skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Comey is a symptom of the kind of cowardly, authority-respecting society we've become.

I am an Indian citizen living in USA and I think American society must take the blame here and not the politicians. The way society thinks and votes I think only a total narcissist moron can succeed in US administration.

The fastest way to rise to top (as we saw in case of Obama and Trump) is to find some target group and blame that group for the failure of other larger society. The larger society is far too quick to raise pitchforks and burn the other group at stake.

It is depressing to see that large % of Americans have seen inside of jail. A lot of people labeled as "suspected terrorist" or "sex offenders" are no where close to the common sense definition of those words. But once you have that label rest of the society treats you like utter shit. You cant find a job, state can put any arbitrary restrictions on all your freedoms etc.

Unless US society learns to be compassionate and stand up for the rights of even those "deplorable" people purely as matter of principle I don't think there is any scope for optimism.

I remember Ron Paul's words "Once you give up some liberty, you are not going to get it back, ever!"
Native, Ionic or React Native
iOS requires the application to explicitly ask for permission before it can access the microphone. Does Android not have any sort of similar explicit permission grant?
Usually find something you use. OSS projects love small/scoped fixes. There are a ton of underlooked at sections of larger projects like docs, minor optimizations,..

If you can, try to look at how the project communicates with the community (mailing list, irc, gitter,slack,..) and just ask the community where the pain points are if you can't find any open issues.
Could your thoughts make you age faster?
Why would you tie an economy's capacity with the limited supply of a good? These trillions of debt (could) have created equivalent value in infrastructure, education, military power etc. The fact that the gold equivalent of what amounts to a whole economy does not exist is not an indication that the value is not there in the economy.
Yeah. There's a lot of security information that is easy to understand, but not very accessible. I've been thinking about writing a book on that topic, for that very reason.

Start out with things like, "don't leave your telnet port open" which seems obvious, but apparently is hard for a lot of people. Then from there lead to a reasonable understanding of metasploit.
I have no issues with your question and was happy to provide a response.

Not sure why the downvote brigade decided to drop by your comment.
The irony here is that simple one-time-pad solutions (OTP) will continue to be available to securely encrypt the sort of messaging that's of use to terrorists (relatively short infrequent messages), instead it's the general communications (including for banking) that the rest of us perform online that will be made vulnerable.

You don't even have to program or use a computer to create these OTP solutions, for limited messages you could just flip a coin to create the OTP if necessary (although there are lots of more automated solutions available as well.)

Airgapped computers at both ends provide another way 'round restrictions for more sophisticated actors. Their backdoors won't be accessible (remotely.)

So taking away secure encryption from the rest of us is just security theatre; a destructive, narcissistic legislative exercise designed to make it look like the pompous powerful doing something when they're doing nothing of any real use while creating terrible risks.

This is why, I think, legislators have consistently ignoring logic and math from professionals such as the OP - they don't care. They know perfectly well they're pissing into the wind doing nothing useful; that it's all theatre; they just think the fallout is going to land on someone else's pants after they're out of office. But tech works (and fails) faster than that.

[Counterargument: if everything else is breakable, securely encrypted messages really stand out. One answer: But very short messages (in an unknown format) aren't generally breakable, anyway, and that's the likely case.]
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"Just much, the ultimate cost is big question."

There's a really interesting Radiolab episode that deals with this question.[1]

To quote from the episode:

"What do you do if you have a really expensive drug that's really, really good? ... Everyone that I know pointed me to this new drug, it's called Sovaldi... it is a drug that treats Hepatitis C, which is caused by a virus, and the disease itself goes to work on your liver, it inflames it, it scars it, it can cause liver cancer, cirrhosis, it can be fatal, and for the longest time the treatments that they had weren't that great or they just had wretched side effects, and along comes Sovaldi. It's one pill, twelve weeks, you take it with some other antiviral meds, it's a super simple treatment option, and the side effects are very minimal. It was kind of like the wonder drug. So a lot of doctors start to prescribe it. In the first half of 2013 70,000 people in the United States were treated, and it had a 95% rate of cure, in other words the virus was erradicated... but this drug costs $1000 dollars a pill, for one pill that I take one a day..."

Now imagine how much a cure for aging would cost.

[1] - http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-year-life-worth/
VMs adds a noticeable overhead / performance hit.

Besides the benefits the new JIT provides, Zing will help you if your workload runs with / consumes over 8GB of RAM. At this point, HotSpot GC pauses [1] starts becoming noticeable (i.e. jitter).

Notes:

[1] - http://www.azul.com/resources/azul-technology/zing-consisten...
Ubiquity's products do traffic analysis locally, as you propose. Their Edgerouter X is MSRP $49 USD.. It's based on Debian/Vyatta.

On the router, without sending data to someone else's computer, it will give breakdowns based on Protocol & Destination (e.g. SIP, IMAP, Amazon, Facebook).

As I understand the definitions as downloaded periodically/automatically from Ubiquity.

So yes, this is not just theoretically possible, this capability exists in the marketplace, and it's demonstrably inexpensive to do.
That sounds like intentional malice rather than an accident. If you can't bounce a cheque safely, you don't really have a bank; you have a loan shark.
Downvotes seem to be accurate. My sources (some time ago) seem to have misinformed me.
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I have zero reason to use this but i love it - thanks!
> health-care is still costly to others

That's exactly the point I was making.
Syntax highlighting is laughably bad

The "int" in "maintained" is highlighted in checkup_test.go as a type
Python wrapper for multiple APIs, that provide catchments-areas
This is objectively true, so the downvotes are a bit baffling. Credit ratings are directly related to the rate premium bond holders demand for the extra credit risk. It is simply a fact that if the credit ratings are lowered to a sufficient extent, the rate that investors demand for the borrowing will make it no longer feasible.
I think there a "tragedy of the commons" sort of moral responsibility here to only take out loans you have a good chance of paying off as you theoretically raise interest rates for everyone else.
Faster CPU does not eliminate GC pauses if your workload consumes a large amount of RAM. This is one of the other benefits which Zing provides.
I'd say it depends what you're focusing on. If you're doing anything that is multi-threading, then yes. Otherwise, it's just not something you'd use but probably interesting to know ;)
Error handling, which includes logging the error, should almost always be the responsibility of the caller. Only the caller knows why the call was made, and only the caller knows the impact of the error on what the caller is trying to do.
> I'd love to collapse all of my recurring payments into a monthly report, that I can review and authorize.

Yes, even just a list of the recurring payments (that is updated in realtime and that you can centrally discontinue) should be available to the banking consumer -- and it should be the responsibility of the banking entity to provide this feature.

The do not, because the financial sector makes its revenue from payments occurring, rather than not. A consumer would naturally gravitate towards a bank that was not limited by this concern (or derived equivalent profit elsewhere for provision of value)
Awesome little paper. I wish there were more papers like this!
BTW, you guys might enjoy https://betterexplained.com - the author explains math concepts in new more intuitive ways.

The folks at Fermat's Library actually annotated this paper not too long ago:
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/how-to-explain-zero-knowledge-p...
Holy crap, I've seen a Saturn V and but it took this to make the standing size sink in.
Have you seen plaid.com? Also - yes :)
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If a bank is making loans at rates that do not cover defaults they should go out of business because they are crappy at their job.

If I take my car to a mechanic am I expected to know as much about my car as the mechanic? Do I tear down and redo/inspect any work they do to my car? If I go to a mechanic and ask them if it's okay to do something dangerous to my car and they go ahead and do it, I'd say the mechanic is way more on the hook morally than the idiot driver.

Similarly if I go and ask for a 1,000,000 USD mortgage when I'm only making $20,000 USD a year and have no savings or investments and the bank gives it me... You're saying both me and bank are on equal moral footing? You would then have to ask what incentive the bank had to give me the money. Either they are greedy and wanted to charge a super high rate or they intended to pass the buck and sell the loan which can be fraud if they lie about my credit worthiness to the next buyer of the loan.
Comparing to an incorrect benchmark (MSCI All-World) post-facto isn't exactly a get out of jail free card for trailing the benchmark that was known at the time of the bet. It just shows you're pretty desparate for excuses.
I really, really like this approach to data, and there's so many advantages beyond the ones outlined there: if you could turn that collection approach into a universal/OS-level API you could have some kind of setup where user data by default stays on the device, then to use it, the app/app server has to request it explicitly (allowing the user easy and powerful, but granular control over who gets what data) and then user data is further protected by the other measures talked about in their paper.

Some level of public education is also required I think, to make people aware of the value/threat of just giving everything up every time someone asks for it.
I heard Chariot got bought by Ford
One time pads are perfect! Everything less than that trades security for convenience. So true.
I think you're being actively uncharitable, but I'll offer the other cheek and agree to call that "misunderstanding" instead.

My objection is to the use of the unemployment rate (as defined by most governments), not to the study of the actual economic phenomenon of unemployment. We should insist on using better or less massaged indicators (perhaps the labor participation rate, though I do not want to get into a discussion of which specific indicator to use as a replacement), instead of going along with the use of deceptive statistics.

If you think that is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I retort that throwing out a field's metaphorical babies can be an appropriate punishment for deceiving the public. Surely economists, of all people, can appreciate the importance of putting the correct incentives in place.
Uber seems to be the logical extreme of 'easier to beg forgiveness' mentality; there are no rules (explicit or implicit) or ethical boundaries that are not subject to be broken in pursuit of their goals.
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If you invoke panic(), sure. If the runtime invokes panic(), it might be in a pretty awful state (e.g. unable to allocate memory.)
> Mick wants only the one reporter to be convinced that Mick knows how to pass the wall.

I can see how this could provide a justification, but this is not implied in the story at all.
Here's a minimal Forth implementation built in Verilog to run on a Lattice iCE40 FPGA:

https://github.com/jamesbowman/swapforth/tree/master/j1a
I'm in central Kansas. The options here are basically satellite or if you are close to town, then up to 6Mbps DSL. We have DSL, but most of our friends/neighbors can't get it...
I'm not saying there are votes that shouldn't be counted, but I do think the electorate is generally so disengaged and uninformed that it makes a farce out of anything. It's like a blind person attempting to drive a car. It's still better than non-democratic alternatives, but I think that has more to do with how all of the arcane pieces that make up the system happen to divvy up power enough to prevent it from becoming too centralized, and there's sort of a looming threat that the people could turn against you. It isn't because the core concept of the people actually controlling their own government holds much weight, at least not in how most people seem to conceptualize it.

Really I'd like for this not to be the case, but at the moment it seems like that isn't likely to happen anytime before I'm dead.
Puerto Rican statehood and / or independence is not up to the citizens of PR by themselves, its up to the whole of the US.

The reasons for the civil war demonstrate why state / territory autonomy are subservient to the will of the majority.
> Microsoft, Intuit and CheckFree announced the OFX standard on 16 January 1997.

> Many banks in the US let customers use personal financial management software to automatically download their bank statements in OFX format, but most Canadian,[2][3][4] United Kingdom and Australian (CBA exports OFX and QIF files) banks do not allow this.

I'm not criticizing - we need to do better! Developers demand JSON!!! :)
The NSA will probably monitor the lines going from SpaceX ground stations to what ever Tier 1 ISP they are peering with.
I meant more from the investors angle. I definitely don't get any sense of confidence from the business point of view but I can see there is little doubt in your technical execution.

But there lies the problem. You are deeply attached with your ideas and product. You said yourself, you spent 19 years changing the world in this area but not satisfied. It makes sense why you would point to marketing as being the fault.
I hope you can see it from a passerby's point of view and not take offense at what is being said like the other guy below reacted.

When I spent a good chunk of my 20s writing software that I thought would change the world, I was defensive, had a huge ego ("My idea changed the industry and I feel like others with VC money have stolen the lime light"), and just refused to let things fail.

I admire that you've found happiness in life. There's more to life then just running a business and making money. I think it's definitely ignored in our world.
You wouldn't want to be the employee or manager who made an IP decision that landed your company on the wrong end of an Alphabet lawsuit.
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I didn't make any value statements on whether or not I think an asset backed currency is preferable. I just pointed out that the US defaulted on its debt when we told the world we weren't going to pay them back what we promised.
For a good intro to the Puerto Rico financial crisis, see this Planet Money podcast :

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/01/472733338/episo...
> Chinatown’s 80-plus produce markets are cheap because they are connected to a web of small farms and wholesalers that operate independently of the network supplying most mainstream supermarkets.

I don't get it.

Why can this web of small farms and wholesalers sell produce for less than normal suppliers can?

If Chinatown's suppliers are so much cheaper, why don't the other supermarkets use them too?

If Chinatown is consuming the entire output of these suppliers (explaining why the other supermarkets can't use the same source) then why don't the suppliers raise their prices? Even if some of the chinatown vendors could no longer afford the food, surely someone else would buy it.

Do plywood shelves at a grocery really make a noticeable difference in food prices?
Nomiku wants its sous vide food program to be the 'iTunes for your mouth.'
What he said. And some more details: all of those pictures (and all of my pictures to date) are jpeg right off the camera. No post processing, no HDR (which is why I'm proud of that fog picture. That's a freaking jpeg shot straight into the sun and I've got details in the shadows).

And the hawk stuff is usually a 600mm f4 lens. A touch different than a 56mm equiv. And one of those was on a 7D II, so 1.6x crop factor, so 960mm equiv.

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably buy that phone because the best camera is the one you have and you always have your phone. But it's never gonna replace that 200mm f2.0 lens with that yummy yummy bokeh. I'll happily be the dinosaur that is carrying around that heavy stuff as long as I can lift it. Makes me happy.
The idea is that it is currently infeasible to build a consumer product that updates itself that is not vulnerable to exploitation by the manufacturer (see Apple's San Bernardino case). It looks like the FBI would like legislation that grants them access to the manufacturer's de-facto backdoor without having to pay for a work order.
Considering how much more abundant we are, in terms of CPU, RAM, Disk space, compared to twenty years ago, and also in terms of food, clothing, shelter, compared to a thousand years ago, IMO we're only going to find more ways to consume the abundance in ever more less efficient ways, and won't escape "scarcity" within the next 100 years.
"The Jealous Reporter" section is entirely about this. Start from "But the judges and the experts could not tell the tapes apart."

In particular:

>The reporter who had gotten the exclusive story had been convinced at the time that Mick Ali knew the secret, but the reporter could not pass his conviction on to the judges in court or to the television audiences either.

>Mick Ali had achieved his real objective. He wanted, in fact, to show that it is possible to convince without revealing, and so without unveiling his secret.
These recommendations would have been great 6 months ago; unfortunately I just moved to San Antonio.. Actually, I'm flush for great tacos now :D
Rather than thinking about things you can't realistically change (sex/race), I would think about other things - e.g., is your company the sort of thing that VC's want to fund? And, do you really want VC?

If your business is VC-friendly, and you want to go on the VC ride, then yes, you should go for it. Even if you don't get funded, or even if funding doesn't go the way you want it to, you will learn a lot of interesting stuff and make a lot of good connections. I went through the VC cycle 2x in the first dot-com boom and learned a tremendous amount from it. (Including a lot of skepticism about whether or not VC is a good path for founders - it is absolutely not the only good path.)

This article does a reasonable job of helping identify which companies might be VC-compatible and which aren't:

https://medium.com/point-nine-news/the-rise-of-non-vc-compat...
LTCM was a special bunch though, especially because of the astounding amount of leverage at play.

There are certainly more modern examples like Pershing Square which bet big on Valeant, Chipotle and (short) Herbal-Life.

If you notice, the common trend seems to be lack of risk mitigation.
I created a sheet which shows the same calculation as above. It shows how when the selling price increases with respect to reference price(agreed between seller and broker) both benefit. Actual listing price on MLS does not have to be same as the reference price.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RZPJ0PxdZo-tMwsTG3g7...

This ensure that the seller broker interest is aligned with the seller. And the broker will tend to come up with a realistic price as reference price rather than an inflated price before signing the contract and then constant nagging for reducing the price after signing the contract.
If that were true, men who donated to sperm banks would feel like their lives were complete.
That's only a part of the story. The linear algebra and the GPU execution model are like the first step. To write a shader, you have to understand quite a few things about light, materials etc which is the hard part.
I didn't intend for this to be a 100% thing, I think there are a decent number of people who are probably a lot more well informed than I am, but when the large majority of voters opinions are so easily manipulated as to effectively be for sale, then what the hell is the point? It's not much different than an oligarchy, but it's made a bit better because our overlords have a lot of hoops to jump through the keep the show running.
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http://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/comt109w10/reading/Kraemer-...

>Negroponte seems to question whether teachers
are needed at all. Speaking about providing
the rural poor a solid educational basis for
development at the 2007 Digital, Life, Design
conference in Munich, Germany, Negroponte
said: “It’s not about training teachers. It’s not
about building schools. With all due respect
[to Hewlett-Packard’s e-inclusion efforts], it’s
not about curriculum or content. It’s about leveraging
the children themselves.

>David Cavallo, OLPC’s chief education architect,
says, “We’re hoping that these
countries won’t just make up ground
but will jump into a new educational
environment.”

The OLPC people thought they were going to cause a literal, actual revolution in learning. Didn't happen.
Oh please whatever your opinion might be saying

""" surprised anyone can still use the word "terrorism" with a straight face anymore
"""

Is quickest way to shut down conversation. Especially given horrific events in France, Ohio, Florida. Your argument is not only ridiculous its counter productive to anyone offering a balanced saner approach.
I'm always requesting constructive criticism like this from foreign-born coworkers, hoping for such valuable outside perspective, but they seldom provide it, no doubt hoping to avoid being offensive.

This is a really excellent point that you make.
Today, even US water is overly medicated–these scientists want to change that
Sadly, PCI compliance requirements believe otherwise :(
Basic auth doesn't use the DOM.
How I reverse engineer a chip [video]
TDMA needs accurate clocks to work. All cell sites have GPS receivers in them for time signal reception.
You overestimate how good humans are at driving.

I'd argue that the shit self driving cars we have right now are ALREADY statistically safer than humans.

You don't have to be perfect. Just better than an average driver. And average drivers are drunk, sleep deprived, and texting. That is a very low bar to pass.
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The only debate is over the degree of how bad CO2 is, but we know it is 'bad enough' to be avoided. Whether it's really bad or just bad, we should move on to alternatives without that problem. As someone else said below, this is roughly like asking if there will be millions of climate refugees or billions?
I'm sure it matters, but not as much as a surface analysis would lead you to believe. If we had to hoard a bunch of gold to back up the size of our economy, and further demanded our trade counterparts do the same, then the price of gold would've risen and our ownership proportion of the total sum of gold would've matched our proportional global wealth. I don't have a strong opinion on asset backed currencies, but most of the things armchair economists say about it seem pretty irrational.