skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I should have been more specific, I meant a BB quality keyboard on an Android device. Completely agree with you on two devices.
Wow that was really disheartening to read. Definitely didn't expect that level of childishness.
And one to aggregate its logs.
It's also possible that people understood your argument but downvoted you because your first comment's tone was frantic, angry, and inappropriate for HN.

This comment is a bit better, but still insults the people you hope to convince. These insults only harm your cause.
Your race doesn't really matter, no. But neither does your native-born origin. You don't get to lay an exclusive claim on the arbitrarily defined geopolitical unit on the basis that you happened to be born there.
Good point! I didn't consider numeric offsets from UTC / Zulu time, but they certainly are valid. Thanks for adding that comment.
13 Think and Grow Rich Quotes by Napoleon Hill
Why Linguists Are Fascinated by the American Jewish Accent
What about the constraints idea from OpenNTPD? i.e., Use timestamps from trusted HTTPS servers. (http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2015021010365...)
I was at the (only?) Blackberry store in New York. They had some nice looking phones, but the magic was gone.
The games you're talking about (competitive games, games where 1 frame drop is unacceptable) are a very small & niche part of the market. Look specifically at modern consoles- every console has builtin architecture that leads to a minimum input latency of 67ms. The game can add more latency (and most do), and a lot of popular TVs add more latency on top of that. Here's a database of game input latencies, it shows that even a lot of successful games have latencies of above 100ms: http://www.displaylag.com/video-game-input-lag-database/

So if you're talking about the "highly latency sensitive" players, then by definition those are only PC gamers, and only a small fraction of those players. The addressable market of gamers who tolerate 100+ ms of latency is very large, definitely large enough to build a business on top of.
Add one kickass meteor impact to your list of things that could bring us to extinction.
Presumably, TOTP tokens not delivered via SMS
Of course it works the opposite direction too, in that the youth unemployment rate has been increasing for many years such that 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 (probably higher) can't get work, so if you're going to be unemployed anyway, may as well learn something that could be highly profitable in the future.

Another interesting anecdote is I "worked" as a paid intern in the mornings on Friday therefore I basically did meaningless manual labor for a semester, but that was during the school day 1st shift and it had no impact on my 2nd shift "real" meaningless manual labor job that paid my tuition (back when that was financially possible). If it were unpaid I'd feel free to shadow and learn from numerous employees as I saw fit, but being paid I felt I "had to" do my assigned job of pulling and terminating and testing cat-5 ethernet cable all day, which was necessary work but a complete waste of my substantial skills. They were a bottom up employer and I was completely uninterested and not terribly good at pulling and terminating network cabling, so we were both very happy when the relationship ended. "Well you've got to pull cable for maybe two years before you can transfer to networking or the PLC division or unix admin or VAX programming" "Uh well, no actually I don't have to, and I start a real job doing just that, two weeks after this internship ends" "Well OK that settles that then"
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"There is no question about the heritage of 8bit-style art, and whether you find modern renditions ugly or not is not really a concern here."

That is exactly – and only – my concern. The remainder of your post you are arguing against a strawman.
The consequences should be that the company loses its ability to run a business. You've arbitrarily decided that the only acceptable mechanism for this happening is users choosing a different company. There are a whole host of reasons that doesn't work, and simply shifting the blame onto users for not making it work doesn't solve the problem.
High incomes study shows women are less than a quarter of top one per cent
>There's probably a lot more changes than you realize.

Do you know what those are or did you just assume that because its Google and so "there must be reason"?

> I can only assume given your comments you've never worked on problems like this.

You may assume it. The alternative explanation is I don't think its all that hard because its not all that hard.

> There's so many benefits you can get from writing an app specifically for low-end Android devices with poor data connectivity.

IMO, all that should be part of the base app. If your app can't handle different workloads (especially as basic as intermittent network connectivity for a video streaming application), its pretty much a huge design fail there.
An earlier article that looks at beige walls in YouTube videos: https://medium.com/message/the-american-room-3fce9b2b98c5 "The curtains are drawn. Some light comes through, casting a small glow on the top left of the air conditioner. It’s daytime. The wall is an undecorated slab of beige. That is the American room."
That study gave no causal reasons. In particular, there was no effect on number of surgeries done. It's just as possible that research-oriented doctors go to the conference, and those doctors are worse at performing surgeries.
>Embed HTML (more or less preferred, depending on your situation)

But then you can't embed markdown inside the HTML, like code blocks inside a table. Sure you can use <pre><code> tags, but then you lose syntax highlighting.

Actually I've always wondered why no MD renderer supports something like

<code data-lang="js">

which it then treats the same as a

```js

code block. Or a pseudo <x-markdown> element...
"Your argument is assuming something that I don't believe is true, which is that we're already on the Pareto optimality frontier for security/convenience. It is certainly true that you can not forever increase security without eventually impacting usability, but I don't think many people are actually in that position"

That's true that we aren't at the sweet spot yet but that what I meant by companies being bad about doing the risk analysis judgement of security versus usability.

On you second point languages have gone through that cycle. Look at Java doing boundary checks. That helps avoid a whole class of security issues but at the cost of making things that C was able to do easily more difficult. These tradeoffs happen at every layer.
It's also ok to "move fast and break things" when the most critical thing you're breaking is your annoying high school "friend"s ability to share the latest racist meme with you. There's a reason facebook made this phrase popular.
BlackBerry to stop making phones
It might be. Although if it targets genuine medical conditions, which I'd imagine what they would actually care about in terms of insurance payouts, I'm not sure it's necessarily a bad thing.

Either way, this is yet another reason as to why healthcare should be publicly funded (or at least have a public insurance option)...
wow. it is literally one of the most delicious things I've ever consumed. Interesting how significantly tastes can differ.
There have been many failed attempts at exactly that. Those who want a keyboard are vocal about the ostensible size of the market but don't seem to spend enough money to support the claim.
I'm looking at this in quantitative terms. Money is one measure. Effort, time, security, and others may be harder to quantify, but they're still important factors. "Security at any cost" quickly becomes simply impossible.

This is the general sense. Yahoo is probably on the "wrong" side of average.

But in some sense, you can vote with your feet. Companies who don't value security won't get your business. If enough people feel as you do, then the ROI calculation changes. And the same applies to politics as well: if you think more money should be spent on security and there's a societal good here, write to your congressman, or elect one who's receptive. Again, if enough people feel as you do, the political ROI makes this an imperative as well.
If customers are paying BTC in to a Coinbase account, and the account holder is removing the coins as BTC, then why would the bank's policies impact anything? It's understandable, because (presumably) financial regulations mean Coinbase can't offer a "no USD withdrawal" account that doesn't have the link to the bank, but it's a shame too.
Even if they had their own flaws, Lisa and Marge being morally superior to Homer and Bart is a long-running premise of the show.
> Yes that's not good, but there's been no inflation as a result and the bonds the fed buys are freely tradable on the open market.

There is certainly an enormous inflation of the money supply but you don't see and feel it because it is sitting idly in bank accounts or is invested in bonds, the stock market or real estate. (here we actually see inflation)

Once the holders of this money decide to move it out of these asset classes you are going to see inflation, because all of this money created by the FED does actually exist now.
DigitalOcean does this, but then they fall back on SMS in case you uninstall the TOTP app.
Please make sure to comment civilly and substantively on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's totally in the interests of the US to have people, governments and companies to give the US cash in exchange for bonds instead of giving that cash to other governments, like China.
Just filter the BGP AS of the offending ISP. That's how it should be done. Block the whole ISP at AS level. Maybe automated time based threshold filters w/ distributed banlist. Just like fail2ban but for BGP and with a distributed banlist (AS + timestamp of exceeded threshold).
I look forward to the follow-up post!
Rebuilding Supply Chain for Startups
That's precisely the reason that I use spectrwm instead of dwm. Making your program unnecessarily difficult to configure to "keep the newbies away" is just plain assholery.
So you spend 8h working and 6h reading and learning? I'm an advocate for just-in-time learning. Read HN to get a high level overview of the cool shit. Then wait to learn the details until you actually need to use it.

There's always something new and cool to learn. It's pointless if you never use that knowledge.
Sure, but society can prevent you from hogging too much for yourself (via taxes etc), so long as it's not 100% laissez-faire, and not just the rich have political rights.
I have achieved some consolation for pouring years of my life into technologies which I should have known would become obsolete by spending the last few years studying classical languages (mostly Attic Greek), the knowledge of which will never be obsolete. I believe there is also some value in studying the classics of Computer Science as well (Turing, Shannon, McCarthy, Graham, Dijkstra, etc.), and doing CS archeology (building retro computers from old parts, etc.).

This knowledge won't help me get a job as a coder at an SV startup, but it does help me to understand why I shouldn't try to get it, and to ease the discomfort of a fate of relative poverty.
...Yahoo these days, they are simply maintaining the status quo.

Was there a time, this millennium, when that wasn't the case? I've never seen a Yahoo service I wanted to use. In 2001, I would have been shocked to learn that Yahoo would still exist in 2016.
Foods with a lot of added sugar tend to be foods that aren't very good at keeping you feeling full, so if you have too many of them in your calorie-negative diet you can easily find yourself quite hungry so often that it takes a lot of willpower to stay calorie-negative...maybe more than you have and the diet falls apart.
Most IoT devices wouldn't produce any significant revenues from Bitcoin Mining because they don't have anywhere near the computational power of dedicated Bitcoin mining devices.

A DVR might have a chance to make an impact if it had a GPU that was used to encode video that could be co-opted to mine Bitcoin, but I think most DVR's use special video encoding chips rather than a general purpose GPU.

I think the only hardware they would have that could mine Bitcoin would be their general purpose CPU, which is probably under-powered anyway.

A DVR would be more easily monitized as a node in a Botnet that does DDoS attacks, email spamming, or network scanning.

One resource they do have though is drive space. a DVR botnet could sell unused DVR HD space using a service like Maidsafe [1]

[1] https://maidsafe.net
From the article: personally, I recommend (in order) U2F, Push-based and TOTP/token-based
The 17 highest-paying companies in Silicon Valley
This will have niche application until they improve things. Pretty neat though.
Keybase is definitely working on creating a trust bridge between physical identity and (a specific type of) digital identity. Whether they've managed to do it in a scalable, business-sustainable way remains to be seen.

Let me be clear: that's not a slight against them; from a business standpoint I find no good analysis or speculation on their financial numbers and see no publicly commented monetization strategy). The reality of the world today is that if you can't make something economically self-perpetuating, it will almost certainly eventually fail -- especially if the problem you're trying to solve is one of as large a magnitude as literally any social interaction on the internet (they all involve connecting digital identities to physical ones).

From a technical standpoint, the primary problem I have with Keybase is that it uses PGP. I'm not [1] the only [2] person (and, since I'm effectively 100% unknown, I'm far, FAR from the most prominent, who is arguably Bruce Schneier [3]) to criticize PGP, but at the core of it, even ignoring substantial usability issues, have you ever tried to forward a PGP message? It's sort-of possible, if you re-encrypt and re-sign everything, but it's certainly not practical and definitely not scalable. Sharing and re-sharing is the cornerstone of much of the social internet, and PGP renders it effectively impossible.

Keybase has a really, really cool body of work surrounding "connect this PGP key to this physical identity", but unfortunately PGP keys are only one in a small subset of cryptographic identities, which is itself an even smaller subset of digital identities in general. I get why they've done it this way; the alternative is to write your own cryptographic protocol that nobody is using, which is a much riskier thing (speaking from experience [4]). But at the end of the day, all of Keybase hinges around using PGP (or a PGP-like approach), and I'm very skeptical that's a viable solution to the social problems we have today.

[1] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma...

[2] https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/testing_the_u...

[4] https://github.com/Muterra/doc-golix
Indeed. Their presence on the Tracy Ullman show was a main draw to the show for some people.
Pepper's Ghost display?
Rather than the OSMF doing everything, and having one official geocoder, or one official routing engine, instead there is an ecosystem of software and 3rd party companies around OSM who provide that
United airlines recently switched to 5 security questions with a predefined list of acceptable answers. You get a drop down to select from.
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(3) people who ponder what's the best solution for a given situation? Sometimes you want dynamic languages, or schema-less data. Sometimes you want rigid interfaces and verifiability.

Eg rolling out a public API in Thrift/protobuf will severely difficult its adoption, whereas Rest/JSON is pretty much the standard - but then building microservices that communicate to each other in Rest/JSON quickly leads to a costly, hard to maintain, inconsistent mess.

We're obsessed with "one fits all" absolutes in tech. We should have more "it depends" imho
THE HN PC police are back, up to their old antics.
They really are!
Right. No need for any direct connection between Rome and Japan. Coins were traded at their bullion value.

I suspect the "baffled" part came from the journalist, not the actual archaeologists.

Even today there are coins that are used that way, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_thaler

This coin has been minted and circulated continuously since 1741 in parts of the world far removed from its point of origin (indeed, the very government that originally minted it is long, long gone).
Not exactly the same—shared libs don't have process isolation like an external crypto process would.
This time, you make a valid point, although I'm still not sure if you really understand the landscape.

The problem is, it's more than just a few rare cases: everyone from VEVO, to tiny channels, to the biggest channels on youtube, have been breaking these rules for years. And even if they don't think they have been, you can probably find violating content somewhere on the channel if you look hard enough, because the new rules are pretty broad. And the fact that the rules aren't being enforced equally makes it all the more BS, even if it's YouTube's prerogative to do so anyways.
FYI, a very subtle grey is the new beige.
Beige is a neutral color, harmless, inoffensive -- but less harsh than white and more distinct than gray. It's a default we settle into when we want to convey some sort of utilitarian appeal that's bound to find purchase with the masses. It's not just homes or furniture: consider PC cases before about 1998 when the iMac came out. Consider the background of this very web site.
Super-Tiny, Open, Quad-Core SBC Has WiFi, BT, EMMC, MicroSD
If "profit" is defined as: "generating more value than is consumed in the production process"...

Then yes, we damn well better demand that profit be the correct goal for every action regardless of organizational structure.

If our system is distorted to inaccurately measure profit locally, without properly accounting for negative externalities, then that's a legitimate problem, but the way to solve it is by factoring those hidden costs back into the profit calculation, not giving up on "profitability" properly defined.
Your impression notwithstanding, the fact is that dozens of applications already exist that can play network streams, play files from your hdd, and even record streams to your hard disk (VLC for one), means that its a known solved problem. If, as you say, a video streaming app, at its core, cannot handle something so basic as saving the stream to disk, or playing the video from disk, then I would count that as a major design failure.

Also I don't get where the "undoubtedly", "fundamental change", "going to be easier to X" comes from. What is your basis for those statements?
Then just hijack them and set the default gateway to 127.0.0.1. Problem solved.
People used to also be insist and not care about drunk driving but I think the cost of lives lost made that culture change.

I'm hoping if people start harassing automated vehicles the public sentiment would be: "Don't you want a future where we minimize traffic fatalities? Stop making this harder".
Ask HN: What's your opinion on Jeremy Corbyn's idea to support startups?
This is a quote from his leadership speech at the Labour conference:

"We will ensure that successful innovators have access to the finance necessary to take their ideas to the next level, grow their businesses and generate employment."

I'm curious what the HN community thinks of this.
Thanks for mentioning the SDK — anyone can build atop goTenna now. Devs: build whatever you want over a really unique open data layer (totally off-grid, long-range). M2M, gaming, messaging — http://www.gotenna.com/pages/sdk
It's not about the words, it's about how angry and negative you sound in what should be a relaxed and civil discussion. If you said that to my face I would abandon the conversation and try to calm you down.
There is always hack potential. All the server can do is make sure that the claimed move is legal (eg fits the rules of chess) and realistic (check a string of inputs to see if they probably have been made by a human).

As for the adjustment... Yes bringing a character back to life after a momentary error, in one place on the map, as seen by one person, is a small adjustment that happens rarely.
Makes you yearn for the aesthetic of the 1950s where items of furniture or appliances would add a splash of color. I'd even take the 1960s when things got a bit nuts, or the 1970s when people were willing to take chances.

The stuff they sell these days is designed to be as inoffensive as possible and yet seems so utterly sterile and devoid of personality and life.
"We create ourselves so many of the problems we are paid to solve"

Sounds lucrative ;)
Haha this reminds me of Grayson Moorhead's principles of business:

We must take special care of the list with each client's name and the amount of money he has invested. If we were to lose that list, we would be ruined.
"Oh go home! Go home!"
> PNG-24 - ... generally shouldn't be used for production sites.

But it is sometimes of course, particularly when the designer does not want the PNG restricted to 256 colors. For example, suppose that your logo is a single lowercase letter with an overlaid multicolor gradient rainbow, the banding in the transitions becomes super pronounced in PNG-8.

Beyond that, SVG can replace a lot of what PNG has been used for on the web for the past couple decades.
That's the current mindset of the technological world,
estimating whether the cost of atoning for the problem is lower
than the cost of securing the systems.

That mindset can be changed if the companies are fined heavily for breach of customer data.
If big pharma's not interested, would the costs of getting this kind of therapy into paramedics' hands be within the reach of private philanthropy (e.g. Gates foundation or YC's recent non-profit efforts)?
So psyched for Daniela and Jorge--this is the product they had in mind when they first started the company.
Verizon technician sold calling, location data for thousands of dollars
I bought a cookie-cutter house that came in beige, and after a few years I picked a dark red and repainted my living room. Everyone said I was crazy when I told them what I was doing, but after it was finished and I invited them over to have a look they inevitably said "that looks a lot better than I was expecting." Most of them even said it was a marked improvement.

Beige is boring. I'm no interior designer, but just about anything is better than beige. Pick a color, give it a shot. I picked out a couple of shades of red and painted a few large patches on the walls just to see how they'd turn out, then used that to narrow down which one I would prefer.
It's an entertaining article, but I feel like a bit of intuition can make the answer obvious: it's hard to sell a home with rooms that are bright, unique colors. Not everyone likes red/green/blue, but everyone can agree with blank-slate colors or colors that mimic raw building materials (beige for wood, gray for stone/metal, white for marble/slate/clay). They're not objectionable, therefore they can attract the largest demographic of interested buyers.