skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of the article is interesting though a little bit of a stretch. Personally I've had some exposure to AML/KYC training for Kraken's implementation (~5% of global Bitcoin/conventional financial system exchange volume at last estimate).

AML and KYC operate under a simple premise: if you don't comply, the government in a given jurisdiction fines you heavily and/or removes your license to operate. In practice, we've seen only 'slap on the wrist' (eg. for the recent case of HSBC laundering cartel money).

The only way this works on a global basis is that the US goes around bullying different countries in to theoretically agreeing to comply, because terrorism blahblah. Enforcement in reality is weak to nonexistant: basically other than looking at SWIFT traffic and extrapolating what they believe 'should' have been reported (definitions are pretty vague in many cases), the US has no real way to check on financial institutions.

Since basically the top 5-10% of capital holders routinely minimize tax (launder money) and much of the developing world's capital is illegally exported to western banks (Africa, China, etc.) and nobody blinks an eye, the system as it stands could be said to actively encourage a fiscal divide based upon selective enforcement.

To put it simply, money under any premise of central control acts as a purveyor of political will. Personally, I have been extremely impressed at the efficacy with which the US has threatened various Bitcoin/conventional financial sysytem exchange operators in to complying, but simultaneously deeply disappointed at the resulting enhancement of status quo.

Instead of the article's premise, I would posit the question: shouldn't high barriers to financial institution licensing be the real target here? Reporting is already arbitrary and vague, and somewhat useless to the government compared to pre-existing SWIFT surveillance.
For moral truths to be objective is high on my list of things I would like to be true, and not only because I would prefer alien life we encounter to be more like Culture Minds than Kzin. One of the few really important things we lost through the rise of rationality was the conviction that things really matter, and I think this loss is behind problems ranging from corrupt politics to crappy software to the agonizingly overdone cynicism that runs through pop culture. I have little hope that Parfait's massive opus will be widely read, but perhaps its ideas will find their way down, by some means.
I forgot to mention that one obviously doesn't use Gmail or Facebook.

Did you read the linked articles? The problem is that others use Google Mail and Facebook, so your e-mail/contact information end up at Google Mail/Facebook anyway.

The analysis of Benjamin Mako Hill shows this very aptly. Although he runs his own mail server, Google delivered 57% of the e-mails that he replied to. So, even though he does not use Google Mail at all, Google can scan/profile/whatever over half his e-mails.
Session fixation - a commonly-used session-based attack - can be prevented simply by giving a user a new session ID whenever they obtain a new level of permission on a site (for instance, after they successfully login).
I have the same printer, from 1992 iirc - still prints and has been an absolute workhorse. HP bought a lot of brand loyalty from me with that printer.
I'm a physician, and I used to get custom made ones, until I found these for around $45 in the US:
https://www.drscholls.com/productsandbrands/customfitorthoti...
This is a great point to raise. OP, please make sure that both the plastic you used, and the chemicals released as saliva gradually breaks down the plastic, are not going to be harmful. You wouldn't want long-term exposure of your gums to harmful agents. But that's probably the only concern.

Regardless: great job. I'm very impressed by this project -- I love seeing applications of 3d printing. Especially one like this turns an expensive (and slow!) medical procedure into something that can be done easily at home, or cheaply in the office of a trained professional.
> Few politicians would dare campaign to reduce an established benefit.

Right, because it's not like there's any US party that campaigns against government spending, food stamps and universal health care...
I'm curious: why did The Economist choose the name 1843 for its magazine? The About page doesn't say. Anybody know the significance of that year? Thanks.
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Any idea what the cause of the bottleneck is?
Not everyone will benefit. Higher income earners will put in more in extra taxes than they get back in their basic income handout.
Up until 10,000 years ago there were no more than 5 million humans on the entire planet. If we could go back to that maybe we can live another 10,000 years. But the cretins keep cloning and feeding. More humans destroy the value of humans to other humans. Just go to India, or hell go to America, see how little people value each other. The reason is too many people. They shit over everything, eat all the food meant for animals, and their desires destroy all nature and convert it to acreages, houses, and cities. The number of humans is too damn high, vote for the human population reduction party.
I think that's true of the perception of yahoo among techies.

Among common users I don't know, but I suspect it's something like AOL.

re-imagining what yahoo could be would probably be a waste of resources, because I think the name has basically negative connotations as being either old, not useful, or just malignant in relation to its users.
I must admit I have no idea what you're talking about. If people behave in a predictable way then that's what they do though they are free to change, one trusts. Where is the evidence for manipulation (aside from that exhibited by all entrepreneurs from the market stall holder upwards) and to what end? Google exists by selling advertising on behalf of disparate traders; customers will therefore make choices which will change according to prevailing circumstances. Meanwhile billions of people make largely un-tracked purchases ex internet. Others are tracked and so what? Amazon and ABE Books know my tastes in literature and are welcome to push suggestions my way. If there are enough of us (like me), perhaps they'll conspire with a publisher to create a literary treasure replete with right of center (UK-style) politics, small state, free market, low tax ideas of the kind I favor. Of course I'll have no option but to buy it!
The problem is that you can only afford to do that if you're a moderately large business. For home users or small schools (where I have worked), that's simply not an option moneywise...
If history serves right, I upgraded to Windows 7 around 2-3 years after it was released, and I still had occasional blue screens or hiccups. About one year later it finally started calming down. Now, in 2016, I could run my machine indefinitely without ever restarting (if not for updates). It's that stable. Going to wait at least 1-2 years before upgrading. I don't trust big companies anymore.

I think the OS itself is stable, but once you throw in a bunch of rushed drivers, a bunch of software that was 'fixed' to run on the newest windows and another bunch of outdated software, then something is bound to break.
>That just isn't how it works.

That is exactly and precisely how it works. In a common law legal system like the UK everything is legal until it suddenly isn't because some act of legislation makes it so. There is no constitution to restrict what legislation the government may choose to enact. There is a body of EU law that has some bearing but much that is relevant here (e.g. Convention of Human Rights) either comes with or was enacted into UK law with 'except because crime or national security, think of the children' tagged onto every clause.

Over just the last few decades UK governments have banned all manner of things, all of which were things people were doing every day. Hunting, smoking, various types of porn and 'legal highs' are some that immediately come to mind, but there are plenty more.
I've configured ssh to use a different key for each server [0]. I don't bother with passphrases on each key, instead relying on a encrypted home folder. Also, I have a script [1] for rotating keys, so rotating all my credentials is a single command.

[0]: https://github.com/stevenkaras/bashfiles/blob/master/.ssh/co...

[1]: https://github.com/stevenkaras/bashfiles/blob/master/.ssh/
If the market is reasonably efficient, I don't see how there can be a strategy that beats the market forever. But I'm also not an economist.
Dude, this doesn't sound like fun at all. "Social power and influence" to what end? With whom are you getting this power and influence? Are these relationships even genuine?

> "this attracts them to you, and having a more admirers increases your social power and influence, which gives you more opportunities and better chances of success in your future efforts."

Reminds me of those "social climber" jokes about kids in high school. I guess if you've taken measure of yourself and found it matches up with the company you keep, there's nothing for anyone else to say.
Well, people put BPA in plastics even though it was known to be toxic because the thought was that the material would bind the BPA in place (i.e. it would always stay in the material).
This. I keep bugging my friends and relatives to learn programming - I make way more than the local average, and I work from home, whenever I want. I don't tell them about it because I want to brag; I do it because, to quote Miles Vorkosigan, "if I can do it, you can do it". I want them to do better, they're my friends.
Indeed. It's incredibly disingenuous, not to mention a risk to the public health, to scream "STD!" equal loud for HPV and HIV.
Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (2013)
FPGAs are awesome. They help solve problems that software is too slow to solve, but aren't large enough in scale for ASICs.
They're also great for prototyping new chips before actually shelling out the hundreds of thousands of dollars NRE for a new ASIC design.

Here's a great stackexchange discussion on why and how FPGAs can outperform CPUs for certain tasks:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/101472/how-ca...
I imagine it's related to the fact that their first issue was published on 1 August 1843.
Awesome and glad you find it to be an interesting challenge. Of course totally understand if it falls off the list, but I for one would love to read it if you decide to do it.
Pitch your startp – Valuate it automatically
The parent was talking about American poor who do have enough income for housing and food but spend it on luxuries instead because of mismanagement. Kenya poor are probably completely different - not having enough for either housing or luxuries so when get get money, housing probably comes before a big TV.
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If it does not work, try certain keywords ;)

https://github.com/jo-m/startup-evaluator
Well you don't see pro runners get bicycle implants (that would hurt)
Can't wait for Twitch Plays Go.
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Octopodium – My first iOS app
Hi.

I have created my very first iOS app named Octopodium on my free time and would love some feedback. If possible positive. :D

It's supposed to be used by developers to check how they rank among other devs on Github based on their repositories' number is stars.

If you know github-awards.com this will be familiar. This app uses its API.

You can also see github trending repositories.

The app is available here: https://itunes.apple.com/app/octopodium/id1077519133

Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. :)

It is written in swift and is open source
https://github.com/nunogoncalves/iOS-OctoPodium

I have also written about the process. If you'd like to see:
https://medium.com/@nunogonalves/my-first-app-store-app-story-6c29e01e0306
How did you escape the cycle? Or are you living off of a big exit?
It's worth noting that human brain consuming barely 20 watts of power is competing against giant computing infrastructure gobbling up perhaps few 100 killowatts. It's like one player against the army of 5000 players. Many people write off this energy requirements as non-consequential but the fact is that our major technological bottleneck of 21st century is nothing BUT energy consumption. When we have machine that consumes 20 watts and does everything that human brain does, it would be a day for a new species.
But no politician has been able to reform or touch Social Security, Bush didn't even try until his final presidential year.
So does the security track record of large-scale java software ...

The only conclusion I've ever really drawn from software analysis is that large scale software written by armies of programmers is full of security problems. As soon as the organisation stops investing in being the one that knows the most about the security problems of their own software ... shit hits the fan. Since security tends to be one of the first things to get "financially optimized" ...

Go is (less and less over time but still not 0%) implemented in C, with macros. Let's not pretend this is an improvement over C++, because it isn't. The only advantage C has over C++ is that most C programs are far smaller than most C++ programs (on average, of course, there are exceptions). Oh, and if you think C++'s security track record is bad, you will find C's track record horrendous.
Maybe it's just me, but the way these statistics are worded is setting off my skepticism alarms:

> Between 1986 and 1995, fatal traffic accidents rose 17% the Monday following the switch to Daylight Saving Time.

Accidents rose 17% that Monday? Does it mean 17% more than any other day, or just that the raw number for that Monday is 17% higher than it used to be? Because they worded it like the latter.

For all this page says, accidents were up 17% every day of the year over that decade.

EDIT: Wikipedia says total US traffic deaths were lower in 1995 than 1986, so I'll chalk this up as poor wording. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Successful hedge funds don't use static strategies over a significant period of time. Instead, they are very good at developing new strategies.

Thus, it's not the hedge funds' strategies that need to be consistent, it's their R&D.
I agree, DST causes more problems than any benefits from it.
I was expecting this number to be followed by "compared to the previous Monday" each time it was used. But, alas, it was not.
I wonder how many people would use this as on opportunity to be able to spend more time working on open source.
Try to respect more people. Like the Petit Prince of Saint Exupery who can see through "boxes". That's one thing I loved learning in my life. And I'm a founder. Attitude works as a manager, not as a founder. You also need to understand the ins and outs of people, not just where they are today.

I was sharing a flat in Australia with a waiter from Thai origins. He used to make sentences without a verb. He couldn't articulate an argument. Things in life were either "bad" or "the best" for him. Every movie was his favourite movie. He can't read the price of butter. I call that illiterate.

But the guy was born without a mother. He was in a countryside boarding school. At 17 he found a grant for a cook school in Australia. He starved for 2 years but he co-owned a restaurant when he was 21. We met at age 24, he was a waiter at Sofitel for $700-1000pw. He tried Architecture, but went on with a bachelor in media. He's travelled half of Asia and Europe. He beats me sometimes on the history of France.

Let me repeat: The guy was born in the countryside in Thailand and he's currently making it in Syndey, where land prices go through the roof because it's a sunny place with beaches, low pollution, excellent schools, the second best development index IN THE WORLD according to UN (after Norway), and more freedom than in US. And he'll graduate at the end of the semester. He's done much better than my colleagues in my developed country.

But he's little people. A waiter. For people who can't see through.

You don't need hard work to be surrounded by respectable people. Just reverse the problem. You need to find the people around you who are respectable, and to do that you need to listen to their story.

And finding respect in simple things is really good for work hours and happiness.
The Unix-Haters Handbook
OK, so Google knows a lot about Mirimir. And they see email that Mirimir sends to Gmail addresses. Except for mail lists, that's pretty much all encrypted. But there is the metadata, for sure.

However, I use other personas. I've had on the order of 100 email addresses, over the years. Most all now abandoned, of course. And I suspect that many of my correspondents have similar practices. That's not so easy to profile.
Add SoundCloud's Prometheus w/ Grafana.
Great answer. I'll just add an anecdote where I was in a fairly similar role/situation as this fictional example of Robert.

The equity grant # was about #350 at a post Series B startup that would exit for about $1B later that year. My stake in the company was 1 basis point (0.01%).

Equity grants loosely follow an exponentially decaying pattern.
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If it's friendly toward bacterial growth, you might not want it near your gumline. Oral infections can get nasty fast.
Also related in a bit different vein, there's work on unifying parsing and pretty-printing (sometimes called "unparsing"): http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~rendel/unparse/
Let’s not forget that aside from being vastly more energy efficient as a Go player, Lee Sedol is additionally capable of taking on a virtually unlimited list of other, equally machine-challenging tasks – while AlphaGo can only do one thing. In fact, Lee can lift himself off the chair to a standing position, pace around the table, lift a glass to his mouth, keep it there while emptying some of it, and think about his next move – all at the same time. (And on the same energy budget.) And far beyond all that, he decides whether to do these things – or something else instead.

I admit my first thought on fairness did go in the same direction of limiting energy budgets. But after reflecting on it just long enough to realise the above, I am finding myself surprisingly uninterested. It now seems to me that nothing particularly insightful would be revealed: limiting energy budget is no less arbitrary than limiting time unless the artificial opponent is expected to be capable of a range of things comparable to that expectable of an average human. Or if expectations are much lower, the artificial opponent would need to contend with drastically tighter limits to approach “fairness” – though at this time it would be guesswork how much tighter they ought to be. Either way, it is glaringly obvious that no computer would come within miles of competing.

So ultimately the fact that Go has been “broken” (in a particular sense) at all is far more interesting to me than whether the machine is competitive with the human in any more general sense. “It’s not” as the universal answer is boring.

And to digress a bit from there: From that perspective, this was ultimately a very human achievement. It was humans who chose Go as a problem to attack and it was them who picked MCTS and deep learning as the way to go. (Uh, no pun intended.) That’s not just reassuring. It’s also a framing we should keep in mind as computers become more entangled with the physical world and more autonomous.
> I think the majority of people don't care about their privacy and would rather make that trade off right now.

That depends on what you mean by that. I think most people care very much about the long-term effects that lack of privacy has on societies. They just are uninformed and therefore don't see those future costs, which is why they make a flawed tradeoff against their own interests.

> My core argument is that you still have a choice with free markets but with goverment if your views aren't the majority you are at the whims of group think.

So, if everyone is on facebook, what choice do you have in reaching an audience? If google started manipulating the opinions of the majority of society against your interests, what choice would you have? ...
Simple question: Why not retire whole concept of stock options? Why not just give RSUs? More I read about how stock options work and how it can ruin you financially, I just don't think this whole thing is friendly to attract talent. I would be super hesitant to go to any company offering stock options instead of RSUs - no matter how good the offer looks on paper. Even though RSU value can go down to zero, you at least don't end up paying our of pocket. And things don't require 3 pages of explanations and caveats in your offer letter.
> It's truly sad

No, actually it's one of the few truly hopeful and uplifting things. Why would that be sad?
Nice one, although KISS Launcher is still more usable for me.
How can an FPGA outperform a CPU?
I like the explanation, but I don't like the idea of telling everybody that things where different in the past. When most people were farmers they also worked more than 12 hours a day, since you need to take care of such a big place. When most people were factory workers people also worked more than 12 hours because the boss thought it would make him more money if you worked more (and with simple, mechanical work that's actually true). The kind of work changed, as well as the reason. But we always worked too much.

And there is one reason he didn't mention: When you don't work so much, you need to figure out what to do with your time. You can't watch movies all day. Nobody can do that for a long time. So you need to think hard about other reasonable things to do. And thinking is painful and scary.
Why doesn't ssh-ident modify ~/.SSH/config? Then scp (and a lot of other tools) would just work. No?
To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
True. But people do get surrogate limbs.
> Can someone explain to me why I would want to use either over px?

Advantage of "em" and "%" (relative) without the cascading (thus absolute).
It would be fine to have a constant increase at every election of it keeps up with inflation. I think you're a bit biased based on your feelings of mankind. It could go multiple ways but almost certainly it won't be predicted here.
Don't forget those options aren't just lottery tickets; unless your employer is giving out options with 10-year exercise windows, they're rigged lottery tickets. viz the CTOs on here talking about using them as retention leverage.

You can find a (very small) list maintained by Zach Holman here: https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows

I assume Zach got interested because he discovered after he was fired from github that he was close to losing all the money he "made" on options when github became a unicorn -- he probably had 90 days to exercise a very high priced illiquid security with horrid tax consequences if he fucked up. That's the thing about cash: it's not rigged. If you get cash, it stays in your bank account. Paper gains can disappear.
That's "Saving" time, not "Savings" time.
How many years until the record setting number of C.S. grads start revealing the shocking truth that they aren't actually getting thrown six figure entry level salaries which sensibly reflects the relatively low number of hires FaceGooBoxSoft make relative to the population of educated western developers?
This whole conversation got me thinking... Why not abolish time zones altogether and have the entire US be on the same time zone?