skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure nobody reading your comment is assuming people are irrational.

A currency has many purposes, but the primary characteristic of a good currency is that people expect it to have about the same value tomorrow as it did today. Unless you're in finance speculating on arbitrage, you're not putting long term investments into good currencies, because rationally you expect to spend that money again. Instead, you put investments into assets. Something that bitcoin apologists like yourself fail to dissociate is the difference between currency and asset is crucial because both have different definitions of what makes them good.

>Bitcoin changes that completely. Anyone, even low-income earners, can put small amounts into Bitcoin and it will retain value in the longer term.

This is misleading and flat out dangerous to anyone who is reading your comment and takes up your advice. The price volatility, hundreds of hacked exchanges, and amount of fraud on Bitcoin alone proves this wrong.
So Apple products are purely luxury goods and serve no utility. I think that's more than a little ridiculous.
You objectively do not need to be wasting electricity web browsing either. I don't buy that argument.
Being a privacy nightmare, I can see how this data can be quite useful for advertisers simply by sniffing DNS traffic:

* What sites do they visit?

* How long do they spend on each site?

* What apps do they use? (apps make http requests, after all)

* How long do they spend on these apps (providing it's making consistent http requests)

* What devices are they using to access these sites/apps?

Kind of like Neilson ratings but for the web.
Making Marines into MacGyvers
In other words, his product was good enough for both Google and Facebook to want to buy it.
I find it hilarious that intent is under doubt. Somehow people have forgotten "short burn off the century". If shorts squeeze did happen, there would be cheering everywhere.
Nice concept! Good game. And nice presentation.

Wonder if the lack of visuals and random terms/quotes be a detractor from kid's interest.
Take any point in Bitcoin's history and compare its value then to three years earlier. There is no case where it was worth more three years before. Sure, you can't predict the day to day price swings because the demand is not going to be predictable like the supply. The question is, will demand go up in the long term?

But look at it another way. 1 Bitcoin is still 1 Bitcoin even after 100 years, and still 1/20999999 of the total number of Bitcoins ever created. It's an extremely stable store of value. Stability which was previously unheard of. The problem is that you are valuing it in terms of an asset that is far more likely to fail, given its current trajectory. You can't keep printing and borrowing forever.
well outside of the environment obviously
> It takes decades to build a reputation but it can be destroyed overnight with a single tweet.

To be more accurate it was a series of Tweets, each expanding the narrative and doubling down on the original statement:

- "Shareholders could either to sell at 420 or hold shares & go private"

- "My hope is all current investors remain with Tesla even if we’re private. Would create special purpose fund enabling anyone to stay with Tesla. Already do this with Fidelity’s SpaceX investment."

- "Def no forced sales. Hope all shareholders remain. Will be way smoother & less disruptive as a private company. Ends negative propaganda from shorts."

- "Investor support is confirmed. Only reason why this is not certain is that it’s contingent on a shareholder vote."
This is how stuxnet got into the Natanz facility I think. They left a usb stick in the parking lot. Someone picked it up, plugged it in.
I doubt they were very concerned with you or your friends. 80/20 solutions.
I was surprised to see someone dealing with export restricted technology and secret clearance launch missions smoke mj on the podcast. I know for a fact they're still relatively zero tolerance about that.
That is assuming no interest rate, and that the economy keeps going the way it is going. Also, that is before capital gains tax and/or income tax. Plus it assumes that the economy stays the way it is right now.
Anyone have a link to the article the OP posted on G+ to get the account suspension?
Again with the revisionist history.

Did you ever use the first 3 versions of OSX ? Because I did. And the quality was pretty unacceptable compared to OS9 or Windows. On the hardware side how long did Apple stick with the coffee puck mouse. Or how about the iPhone 1 never even having 3G or MMS or how about all of the issues with the GPU.

But yet Steve Jobs still shipped it all. Why ? Because his slogan was always "real artists ship".
I think, in the end, I'd much rather use JavaScript + React + react-jss for this kind of work. It's actually really nice with material-ui and re-using most options from the theme and/or existing components. yeah, 2/3 of my app come from react-dom and material-ui, but at the same time it's very consistent, easy to inherit from and easier to comprehend.

Web-Components may help someday, but so long as component properties are effectively strings, and hard to pass in from the outside, same for events, it makes it harder to manage discreetly.
Ask HN: How many hours of work do you put in on an average day?
I would never use Cloudflare. They hide spammers and refuse to do anything about them. The same mass spammer will register site after site for months, sending snowshoe spam, and cloudflare refuses to do anything. At one point this was taking up about 80% of our incoming spam, and most of it was getting through spam filters due to the snowshoeing. You could see the same registration info for hundreds of domains over months, all sending spam, but cloudflare doesn't give a shit.

The only solution I found was to put a 15 minute delay on all incoming email from a cloudflare domain, then do a second check of the blacklists. This solved the problem, as the sending ips (not cloudflare) tended to get blacklisted within 15 minutes.

In my mind if you're hiding people's websites behind your "cloud", you have a responsibility to kick off the spammers.
probably using stolen CC's to buy ads
Musk is also on the board.

But the SEC is also seeking to remove him from the board of any public company. So he'd lose his chair and the CEO position in this single case.
The book The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth, details Musk's time at Paypal and pretty much describes him as an eventual hindrance rather than a help. He was eventually ousted from the company. Peter Thiel was the one that was able to nurse the company to success.

He was vital to get the company started but eventually, he was difficult to work with. Looks to me that history repeats itself. He's a great visionary but that does not translate to a great CEO.

He needs to get a new CEO at Tesla and focus on another company where I'm sure he'll make a great impact. He truly has great vision but the everyday minutia of running a company probably irritates and bores him.
i guess my question is why is it not a default thing for regular user pcs.

why do i have to buy a new cpu, why can't i buy 4 amd cpus instead of buying that i7 to get performance i need.
It looks more and more that Tesla will follow a trajectory similar to GM: https://hbr.org/2018/04/to-understand-the-future-of-tesla-lo...

(If you didn't know about early GM, like I didn't, the article is worth reading.)
The spoofer can obtain a valid certificate for another, seemingly legitimate site. Any software that hasn't explicitly pinned the leaf TLS certificates will still accept the (valid) certificate it is redirected to.

And sadly, a lot of software still doesn't perform certificate pinning.
I would say definitely yes, good one to learn, and smart bet (and we have avoided lot of hype languages like coffescript, dart, ...).

1. TypeScript is just a modern expressive strutural typing system on top of JavaScript, not a full new language.

2. Modern JavaScript (es2017) is not our old JavaScript, the language matured very well. Not perfect, no language it, but as good as it get for a scripting language, and TypeScript has a lot of structure while keeping its flexiblity.

3. JS/TS really enable a Functional First, OO as needed programming style, which can greatly reduce boilerplate code and API code complexity, which in turn makes the code scale better.

Note: I have been doing Java for the last 20 years, building big enterprise Java app for a living for the last 10 years, and right now, I would say that Modern JS / TypeScript and all of its benefit, offer a better productivity environment for big app development, that traditional Java. We just ported one of our client's Java backend, 40% less code, better typed, and better scale (as most node libs are nio/async in nature)
Elon Musk has always had a disdain for the responsibility of running a public company, it seems perfectly reasonable that he tweet, in exasperation, that he wishes to make the company private. Why do so many people in this thread want the only guy making (rockets && green cars && batteries && solar && ...) to fail so badly? The guy smokes weed once on camera, now he's a witch and needs to be hunted down? We care about the wrong things.
> When you look at all the purchases you make over a week, I assert you are only interested in paying the overhead of open, reversible transactions for very, very few of them.

I thought that the benefit of reversible transactions would be for the case someone steals my credit card and uses it.

If credit card companies could tell it wasn't me who used it they could have declined it in the first place. Since I have had other people charge things to my credit card before, I'll assume that's not possible and so I'm thankful the transactions are reversible.

There is also the case where there's a bug with payment processing. My friend was recently charged for 5 computers because Lenovo's website kept saying there was an error with the transaction when it actually went through.
You don't want to have to go hat in hand to the Russians for RD-180 engines to launch your national security payloads (which the Russians specifically won't sell their engines to US integrators for [1] [2]), or waste $100 million more on an unnecessary Delta launch (vs Atlas). Better to ignore a minor infraction.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+engines+national+sec...

[2] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-national...
They've got a few other services that require that, like Snowball and Snowmobile.
These things are not connected. You're a customer of Cloudflare by choice. If you use Cloudflare to hide your nefarious activities, then you SHOULD be inconvenienced by Cloudflare. Otherwise, you deserve no privacy so people can contact you / your actual provider properly.

Building a keyboard is one thing. Providing ongoing services for illegal activity is something entirely different. You're being disingenuous by trying to conflate those two things.

If someone hosts illegal / abusive content, then anyone that person pays to facilitate that content should be obligated to do something about that content when that party is made aware.
The first RAV 4 EV came out in 1997. Tesla was founded in 2003.

> No one was trying to make a non-toy full electric car until Tesla.

The Roadster was a toy, costing over $100,000 and selling approximately 2,500 vehicles, in the same ballpark as the EV1. The idea that it spurred GM and Nissan to build completely different EVs for the opposite end of the market is delusional. The timing also doesn’t work. It took Tesla several years to bring the Roadster to the prototype stage. Counting back a similar length of time from when the Volt was unveiled as a concept car, that means GM would’ve been working on it since 2004 or so, years before the Roadster came out.
Cloudflare only layers http https traffic. Mail it's exposed, no layer by cloudflare.
Hey, I just replied to your email. Wasn't ignoring you just wanted to get all of the facts.
> but not once did he say, "Well I have an amazing team of engineers" and credit all the thousands of people in his organizations that actually do the work.

He says it all-the-time. And sometimes without any prompt.
I pointed out that people did just as well with less space. This is evidence they do not need more space, and that it is wasteful to use more space for fewer people. My job requires web browsing, and insofar as my employment is good for society, I'm not convinced it's at the same level of utility.

Also, no one asked me in incredulity how I could get by with less electricity.
What exactly do you consider an exact replica? A screenshot from the TV series? It's a fictional object. It's not like it's the bloody Concorde and they photocopied the plans from BAC/Aérospatiale and posted them on the internet.
I've sent many Bitcoin transactions into the 6 figures of USD recently, and never paid more than $0.25 for a transaction fee. Think about this: What does your bank charge for a wire transfer? Mine wants to charge $37. And how long does it take to complete? Mine takes days.

Compare this to $0.25 and a 10 minute delivery time. It's honestly not even close.
Probably not the answer you are looking for but:

(1) Install "1Blocker X" -- not free but it's cheap.
(2) It has a huge number of rules and protects your Safari pretty damn good.
(3) You can disable the existing rules if you so choose.
(4) You can add new ones based on URL regexes or CSS rules.

I am still using it actively both on my iPhone and iPad, one of the best investment in apps I ever did.
Fake Adobe Flash update web sites are outside of the scope of subjectivity when it comes to free speech. Or would you like to assert otherwise?
so the spoofer distributing these devices is going to all this trouble/expense/risk in the hope there is a http downloaded exe it can corrupt, then hopes the hashing doesn't fail on that corrupt exe, and hopes the user ignores the untrusted source warning so that it can install a trojan?
Owners said they wanted to pay me more but couldn't afford to right now. Dangled a `maybe in 6months` in front of me.
Dirty snowball + heat = dirt. Small bits once locked in ice are now dust.
SSL stripping perhaps? There are still plenty of sites that don't implement HSTS, and not all users are vigilant enough to notice when the site they're visiting suddenly doesn't have HTTPS anymore.

Web security has been improving a lot in recent years, but it's not yet at the point where a man in the middle isn't a relevant threat.
Only if they are serving HTTPS or HTTPS is pinned. Otherwise, aren't you relying on the user noticing the lack of HTTPS (which I wouldn't want to do)?
More elegantly stated: Copyright covers expressions of ideas, not ideas.
There is no transaction limit for lightning payments. The quantity of payments through Lightning is limited only by computing and network resources along the routes.

There are limitations on opening and closing the lightning channels. That's another issue which is being worked on in various ways. I'm not claiming it's a panacea, only one useful approach, out of potentially many.
The user can just be redirected to another similar looking site with a valid TLS certificate.
Look at the people in the thread who ruptured. They certainly did not make it in time.
> It records EVERY KEYSTROKE sent of the network, even SSL connection.

One wonders how it does that.
Can you take back open source code?
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> Every fork of Bitcoin is an attempt to attack the network

You've clearly never read the whitepaper. Forking is THE fundamental consensus mechanism. That's alright, you'll get the bitcoin you deserve.

> The egomaniacs all left Bitcoin and are now competing for who gets to decide the rules of BCash

The s/egomaniacs/developers/ all left Bitcoin and are now competing for who gets to decide the rules of s/BCash/Bitcoin Cash/

Fixed that for ya.
Namecheap is crappy even in the day-to-day context. I had a domain that I had registered with them for about 3-4 years. Suddenly I started getting notices that I needed to verify my contact information, due to their policies about "new" domain registration. Every time they sent the reminder, the deadline moved back accordingly. Only it didn't - the domain was shut down on the first date.

Even transferring out was a hassle. I had privacy service, and namecheap sends the confirmation email to the proxy address, and not your actual contact address. They also spam filter the service so aggressively that you won't receive their transfer confirmations...sent FROM namecheap. Luckily, the transfer completed at the end of the window.

Their hosted email stinks, too. They spam filter it pretty hard and nothing you can do can effectively whitelist emails.

My impression is that they focus on not doing anything actively evil too often, and respond to just enough social media posts to give the impression they're responsive.
Short-sellers didn't cause Elon Musk to tweet fraudulently, putting himself and his company into legal jeopardy with the SEC.

Frankly, Q3 2018 was shaping up to be a big moment where M3 cars were mass produced and selling well. If Mr. Musk just shut up for the past 6 months and never tweeted anything, then Tesla would be in a far stronger position.

Today: Musk has to deal with the pedophile slander lawsuit, the SEC investigation, and now the DoJ investigation. The shorts did NONE of this, it was all Mr. Musk's mistake. If Mr. Musk sat tight, released the (what seem to be) good Q3 2018 numbers, then the shorts would have been busted naturally.

That's how you "beat the shorts". Have a strong quarter, have a strong year, and push the stock price up. Short sellers lose money every time the stock rises.

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And I'm sure people out there will complain about the 2-billion convertible loan due 2019, and how short-sellers are destroying the $360 price point.

Guess what? The CEO's job is to secure funding. It was Mr. Musk who signed Tesla to that deal. If you think the loan was idiotic, then it was Mr. Musk's fault for signing the loan back in 2014.

That's Musk's decision however. He's had 5 years to make a profit on a 5-year loan with 0.25% coupon (!!!) and that's his own darn fault for not keeping track of it and turning a profit in time.

(Frankly: 0.25% loan for 5-years are stupendous terms. I do think it was good way to raise money)

Details on the loan due March 2019: http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.j...

The terms of this loan are: $360 call option or cash back on March 2019. Which means bondholders can buy the stock at $360 (no matter what price TSLA is at), OR can demand cash back instead. Given the current price of TSLA, it seems like the bondholders will ask for Cash.

But Musk clearly though, way back in 2014 when he signed this deal, that he would raise the stock price to $360 to avoid paying back the loan. OR he was fine with a 0.25% coupon (!!) on a 5-year rate. Anyone who follows finances knows that this bond was an incredible deal to the advantage of Tesla, and no one should be touting this loan as a disadvantage.
How do you have your MTA check if a domain is hosted through Cloudflare, and what blacklists do you use? I think I'd like to do this, too.
To be fair, at peak BTC I recall seeing people claiming confirmation times of in the hours.
Presumably, but they have a poorly-articulated point -- Cloudflare has an incredible potential for (even unintentional) destructive effect based on their extreme consolidation and centralization of internet technologies. I think a terrific example of this is when they put a DNS server on 1.1.1.1 (in historically unused address space which was assigned to APNIC for research purposes), got a certificate for the IP address, then added that certificate to the Chrome HSTS preload list, meaning people who ended up on captive portals on 1.1.1.1 (and there are a _lot_ of them) couldn't access the internet, because instead of observing what people _actually_ do and paving the cowpaths, they took the point of view that acting against the standards was punishable, and the people being punished are nontechnical folks visiting hotels and airports who are using a modern browser (it has since been removed from the preload list, but if you're foolish enough to visit the site you'll still get HSTS-poisoned).

An even better example, of course, is Cloudbleed, but I guess we've all agreed to pretend that never happened?
I support your statement 100%. Lets analyze a simple problem. What happen if you throw a mannequin in front of a truck? If it stop then there is a very easy way to pirate them. Human are always needed in very complex decision making circumstances.
Just curious, where are you going to move to?

If someone really wanted to sue you, it's pretty cheap to issue subpoenas (<$100). The provider can quash the subpoena on the customers' behalf[1] but I don't know any who does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena
Yeah... that's kind of my point: your indignation just seems a little excessive, considering data charges do not in reality range in the top 100 problems people have.

If you really can't fathom why this doesn't get a Special Prosecutor: Remember that every year, tens of thousands die in the US alone because their doctor's handwriting was so bad they got the wrong medicine! Ask your pharmacist what they think of people diddling their life away minifying CSS while this atrocity continues unabated!
How many users do you know of who manually check hashes on downloaded executables?

And of course the user is going to ignore the untrusted source warning on an executable they intentionally downloaded and are trying to run.
It might be somewhat important for morale that he remains CEO. So many people are rooting for the very idea of Elon Musk that it's probably what holds spacex and tesla together.
I don’t disagree with you. Unfortunately that part was never up to me.
That merely transforms my previous question into a question of why WiFi routers+adapters with discrete antennae, don't also ship with 10W output and a suitably-beefy electrical system to match.
It's potentially worse than this. I've heard rumor that accounts that they suspect to be linked can get included in the dragnet. So even if you are super careful and use a separate google account for youtube with no reference to your personal email account, can get both accounts suspended for unwarrented "copyright violation".

I don't know how much of this is FUD spread by people who don't know any better. But given how much data google collects, I wouldn't bet against it being possible.
I met Elon just after he raised $3M for Zip2[1]. He had moved to Palo Alto to enroll at Stanford, but then got sidetracked into Zip2 (later sold for $300M+). The company was about 8 people in one small room at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2
Same. I thought there was no way he say such a stupid thing as "funding secured" without haven't it locked down precisely because I thought the SEC would easily come after him if he lied about it.

Fortunately, my brother talked me out of it but I was seriously considering buying some.
Complicated Simplicity – The curse of modern tech
How is this redirect performed?
This is bureaucratic nonsense. For 50 years, RC planes have been fine. This is a knee-jerk overreaction to take out their frustrations on convenient bystanders, eg hobbyists, when they can't defend against terrorists with flying bombs whom aren't going to register anything. Plus, how will it be enforced? Going to put FAA goons in park trees to catch those felonious dads shooting Estees model rockets and buzzing RC planes (aka "drones") around?
This fact makes bitcoin even more dangerous. Miners are only going to fork the network in a direction that benefits them, sometimes at the expense of everyone else and the network. This is called tragedy of the commons, and the block-size debacle is an example of that.
If the FCC gets that many, I wonder how many the FAA gets...
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