skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yubikeys actually seem pretty durable; that seems to be the gist of the opinions I've read on their durability. A piece of anecdotal evidence; I am carrying an older model Yubikey on my keyring, and it is holding up pretty well (almost two years now).

They certainly don't come across as flimsy.
This seems to be the sentiment of younger professional workers. My wife has this view (we are both 32). I used to have it, but I doubt that SS won't be around in some form. It may pay out less or be means tested in the future, however.

I have not heard this sentiment from younger blue collar and service workers, who are much more likely to need to rely on social security. I'm planning our retirement without needing any SS money, and whatever we get will just be some extra on top. Many non-professionals don't have this luxury.
On the brighter side, AdNauseam got a lot of publicity due to the ban and will get even more. AdNauseam got acknowledged by Google as being dangerous to their business model. This fact is very good, in my opinion.

Personally, I first heard about this extension a month ago and didn't pay much attention to it then. Now I want to install it.
The user invited me into their house/onto their device though, so I think we can do better on the analogy front.
50USD for what I'd guess is about 1USD of components.

Not that this isn't justifiable... just the way it goes when most of the cash goes into development perhaps.
You're too paranoid. I think it's more easily explained by the company executives acting in self-interested ways to get participation up so that the 401(k) plans don't run afoul of anti-discrimination rules.
If you want a fun side project write a 6502 assembler. It's not nearly as hard as you might think! I wrote one in Python to be part of a game I was working on. I got it up and running in a day or so. It's something that improved my skills and was fun to work on!
Alright, how about an example with no orders? Let's say you think the police state is evil, and you wish to destroy it by wasting its resources. Is making automated empty 911 calls justified?

Just because you intend to use the 911 hotline as an emergency resource surely shouldn't impede my right as a phone owner from calling it in the manner you intended. It's my god-given right as a phonebook owner to call whatever numbers I see fit in whatever quantities I want to.

It doesn't even have to be 911. You can DDOS the phone lines of any business to make them less effective. Is this ethically defensible?
> * Greater than: 8 -gt 6 ( why isn't this 8 > 6 ?)

Wouldn't that be ambiguous with ">" when used for redirecting IO?
I had problem with diagrams for my blog. Graphviz and similar tools did not really worked for me.

Best solution for me was to take pencils and scanner:

http://www.mapdb.org/blog/lsm_store_and_updates/

http://www.mapdb.org/images/blog/lsm-find.jpeg
Haven't heard of AdNauseam before but I think I'm going to install it now.
I've used crawlera for a few years, but not at the same scale. Might be worth checking out, anyway: https://scrapinghub.com/crawlera/
I'm 31 and couldn't agree more. I know I'll never have a pension in my life. I also don't expect Social Security to be around.

I think it _could_ still be around, but I expect it to be replaced with something else or scrapped entirely.

IMO, it's life or death to save properly for retirement.
There is. It's called return

I know. Just to be sure, my beef is that:

function test() {
1
return 2
}

still returns @(1,2), not just 2
Tuning PostgreSQL with pgbench
75 people employed for 4 years at ~$200k/head + rent in the heart of SF for 4 years at Market and O'Farrell + Amazon + ...
Timezone are pretty awful for across the ocean work, but within most countries is pretty minimal. An hour or two is really a low bar objection to telecommuting.
Mozilla is really just another software company owned by a nonprofit. They have hundreds of millions in revenue and have been "profitable" in many/all years. But they are definitely much smaller than Google/Apple/MS and can't benefit from ecosystem lock-in effects.
Probably irrelevant, but I'm tired of seeing angled pictures of blurry code that looks like minified javascript on every article about software development from a business-focused source.

Can we get some better stock images?
If you have something worth getting money for, sell it. I'd happily pay to read quality content that I'm interested in if it doesn't have ads.
The PC is interesting again
"It's turtles all the way down", or namely, "new" standards are built from old ones

Display port may not be electrically HDMI, but logically it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

And HDMI is based on DVI: "CEA-861 signals carried by HDMI are electrically compatible with the CEA-861 signals used by the digital visual interface (DVI). No signal conversion is necessary, nor is there a loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
Yeah, it's basically a smart card you can use with a bunch of popular sites like Google, GitHub, Dropbox, etc. (See http://www.dongleauth.info/ for a more extensive list.) Based on an open standard (FIDO U2F). Some versions also support storing PGP keys and the like.
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Yes, that is correct. I generally prefer to have my 401k all pre-tax (traditional) and my IRA post-tax (roth) to make it easier to manage. Also, this would open doors for backdoor roth IRA contribution once you go over the government's income limit for contributing to IRA, but this is a whole different topic.
This is really great! I'll have to try it out sometime.

I've been wanting a "replacement" for Alfred for years. Not because i dislike Alfred, i love it; But because it's a tool locking me to OSX.

These days i want me tools to be cross platform and a good core UX, even if that means i have to drop features. It's why i like CLI tools so much.
I read this a lot. Why do you expect this to be the case?

Social Security may become unable to pay the benefits that you're expecting at some point because the input from workers will not be enough to pay those benefits. But that doesn't mean it will pay nothing. It will just pay less. You'll still get some payments.
I'm counting on basic income being a thing when I retire.
Reminds me of the Dell XPS laptops which were like bricks, incredibly heavy. Not to mention the battery life was awful and the power brick was huge. Two of my college roommates had them and I remember they had huge backpacks and lugged them around campus.

I guess the people who would want these laptops don't care too much about portability or battery life?
Why is the funding so low relative to oncology research in general? Does the FDA not allow pediatric cancer therapies to be developed as orphaned drugs or is the growing nature of a child really make it that difficult to target pediatric cancers? Is it because cancer is far more common in the elderly who have much more political leverage?
Sadly, HDMI alternate mode currently only supports HDMI 1.4b.
Note that Roth IRA has an Income Limit. Ex. You can't contribute at all as a single filer if you make more than $131k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_IRA#Income_limits
Compete.com Shutdown
> Here's the podcast where the bitcoin "market" fails NPR in just the first few minutes: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/29/484029238/episo....

The "market" didn't fail NPR, a single transaction took longer than expected due to the transaction fee being too low at the time being sent. That's how markets work, and it's OK if you don't understand markets, but don't run around claiming that something has failed because you haven't taken the time to learn.

> I said bitcoin has failed to scale because the miners who have consensus control won't accept any of the forks to increase blocksize. Bitcoin hasn't failed once, twice, but five times now with BIP 100, 101, 102, 103, and 109.

That's not "failing to scale" because you don't know the end result. If bitcoin implemented those bip's and failed as a network it also "failed to scale" but even more it now failed as entirely.

> If you think existence is proof of success, then I have some very successful beanie babies to sell you.

Show me the current market for beanie babies, and I'll show you bitcoin's CURRENT tx volume, price increase over time, and market cap. It's not existence as proof, it was to show you that one needs patience. Bitcoin's utility is increasing. These other projects have 0 utility. If you disagree please show me anytime other blockchain projects real utility, that's not speculative.
I loved 6809. It's the design of th instruction set that I loved, its simple consistency. That and the fact that it had a SEX (sign extend) function, and two stacks.
Thanks for sharing so much information about your business, your work is very cool and this is a fabulous post. I'm just getting into game development as a hobby. I'm really interested in indie stuff, simpler games that can be made by one person.
I think you may have misunderstood my comment, as I did not mean to disparage Rust's speed nor imply it was slower than C/C++. Rust, at best, can match C/C++. But Rust cannot be faster than C/C++; therefore, by function of simply being rewritten in rust (and not because it was rewritten), that does not, in and of itself, make the resulting executables faster.
Try a video game, you will notice the difference instantly.
There's no public space on the internet. Everything is somebody's yard.

This is Y Combinator's yard. YouTube is Google's yard. So is the Chrome Web Store.
Most American cities ;p
It's interesting to think what the other non ad based models might be:

1. SAAS Freemium: It's free to write on Medium, but if you want a real domain and a few more features pay $10/mo

2. Patreon-ish: Direct monthly sponsorship (subscription) to individual authors

3. Fractional Payment: Overall subscription to Medium as a service payed by readers. Authors are paid according to a formula for how many people viewed their content each month.

Any I missed?
> With the wealth of data that Facebook has on you, I'm confident they could figure out your name even if they didn't enforce a real name policy.

You seem to be making assumptions based on how you operate in the world and attributing superpowers to Facebook where there are none. I know people with Facebook accounts where their real name is not listed anywhere on the profile or in communications they have with others. These people do not fill in things like email address, phone number, place of work and other data that can be linked with address book uploads by other users. The people in these people's friends list are ok with communicating with the "non-real name" and haven't snitched even when Facebook tried to get them to.

> Just because some people are willing to still troll under their real names does not mean it doesn't have a substantive impact on people's behavior.
Heck, I personally have seen the difference in my own activity on Reddit (where I'm anonymous) and HN (where I'm not). I definitely hold myself to a higher standard here, even when arguments get heated, because this is part of my professional profile (and Reddit is not).

It's not just some people. I never said that all people who use real names behave badly on social names. But many do (as I said above, not just a few exceptions). Real names is a facade that Facebook uses to get more information about people, and does not influence bad behavior negatively in many cases. And your behavior and how you conduct yourself with respect to the use of real name or otherwise on different platforms is your choice. It has no bearing on what others do.
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Obviously the latter is more objectionable, but the big factors here are control and transparency.

For example, I'm uncomfortable serving ads from large networks because I don't know what the end-user will see and because it's nearly impossible for me to know how my users are being tracked. If your proposed solution was open-sourced and gave me full control of user data, I think that would make all the difference. With existing solutions, company A tracks users and iframes company B in so they can get in on the action. And maybe company B wants to loop company C in, too?

Many advertisers deliberately obscure these things because they're either unethical or part of their "secret sauce" -- it's less users having an issue with their view & click being recorded.
How many sellers have delivery times like that? Do any have 1-3 day shipping?

Is it because all products are coming from the far east?

I'm looking into making a dropshipping app, but for my niche anything more than 1-3 days would be a non-starter.
I'm a little dubious they can fit the Nano smarts inside the USB-C connector, like they did for USB-A. It's just so much smaller, and they didn't have a lot to work with before.
This model works for buying advertising space on ESPN, or in a print magazine, but not on the internet. Economies of scale, need for targeting, the inability to force unskippable 5-minute-long streams of ads on users...

There's a reason why everybody uses ad networks.
I've worn out multiple USB extension cables with my Yubikey, but the device itself is still going strong.
The great Converge: Über, Amazon, Google and Wheelys turning into one company
I've noticed something funny. Most of the biggest tech companies are, faster or slower, from different places, moving towards the same place.

To simplify things, the market is: You want something- you order something.
A movie? A cup of coffee? A TV? A trip to Madagascar?

Who will you order from? That will be the ONLY question.
The rest is just logistics.
Digital logistics as when Google sells travels, or physical logistics.

Hence, the the first question will be weather it is Über, Google or Amazon that accepts the order.

The second will be wether they own the distribution.

The third wether they own the factory.

Intrestingly, we all seem to go towards all three, from different places.

When does Amazon start selling taxi trips? When does Über start delivering Pizza? Oh, they already began. Well Google then? In their self driving cars.

Highlander!!
Yes, sailing unguarded floating dirty bombs past Somali pirates sounds like a wonderful idea.

I suspect a nuclear engine is drastically more expensive to build and maintain, not to mention the disposal issues others have mentioned.
iPhone 6 battery dying at 50% life?
When my iPhone 6 hits about 50%, the battery/phone then reports dead and shuts off. As soon I as plug in it goes right to +50%.
Vue-devtools 3.0 version released
"One IP address" as in "the address of the same NAT box"?

With IPv6 it could work, or maybe with the local IP address passed by the script at click time, but the latter would be trivial to forge.
Call it "The Homer"
Show HN: Bookmarks via email (Firefox extension)
Whether PV solar is in full-scale production is irrelevant, because PV can't supply baseline power.
If you want to correct someone, please correct them properly. You buy shares or instruments traded on Exchanges, which make up the "Stock Market". However, you don't always buy on Exchanges (OTC/Over the Counter Trading). Those instruments can be equities (shares of a company) aka stocks, securities, futures, options, etc.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (a common benchmark index such as the Standard and Poor's 500) is literally at an all time high and is on the cusp of 20,000: https://www.google.com/finance?cid=983582

Edit: Changes "shares in instruments to shares or instruments". It was a bit ambiguous and I was originally trying to make it more obvious that shares are considered instruments (along with several other things traded).
That would require someone on the stock image company's payroll who knows something about code. That costs money. How much are you willing to pay for articles with good stock photos?
How do you support this assertion?
Adding on the issue of refresh; I usually access HN on my iPhone - currently every back action triggers a _refresh_. A great example of back action handing is Reddit's mobile page.

Other than that the whole thing looks really neat.
On a sidenote, level 4 autonomy will be really interesting when it's all over the place. People are already "bad drivers" (in my opinion, and including myself), but not having to drive 75-90% of the time will mean we rob ourselves of the constant training that helps keep us somewhat competent at driving.

How bad will the roads be when we have thousands of people all very unsure of their driving skills driving in conditions that are dangerous to begin with? Seems quite the interesting issue.
Google already publishes diversity statistics.

Oh, of course! It seems so obvious. I see why so many people say the government is dumb and inefficient now. Why didn't they just check Google's marketing materials, take them at face value, and not want to know anything else in the first place?
Thanks. Honestly, I don't even think I'm a blip on the radar.

For most of 2016 I didn't really try to build an audience. I just posted on topics that interested me while not paying attention to anything.

Then I stopped blogging for a few months and really started to think about what I want to do (this happened about mid-year).

During that time I re-did my site and completely changed my mindset from "I want to make money" to "I want to create the best content I can on a specific subject".

I don't really use twitter or other platforms. I just post content on my site, and try to reply to comments on relevant sites (like HN and other tech sites) when it makes sense.
I originally looked at this as a need for our team which is why the company was involved in the first place, but as I developed the product and thought about it more, the idea evolved into seeing this as a need beyond just our company.

The reason I wanted to involve my employer now is because I want to test it in a controlled environment and see if it works/helps our team.

I'm not sure about selling the product, because my company policy claims that there can be no business ventures and freelance work conflicting or competing with their interests, which seems like standard protocol. This might technically make it a grey area, but I wouldn't assume that without legal guidance.

I have a good relationship with my company and would not make them a paying customer.
There's definitely research that suggests our ability to learn some things, like verbal languages, slows down with age --- though I wasn't able to find a cite for whether that decline is gradual or whether there's some inflection at adulthood. Either way, I'd just caution that we not automatically extrapolate from those findings to the broader claim that every new skill acquisition is similarly impacted.
This type of therapy (engineered cells) has been discussed for a long time but has yet to hit the mainstream. This trial is the first hit at that kind of mainstream success.

The problems with this type of approach are 1. Safety 2. Cost and 3. Target.

Gene therapy (and engineered cells) has a long history of deadly accidents. Before we start injecting people with engineered cells we need to be absolutely sure that those cells aren't going to turn into cancer themselves (or who knows what else). Results so far have been promising.

This is niche personalized medicine, as a result it is extremely expensive. These cells need to be customized for each patient. However, considering what's at stake, it may be worth the it.

As the article states, the target is a problem. Leukemia and Lymphoma are easy targets compared to more truculent solid tumors. For this to cause a revolution in cancer research it needs to be able to address a wider swath of cancers (not just blood cancers).

Tl;DR : This is an incremental step along a new path. Another promising tool in growing toolbox.
Yes and no. If you don’t click on ads you make advertising irrelevant but they’ll still keep collecting data on your behavior. Sure in the long run if everyone stopped clicking on ads it would be game over for the whole advertising industry. But in the meantime we can wreck havoc on their tactics.
What is SV?
Discord is great and provides a lot of features. So it didn't appeared as a necesity :)
Interval-Valued Fuzzy Graph Representation of Concept Lattice [pdf]
FYI - this is a snarky reply
> "I'm not planning on Social Security being around by the time I'm old enough to tap into it"

You need to change that attitude or your complacency will allow politicians to take it from you. The fact is you pay ~16% of your paycheck into social security and medicare, it is designed to be like a pension. It is not an entitlement, it's your money.
Yeah, for the moment at least USB-C isn't universal enough that I'd be comfortable carrying a key that _only_ works with devices that have USB-C ports. Maybe in a few years...
Maybe a little out of scope, but, is it not the important issue if the society we live when we retire is richer or poorer than the society today?

I mean, if we live in a society, for instance, three times richer (per capita) than today, it would be very strange that old people will have a hard time.

In the other hand, if it's a poorer society, even people with savings are probably to have a hard retirement.
Yeah, I worked for a startup that grew large quickly through a drive to get innovations to market fast and fix bugs later, and what slowed us down was winning enough large contracts with enterprise companies and governments who wanted more and more red tape and documentation and guaranteed processes, and basically exported their risk-averse culture to us.

We worked around this by having separate release channels, one for our enterprisey customers who opposed all change, and one for our customers who just wanted the coolest things first and were willing to accept some rough edges and lack of documentation.

That doesn't work if _all_ your customers are risk-averse, of course.
I have a less durable, cheaper U2F key, which is sort of the opposite of what you were asking for. I actually don't know of anything that's more durable... the yubikeys that fit inside a USB A port are pretty damn durable.
Man, you're gonna flip when you see https://buffer.baremetrics.com/.