skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Free speech does not require that we give people a platform.

That's true!

Unfortunately it gets a little more complicated than that.

As providers enjoy PLATFORM protections that align with the ideas of free speech. Meaning they will enjoy legal immunity from content they host so long as they won't decide who gets a voice or why so long as the content is legally allowed. They aren't liable because they didn't have a say in what it was. They are required to remove illegal things of course.

The issue here is the PLATFORMS are now deciding they're going to keep these legal protections they basically require in order to exist - while also acting a PUBLISHERS that curate otherwise legal content to be aligned with their views.

Admit that many of the same people celebrating "they're a private company they can do what they want!" were also yelling "make the cake you bigots!"

This may be a cake-centric issue now that I think about it. Because CF, SV, FAANG are Having Cake + Eating Cake.
This whole discussion is based on an indicator that people believe is yelling at us "the price of X is about to fall".
This depends completely on each individual's circumstances (level of income, your resident country's tax regime/pension rules) but I think many HN readers are in a fortunate position to be able to build up sizeable enough pension pot in 15-20 years, which at retirement can provide a modest income based on 4% yield - without touching the principal.
I'm not sure whether I can or I can't. I guess I'll see. I'm in the fortunate position of having more than twice as much as I need for a very comfortable retirement already, and also of working for a company that hired and gave raises through the last recession. Knowing that even with a 50% decline I'll still have more than enough might make it easier for me to ride out the bad times than most people.

The thing that's tough for me to stomach with the all weather portfolio is how much worse its results are in good times. If I had been invested in that since 2012 rather than my current asset mix, I'd have had only 33% as much growth as I have done during that period. Even backtesting against the peak in 2008, the all weather gives only about 80% as much growth to today.
Well as someone whoes has bank in Tokyo, I find it's difficult to invest in US stocks without paying withholding taxes.

Where do other international investors like ones from Singapore, Hong Kong invest? And what vehicles they use for minimizing taxes as an international investors.

I've USD cash in bank, so if USD falls in value my wealth is erroded overnight. Can someone suggest what I should be doing?
While such IRL considerations are absolutely a factor I think ascribing things to a single cause is a mistake.
:)

I meant their speculative portfolios will die (probably).

I keep my YOLO options portfolio at 1% of my net worth. Gambling money.
What if the system paid for articles read automatically, but there was a button you could use to negate the fee? So if you click something and it turns out to be clickbait or some other trash you can retroactively revoke the payment. Make the process just painful enough (maybe a CAPCHA) to discourage abuse and it might work. Most people are honest and if the fees are reasonable they won't go to the effort to revoke them every time. The few that do revoke every fee weren't going to pay in the first place and at least this might discourage them from setting up an underground service to duplicate your content wholesale.

On the other hand most people don't like getting nickled and dimed to death.
I thought the same thing when I received it. However, at the end I gave them the benefit of the doubt that perhaps they were migrating from one hashing algorithm to another and decided to just reset everyone's password in the process. Lying about the breach entirely is so shady
These clear "blue-light blocking" glasses doesn't actually block blue light at all, just UV.

They include a small "blue light flashlight" and "blue light reactive paper" to fool the buyers into thinking they work. However, it's actually an UV flashlight and the paper just reacts to the UV light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jDSozxaqk
What will you do when your plan to censor the alt-right backfires and makes the violence worse? Attempt to start rounding them up? And when that makes it even worse?

You don't have a plan, just a knee jerk impulse to censor.
ATTENTION: This is a discussion thread about CENSORSHIP. Please stop using the DOWN VOTE feature against everyone makes a case against censorship - it's simply too ironic, and only goes to show that there is no limit to the censorial impulse.

THANK YOU!
At 0.9% you're better off sticking the extra money in an Ally savings account. That's basically free money at that rate; use it.
The invisible hand of the market seems to know what shame is. Good.
How do you find the best high paying jobs at smaller shops? Where do you look to find out about those companies?
The media will tend to focus on the part of any site that promotes and radicalizes participants into mass murder.

Facebook, as you know, moved extremely aggressively to remove the NZ shooting video, along with other extremist content. Basically Facebook employs a raft of people to prevent the thing that 8chan was trying to encourage.
Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
If you're a proper farmer you probably have a big loan, if the price of hens drops 50% the only one calling will be the bank to foreclose on your farm.
> Their hiring is done by elected officials.

No, hiring is largely done by other civil service personnel. The Secretary of State isn't deciding who works in the cafeteria - there's a number of tiers of career employees between him and that decision.
> he capriciously and personally terminates a customer's account

Oh please, he gave them two (2) (fucking TWO!) mass murders of leniency before he pulled the plug on their CDN access. This was literally a three strikes policy for hate crime shooting sprees, and it's still "capricious" in your eyes? In your opinion, what should the death toll be before a CDN provider can use it as a justification for terminating service?

Sorry, that's just ridiculous.
Could an organization do the same thing, but as a non-profit with open datasets? This way everyone benefits.
I'm fairly leftist and would have no problem with individual leftist spaces being shut down if they start breeding so much hatred against the right that they incite and celebrate many explicitly-politically-motivated mass murderers.
RMB devaluation impacts all countries that import into China since it makes those imports more expensive for Chinese consumers.
Capital seems to need to keep relearning the message that Ford got loud and clear:

Labor (aka consumers) is what buys output.
Metamorphosis may circumvent harmful evolutionary tradeoffs
People are claiming that 8ch has CP in order to discredit it. The claims aren't true and the site has been removing such content for a long time now.
i don’t have a strong opinion about free speech but i think the argument is: who gets to decide what’s “in the public interest”. if you don’t like somebody’s book, pamphlet, blog post, comment, or tweet, just declare it “not in the public interest”. there you have the makings of tyranny.
The Californians forced to live in cars and RVs
It's likely that Russia will allow Turkish missiles. However, that would not be a significant technology transfer. Technically Russia could do this merely by passing on protocols to 'talk' with the S-400, and letting the Turks create their own missile.

Even if some missile tech were to be transferred (I rather doubt it), the key part of S-400 is not the missiles - but the very sophisticated radar, control and EW systems.

Either way, it doesn't get Turkey much ahead in designing their own missile defence system, and leaves them dependent on a potential (even likely) enemy.
I prefer the Buffett version:

"A short quiz: If you plan to eat hamburgers throughout your life and are not a cattle producer, should you wish for higher or lower prices for beef? Likewise, if you are going to buy a car from time to time but are not an auto manufacturer, should you prefer higher or lower car prices? These questions, of course, answer themselves.
But now for the final exam: If you expect to be a net saver during the next five years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. In effect, they rejoice because prices have risen for the "hamburgers" they will soon be buying"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-why-stocks-ham...
The Costs of Unreliable Electricity
The ideologues are already very well hardened. White supremacy isn’t a new ideology.
You can do non-competes the right way, too.

I used to work for a company who used them, for a pretty good reason, but:

1. they paid a BIG premium for the non-compete. Employees who were required to sign them got very, very large raises

2. they would pay a good portion of your salary for the duration of the non-compete period, if you left the company

That's how it's done. A company as profitable as Amazon shouldn't really have a problem with that.
Isn't it funny how every post here that argues against censorship is being down-voted to the point of invisibility?

To me, it goes to show that there is no limit to the censorial impulse.

That should tell you something.
Sounds like a fun side project :D
It doesn't affect just the dollar, but because of the nature of trade between the US and China, the current US administration's trade goals and strategies for achieving those (tariffs) it's particularly relevant to USD/RMB.
It has? EUR/USD is +.75%, AUD/US is -.55%, USD/JPY is +.5%.
If you are leveraged, then you may or may not be able to pay back your loans depending on the price and demand for the eggs you are selling. If the price of hens have fallen, it could be because there are too many hens or demand has fallen because the price of eggs has fallen.

For us, if stocks get too weak, the boom might be over and our ability to retain and obtain jobs that pay as much as they do now is very much in jeopardy.
> unless the WiFi people come up with WPA4 or something, which will surely be even worse.

This seems especially unwarranted, since WPA3 is not, as you might assume from this, worse than WPA2, and the paper is explicit about that.

Indeed two of their attacks are trying to _degrade_ you to WPA2, which would be a terrible idea if WPA3 was weaker.

The paper shows that if you do WPA3 badly, you are vulnerable to a bunch of nasty attacks, and doing it well is resource intensive (which may it hard to justify in cheap / low-power WiFi implementations). That's a good criticism of WPA3, but it isn't a reason WPA2 was better since that extra resource is needed to deliver a feature WPA3 didn't have at all (Forward Secrecy).
"everything works until it doesn't". That's true, but not terribly useful advice.
Not a speech absolutist. I believe certain kind of speeches should be banned.

What irked me is that CloudFlare was the one who makes the decision to do censorship.

It's not really a due process. No one argue for the defendant's side. It would seem better coming from US court through a due process or something like two lawyers arguing for both sides and etc.

I dislike the rationale of "CloudFlare is a private company. They can do whatever they want" ... like wut?

Also, if what those people do is illegal, should we arrest them, instead of merely banning the site?

This is the same thing with Trump's speech on Twitter. People yelling at Twitter to ban Trump because what Trump said is very very bad. If it's so bad, he should be arrested, not simply banned from Twitter.

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Edit: to address the main concern in my replies.

So, we think the speech is so bad that CloudFlare should ban it. But it is not bad enough to be banned by every CDN. That sounds contradictory.

For me, the speech is bad and it should be banned by every CDN. But government should make the judgement on the speech through a due process, ban it, and arrest someone if there's illegal activity involved.
Amazon stock doesn't pay any dividends, and they don't buy back shares.

Therefore, your statement "only dividends matter" must be incorrect since Amazon stock has a non-zero value.
Ok, I'm confused.

As of my posting, the HN submission title is:

> Dow plunges 750 points after China devalues its currency

The article title:

> Dow plunges 800 points after China devalues its currency

And the first paragraph of the article is:

> The Dow tumbled more than 830 points [...]

So... which is it?

Edit to add: ok, the article's contets are apparently dynamically generated (or are being updated manually). I didn't know they did that. You can disregard this comment.
Changing internal Google policies isn't enough. America needs stronger worker protection laws.
Absolutely on wasted money and an easier path to financially foot-gunning.

But my point was more that managed services do make it harder to technically foot-gun.

When there are limited options exposed by an abstraction layer, there are limited mistakes an ignorant user can make.
IP Permaban and allegedly details forwarded to law enforcement. Never ever heard of any actual consequences though, and "everyone" hits 8chan / 4chan through a VPN anyway.
Speaking as someone who runs a public site with the discretion to ban accounts, no thanks. Due process means people will game your policies. We've had arbitrary internet censorship by site operators since day 1 and it works pretty well.
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I wish you all the best, but I worry that this is a case of a startup for startups, except one level removed, because its a startup for startup employees, who are usually the first to go when the startup market turns.

I say this basically as a warning to be cognizant of this fact and make sure to diversify away from SV startup employees as quickly as possible.
I have a question and I'm sorry but where I am from, investing in the stock market is not really a big thing so I am really not educated in the matter. Am I dumb for holding on to some cash for when the market inevitably falls down so I can start my investing career with cheap stock?

I plan to just put around 10% of my income every month in it and just let it accumulate, but I have this nagging feeling crash is set for 2020. I have 2021 set as a hard cap if it doesn't fall until then, I plan on buying stocks, but until then I do plan on saving the 10% to be able to buy more when and if it falls.

So, am I dumb with this strategy? Am I better off just starting now and not keeping it in a savings account with a real low yearly yield?

Edit: don't want to pollute the comments so adding it here, thank you for your insights guys! :)
Well, the linked article claims that they tried to negotiate out of the non-compete and it was absolutely refused, so they didn't work there.
I'm happy with 40Mbps DSL, I could get 80Mbps for a bit more.

Would rather investment went into getting more areas up to a reasonable speed.
Functional Programming in Perl 5
> I've read it before, and I spent a few hours reading it this weekend, and it's beyond clear to me that it absolutely had the potential to radicalize shooters and terrorists.

What was it you read there that convinced you that websites are capable of turning people into murderers any more than video games are?
The difference is that every single one of your counterexamples is something that society depends on.

Nobody depends on 8chan. 8chan is not comparable to "air".

This point is so incredibly banal that I'm surprised to find myself making it.
That’s the main and only thing you wanted to respond to from what I wrote?
https://dailycaller.com/2015/10/12/remember-the-2007-harvard...

It's interesting that the link that was @ Harvard with a pdf of the results (that Harvard published...) is now a broken link.

Here is a working copy: https://www.garymauser.net/pdf/KatesMauserHJPP.pdf

Gary Mauser who is also a Candadian criminologist. Interesting indeed.
https://www.sfu.ca/~mauser/
In aggregate yes, of course. It doesn’t have to be their labor though.

I spend about 0.05% of my pre-tax salary at my company. If they gave me a $10K raise, they would expect to see an extra $5 in revenue per year; hardly compelling.
What do you mean by rules? It was the company who decided this out of their free will.
The hundred billion dollar companies have the ability to buy the storyline they want portrayed in the media.

How many of those individuals can do the same? May as well have no voice unless they collaborate.
Unless you have a very unique login, you are going to often seen login attempts. Common names such as john, john123, john234, johnq, qjohn will happen more often especially for a big site.

This will probably give rise to support calls to the bank...
The fed can use the rate to effectively decrease the cost of borrowing money. The rational there is if economic activity is slowing, you decrease the cost of spending money. The rate is usually dropped when economic activity slows, and should be increased as economic activity increases. I'm sure people will disagree, but I don't think we've had the rate increase to levels prior to the last recession (though I didn't actually double check).

Effectively, anticipating a drop in the fed's rate is an expectation that economic activity will slow (recession behavior) and the fed will have to stimulate it by making money cheaper. To me, the interesting part of this is what the fed does after the rate reaches 0. Read up on Quantitative Easing and Ben Bernanke's response to the last major recession, it's a really interesting environment to learn a bit about.
Pearson Education implicated in Nevada CCSD school leak of 600k students
"plunges" 3% ... me sobs in Brexit.

We've lost just under 20% off GBP vs USD since the vote went to Leave from the anticipated Remain.

China's an export economy, no? So, devaluing helps to buoy production for export, keeping people in work. Seems to be how China does things: I'm thinking of all those ghost cities they build.
it's always the last value that counts.

Your example of "no, yeah we're all out" doesn't actually work, because the "yeah" is dangling. The "yeah, no" works (the yeah agrees with the question, we do serve Pepsi, but the no modifies it because we're all out).

and the same for the "yeah, no" in the second example - the "no" is dangling.

but yeah, it can be confusing if the tone of the original question implies a negative (like "you don't serve Pepsi here do you?").

took me ages to work out that the first value doesn't matter ;)
My wifi in Berlin is so bad that when I make video calls on my phone I turn wifi off and use my mobile data.
CloudFlare operates in California.

California has an affirmative right to free speech, broader than the First Amendment's negative command to Congress.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R... (IANAL)
Howard Stern landed on his feet.
First one, and then the other.
That study only proves that it moves extremists somewhere else...

If a man can't speak his truth, what alternative does he have to violence?
>There's even a /leftypol/ devoted to leftist politics that contains no white supremicists.

Leftypol is not devoted to "leftist politics", it's a counterpart to /pol which stands for "politically incorrect". /leftypol by extension is politically incorrect that curved to the left. In reality /leftypol and /pol are not that dissimilar. Both attract off-the-rocker crazy conspiracy-theory types the likes of QAnon. If you looked at /leftypol during say attempted coup in Venezuela the content you would have encountered would have been just as offensive as /pol.
> We wouldn't tolerate the existence of an Islamist site that glorified and helped perpetrate mass incidents of terror against our society.

I certainly would tolerate those sites. Free speech arguments aside, you can't kill the hydra, but you can severely degrade intelligence operations watching that hydra. Best case the bad guys all end up on sites already being surveilled, worst case they slip under the radar.

We had this problem years ago, hacktivists targeting ISIS channels. They scatter to the winds, intelligence ends up doing more work for less rewards.

Feel good outrage made things worse.
I was surprised to read how much his materials cost for this. $88, all told - you would think building a (pretty much the simplest possible) video card would be cheap!
I mean, I wouldn't use analogies that were originally created to target people who disagreed with the draft.

Whether or not the analogy applies now, is irrelevant. It's history makes it a bad analogy.

It'd be like saying stuff like "it's Ok to be white". It may be a true statement, but it was used by people who were trying to make racial attacks.
How is money being lost? I buy 100 shares of company X for $10 ($1000). The market tanks and now I can buy 100 shares of company X for $1 ($100). You could say that I now have 200 shares of the company that are worth $200 (a $900 loss), but the market will recover (it always has in the past) so when those shares are again worth $10 I can sell them for $2000. The only way people could lose money is if they sell when the market is down, but you don't sell when the market is down - that is when you use cash or other investments that are not subject to market fluctuations.
Hard to say. I think we've entered a period of time when extremes (black swans) are the new normal.
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>> I'm saying that I think allowing people to DDOS 8chan will result in more violence.

Violence happens because these people follow a hateful, violent ideology whose specific articulated intent is to deprive others of liberty, life, and land. People looking for excuses to be violent will find them.

Also, refusing to provide commercial DDOS mitigation technologies to hostile entities is not the same as "allowing people to DDOS" them.
Krebs has covered this previously; oligopoly service providers.

See his excellent, if depressing, 2018 exploration of banking security, "What Is Your Bank’s Security Banking On?".[1] Sadly, the industry is dominated by a small handful of banking platform providers. Four, Fiserv, Jack Henry, FIS, and CSI, serv over 80% of the market. Bank regulators, responding to Krebs, said that "small to mid-sized banks are massively beholden to their platform providers, and many banks simply accept the defaults instead of pushing for stronger alternatives."

This is not a good situation.

Digging further into the matter, I turned up a set of publications by Experian -- the credit rating agency which hasn't been breached ... yet -- on risk and fraud, including credential compromise.[2] One of these mentions in. passing that the typical person has "about 100" service-based accounts.[3] That's not all that far off the count of 700 accounts HN users have reported having.[4]

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Notes:

1. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/what-is-your-banks-secur... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20203482)

2. Stealthily hidden around Experian's website, though this search presently lists several of the beter ones: https://www.experian.com/innovation/thought-leadership/fraud.... (https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.experian.com/innov...)

3. "Upcoming fraud trends and how to combat them: Ebook" https://www.experian.com/innovation/thought-leadership/upcom....

4. packet_nerd reports that here, though I recall an earlier mention as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488899