skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your identity will be a program on the Ethereum blockchain. That program has an address that will be the unique key for your identity. That program will indicate which keys can act on its behalf, and will provide a mechanism to revoke keys and recover the identity if your keys are lost.

Users will have to install something because browsers have no key signing mechanism. If you manage keys in a web page, that web page can access your keys. You'll need an extension or an app to manage keys for you.

This approach sounds like a stretch, right? No website is going to use an authentication mechanism that requires a separate install. If that were the initial use case for this, I would agree. The real use for these identities is within decentralized applications. These apps don't run on servers and don't force you to use middlemen when you interact with other people. Decentralized apps don't shut down. They don't care where you live. They connect you with other people on the planet that want to connect with you to trade, communicate, or interact in any way you want. The two of you choose your own rules, not those of the companies or governments that stand between you.
Ask HN: What should I choose to maximize both learning and earning?
Recently I read a news and my mentor also confirms it:

"There are a lot of arguments for jumping ship every few years. The economy isn’t what it used to be—and never will be again. Workers who stay with a company longer than two years are said to get paid 50% less, and job hoppers are believed to have a higher learning curve, be higher performers, and even to be more loyal, because they care about making a good impression in the short amount of time they know they’ll stay with each employer." [1]

I'm a Developer-turned-Manager in a Japanese startup. I have been working here for 40 months, but there're stuff about business to learn from my bosses and investors. However, the company is quite struggling (I'm being paid 20% below the market) and there're no seniors with higher technical skills than me.

What would I do to maximize both learning and earning: job-hopping after 2 years or staying till I'm the smartest guy in the room or anything else?

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3055035/the-future-of-work/you-should-plan-on-switching-jobs-every-three-years-for-the-rest-of-your-
> Are people downvoting because the things you mentioned aren't actually very effective?

If so, they've missed the point of my comment. When the author describes veterans as being "unexotic", the implication is that comparatively few people care about them. It's orthogonal to whether or not veterans causes have been successful in remedying, for instance, the dysfunction of the VA.

Last I checked, we haven't been particularly successful at solving - for example - inner city poverty (a cause the author describes as "exotic"). Hence, whether or not a problem is solved is not a reliable barometer for whether or not it's important to the public.
Speaking as someone who's been following the project for a few years and once actually bothered to learn Hoon, your first paragraph is probably the best criticism of Urbit I've seen. I do think there is an interesting system buried under all the obfuscation, but the uncritical groupthink within its user base is obnoxious. I kind of doubt "produce a vanguard of true believers" is a primary goal of the project, but Yarvin doesn't really seem to discourage that behavior either.

That said, the old "it's just typical Moldbug" trope isn't much better than the propaganda his followers spout, and the rest is pretty weak too. AFAIK, the Urbit term for "file" is "file". I don't know which funny weird name you're thinking of for "network endpoint", as that's not really a separate concept in the system. Hoon's cores (which I assume you're at least passingly familiar with) are pretty distinct from closures in any language I know... I mean, do you also complain that Java uses the word "object"? (Forgive me if I omit the part where I ascribe sinister motives to the creators of Java due to their choice of vocabulary.)

As for "implementations of well-known computer science concepts", cue Rich Hickey[1]:

> It's interesting, because Clojure provides almost nothing you can’t find somewhere else. But I do think it occupies an otherwise empty spot in the multidimensional space of language features and capabilities.

In other words, even if your claim is true, it describes almost every project in computing in the last 15 years. We might as well say "oh it's just event sourcing" and call it a day.

[1]: http://codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/
According to the Warning Letter, Pathway never registered with the FDA, never received clearance, and never performed any (reported) clinical trials. The key sentence from the letter is:

"We have conducted a review of our files and have been unable to identify any Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records reflecting the approval, clearance, or listing of these devices."

They were seeking to fly under the radar as a "lab-derived test" or LDT, using an FDA loophole that the FDA is increasingly seeking to close (also see Theranos). The "we've reviewed the literature" part is just the FDA's attempt to dig into what's been published to see if they can find ANY support for their marketing claims — even if there were volumes of papers on their method, they still would have been sent the warning letter (which is a Very Serious thing to get from the FDA).

The issue wasn't that "this test is too risky for us" it's that they were 100% out of compliance. If you sell a medical device, it must be classified for risk and at the very least registered with the FDA. In the case of a cancer diagnostic, there is zero chance it would be a Class I (lowest) device, so they (at least) would have needed "clearance" requiring a submission of something called a 510(k) documenting tests they've done on their product, audits of suppliers, etc. etc. In addition to the 510(k) submission itself, they would need documented evidence of having put in place a "quality management system" that puts standard operating procedures around 100% of product development from cradle to grave. This is why health tech/biotech companies need to raise so much money, as this is a lot of overhead.

If their test were classified as Class III (highest risk), they would need "approval" rather than "clearance," the bar for which is even higher (although this is primarily limited to ingestibles/implantables). Just the FDA submission itself costs something like a quarter million dollars.

GRAIL, on the other hand, is raising a huge amount of money partially because they know how much it costs to run proper trials and earn a clearance or approval. It's apples and oranges to compare the two.
Microsoft is a giant (so many different countries, languages, regions, command chain, etc) and they are the kings of backwards compatibility - so a lot of shims and other things to make Hotmail work for slow internet, older version of iE (think IE7 or less) and etc.

That's my guess anyways.

Also, maybe Hotmail hits some servers that are not as fast as Google's or Amazon's. So that may be another reason why Hotmail/Office products are "slow".
https://persowna.net/ it's still alive, no need to fork. It's going to suffer the same problem as OpenID though. I.e., with no big vendor behind it, you have even less of a chance of having hitting that 'critical mass' point where people will integrate it into their applications.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789556 Discussed here further. Like with OpenID, the problem is vendors remove support for OpenID.

Right now there's a very, VERY good standard made by OASIS (standards body on par with IEEE/ISO/W3C)- SAML, which with a YubiKey[4] and a cell phone app for managing permissions gives you a really nice setup. The flow is basically plug-in your YubiKey off your key-chain, then authenticate once when you log-in at the start of the day, anything that implements SAML will now give you a SSO (similar to AD/LDAP) but it's two tokened with a focus of ease of use for Joe Blow (as simple as a Push notification to your phone (authentication comparment #3) saying "App Foo is asking for permission for you to log in. <Slide left/right for approve/deny> while giving you granular control for the power user. Again, chicken egg adoption problem, but its the most elegant I've seen.

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/security/FrontPage
http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-profiles-...
http://saml.xml.org/wiki/idp-initiated-single-sign-on-post-b...
[4] https://www.yubico.com/2015/10/github-yubico-u2f/
Is there any source where Apple mentioned it as appliance?
I disagree. More to the point, you don't find 50 articles about any pop, music, or celebrity here. This is an outlier that is only appearing because David Bowie had an outsized impact in larger culture.

So basically, you're complaining about a problem/trend that doesn't exist. Your proposed solution isn't really helpful as this article will likely have traveled down to the bottom of the list in a week, and your quoting the guidelines also isn't relevant since this is not about "politics, crime, or sports".
> According to the latest report, a follow-up to one McCain released in May, military services have dished out $53 million in sports-related marketing and advertising contracts since 2012. Of that, more than $9 million went directly to teams in the five biggest American professional sports leagues (the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS). Although Flake and McCain determined that some contracts constituted legitimate marketing and advertising, such as stadium signs and recruiting booth space at games, 72 of the 122 contracts they uncovered involved inappropriately funded “patriotic tributes.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/11/paid...
> Even more bizarre is how they predict how many stars
> you'll give something, which seems fairly good. And then
> go ahead and recommend items with few predicted stars.

A thousand times this. It's nice to read a like mind when so often I rant about awful Netflix recommendations to deaf or Netflix-supporting ears!

My other main gripe is when the stars are wrong (though as you say, not often) which is obviously untrue from your 'Taste Preferences'.

For example, despite spending ages filling out all the details, including specifying 'Never' to watching animated films, I'm still recommended them - and sometimes with 3 or more stars too.

I'm not convinced that the preferences data is considered at all.
To add to that, many of the practical data problems I run into almost never use most of the techniques you learn in classes. Either it is a small subset which can be more robust in data handling, or it is a technique or package not covered in classwork.
Unfortunately studies show that lawmaking in the U.S. does not reflect public opinion and interests except for the top % of richest people.

In the face of this reality, direct action exposing publicly funded papers to the public kind of makes sense.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

"A proposed policy change with low support among economically elite Americans (one-out-of-five in favour) is adopted only about 18% of the time," they write, "while a proposed change with high support (four-out-of-five in favour) is adopted about 45% of the time."
On the other hand:
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.
They conclude:
Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organisations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.
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To be fair, the ice bucket challenge was effective in both marketing and donations. They raised well over $100 million across multiple charities.

I do agree that there is a false sense of contribution with "liking" and sharing. Sharing can be effective, but it can't be effective without those who actually take action beyond sharing.
The Origins of the  American Military  Coup of 2012 [pdf]
Looking through the grandparent's twitter provides a couple links on their solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbe6WibeRzQ&feature=youtu.be and https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/uport-the-wallet-is-the-new-br... in particular.
No one did. That's not how evolution works. There is no plan, and no one decided how it would work in the future. Your second question makes me think that you're thinking of evolution as "progress", that everything is evolving towards something. It is not. That is, you're asking, given an adaption, what is the likelihood of those genes existing? But that's backwards; the genes caused the outcome.
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Implementation of these graphical models in R is dkne really well with the gRain package.
Unless we can find a way to give everyone a basic level of subsistence without any bureaucracy (read a basic living income) then nothing startups can do will help, apart from driving your business into the ground as there is no one to pay for it! Charities will not even touch the scale of the problem going forward.
Yeah, I understand why. It's still shocking to see / hear. I say this as an arm-chair war nerd. Nothing good can come from this level of military fetishism.
This is only true if you pick really immature technologies.

If you write your web back-end in C/SQL its likely that it will run unchanged for the next couple decades.

If you write your web back-end in PHP, it will probably run with only minor changes for the next 5-10 years.

If you write your web back-end in node.js, you will be lucky if it runs without modification in 6 months.

Just because something is cool, or easy and fast to bootstrap doesn't make it the best choice for a long term successful project. Its like people used to say about delphi vs visual basic, "Delphi makes the easy stuff easier, and the hard stuff doable. Visual basic does the easy stuff for you, but makes the hard stuff impossible." I think that applies to a huge number of recent "technologies". Careful use of make, RPM/deb and kickstart will solve all the same problems as $COOL_NEW_TECHNOLOGY. It might take a little longer up front, but 5 years down the line when your project is a million lines of code across multiple platforms and languages with differing dependency tree's/etc you will be thankful you didn't tie yourself to a build environment designed for a particular language/enviroment. Especially, if said technology gets abandoned and you end up maintaining it in-house.
So to be clear, he's not giving money to others. He's offering to invest the money in their startups if they meet his standards. A small gesture, indeed.
At least he actually apologised, rather than saying something like "I'm sorry if you were offended" or similar.
Yes, he did commit crimes.

> a meager 6 months in a low-security prison

> They were going to go extremely light on him

6 months in any prison and having a criminal record for the rest of your life is extremely harsh and cruel - and unnecessarily so.

Going light on him would have meant dropping all charges.
> simplicity of this binding interface enabled the evolution...

A lesson to learn in software development too.
Downvoting would lead to hiveminds where unpopular opinions are not tolerated. I would prefer just an upvote.
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The language in the abstract does seem a little vile. I'm certain I don't want government machine micromanagement directing citizen behavior. Yikes.
Ah, I forgot about that blog post. Thanks for digging up the link! (The video is only tangentially related to identity.)
This essay was written in 1992, and entered into the National Defense University's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategy Essay Competition. It was one of two winners of that contest. The author, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dunlap, was an active duty Air Force officer at the time it was written.
Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10885465
Oh, I believe their explanation of why they opted people in by default. I think that very explanation contradicts their claim that Binge On is '"pro" Net Neutrality'.

The majority of people will not know/remember that Binge On exists when they encounter the throttling. This means any any service that wants to offer High Definition video will need to educate each customer on the specific opt-out steps for that customer's Carrier/MVNO and operating system.

What happens when different versions of a crappy MVNO's settings app has the opt-out toggle in a different spot in their menu tree with a different name?

> that's a perfectly reasonable path in my opinion

T-Mobile is a pretty consumer friendly company and I really appreciate what they have done for the US Carrier market. However signaling to other Carriers and MVNOs that these kinds of programs are acceptable takes us towards a path that is very bad for Net Neutrality.
Someone has to do the work; value is not durable nor zero-sum. Destroying an Earth-threatening asteroid is assuring the continued opportunity of all to produce as they can & will; confiscating the fruits of the productive to give to the idle punishes the former and rewards the latter. What you describe as "liberating" is mutual enslavement of producers & idle to each other. What you describe as "realistic" is unsustainable no less than the extinction event of an asteroid impact.
The scary thing is, this is pretty much the plot for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl
There are also several Android apps that act as SMS gateways.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11291196/android-as-an-sm...
It's not that usual for large projects to proceed a fair distance before seemingly obvious problems become apparent. Bridges that fail to meet in the center come to mind.

I remember being at a meeting talking about the implementation of a chipset where each of the three chips required another chip to be running first. Global conditions can be more obvious to an outsider than those involved in many details of creating X big plan.

Why would a snow bank not be avoidable as well?

The Google car in particular is intended to follow a pre-defined path derived from more-detailed-version of Google Maps with obstacle avoidance being just deviations from that pre-defined plan. It seems like the situation described by the op, the road-structure itself changing, would present significant obstacles to that strategy. Essentially, rather than solving the problem of guiding a vehicle down the road using visible spectrum image-processing, Google avoided the problem by various stands-in; lidar for obstacles and satellite maps for positioning. Clever but that sort of thing will have failures that might be surprising - and surprisingly obvious.
The Cambrian explosion is late in this game; this would be about the emergence of the Ediacaran biota (largely fractal-like body plans, followed by organisms with more specialised structural groups and less-local symmetries) and simpler aggregate colony organisms like sponges, which seemed to come out of nowhere quickly after the Cryogenian. The Cambrian explosion seems to have been mostly about riffing on the bilateral symmetry lick.
I think the existence of the Gates Foudation and the success it has had is sufficient rubutal of your argument.
A (pretty smart) friend of mine tried to show me that scientists' findings about he Earth's age are wrong because he read aome article about errors in the estimation technique.

He then argued that therefore Earth is not very old and evolution didn't have time to happen.

I was amazed...
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Theories are not assumptions. They usually include some kind of explanation for $OUTCOME.
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I've been using peach for a few days (@bgraves, add me!)

I'm liking it.

1. It's different and disconnected. I have FB/IG for personal/family stuff, LinkedIN/Twitter for biz stuff. Peach is more fun and more 'creative'.

2. The magic words are a gimmick for sure. But it's a _fun_ gimmick.

3. Kinda related to #1 it's a smaller 'community' now and folks are just trying stuff out.

Overall I've found my self posting a quick update on Peach over the past 48 hours more than I have on "traditional" social media (can we call Twitter, et al. traditional now?) over the past 2 weeks.

Yes, there's a novelty factor. And maybe that's it and it will die on the Vine.
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I doubt it. That's my impression as an iPhone/iPad user of many years. Apple seems to make choices that ensure basic functions work reliably and without wasting resources (like battery) as opposed to a more computer like approach of giving more integration points and configuration options.

Android has allowed things (widgets, alternate keyboards, different launchers/lock screens, background processes) that expose more power but rely on the 3rd party developer to ensure the experience still works well without wasting resources or crashing.

Apple only provides such things after careful study and lockdown (such as keyboards). Much more careful, much more sealed up unmodifiable box.
Sure, but--as the traditional rant (http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/) goes--it works like a claw hammer with two claws and no face: sure, you can turn it sideways and drive nails with the middle part, but wouldn't it be easier to just get a hammer?
It's reflexive because it's dealing with trust and the trust happens to be polarized due to the subject. We know the rules, but sometimes choose to break them when it matters. I think it's fine to call this out in the thread, for what it's worth.

I appreciate you for pondering on these things! Goodness knows I wouldn't want to moderate this place.
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She uses the VA as an example of an approachable "underclass" problem...but in order to work with the government, you have to be on their procurement cycle, which is (perhaps by design) anathema to all but the large contractors who have equal budgets for their legal and software development teams.

Edit: he to she
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I agree, but going after wealthy people is much harder than going after a college kid; that's a whole issue all its own.
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Nice but would be great if it was free for up to 5 or even 3 users. Startups and individuals like me would love that !