skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Technically correct, but it makes it a lot easier at a practical level, especially for non-technical users.

So, let them put their unencrypted keys on, err, Firefox Sync or Dropbox or whatever, and not give a damn. It would be almost exactly the same security level - identity conveniently secured by an external service.

I just don't see a downside. Yes, the keypairs don't have a human-readable name - but they don't have to, they're just like passwords, except for they can be globally recognized (if user wants to). Yes, for non-paranoid users' convenience we need some sort of key escrow system with some trusted party that can take hold of a file - but that's well possible and I think every other user has some "cloud storage" those days.

> This is not a requirement of Persona.

Yes, you're right. I simplified it a bit. A requirement of Persona is that IdP is a very specific service identified by a domain name, not an email. But the rest of logic should still hold.

> How do I as an application provider trust your assertion?

Generally, you don't need to check assertions, unless you want to confirm that this specific user has some affiliation with this specific third party. Then you check a signature from that party.

If you don't need an information that your user is also a specific person on, say, Facebook, or, say, a representative of some company (verified by a notary) - you don't need to care about any assertions. You just take a key and that's it.

Seriously, an average service does not need any identity assertions. Do you need a passport to enter a restaurant or a store? It's the same thing here. (Ok, maybe you do if that's a gun or liquor store, or some private lounge that needs a membership.) Oh, and, sure thing, almost every store out there would just love to ask for a passport and have a very detailed and extensive tracking of their visitors.

> At bare face value an "identity asserted by a keypair" is a fingerprint, a boring hexadecimal hash. I don't know very many people that associate themselves as "fe:02:aa:45:c3:d0".

Neither do I, but I don't see why you thought about using fingerprints as identifiers for humans. Those are credentials, not identities, although they're tied because it's hard to separate the concepts. Users already have a lot of weird stuff but and don't care that they're username/pbkdf2_sha256$12000$6Q0D5rq4nz1m$xsAqY1hlIuFqY4sD+9Ia0dxNLooy+jmHFJCrBgByhHw=. Let us leave those details to computers. Hope you see the idea.
A lot(most? All?) of airlines are moving to this exact model.
Lovely, I'm going to read. When I was doing my thesis I was adamant that I'd talk about Plan 9. The literature survey kept pointing at Sprite and Amoeba as the two systems that had the most similar goals at the time.

Since then I keep thinking that the term "system" refers to a distributed system of components, something that has grown beyond the single hardware OS paradigm ever since networks were invented. I have a little bit too much trouble understanding why people would not consider Go a "systems language" only because they think a system is a single hardware entity...
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One of my parents is a doctor, and I grew up getting a amazing front-row baseball seats courtesy of pharmaceutical sales representatives. Not to mention dinners out at nice restaurants when I tagged along to medical conferences.

I thought that practice was forbidden, but perhaps not: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811591/
> And the government has made the problem worse, by skewing the mortgage market with ultra-low interest rates and thereby making "as much as they can afford" significantly larger.

In effect a transfer of taxpayer money to developers and mortgage originators.

> No, the best solution is to stop messing with it. If long-term interest rates were set by a free market, significantly fewer people would be able to buy homes, or at least homes of the size they're buying now in the areas they're buying now.

That would only work if you also abolish laws regulating the supply and liquidity of the land and housing market, like zoning laws and restrictions on property taxes (such as California's infamous Proposition 13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281...).

Without also freeing the supply side of the market, a lower home ownership rate will just be a forced transfer of wealth to rental property landlords.

Zoning laws and sales disincentives are pushing land values so high in major metropolitan areas that it is commercially unfeasible for developers to significantly increase density or supply. They are effectively restricted to building medium-density luxury housing to make a projected profit. Unfortunately between the shrinking middle class, decreasing social mobility, and coming self-driving car commuting patterns this is just inflating another real estate bubble.
> Incidentally, diverticulitis is a very American disorder, likely attributable to our eating habits. You and all other readers should be sure to include fiber in your diet.

The family member in question has eaten a near total vegetarian diet for most of their life, so fiber intake is not the problem in this case.
I would try to write something up, but honestly although I studied biochemistry in undergrad, I don't have a clear enough understanding of the differences in the design you gave us vs. other strategies.
Are cars even necessary in SF?

The SF housing crisis wouldn't be exist or if it did exist not in this severity if they'd built more housing a decade or more ago.
True, but there's also no requirement for quality -- the webkit/javascriptcore rng is a trivially simple generator, with no real statistical analysis performed -- back in the day i ddi some rudimentary testing (simple things like the birthday and pi tests) -- the only real reason you could get away with it in this use case would be that it use a separate ring for every page, and those rngs are seeded from "true" random on every load.
Did you read your own link? I think you made a conclusion that isn't in the data, unless I'm misreading something:

"Among all Latinos, there were 14.1 million immigrants in 2000. By 2005, that number reached 16.8 million, and by 2013, there were 19 million Latino immigrants in the U.S."

Even in the down-economy period (2005-2013), there was a net increase. And those numbers exclude their US-born children.
Yes. What matters is brightness and temperature (should include 5700K).
How tech is impacting our work productivity
Can't edit this post, and I know its against the rules to mention downvotes (sorry dang!), but y'all be some bitter people. That makes me sad.
Not to mention gay youths fearing the wrath of their community or family.
Because technology evolves too quickly to do cross-platform, cross-cloud solution and the demand for getting work done now is more demanding than ever. Tried to do it for two cloud platforms + on-premise, you will literally want to kill yourself for supporting your code three-way. Do it right once for one platform, and then next step. AWS isn't going away any time soon. But seriously, you don't just click buttons all day to spin up your infrastructure. Lock in with GCP is like lock in with AWS or herkuo, or App Engine, their APIs belongs to them, you built around kubernetes, and you lock yourself into their BigTable Query. Whatever your SRE/Infra/DevOps team are building now for your company's infrastructure automation is totally locked down for one kind of solution.
> His culture? What a lame excuse.

You can reductio ad absurd. most positions to make them seem silly, but the cultural variation argument is a very valid one.

Most Germans I've talked to about the topic are somewhere between bemused and horrified about many aspects of US culture. Here's a sampling:

* We have -comparatively- a very high burden of proof for slander/libel.

* We do not require internet publications to have a byline positively identifying the author.

* We do not make it a crime to fail to register with The State every time we change home addresses.

* We permit -comparatively- incompetent people to operate motor vehicles.

I gather that USians are not infrequently similarly affected by German attitudes towards free speech restrictions, public sexuality, credentialism, anti-gun-ownership hysteria and the like.

There are a wide variety of cultures -bringing an even wider notion of what "proper" behavior looks like- even amongst people who live in the same country. Surely you're sufficiently worldly to understand that. :)
Taxation is one reason. But we also regulate it so that only 21-and-over can buy it, that it can only be consumed in certain locations, and we also make illegal many activities that are performed while intoxicated.
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> A single apple runs in the $0.30-$0.50 range where I'm at.

They're also free for a quarter of the year if god forbid you turn off the TV and walk outside. Same with cherries for that matter.
YMMV, but I also have TV service (U-Verse) only for basketball, and it saves me a ton of money to turn it off/sign up twice a year. Since it's only 5-6 months of the year (college basketball), I always get the "new customer" rate, and often there are enticements like gift cards. Something to consider.
Harvard and MIT - sure. But what about the millions of people who went to schools that no one has ever heard of, or for-profit schools like University of Phoenix?

In addition to that. Do you see the broad concept of conspicuous consumption increasing or decreasing? All of the signals I see show it decreasing thanks to the great recession and the new generation coming into the market. Dave Ramsey, MMM, et al have started to make it trendy to be frugal. Once it starts to become trendy to go to vocational training or straight into the job market a cultural shift can happen quickly.

Because of its combination of white collar income/career attributes and vocational like self-training nature, I think Computer Science will be at the forefront of this trend. Note how few people advise ''go back to school and get a degree in computer science'' and rather ''learn how to code'' (boot camp, self taught, however possible).
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> This isn't entirely true. If you hold securities in a margin account, your broker can lend the shares out to another client of theirs to short. You have no say in the matter.

I don't think what you said is 100% true either. Charles Schwab brokerage definitely asks before lending out, advertises the interest the borrower is willing to pay on the loaned shares, enrolls the willing lender into Schwab Securities Lending Fully Paid Program, and then buys an insurance policy from Lloyd to cover counter-party default. All of this is done via FedEx letters and hand-written signatures.

Sounds like some brokerages don't ask and keep the fees and accrued interest to themselves, which is shady. ETFs and mutual funds don't have to ask anybody, of course, and usually pass on revenue from securities lending to their customers via lower fees.
Bigtable is best thought of as an "event database". High reads, high writes, single index, accessible through the Hbase API. Cassandra and Hbase are similar technologies that are inspired by the original Bigtable paper.

One big benefit of Bigtable is its scalability. To scale up, you turn the 'scale' knob. By contrast, Cassandra and Hbase are headaches to scale (Apple has acquired Cassandra companies to aid in operation and scale).

Here's a couple of guys from Sungard, who scaled to about 3,000,000 writes per second with a couple weekends' worth of effort (something only few beyond the likes of Facebook, Netflix, and Apple can achieve) https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/pdf/SunGardCATCaseStudy.pd...
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There is no Elastic Container Service. ECS stands for EC2 Container Service.

I realise this isn't any better :-)
For example in Estonia, every citizen has an ID card, and every ID card is an ISO-7816 smartcard. So they can have this nationwide. Then again, that's a country of 1.3M, and you only get the card when you're 15yo. Foreign visitors obviously don't have one.

These examples illustrate rather the near impossibility to implement this kind of a scheme successfully, even when backed by a state.
Yes.

Thinking that you have "politeness capital" that you can "spend down" by being occasionally impolite is very wrong.

I've run into people that I refuse to work with, ranging from choosing not to do projects with them to trying really, really hard not to ever have contact with them again, by any means.

I have probably been a guy that people avoided. It sucked. My advice is that, in the long game of doing stuff with other people, being professional and polite is worth it.
Another article from Popular Mechanics:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591988
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Try tweeting your experience, @ mentioning the official meetup.com account. It's hard to ignore negative feedback on Twitter.
This. And maybe even use Shamir's secret sharing (or a similar scheme) to split the backup/recovery key among the family members or trusted close friends - so a single person won't be able to compromise your security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
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You could say similar things about political ads. They're mind-games. Do we want to get rid of them too?
Yes, for example, FB http://www.thestreet.com/story/11666479/1/heres-the-rest-of-...
> All government should operate on an accrual basis. I wouldn't demand they hold the funds, but it should count as part of the national debt.

Its a pipedream. There's nowhere you could demand they hold the funds except US Treasuries, which is then you just turning around and giving Congress more money to spend irresponsibly at low interest rates.
> The best answer for NYC is probably to aggressively gentrify as many neighborhoods as possible, which means (bluntly) displacing most lower income residents and moving in bicycle riding organic jam loving armies of hipsters.

Where exactly will you find these armies of upper-middle class people? Wages and social mobility continue to decline.

http://www.epi.org/publication/even-the-most-educated-worker...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america-...
I feel for the husband of the woman in this article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10594494
Because it usually comes with an inconvenience of equal or greater value.
Is that a tax on _property_ or a tax on _land_?

My city has several blocks of its downtown used for surface parking lots. If a lot with a building paid the same tax as the parking lot, how long do you suppose it would take for the parking lots to turn into skyscrapers with parking garages?

Of course, this would also force people to sell their property to pay the tax.
"Nasal spray technology"

Honestly though, it's a good system. I can't actually tell you what brand that ad is for, but I do know that I can talk to my doctor about it if I have issues with PE!
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While I agree with the idea here, it's important to not take it too far. In Canada "advertising to patients" is interpreted to mean almost any communications at all -- including putting up websites with purely informational content. As a patient who sometimes needs information about drugs I'm already taking, this is not helpful. (Fortunately many such websites allow a "why yes, of course I'm a doctor" checkbox to get access to more medical information. But not all.)

I think disallowing "push" advertising while still allowing companies to make information available to patients who deliberately seek it out would be a good compromise.
Incidental to the article, I know, but there's a wrinkle in Crazy Taxi's soundtrack story: for whatever reasons, whilst the console ports feature a new soundtrack, the iOS and Android versions retain the original.
Don't forget that the first day is reserved for enthusiasts and people highly engaged in speculation with the hopes to get on the "ground floor" of something big. Small float, everybody who matters is still under lock-up.

Here's another IPO that went up 56% the first day http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/11/lending-clubs-ipo-pops-56-i... and Google Finance tells a rather somber "where are they now" story.
They won't. But it's a standard refrain that Intel should produce ARM chips.
Wow that sounds like an awesome way for the NSA or anyone else to take over your home network. Splice into your home cable from outside, send down some nasty modem firmware, then patch the connection back up and you'll never know the difference.
Somebody buy this guy a ticket to Detroit or something, jeese.
GKE is why I am personally switching from AWS to GCP. I'm running Kubernetes on AWS at my current gig, but I'd rather not have to build and maintain the cluster myself if I don't have to.
Article doesn't do justice to original paper. In fact I was left totally confused what it's trying to even say. However after reading the paper, it feels very profound. Paper basically finds a subtle but important issue in Piketty's famous argument that people with capital would grow much faster than rest of economy in current century than any other time (aka rich becomes even more richer than before). This paper says that Piketty's argument is correct only because of one component in their capital investment: real estate. In essence, if you had invested money in anything but real estate you would have much lower eventual return over very long term with high probability. This even includes areas that is believed to be gold rush like technology. Not only nothing beats real estate but the fact only real estate will allow rich people to grow fastest than any other time in history!

The consequence of this assessment is very stark: People with money will continue to invest large chunk of their capital in real estate. The money invested in real estate is essentially "dead" because that money is locked up doing nothing, it doesn't work to produce goods, innovations or make world a better place. But real estate is indeed the most rewarding thing for your investments. So the thing is that behavior of real estate is completely against at odds with advancement of humanity. Real estate is in essence like cocaine of economy and there are no DEAs.

If these conclusions are right then it's huge problem. Goverments across the world should immediately take measure to discourage real estate possessions if you are not living there. Real estate should be placed in same category as food and water. We don't let wealthy hog up all the food and water and then inflate the prices for higher return on their capital. There can be progressive tax for the real estate properties you own but don't live at. Further, there should be national movement to aggressively create and encourage new housing . Without these measures, our economy is living on real estate cocaine with little productivity. I would wonder if our current limbo state of economy where nothing grows except real estate is precisely the manifestation of these issues.
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This is a much better analysis and should really be swapped with the current article.
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From the book it sounds like they didn't want to. That implies running a whole shebang with scouts, sleazy agents, legal departments that draw up screwy contracts to guarantee future revenues, i.e., everything but the transparency that Apple wanted to bring to market.
> I'm very happy they have not yet followed me onto any of the streaming services I use.

Really? They're all over YouTube and Hulu. They even come in a special widget with tiny text automatically scrolling on the right half and the ad playing in the left half. Just as uninformative and prosaic as the over-the-air spots.
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The numbers in that article (fatalities per vehicle model over a year) aren't terribly useful - fatalities per vehicle mile would have more value.

In the end, though, there's little doubt that the U.S. roads are the host of a vehicle size arms race - build in as many safety features as you like, a sub-compact car will still lose the inertia battle with a massive SUV (likely carrying a single passenger).
> If money were never returned to shareholders, the market would be a literal ponzi scheme.

Not really. Dividends are how investors have historically gotten a return.

Now that hasn't been much of a thing, especially not with tech companies for the last 20 years, but there are still plenty of stocks you can buy that pay dividends.
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The article addressed this. It said estimates are that 100,000+ units are required just to stop the inflation. So the solution is simple: zone for way more than that. Offer financing. The ability to construct for a new high density zoning change is a huge advantage in the market. City-financed developments will start eating the margins on the places people are living in now. With enough density, the cost of new housing can start to approach the cost of construction.

There's no market reason why the floor should be where it is. It's just artificial scarcity to benefit property owners.
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"Hello! I'm Collis, in 2006 I cofounded Envato, the company behind ThemeForest, CodeCanyon, and Tuts+."

Never heard of any of them. Or Envato. What are they?
related Washington Post article with numerous comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10597645
Poor guy, he had to watch the fourth Indiana Jones movie as part of his research for the chapter.
Historically places like Yale, MIT, Princeton, etc. had what are called Gentleman Cs. George W. Bush is a famous recipient of this. One can absolutely work hard and excel at MIT, Yale, etc. But also can get (or used to?) Gentleman Cs and still have access to great opportunities after school. Those places have much higher networking effects than Mid Tier State U.

I don't know that this is bad as such but the high end schools aren't exactly very good about educating large numbers of people. That is, very large endowments per student. Large state universities do much better in this area. Also large state universities do a better job of recruiting students outside of the top 0.1% of society.
I think the same bridge problems also occur for the 1998 movie version of Godzilla. There, it gets stuck in the Brooklyn Bridge which refuses to collapse despite the cables being pulled out.
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It depends. Can you go to a prestigious institution without going into massive debt? Then do it, very few exceptions: https://medium.com/@opirmusic/why-software-developers-should...

If you have to go into a good amount of debt or the institution is not particularly prestigious, and you already have plenty of skill/experience/connections, I'd spend time considering what exactly you expect to get out of it.
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> Not really. Dividends are how investors have historically gotten a return.

Both are. Either way, investors demand some sort of compensation for their investment once the company matures. If this didn't happen, there would be no incentive to invest.

> Now that hasn't been much of a thing, especially not with tech companies for the last 20 years

And this is a problem, although once tech companies mature they generally do return money to shareholders in one way or another. Microsoft, IBM and Apple pay dividends, Dell bought out shareholders, for example.
The page on flame graphs [1] shows a lot more details as to how they are useful for findings like this. They gave the ten miles up view, and from there, you can click on hotspots to drill deeper and deeper and find the slow points. Cloudflare didn't give the svg, just the png, so you can't get the deeper levels.

[1] http://brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html