skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a regular Yubikey 4 - it looks like flimsy plastic but it's surprisingly strong. I can't snap it in half even with full force, doesn't even seem to bend.
Does Iași have significantly lower cost-of-doing-business than Cluj?
Audi? I'd be happy if they could build a car with a damned USB port and a touch screen.
Worth noting that the limits are different between Roth IRAs and Traditional IRAs, though, if you have a retirement plan at work. A married couple making between 119k and 186k wouldn't get any deduction for the trad IRA, so might as well go with the Roth even if they think their income will be much lower in the future.

The Roth also lets you pull out contributions later without penalty, which is a nice worry-free safety net in case the emergency fund runs out.
There are a few atom plugins that support this.

I'm using Markdown Preview Enhanced now: https://atom.io/packages/markdown-preview-enhanced

with which you can embed mermaid sketches into normal markdown documents. This is perfect for most use cases where you want a simple diagram inside a text document.

Also atom-mermaid: https://atom.io/packages/atom-mermaid which is for authoring mermaid documents.
If I am able to do at 80 what this guy can do at 105, I will count myself very lucky.
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Forgot to add that I am super pumped about my next project here. Feature flags and rate limits. Would love to hear from anybody interested in spending less money on something like MixPanel by clever rate limiting.
>>Maybe you do something very different with your mapping apps than I do.

I do a lot of camping. So, when I find a good spot, I like to save the location, in case I want to go there again.

I also bookmark quite a few distant-ish places I visit semi-regularly [even though I know the way there] as I like to use the 'distance to destination' and 'ETA' read-outs to monitor my progress.

I also do things like bookmark that nice pub or restaurant I stumble across while on holiday somewhere, so I know some decent places to go, if I'm ever in that area again.

So, yes. My usage of mapping apps is a bit more 'archival' than the transitory way someone like a taxi or delivery driver might use them —which is why I need to be able to import my existing bookmarks.
Google Assist (enterprise support and management for Chrome) makes a bunch of money.
I’ve done all this myself before – even when running a small Let’s Play site with a few friends we negotiated with publishers directly for advertising, and managed to get quite good deals.

I’m not sure why you think this is so complicated or impossible.
A dataframe for Rust
It's not unrealistic to suspect that at age 56 someone could code for 25 years or more. Retirement is more and more of a myth anyway these days...I mean social security ain't going to pay for a condo overlooking the 7th fairway and trips to Europe.
The Social Security Trust fund generally runs a surplus (as recently as 2014 it added $25 billion.) However it's projected that around 2030-2034 the number of recipients will be drawing more than is being paid in. At that point your statement will become more correct than it currently is.
The request time is pretty much what you would expect running PhantomJs on a Amazon/Google/Msft VM, which is roughly 2x longer than running the same request in your desktop browser.

Regarding your suggestion on dedicated workers, the main benefit (USP) of PhantomJsCloud is the scaleability to hundreds/thousands of requests, so I think dedicated workers is a bit counter to that. However if I can figure out a nice way to securely let people run PhantomJs directly (remote code execution), dedicated workers would undoubtedly open up a lot more interesting use cases.
Show HN: My First Open-Source Project on iOS & Swift, Credit Card UI
Bingo!

This is the best attitude I have seen in the whole thread. Social Security is an authoritarian play, or a power play.

Another way to look at it: if every single US tax payer had to manually pay their taxes, instead of them being auto-drawn from their respective W2 employer, you'd see more people asking the question "who's money is this really?"

This is why the fair tax or similar plans will never pass. The power to silently tax people is too good for big brother.
Oscar is trying to disrupt health care in a hurricane
Someone planned poorly. I back lots of projects year round, and I've learned not to rest on crowdfunding for gift giving until I have the product in hand. Still waiting for the Orbitkey 2.0 that I intended as a gift, but I'm not too concerned about it. Didn't bring it up at all. Still have about 5 other gifts from Kickstarter that haven't shown up that I intend to give as gifts as well. Some were intended to be huge gifts with "wow" factor, but I've learned after 3 years of crowdfunded Christmases that there's a lot of risk involved.

I backed the original Anova 2 Kickstarter, and I was very pleased with their customer service. They initially missed shipping my order of two units, until I noticed I was missing an expected shipping email and contacted them. Not only did they hustle to get my product to me on time, they gave me two additional units gratis.
We're also hiring extensively for Sales across levels in cities across the US and internationally: http://grnh.se/dnb8h6
How often would one need to use a backdoor Roth contribution? Seems like something you would need to execute every year.
So, this happens to me all the time also - from the month I got the phone (Nov/Dec 2015) in fact.

It seems to die with battery as high as 60%, though it only happens in cold weather conditions, and then immediately switch back on if plugged into a power source.

It's definitely cold-dependent in my case, and only started to show same problems again in November of 2016.
It may be true that companies have self-interested reasons to auto enroll people. However, as was being discussed the other day in a different context, defaults can also be a pretty powerful lever for encouraging people to make the "right" choice, where right = some policy outcome that is generally considered positive. Default 401-K enrollment at some level has been advocated by some economists like Richard Thaler as a way of improving the overall savings rate.

The argument boils down to that you're going to have a default anyway, even if it's zero. So why not make the default a value that's is at least closer to the optimum.
Tinsley isn't on that list, and I saw it claimed that his rating was 2700: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley

Chess has a floor of 1200 for novices. So I'm not sure your point.
Not necessarily. The Australian superannuation program has compulsory contributions but the money goes into an account in your own name.
The only reason it worked for youtube is that they were the only service offering reliable high quality video. Other video hosts had problems with loading times and reliability.

Youtube is arguably a more valuable service in that it takes way more infrastructure to run a video hosting site than it does to run what is essentially, a simple blog. It would probably take no more than a year of development experience to build a site like Medium(leaving out scaling concerns). Youtube, on the other hand is a beast. I can't even imagine beginning to build an application like youtube. Youtube can push ads hard without bleeding users because they offer quality so many orders of magnitude higher than the alternatives. Medium has only one thing to offer: nice design.
Good on them for calling it a "Mobile Desktop" instead of a laptop.
Finally some resolution to this e-drama!
It's somewhat easier (pressing a button on a USB device vs manually typing in a short code) and more secure (malware cannot steal the key from the USB dongle, and it's physically secure against tampering).
Don't be so sure. The so called Fake-News / Facebook stories is partly credited with Trump win. Mark Zuckerberg has over 70 million followers and likes etc. All he has to do is sit back and let his Campaign PR team go nuts over that page :) https://www.facebook.com/zuck
Investors know this and won't invest. At least as won't invest at as high of a valuation. My preference is bootstrap, that way I can make my own mistakes and not someone elses, which is what happens when investors meddle.
401k is such a scam, you get a handful of high fee funds to invest in. Wall Street thieves billions of dollars, all sanctioned by the government and encouraged by the financial advise industry.

Employees should only contribute to a 401k up to any employer match. Beyond that put your money in an IRA.
Extreme weather in Finland: Cold record snaps at -41.7, lightning strikes south
Woz famously hand-assembled the Apple ][ ROM, in fact.
I believe they're describing U2F, and share your perception that at some point in the past these were just keyboards.

[1] describes the flow at a high level, and [2] goes into more details

[1]: https://www.yubico.com/about/background/fido/

[2]: https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Overview....
I apologize if the answer is obvious, but could someone explain to me the rationale behind a blogging platform taking 132M in venture funding?

This isn't critique of their strategy or anything. I'm genuinely curious as to why they would do that. I'm sure their engineering is great, but does it really take that much money to build and scale such a product? It seemed like most of their marketing was organic too. I'm just trying to understand the situation better.
No it doesn't. Systems like Otto, do level 4, self driving for trucks on highways. These are on the roads right now.

The truck drivers can just get up out of their seat and do something else. There goes 90% of truck jobs, as now you only need a driver for the first and last parts of a trip.

Other benefits: saved lives. The more highway driver cars we have, the less that humans will be driving, and the less chance that a human will make a mistake.

The level 2 and 3 stuff on a Tesla, is already a better driver than most humans.
At 51, I've learned to enjoy the fact that there are about as many different kinds of people in the world as there are people. A surprisingly vast number of them are surprisingly intelligent if I am just willing to listen and learn and have an open mind.

Anyway, getting older tends to beat the alternatives.
My general point applies to human thinking in general not just Go.

Example: Would you fly on a plane designed ultimately by a human vs an impenetrable black box?

Also there is a spectrum. Let us not pretend otherwise.

1. One end: No explanations.

2. Middle: Seometimes false explanataions and sometimes true explanations.

3. Other end: Always true explanations.

Are we really saying the middle is completely useless?
Sounds like half the story.

The libreboot website says that they left GNU to protest transgender discrimination at the FSF.[0]

[0] https://libreboot.org/
Do we really need to understand the whole stack that goes into a decission?

That means we have to start with physics.
I started http://somatic.io by myself, it has been growing steadily and now have a small team. I think of it as an image processing research company and it is my passion so I plan to work on it as long as a I can.
Building a Web App in React and ASP.NET Core – Part 2
I'm not even done reading this article, but it's already given me a great deal to think about. I work with technology every day, and my gaze is (understandably?) forward looking. I'm beginning to think that I don't really know anything about history. And I'm beginning to feel like that's a mistake.

Let's say I wanted to test this theory and begin to address the deficiency. Anyone have some suggestions on where to start? What should I start reading?
I've never heard of a public-benefit corporation, but that's really interesting. I work in the non-profit sector, and I've noticed a few areas where every non-profit feels like they need help. I've basically automated a way to solve these issues for my organization, and I think it would be cool to use my experience to build a product that other NPOs could use. The structure of the company has been driving me nuts though, because there are a lot of ways the company could be modified to be substantially similar to the one I'm envisioning, but fail to help. A Public-Benefit Corporation seems like it might be the solution, even if it does make the company less appealing to VC.
8 years is a century to network with the most powerful people in the world.
That's why we need immigration policies that let us keep enough working age people in the country
I'd love to replace my YubiKey Neo with the USB-C version because it looks more rugged. That said my Neo works fine but I fear it destroying a USB port after a minor accident.

However, my problem with USB-C is while it works great on my laptop, my desktop doesn't have a USB-C port anywhere near my desk or keyboard. I'd have to buy a hub or something. I'm sure this will get better as I find excuses to replace parts of my desktop hardware.
Thank you for the suggestion, I think I will give it a try :)
"You need to change that attitude or your complacency will allow politicians to take it from you."

I really don't like the glibness of that sentiment, even if the idea is fine. As a voter or constituent, yeah, fight for Social Security, try to maintain it.

But as an investor? Recognize that your personal view has approximately no impact on whether Social Security exists unless you run for high office or devote your life to the topic. Make your best guess and save accordingly.

People shouldn't make their individual choices around the political views they support, because most individuals have virtually no influence on national outcomes.
Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/54agii/richard_stall...

Original email that sparked the controversy: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00036...
You can get around this by contributing to a traditional IRA and then converting it to a Roth. This is easy to do (until law changes) unless you have an existing traditional IRA where you can take a tax hit.
Samsung's New Chromebooks May Be Rivals for Intel and Microsoft – Digital Trends
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>You are looking to sync bookmarks through a server you host yourself?

Sure, just a way to keep bookmarks synced when I might switch systems/browsers without having to manually export-import them every time.
As a Canadian that hates that all my all my online shopping is dominated by US ads, reviews and prices I really want to like this. It has some great features, especially the price history tracker, but lacks usability.

I have no idea what the fu number is. Your FAQ says "which indicates how good is a particular price offer" but what is good, how is it measured?

A much harder problem is the issue of the same device given different names at different resellers to avoid price matching. For the few laptops and TVs I tested there were multiple listings on your site for the same model and for all but one the manufacture website had a lower price than the lowest you listed.
Nailed it with the two types of people.

In my experience, a lot of it came down to how people approached the program. It was either:

"I have n weeks to learn as much as I can in order to catch up and be competitive with people with formal education and more experience"

or

"In n weeks I will have the skills needed to get a job in this field"

Most of the complaining about the program came from the 2nd group. People in the 1st group got better jobs, faster.
Only partially, unfortunately. One of the things sophisticated fraudsters do is replay actual user sessions to build fake profiles. That is, they record scrolls and clicks on compromised devices, and have other users build similar profiles by following similar sessions on other compromised devices. This includes browsing FB and interacting with AdWords of course, and screws up PPV, PPC, and PPI metrics all over.

On top of building more valuable fake user profiles for the latter two purposes, doing this allows to bypass click-density based ad fraud detection. See this article for an example of what you see when you can sometimes observe using the latter when detecting the less sophisticated fraudsters:

http://adage.com/article/digital/inside-google-s-secret-war-...

As the latter article implies, Google's team is pretty sophisticated at detecting fraud. But even then, seeing things like this suggests there are edge cases they'd like to see go away or that are hard to detect:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228
Yep, you do it every year.
I will offer a counter opinion, the problem with Medium (or to some extent Quora) is not that they raised too much funding but rather they bet incorrectly on the content. As much as readers on Hacker News might want to believe otherwise, light/low-intellectual-effort content such as memes, listicles, gifs, images are far far more profitable than wordy blogposts & articles. Sure you might get lucky and have a viral article once in a while, but low effort content delivers far better median return.

Regarding the funding, consider that Buzzfeed has raised 446.3M$ and Giphy has raised 150.95M$. The money raised is consistent with the kind of site he had envisioned, the issue is that there isn't a market for it.
That's pretty cool. How do you detect product edges?
Don't forget things like standing behind your product and replacing it when things go wrong, because this is security after all.[1]

Alternatively, I bet they could sell them for less and deny all future security issues or ask that you throw them away when they are inevitable discovered.

[1] https://www.yubico.com/2015/04/yubikey-neo-openpgp-security-...
The general protocol is U2F:

https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/

Yubico has some python code here:

https://github.com/Yubico/python-u2flib-host

https://github.com/Yubico/python-u2flib-server

Chrome builds U2F into the browser itself for website authentication.
Bear in mind that "it goes broke" isn't the only failure mode, and it's certainly not what I consider most likely. Every few years there's another push to privatize Social Security - you don't just have to count on the mathematical solvency of the program but also its political viability.
Exactly my thoughts. Finally a yubikey I don't have to worry about breaking. Admittedly, I've never broke one, but I still live in fear of doing so.

I'm surprised folks like the Neo though. I rarely use mine anymore as I kept accidentally triggering it when I carried my laptop to meetings.
I mean surely the biggest thing is that if my ATT service goes out I can probably get someone on the phone (especially if I'm a business customer).
I agree, it a good idea if a struggling farmer in a third world country need the help and the kit is available.

I didn't mean to sound dismissive but I pictured some random person ordering a farm kit off Amazon.

We all need to eat but I think farming is seen as a nothing job by many people in urban areas.
I think that is reading into the quote too much, but I can see where you are coming from. I agree with you that such reasoning is a bit absurd.
I don't think I've seen anything less than 7-12 days, and that's only if the seller has a U.S. warehouse. AliExpress is definitely not the place for fast shipping.

Most sellers on there only have China warehouses, and the free shipping option is 2-4 weeks+.

You can check whatever you're interested in on AliExpress though. It's the consumer version of AliBaba, which means the price and shipping info are always included in the listing. AliBaba is the one where you need to negotiate all the terms: Price, shipping, minimum order quantity, etc.
Rust _can_ be faster than C or C++. The possibility is different than always, though.
Apple Pulled New York Times' News App from China's App Store
The product works well for consumer use cases. However, when it comes to business use their technology isn't there yet. The upcoming Project Infinite will however be a step forward.
Not necessarily. If the system morphed into a required savings rate, then it could still be 'yours' without being optional.
To make this even more confusing, the FSF disputes that there was harrasment [1] and one Libreboot contributor states that the Libreboot maintainer did not speak on behalf of the whole project [2].

[1] https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-statement

[2] http://zammit.org/libreboot-screwup.html
The same thing has happened in poker. The computer plays moves that are "obviously bad" according to human heuristics -- frequent limp opening and donk(ey) betting -- yet the computer is able to incorporate those moves into its strategy successfully.
I thought that way in my early- to mid-20s.

I read lots of thoughtful articles about how SS was broke, wouldn't last, etc.

As I got a little older, I started reading more about the history of SS, how it's always needed various adjustments over time, how people have always said it's going broke, it's unsustainable, etc.

I realized that, for most of its history, the people who have said those things are actually more likely the ones who'd like it to go away entirely.

While everyone else just makes the changes necessary to keep it going.

After a while, I found I'd move into the "let's just make the changes necessary to keep it going, because it's a good program and has always had its detractors" camp. (which is where I am now.)
...the SSTF holds exclusively US Treasury notes and bonds as assets.

You're describing a distinction without a difference, as other parts of the USG have already spent the surplus.
Research on code coverage
Funny, I signed up for your $10/month plan just yesterday. I found out about you from a StackOverflow answer you posted and thought to tell you that you should answer other questions like "get location from IP address {{ language }}". In particular there was one for Python I didn't see your service listed for, and it took me quite a while to find your service which I'm very pleased with so far.
Locking comments to subscribers only is an awesome idea. I always thought reddit gold was a pretty good idea as well. Reminds me of Something Awful - 5 bucks to register kept out the worst commenters. Mostly.
> offering a superior alternative to larger, better funded incumbent institutions.

I don't know that that is necessarily an accurate way of describing the role of a private school.
Unlike TOTP, U2F devices like the Yubikey protect against phishing attacks. The more expensive (not-just-U2F) Yubikeys also work as a GPG smartcard, which you can use for things like SSH authentication.