skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you plan to trade cash for bitcoins in the street then a bank account or credit card is already a prerequisite for bitcoin on boarding.
Bitcoin Cash can onboard faster. Post your address, receive money.
Just like IBM is destined to beat Microsoft, Microsoft to beat Google on web search, every new db company wants to eat Oracle's database marketshare and revenue.
One might argue that the wide reach of platforms like youtube or FB or twitter makes them almost like root infrastructure.
> The former was ignored and then fired because he kept telling people that their statistical procedures didn't work

Why did they hire him then?
tbh i just wanted to have fun building it
having the ssh registration just makes me excited, i feel happy every time i try it out; using the api and playing with it is the same, like making a todo list on baxx https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/examples/todo.sh

to me the `yet another bootstrap css SaaS with three tier pricing, faded monotone brand logos and circlular portrait photos of the “team”` is just depressing
Haha, good one. As if our entire government isn't a captured agency at this point.
To be sure older != quality. My point was that many of the design choices they made were indeed of better quality, and rather than just revert to the old way I hope they refine the direction so we keep said positive momentum just with more durability.
Isn't it that high performance in something difficult predict future success? That is my theory ar least, that phd requires people to do something difficult and at times demotivating in long time span which means that successfull phd are going to be not just be like that initially, but also have an experience with it.
If white nationalists want support, they're going to have to find an example that doesn't have either (a) the fundamental human rights atrocity that is the Palestinian enclaves dogging its "success" story (I'd call Israel indicative of the problems with forming a new independent ethnocentric nation in this modern world) or (b) a nation that---for all its implementation flaws---still has "all men are created equal" baked into its philosophical DNA and "creation myth," if you will.
Rapid prototyping, replacement for a scripting facility, diagnostics filtering & output, a platform for "apps" for a small IoT type devices and just the ability to run the same plugin anywhere you please.

It can be an enabler for new innovations. Even if it runs 2-10x slower than native code.

And what if the answer was just: just because I can? That's how a lot in our industry got started.
you think so? republican stuff is already regularly banned from various platforms, mainly because tech companies lean left.

i dont consider myself republican, but the slippery slope seems all too real in this case.
>They wouldn't do that, because there would be justified public outcry.

Somehow saying "yes, these multinational corporation could exert undue influence over a political system, but they just wouldn't" does not seem sufficient. I feel that such an attitude is like saying "The US government would not spy on its on citizens -- they wouldn't do that, just imagine the public outcry!" Perhaps that is a bad analogy, but the issue here is that we are nearing the point where "oh, they wouldn't do such a thing" becomes untenable.

The CFO of Google said, in the leaked video[1] of the TGIF immediately following Trump's election, that they would use "the great strength and resources and reach we have to continue to advance really important values." Going by the reactions of everyone in that meeting, their efforts are certainly not impartial or apolitical.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NE
> Moxie and I have a close professional relationship but I'm not sure what bearing that has on asking for the code of Keybase's server to be open-sourced.

You have a professional relationship with the founder of one of their competitors. It's appropriate in those cases to note that you have a bias. I realize you don't think you have a bias, but that's the whole point.

> If you want trust, you have to be open source.

That's such a confusing statement, and a particularly misleading one coming from someone that works for a crpyto company.

The whole point of end to end crypto is that you don't need to trust the server.

> I honestly have no idea why this is even controversial :/.

That's the core of the problem. You have a professional relationship with the founder of Signal. If you comment on a thread about Signal, or it's competitors, we shouldn't have to click the link to your site to find that out.

Think of it as building trust...
This mirror would be shot down :P
> Tim Pool is right, at this rate, sooner or later, the Feds will come knocking and will shut that party down.

What party? The government is gonna come into a private organization and tell them they are obligated to spend money to preserve, host, and broadcast hate speech that doesn't align with the company's values?

Please tell me how this differs from telling small business owners they can't refuse service.
Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber
I only really disagree with the last one which I think you're taking in the wrong way. It's just a way of asking "What do you see as the real or existential challenges to the business?" Yeah, maybe it's a silly way to ask that taken literally but it's a common formulation. And that seems like an absolutely valid question. The rest would be real turnoffs to me.
So future will be like satellites will be loaded with missiles. Entire thing will look like mine field later.
Ask HN: Questions to Immigrant Software Engineers from HN
- Where are you from?
- Where do you work now?
- How hard was it to get your current job? (Getting the work visa or other roadblocks)
- Do you think you had a disadvantage for being foreign?
you've watched too much tv
> But it would be meaningless words on paper if our society didn't generally tolerate and respect the idea

Yes, but the idea is that the government shouldn't be able to suppress the spread of information and ideas, or persecute on the basis of ideas. It would only be meaningless words on paper if the courts didn't uphold the rule of law, and the First Amendment specifically, and the executive didn't enforce it..
In principle, who could be opposed?

In practice, how will this actually work out?

True story. I have a friend who got a temporary ban from Facebook (I think 90 days?) for commenting on a story about a Texas billionaire paying to hunt endangered animals, "How much would it cost to hunt Texas billionaires?" That was considered a violation of their anti-bullying stance. Knowing her, it wasn't. It was sarcasm.

Moving on to this policy, I'm happy to see neonazis and the KKK have a hard time. But there are people in the UK and EU who would see Brexit as being a separatist cause motivated by racial animosity. Will we see discussion of a future such measure banned by Facebook on such grounds? And remaining banned even for people who support it on economic grounds because they think that having to follow EU policies on GDPR, copyright, and so on will be a net negative for the UK?

Facebook is going to have some difficult conversations ahead. And the more of these lines that they draw, the more difficult boundary cases they will run into.
I think it's partially a chicken-or-the-egg problem. Honestly, I didn't even know these private rail cars existed until this article. I feel like if the Kardashians took a cross-country tour in one of these things and Instagrammed it that it would be all the rage.
The pushshift data sets are downloadable.
Bitcoin is crawl. Next comes walking. Then running.

Dial-up modems weren't created to be the final goal of the internet. They were designed to start traveling that road toward fiber, etc. Same with crypto getting the simplest to get started.

TCP/IP was created. It took 12 more years until HTTP. It is okay to get started simply.
Homeschooling for Everyone
The problem is, by being intolerant (even of the intolerant), you're intolerant. So if the "paradox of tolerance" is accurate, then we must not tolerate you.

"But", you say, "they were intolerant first, so they are the ones who should not be tolerated!" From your perspective, sure. Maybe not from theirs, though. That gets you to a cycle of each side being sure that the other is intolerant, and therefore that their own intolerance is justified. Maybe this "paradox of tolerance" isn't the right way forward, even in the face of intolerance by others. You should be better than them, not imitate them.

Worse, if each side can think that the other side started it, well, what if the other side is right? What if you actually are the problem? Using the "paradox of tolerance" as your justification is a handy way to justify your own intolerance, and never have to examine yourself.
> Why does WASI need to exist if Java already exists for the intended uses?

IMO, the reason is that the market showed that Java never got used like that. I can only speculate on the reasons, but as far as I can tell it comes down to:

1) The sandbox isn't good enough. See my sibling comment -- the separation between WASM and WASI makes a lot of sense, and I don't think Java had that.

2) The fact that you can't port C code to the JVM easily. In fact WASI addresses exactly that -- the API is more like POSIX than a brand "new" bunch of JVM APIs, which makes it easier to port existing native apps (C, C++, Objective C, Rust, etc.)

In other words, there's still a lot more "value" in native code apps than JVM apps. And it's too hard to port native code applications to the JVM.

For example, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, Excel, etc. were never ported to the JVM. There are actually better analogs in the browser than on the JVM.

I ran windows for 15 years and Linux for 10-15 years. On neither of those platforms have I ever needed a JVM. I used to play online chess in a Java applet, and that's about it. Most common desktop apps avoid dependencies on the JVM. Probably the only reason I could think of installing one is to use Eclipse or IntelliJ.

The browser is the main reason why anybody had a JVM installed in the first place. Without that hook, the JVM becomes much less important on the client. It's still very important on the server.

Java is important and successful, but it empirically did not succeed at some of its design goals. Of course, WASM and WASI may also fail -- that remains to be seen. But to me they look like a good attempt, based on significantly different technical foundations.
Annie Duke (one of the top players of all time) has a book called thinking in bets that examines this as a central thesis. Highly recommended.
> But they're not banning Zionist (Jewish nationalist) content

True.

> So they're engaging in illegal discrimination due to disparate impact.

Disparate impact discrimination is illegal under Title VII (employment) but not Title II (public accommodation), so even assuming FB is covered by Title II (which is dubious), and even assuming this would be found to be disparate impact discrimination (which is difficult to assess because the test for that is narrowly tailored to Title VII context), it would not be illegal on that basis.
Would this be a bad answer? I think part of the data scientist's job is to look at the data and see what beneficial information can be gathered from it and how it can be used to optimize the company/revenue/costs.
Antifa commit hate speech per your definition and conduct violence, should we also ban anticapitalist content? Where does it end?

No you cant say the same about my position. Why do you think we have the 1st amendment? Do you understand what lead to it?
This is the sixth attempt in the past 24 hours to post this exact story. I wonder what it was about this attempt that caused it to spike up in points vs the other 5 attempts, which only maxed out at like 2 or 3 points?
and I think it's his last 3 of 6, that made this top 10.
He must be awesome.
Place your bets please on which his next will knock off the list.
If I have two equal hedge funds to invest in, I'll probably put my money into the one with the most consistent average annualized returns over the last 10-15 years.
My employer started a student loan repayment program last year and I was overjoyed! Until I found out you could only apply within three years of graduation.
Banned.
All owner-class capitalists should. The machine needs ever more cheap labor to fuel the endless growth, and the bigger the labor pool, the less you can pay people.
Who's selling?
Boeing: 737 MAX Software Enhancements
>They wouldn't do that, because there would be justified public outcry. Luckily, as moral agents, we humans are capable of differentiating "general political party" from "white nationalists", and can target the latter and not the former.

Why white? The CCP is running concentration camps for hundreds of thousands of Muslims right now, yet I see no ban on the only party that can be called National Socialist today, just because the nation they are supporting is yellow.
I had the good fortune to hear Bill Weaver (pilot of an SR-71 that underwent a midair unplanned disassembly) tell his story.

http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-fr...

https://theaviationist.com/2015/03/17/sr-71-mid-air-disinteg...
Same story, different halvening:
"A digital commodity which is the only kind in the world whose supply function is solely governed by time had an extreme absence of ask liquidity and unrelenting demand which caused prices to increase ~15X relative to the previous supply era. Here, let us compare the third layer of the existing financial system to the first layer of a decentralized one. Maybe a corporation or other top-down institution will make something more game stable than a bottom-up group of independent agents? People were willing to pay for the service miners were providing. Let's compare P.999 to P.001 of a metric"

I look forward to the 2022-2023 version of this article

The minimum capital flows between supply-era one and two increased 30X, between supply-era two and three (thus far) it's increased 8X. For every global dollar of speculation, about 0.1-0.3% is flowing into bitcoin. The market's expectations of returns:probability (Kelly Criterion) right now are: 99.786% on 13% YoY returns on SPY, ~7% on 15X return on bitcoin over the next halvening.
I do notice it though. Half a pound isn't trivial when talking about a 3 pound device.

Maybe it's just in my head, as I noted I'm not a design expert, I mostly just know how it "feels." And to me the 2015 design does feel outclassed by most any ultrabook around this year, including modern macbooks.
Ironically OpenSSL started in AU because the crypto (export) laws of the US were too stringent:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSLeay

Now it's the opposite?
Lightning is one way.

There are some issues with capital lockup costs, so other level-2 scaling solutions are also required. There's been more discussion of a Bitcoin bridge for Cosmos, as well as Ethereum. Tendermint sidechains is what crypto needs. Tezos recently announced plans Tendermint adoption, as well as Binance w/ the Cosmos SDK.

Disclaimer, I'm a longtime lurker & cofounder of Tendermint/Cosmos. Cosmos is coming.
Social networks don't exist in a vacuum. You can leave if you don't like what's happening.

Myspace collapsed after user dissatisfaction. So did Digg. If someone in Wichita is unhappy with the current situation they can always do something on their own. Which is why Voat or Stormfront exist.
bites bait
You think Cal is entirely 1/3 of what we collectively "need to know"?
To be fair it was AT&T who took a chance on the iPhone, after the other major carriers had told Jobs to go pound sand and industry figures like Ballmer had publicly laughed at him.

I could see him using these commercials in his pitch to AT&T. "You said we would. It's time."
There was even a hackathon on Prague (Czechia) - Kosice (Slovakia) train a few years back. It's quite easy (but not very common, for sure) and not so expensive to rent a car or a whole train in CZ (from the train companies). There are also some historical trains for rent (run by enthusiasts, usually).
What makes Grindr special in this regard ? I’m sure there are other dating or social apps out there that also could be foreign owned and used for espionage....???
I'm not sure of the chronology there; didn't gcc start when Sun started separately bundling development tools?
What metric are we basing on here?
I'd love this to be a series of monthly posts, asking for updates for people with certain professions or backgrounds.

There's so much which I don't know about everything outside my field of work (and inside too, I guess).
I have a difficult time caring about the demise of a hobby for the obscenely rich.
> "extremist..."

I guess someone who wants to live in a geographic area with people who are similar to them and share a common culture are "extremist" nowadays...this is very odd to me
Google creates external advisory board to monitor it for unethical AI use
I did not like that in your comment you have assumed your opponent to be less experienced and less aware than you are just because he disagrees with your opinion.
We built an internal system where we place all to-be-scanned documents into a tray and have everything scanned once a week. We wrote cron jobs that execute every night to upload the documents into our S3 bucket. But we don’t have software that makes it searchable yet
Survey: A quarter of Europeans want AI to replace politicians
Fair warning, I use tools like masstagger, pushshift, and redusa to analyze users when deciding if a ban is appropriate. It's not difficult for anyone to still read over 99% of your deleted comments.
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I'm glad I asked this question, because there's a lot of interesting data in response. If you look at the long-term trends in the data, student loan debt is exploding in every age group in America.

> Student loan debt for borrowers 60 and over has increased by 1,256% since 2004

And the end of the graph shows that the number of borrowers in each cohort is roughly the same size as the the number in a younger cohort ten years ago. Some of this is population and college admissions growth, but it also suggests that student loans are becoming a permanent condition, not something you expect to pay off.

I acknowledge that it's age discrimination to offer this benefit (in isolation) for now, but as time goes on that will no longer be the case. The system is set up so that you need a degree to get a job, and you need to work until retirement to pay off the degree to get that job. Unless you're lucky enough to come from a family with wealth, of course.
yup, one big issue is the warning coming up too often, not making it more visible or forcing it in like matrix does.

because then you just end up with less people on the system, so you'll talk to them over unsafe channels.

keybase's opinion is definitely my opinion so im a little biased there, but so far i can't think of anything that's better than making the reset occurs as rarely as possible by using multiple devices for recovery.
> “I’m not in this business to make money off of it,” says Lowe, a 33-year veteran of the airline industry. Some trips he has taken, he says, have cost him more money than the dollars spent on tickets by passengers in the Amtrak trains his cars are hitched to at the end.

It costs him more than the entire train of passengers? $3.67/mile is insane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism
I thought Cfius could only block deals. I’ve never heard of them forcing a sale and the article doesn’t really speak to this odd situation.
Time Travel in China- Where to Find Vestiges of Old-World China
Using escrow systems also detracts from a core appeal of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - being able to exchange money online with little trust in a third party intermediary.

There are still the monetary policy trust issues that Bitcoin resolves (not having to trust a central bank) if you are particularly libertarian or whatever, but I don't think that's really a driving cause for any sort of adoption in any other countries other than Venezuela and maybe Cyprus 5 years ago?
"it's not sandboxed" well, it is, and it's secure and it can run bytecode as fast as C
you don't have to do it in the street...but yes this is true for many exchanges if you are wanting to take an existing currency and turn it into another one, or if exchanges are how you are looking to transfer money, you can also receive btc without ever having bought it, and send it to addresses and never use an exchange.

Regardless, your point only further proves that the bottleneck for onboarding users to lightening en masse is, if a problem at all, not one unique to that network, or any other payment system we currently use.
Personal attacks are not ok here. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"No" and "No," then. "Strangers don't find out about my podcast" is nothing like "nobody can hear me." "PayPal won't middle-man my transaction" is nothing like "I can't get paid" (mailing checks or cash is a thing).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498975.
Beg pardon. I generally refrain from posting comments like that, but this one was too hard to resist.
It came across to me as slightly more feminine, I moved more towards the 140hz range to make it sound more gender neutral to my ears.
Good insight! Really rings true when the guy "faxes" from the beach. They had the foresight for ubiquitous remote access, but not for a modern messaging platform. :)
They could use the info collected from users who happening to have state secrets (def-cons, state employees, etc...). The bottom line is that the Chinese could use this fact to blackmail those users to cough up what they know in exchange for forceful "coming out of a closet" announcement.
And replaced by residual connections in transformers, which are absolutely dominating LSTMs now.
Have you ever moved to a new city... to escape sea level rise?

Have you ever taken a bath... but found there's not enough fresh water to go around?

Have you ever defended your home... from a gang of post-collapse cannibals?

I dunno the future feels less fun now.
Using MagnetoHydroDynamic, you can. You just have to use parietal Engine invented by Jean-Pierre Petit in 1975[1].
With this technology you can fly at Mach 8, easily..

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8b3E9oUHY
>The notion is that the history of European colonialism and imperialism "justifies" black and Chinese nationalism as a countermeasure to white supremacy.

One could equally well point the the anti-colonial resistance in the Balkans and the Caucuses against Ottoman imperialism. The result of which were massacres and genocides up until 1925. You could still buy white sex slaves in Istanbul in 1915: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#...
The usual stochastic nature of getting to the front page, most likely. Since the WSJ is paywalled, we've re-upped the earliest Reuters post instead of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19505863.
Cingular did, who was then bought up by AT&T.
Moving into the future: Army shows off drone destroying mobile laser system
You need a critical mass of volume though. You can get pretty nice suites on Amtrak today on the long-haul routes. It's admittedly not luxury in the sense of really first-class food and everyone dressing up but probably a nice slow travel experience so long as you don't care too much about arriving as scheduled. I'm not convinced there's that big a market for don't care about cost + don't care about time.
There's also the yearly Tweakers Express from Amsterdam (NL) to Cologne / Köln (DE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkOFnvxkZLc