeback data we get directly from card issuers/networks). These are in fact different problems and the fact that the industry generally doesn't have a consistent target makes discourse and comparisons more muddled.

(And on class imbalance: we spent quite a bit of time experimenting/analyzing how to deal with it—we found that sampling rate has a marginal impact on performance but not a huge one.)
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It wasn't unsubstantive and generated quite a bit of discussion. Further, the article was political in nature. Feel free to ban me from HN because I will be posting such things again. Thanks.
For traffic to leave the tor network, it must go via an exit node. Many nodes are just 'relays' (they allow no exiting).

A few years ago I ran a no-exit relay from home. Eventually Hulu blocked my IP, even though all traffic from my IP to hulu was from me, and not via tor. Hulu couldn't be bothered to differentiate, and just assumed that a tor node at my IP address meant that traffic coming from that IP must be something routed via Tor.

By not differentiating, you are making the same mistake, and will punish people for no reason.

Edit: Assuming you are pulling the 'exit node list' you link below, I don't see how that is happening, as it does at least claim to verify that you can actually exit through the node.
Got it. I assume the unknown target will never be able to link against native libraries beyond those provided by Rust's core itself? I assume the answer is no, but a few years ago I assumed I wouldn't ever be able to do what wasm is letting me now, so I don't want to hold too tightly to those assumptions. :)
He's not exactly robbing old ladies though. He scammed a bunch of idiots who willingly threw money at something they obviously had no understanding of. The warning signs for ICOs have been pretty clear for a some time now, but it seems like some people will only learn by first hand experience, how not to invest.
I would also be wary of simple citizens that lost a lot of money and look for you. I remember in 2014 people flew to Japan to confront MtGox in person.

Making the scam in-your-face is a sure way to make people very angry and revengeful. The beach from the photograph can probably be located.
I see these all the time too.

1. I bought one of those spinning face brushes for my girlfriend. A few minutes after purchasing online, I started seeing advertisements from that same store, for the same exact brush. Literally 90% of the page views were showing that advertisement.

2. I was browsing Airbnb accommodation for a trip to let's say Mexico. I was checking apartments on and off for weeks. I didn't see any Airbnb advertisements during that time. The minute I book that accommodation, Airbnb starts showing advertisements for rooms in Mexico.

3. I'm browsing barbers in a new city. No advertisements until I book an appointment with one online. Then, I start seeing advertisements for the same barbershop. Now, that has potential, but the advertisements stopped after a week. Why do I need to book a second hair appointment in the same week? Why not recognize I booked a men's haircut, and start showing me ads in a few weeks?

For all the tracking, privacy invasion, and fancy "machine learning", advertising sure is dumb.
I think you misread. The implication was that Facebook would not exist with real privacy in the product, not the role of CPO within Facebook.
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Oh, I'm sure there are a million reasons for them to block me. I normally use a VPN, incognito searches, limited script blocking, and cookie blocking. Pretty sure they don't want me as a customer, not that I can completely blame them. Anyway, I've discovered that there are other reasonably effective search engines with a different business model, and I'm fine using those and giving them a modest amount of revenue. (I don't block ads that don't track me.)
It's always countersteering. Doesn't even matter if your hands are on the bars (really).

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 (i.e. right) from the motion slightly which causes you to bank left and the front wheel comes around to meet it until you are in equilibrium again.

Countersteering doesn't "help", it's just unavoidable. Being aware of it helps you have better control. At very low velocities the effect is so minor you probably can't notice (and steering angles are large).
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Generally should be faster, it we haven’t made benchmarks. Lots of wasm is client side, Neon is server side. Wasm on the server is coming along too. It’s probably something worth putting together!
> people who are being displaced due to rent hikes caused by gentrification.

Isn't that displacement gentrification itself? When demand exceeds supply, housing goes to the highest bidder...
The article isn't "Independent to ask everyone to accept being tracked".
The conclusion of the article is quite intentionally left off because even after that analysis, it turns out that the law isn't like programming (as the article literally points out) and even after looking at what the law, and judicial reason, allows for, there is no clear cut answer here. There are too many grey areas for there to be "one conclusion".

And of course the conclusion in court in cases like these is, as it should be: the judge's decision based on all the information surfaced during the trial to help them reach their decision.
46.137.0.0/17 which that address falls under is not part of the allocations for CloudFront infrastructure, but for EC2. I suspect their "CDN" is just EC2 instance(s), probably fronted by a load balancer.
What does a convolutional neural net actually do when you run it?
In all fairness, he has very little legal recourse while on the run. I knew a guy who ran off with tens of millions of dollars in 2008, only to have to have most of it stolen by the mob while hiding in Ireland. By the time he was caught and extradited, he didn't even care anymore.

You could probably just go to whatever beach he's chilling at, and just take what you want if you have the physical power to influence him to do so.
Check out the Hoeryong concentration camp. That won't end with the war.
If an editor at Buzzfeed knew "what comes after the social media empires", he would be working on THAT instead of writing just another meaningless piece.

Skimming through the article it's apparent that I was right. It has no content, just talking about today, but nothing about "what comes after".
> You can’t literally buy stock in a city, but buying a house is the closest thing imaginable.

I feel like this might be more generalized to "home" rather than "house", though I suppose it depends on what your conception of a house is. So far as I'm aware, focus on single family detached houses leads to a gradual decrease in every measurably quality of urban living by using a sprawl as a vehicle.
Okay, now I understand what we are talking about but I still don't find it remarkable in any way. I can come up with an endless number of similar processes. For example the FTP clock. I have a public FTP server and at some point in time I create a directory named 1. Then I open that directory and create a subdirectory named 2. Then 3 another level deeper. And 4. And... I don't see what is special about such a process.

Also note that this is not precise in any meaningful sense, neither in the case of Bitcoin nor in the case of my FTP clock, we are just labeling random points in time with names like »the point in time I found block 12345.« or »the point in time I created the subdirectory 42«. I could throw a plate against a wall at label that as »the point in time that plate hit the wall«.

This labeling does not establish any regular interval, it does not help identifying what this point in time was or what else happened at this point in time. It's a trivial tautology, every event happens at exactly the point in time it happens. And every clock is as precise - in your sense - as Bitcoin, the exact point in time this clocked switched from 11:59:59 to 12:00:00 is not different at all from the exact point in time you minded block 12345.

Maybe that clock was actually 5 minutes fast and it was really only 11:55:00 but that is inconsequential for the way you use »price«, every tick of that clock still labels a precise point in time. But an actual good clock is useful because it assigns labels like »2018-04-18 19:49:17« at regular intervals with some precision depending on the nature of the clock. Bitcoin, the FTP clock, and the plate hitting the wall are useless in that sense because the relation between points in time and the assigned label are to a large extend random. You could use Bitcoin as a crude clock with an time resolution of about ten minutes but that is not a good clock.

Finally note that the Bitcoin clock does not even really tick at the point in time you mined a block because that block might get orphaned or simply rejected for whatever reasons. Only in hindsight can you say that it ticked when this or that block was mined, once there are enough blocks on top of it that it becomes reasonably unlikely that another chain might become the longest one.

Wait, finally finally. What is the point in time you mined block 12345 exactly? There are zillions of subatomic particles moving around in you mining hardware, how would you ever be able to pin down precisely when you mined a block? Did you mine it now or do you have to wait until this electron over there also passes through that transistor here and increase the charge on the capacitor to the left another tiny bit? When you really think about it, the point in time you mined block 12345 becomes quite a fuzzy concept at the microscale. And so even before you start thinking about the uncertainty principle or relativity.
I've posted this rant on twitter: https://twitter.com/Roritharr/status/986669910192467972

As someone that knows both @YassinHankir and @airbone42 personally, while being very skeptical about @savedroidAG , the stories of an Exit Scam just don't add up.

#1 The XX Millions is hard to actually get ahold off, its not all in cryptos that are hard to track, a lot of it is in the normal banking system.

#2 All of their communication up until this point indicated growth plans for their company. I've even had personal communication with @airbone42 roughly a week ago that indicated that.

#3 There is simply no response from anyone associated with the #savedroidico , for an exit scam atleast a few disgruntled employees would have spoken up by now.

#4 From all the people I've talked to in the Frankfurt FinTech Scene, it's like the company simply vanished. You can't do this that cleanly with that many people involved and have anyone have a good outcome even if they had access to all the capital.

#5 Without wanting to speculate, but I want to atleast put the idea out there: What if this is a case of extortion or (let's pray its not) kidnapping?
If find it plausible that we're witnessing the authorities handling the situation with the involved people.

#6 The whole PR Coup Scenario is a daft idea. They DON'T need more attention right now. Their product isn't ready yet, from my armchair, they have atleast half a year of development ahead of them before they can deliver anything. Why attention now?
I mean, we're talking about the US wrt securities fraud. He'll be fine on a Caribbean island.

No state actor is going to put out a hit on this guy, he's not worth it.
Hmm, that is a definition of amateur; just as "professional" can mean you make a living from it.

However amateur often means - in British English - simply "low skilled" as professional can mean "formally carried out with high competence".
Attacks on the author aren't the best thing in general (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%2...)
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It works both ways. This is essentially what happened in The Big Short, although for profit, rather than hedging. You can purchase naked credit default swap options, whereby the issuer with insure debt which you don't own against default. This comes with some obvious criticism, much like taking out insurance for someone else's house.
When he's caught the fine he'll get will payoff the investigation and more
>not doing it is simply rude imho,

It's not just rude, it's an intentional power play and a shibboleth to identify outsiders. No one wants to be the one who looks stupid or not part of the scene by asking what an acronym means, so it's a way to lord over other people.
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It's in case you put the first mattress on top of a pea, princess.
> Then you throw an exception when you call the constructor.

I was assuming that doing

myobj.__class__ = whatever

Would not call any constructors?
Looking forward to having ORMs support this way of defining models
Depends on which country you're a citizen of and where you are. The head of the Russian mafia was on FBI's most wanted list; we took him off when it became obvious we'd never get him. He is currently a free man living in Russia.
> When he's caught the fine he'll get will payoff the investigation and more

If he:

(1) Is caught; and

(2) Has not spent/lost it already.

Carrying the burden of those risks? Us, the public.
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The OP said "career pressure" that's more than just avoidance.

There are a host of minefields, Harassment has a very low threshold. Any unwanted communication falls under that heading.

The work environment is another huge issue, California has a wide range of complex laws relating to this stuff. To simplify unless their crime specifically relates to what you do it's risky to use it in decision making.

Libel and Defamation are another very tricky area.

And on and on. We are talking about many huge landmines, though again prosecutions are very rare.
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Minor point, Savedroid is based out of Germany, so I imagine it is more extradition to Germany that would be the concern. I imagine the net effect of the rest of your statement is the same though.
since everyone in 1792 believed the Buttonwood Agreement would turn into the New York Stock Exchange...
Yes, I recommend reading the comments on this article, they're interesting. When a commenter argued that the fee is unfair toward minorites, OP replied:

> What is it about minorities that makes you believe they have less propensity to make the donation? That’s blatantly racist. If you know you are going to win $10k, then it shouldn’t matter to you. I’ll be happy to lower this to $100 in 6 months if nobody makes a submission.

That attitude is arguably more toxic than the typical Stack Overflow comment.
>how does fraud get monetised? Once i have downloaded my millions of credit card numbers from Tor (or stolen my friends mothers wallet) I need to persuade a merchant to deliver me something - but it's always bugged me that they actually have to deliver it. to a physical address. that can presumably be traced. It all seems very low level

Easiest way is to ship stuff to some house, then grab the package off the front porch. Best if the house isn't actually inhabited. Yeah, there's some evidence left behind, but it's usually a dead-end.
You comment a lot about cryptocurrency and seem to participate in ICOs.

While you're trying to rationalize this, you have been scammed. I hope it wasn't for a lot of money but that money probably isn't coming back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

For reference. This would basically let you almost use BrainFuck. If you wanted to.
I would be very surprised if this wasnt a stunt. He posted a picture of an obscure beer (which is apparently Egyptian: https://raseef22.com/en/life/2014/03/16/beers-arab-world/) I cant imagine people couldnt thin the list of locations he is at to a small number.
Pretty brazen tactic, not sure I'd risk my life with a practical joke marketing scheme like this.
Or he ever transits a border crossing or airport and needs to use a passport.
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The problem with that being that many states have been expanding their definition of “sex offender” in a harsh-on-crime theme that, over the years, has morphed it into something unintuitive. When you tell me someone is a sex offender, I think they’ve committed a crime against another human being and should be treated accordingly. I don’t think “this person got caught taking a piss in the woods off the side of the highway” (which, in fairness, is why NYS only requires level 1 - low risk, nonviolent, non predatory - offenders to register for 20 years rather than for life - wouldn’t want to be cruel and hound a public urinator for More than two decades).
I wish they will be a way to minimize false positives. It’s a biggger issue to block legitimate customers because they are not from the US.
Wasn't the story about WHOIS?

Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't think a dns query must return whois data. Aren't they separate protocols?
Exactly, now when you're writing contract that calls upgradable contract, you need to consider that its implementation may turn into hostile code. And it goes deeper - you can call normal contract but if that contract is calling upgradable contract - you may have the same problem (that's harder to track).

IMHO it violates basic guarantees of the blockchain that things underneath you won't change. The focus should be on designing correct contracts upfront, patterns, automatic provers etc. not "solving" the problem by allowing for arbitrary change.

Also "upgradable contracts" sounds nice but it's extremely difficult to actually upgrade more complex contracts, you can't just modify things the way you feel, the original storage can't be changed, this means you can't introduce/change/remove fields in existing structs etc.
Does Dataturks own the data after uploading/labeling?

Do they keep copies?

That's important because in ML, data is everything.
I look forward to all the clever exploits that result from benign-looking code being added to benign-looking code.
Wow that’s like a CEO I would like to have.

I really like his attitude that an already big company should not act like a conglomerate. Cutting middleman is always something that I advise my managers to do, as well as pointless time-wasting meetings.

Keep in mind that some Germans here think Tesla is a joke, because “nobody can mass produce cars so easily”

And they are both right and wrong. It’s a tough business, but I have no doubt that someone like him can actually make it till the end.