skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you estimate his chance of death was in doing this climb? 1%? 5%? Most people would call someone who takes on that kind of deadly risk for nothing more than accomplishment and legacy, ie by choice, a daredevil.

If free soloing is not usually thrilling, or adrenaline inducing, but something you approach with care, methods, and preparation... what's the point of the induced-risk? Why not take on a similar challenge that's more difficult, minus the non-trivial probability of dead, like most other climbers do?

Gamers find themselves introducing more and more arbitrary challenges to make their accomplishments more difficult to achieve. The difference between gamers and free soloers, is that when gamers fail, they don't destroy, to various extents, the lives of all the people that loved and supported them as a side-effect of their failure, all because they thought it was a good idea to introduce deadly activities into their lives.

How is this not daredevil behavior?
It is and they do. You'll find many historical threads here discussing cases where interested parties were actively campaigning to thwart anti-MITM measures being added to TLS, because they broke their MITM attacks that their businesses depend on.
One of the best pieces written to date about this.

http://eveningsends.com/is-alex-honnolds-el-cap-free-solo-th...
This is really a great comment and should be at the top of so many fluffy hacker news posts.
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The article has an update which points to this:

"Hi there!
We were informed that there are open questions and some uncertainty about the use of our software by DENUVO GmbH.
Referring to this circumstance we want to clarify that DENUVO GmbH had the right to use our software in the past and has the right to use it currently as well as in the future.
In summary, no open issues exist between DENUVO GmbH and VMProtect Software for which reason you may ignore any other divergent information."

It would be interesting to see on which terms they settled the dispute (if any).
How to see if your connection is IPv6:

http://ipv6test.google.com/
She was clearly really into the Trump-Russia thing, and there's very little public evidence that there is a Trump-Russia thing. She saw something that she thought of as good evidence, and wanted to inform the public. Her intentions were good.
Er, what? I am struggling to understand how your comment relates to what I wrote. Once more:

1. Comparison of Harvard tuition to prisoner's costs is meaningless as done in the article

2. The article itself mentions costs raise mainly because of labor costs

3. The article itself mentions that drop in the inmates number did not reduce labor costs

4. The article does not mention any of the factors influencing labor costs.

Which evidence you think I am missing?
Picked up a copy, thank you! And thanks for the suggestion on proving things in area I already have an intuition for, maybe I'll do that in conjunction with reading the book.
good article, clear, and informative
I don't see how this would work. Building owners would simply sell their assets. They wouldn't be able to service the debt.

Then there'd be no homes/condos/etc. to rent. How do citizens, most with no cash savings, acquire housing then?
I won't call him gangly. He isn't even skinny in the sense most people assume (no muscle, stick figure).

He seems to have a lot of lean muscle (http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/06/05/ap_17155772401614...)
What? Stop. This is stupid.
IANAL, but I'd suggest that it doesn't matter how people "feel", there is a legal element here. For example, you can scrape NASDAQ data from any number of sites, but those sites pay NASDAQ for the data feed. You do not have the right to use that data. You need to get permission from NASDAQ. (I'm just using them as an example.

You don't really get to decide how somebody else's data gets used.

Using your sports stastics example, this will become a grey area as writing becomse more automated, but at the moment, a writer gets a 'statistic' like a score which is made publicly available. There are no limits on using that statistic. But you didn't automate the process of spreading the stats, you, in theory found a fact and wrote about it.

This is different from just giving a feed of stats, or linking through a bunch of services.
I was baffled to find that window snapping only works in fullscreen mode, better touch tool won't be leaving my computer for quite some time...
Why don't you believe OP? If OP wanted to advertise the site, wouldn't they just do a Show HN? Is this more effective to warrant being dishonest?
We're measuring 'eyeballs' based on google advert placement. And, China is notoriously hard to measure because of the GFC but that said, my contacts inside China confirm that globally routable IPv6 deployment inside China is stalled at a very low level, except for in CERNet, the academic network. This may change soon, it depends.
I get wood working on fashion recommendations, too.
There is this Android app that allows you to read your transit pass to check the balance. It's pretty handy with a Clipper Card, for example.

http://codebutler.github.io/farebot/

That said Chicago seems to have the most convenient system along the lines of what you're talking about -- you can use plain old tap and pay at the terminal with Apple Pay or Android Pay.
I am not a cryptographer, but my impression is that the points at which /dev/random stops are not well-justified. It doesn't directly pass out entropy, but instead feeds it through a cryptographically-secure PRNG first, making it a rather arbitrary line that's drawn to decide when entropy is 'exhausted'.

There was a brief HN discussion on the topic when FreeBSD made their change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550457
I thought Rohingya were persecuted before freedom of speech also.
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Depends what you mean by top tier. If you look at where CS professors did their Ph.D.s and where they end up teaching the top four are clearly CMU, MIT, Stanford and Berkeley. None of those are an Ivy. A school can be great without literally being top tier. UT Austin is a great law school but there is a top tier in law schools and it's not part of it[1].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_school_rankings_in_the_U...
Cities wouldn't like the property tax revenue drop either. And there'd be no housing to rent which is a problem for a huge % of the population.
What do I do as a single white male who's made to feel uncomfortable about how I was born and inferred qualities I may or may not have? None of the myriad of these articles address the gross double standard of who is allowed to be free of criticism, harassment and discrimination because it's dismissed as my feelings having no value.
website is kind of slow and some bugs..so i am wondering if refactoring or bugs fixing is worth it or switching to a new modern language.
Not really related with the article but curiously I have yet to see anybody calls himself a "neoliberal".
This comment is more amusing than educational, but for anyone who hasn't already, I recommend watching the Coen Brothers movie Burn After Reading.

When you watch it, you get the strong sense that this, rather than Jason Bourne or James Bond, is the movie that comes the closest to depicting what the intelligence community is actually like: nobody knows anything and everyone's bumbling about helplessly while they pretend to be omniscient, except they have a lot of leeway to (figuratively and literally) bury the bodies when things go sideways.
> The failure of IPv6 is also the success of IPv4 engineering. When IPv6 was designed in the mid 90s, there were many issues that might hold back IPv4 down the road.

Another big part of it is that all of the features of IPv6 except the address length change were back-ported to IPv4 (e.g. address auto-assignment and IPsec) removing the carrots and leaving only the "stick" of the IPv4 address shortage (which barely registered at all until a few years ago) to push people to v6.
Usually a team will pitch to the shift though. Ex. if the shift is to the left side on a right handed batter they're not going to throw him a fastball on the outside corner. And it's much harder to take an inside pitch to the opposite field. Then again, a good hitter will recognize this, set up for the inside pitch, and launch it over the fence.
As does the mentality of blaming individual problems on society.
Neoliberals are found in the same place as social justice warriors, the rational economic actor, millennials, and bigfoot.

(The Pacific Northwest?)
I think you're right that pure math is hidden too long, and with too many "applied" detours along the way. When I was getting my BS in math, I started hearing concepts my junior/senior year that would have done a lot to clear up the motivation and context for lower level classes, even if wouldn't understand them fully until later. Particularly in regards to linear algebra. I did go the Actuarial Science/applied math route in the end, so your comment rings true, but I'm not sure I would characterize it as a bad thing. I wasn't going to be a world-class researcher and the marginal return on a graduate degree in pure math wasn't there.

That said, there was a small feeling of "And now the time for fun and games is over" when I stopped studying pure math. I enjoy my job, but math provides a certain satisfaction that business problems do not.
Sounds like a bad idea to me. People like Alex have a pretty short life expectancy.
I had in mind just the support people around and the assumption that sponsors/etc prob. were aware of it, but I absolutely take your point. Agreed that the fact that it was kept this hush is another sign of the quality of his process
Actually I used my 4 years of high school work as a rural irrigator to get into Ivy undergrad, it worked like a charm despite my preposterously low grades and uneven disciplinary record.

The trick is just to spin it as more "sunset over the cornfields/1950's Americana" than "grim middle class suburban strip mall McDonalds drudgery."

Basically you just have to accord with the idealized mythos of smallholding independent yeomanry that is built into our culture and that East coast admissions officers so desperately want to believe about flyover country.

As the parent comment alludes, they're not working class, they don't know anyone who is, and they have all sorts of silly ideas about mythologizing the dignity of work and the lived experience of the proletariat. Just don't let your application disabuse them of the notion that digging holes in the hot sun for 14 hours a day is a glorious pastime.

Fancy school admissions is just like the art world, their whole objective is to avoid association with anything coded middle-class. It's fine to be low or high, just stay out of the middle.
Fidget spinners: theraputic for ADHD and other assorted modern phrenological maladies.
Brand-focused collection of UI design examples is here
I may be that the moneyball strategy becomes an architectural one; make the walls taller or less conventional like they used to be in the 1920s and 1930s.
I wasn't the one asked, but I seriously want to know.

Not sure what you mean with your question. Do you think it's obvious what the answer is, or do you mean it's not a question that should be asked?
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Several problems with your points
- Data

For the SPAM example you provided, you used a Data Set available publicly with no consequences. But where will the training data for prediction of homicides will come from? Will it be accurate? Will it unfairly target minorities?

The predictor uses features in the data to predict the future. What features will the machine learning algorithm learn to predict homicide? location? age? gender? ethnicity? mannerism? income? I could see big problems with any features used to detect and potentially send law enforcement for "Investigations"

- Detectors

Capturing and sending users data to a warehouse is a privacy/security risk. But what is worse is installing a detector in their house, or in their computer.
What happens when a citizen removes the SPAM detector from their computer? Well, the next logical step is to pass a law requiring all citizens to run a specific process on their computer and are not allowed to reverse engineer it or else...

For me, this is even worse than having my privacy violated. It would mean users would not have root access to their own computer. It would mean, many applications will be illegal and developers cannot write certain applications that enable people to send emails. If this is not impossible, it would be the worst outcome for everyone.

- Globalization

The SPAM detector, the fire detector and the sniffer dog are great localized examples. But todays problems are globalized. Attacks might be planned and coordinated from different country with different set of rules. And not all countries are considerate when it comes to privacy. How will global security surveillance deployment work when we can't even agree on matters of climate change?
Well, partial at least. Appengine since 2010, cloudsql for a couple of years, and load balancers for the last few months.
Sports teams seem to correlate pretty well with donor funding, grant funding, and general population. It's not a hard and fast rule, but it's not a bad metric
Left this running all day at about 30kh/s and got 200 coins

Couple of hints:

* Have a way of backing up your private keys! Many people delete browser local storage and this is not a safe or long term place for them to live!
NAG THE USER TO DO THIS. 99% of the people here betanet will lose their keys, fo sure

* Consider hierarchical deterministic (HD) generated keys, so a single seed can generate all future keys

* Consider brainwallet seed (must be long, suggest at least 256 bits entropy), custom dictionary words

Most cryptocurrencies use secp256k1 or ed25519 for ecdsa/xeddsa as their curve, this is using P-256.
Satoshi was suspicious of the NIST curves, thats why he didn't use P-256 for bitcoin.

You will need something better than SHA256 for PoW function too, others have identified memory hard hash as idea. Look at Momentum (ProtoShares), EtHash (Ethereum) and CryptoNight (Bytecoin/Monero) as approaches to this. All have rolled their own in this space, keep you tx hashes standard but use something creative for PoW function.
The population sizes are vastly different between chain smokers and free soloists.
Maybe some terminology difference here but what I meant by 'pure JIT' was that, iiuc, Chakra waits until the function is called to even validate it, then warms up in an interpreter and only if the function is hot compiles it in a background thread. I think that's one end of the eager/lazy spectrum that may well be what a category of wasm uses will want.
6 steps to a more diverse speaker line-up
Coffee will do that to you.
+1 for importing Google Contacts, or any standard contact format I can import. Also just noticed no deletion...
How self-driving is the auto-pilot?
I am trying to create a directory of free information about apis, let me know what features would you like to see , I am planning on adding links to the different libraries for the specific apis and apps that used the specific apis.
Reading your blood sugar levels - https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/
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The shareholder meeting will have a transcript
Compared to LBLN or LLNL, yeah, it's not close. Not ANL bad though, you are right.
You do get near-native performance, though.

There are benchmarks. You can run them yourself.
I have made this exact argument (quoting Taleb) but HN users are not receptive to anything other than a do-nothing approach.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14262011
Silicon Valley's great strength is the huge, fluid ecosystem of skilled engineers, executives, funders, and supporting professionals (lawyers, landlords, marketing consultants), all of whom are actively searching for "the next big thing" and want to be part of it. That lets you rapidly scale a company when you've proven it out on a small group.

I grew up in the Boston area, and honestly, I thought there was more genuine technology innovation coming out of Boston-area institutions like MIT, other area universities, Lincoln Labs, MITRE, Raytheon, BBN, etc. The problem was that most of these innovations get strangled in their cradle, because Boston VCs are looking for ways to do things that are already being done better, and aren't willing to take a chance on ideas that look nothing like existing businesses. In Silicon Valley, you can usually find at least one defector who thinks "Well, it's a terrible idea, but I'm going to invest anyway just to see what happens." And that's why you have all these companies that actually started in Boston - Microsoft, Facebook, Reddit, DropBox, YCombinator - but are now known as either "Silicon Valley" or "Seattle" companies.
There's an amateur synopsis on the reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/6fnj78/tesla_2...
/r/neoliberal is a thing, and only a tiny bit ironic.
Reading balance is not too exciting, as I said. There doesn't seem to be any Android apps to let your phone function as a transit pass.

I understand why it would be cool to let your phone replace your transit pass (as it's cool to let your phone replace your credit card), but I don't understand why it's cool to let your phone replace a transit pass reader.
I think the thing is that uses of NFC tags aren't and shouldn't really be expected to be individually mind blowing. It's just something that can, in aggregate, make your life more pleasant by small increments that add up.

Being able to read my balance on my clipper card with my android phone is something I miss since switching to ios. A promising thing I once used was wifi network ssid/password settings stored on an nfc tag on a wall (think restaurant).

But, really, if there's a killer app it's probably payment and it's rolling out. Pretending that it's somehow distinct from other NFC use cases is pretty silly. It's just one of the most obvious ways it can be useful.
I wasn't implying deception, but if "we" means "the WebKit team" that would seem to be speaking on behalf of the WebKit team. The clarification was useful, that's all.
I'm the author of the article and I make it clear that news is presented in a biased way regardless of whether you read a right-leaning or left-leaning newspaper. All of the national newspapers in the UK have mastered the art of misleading click-bait headlines (the Financial Times is possibly the only exception).

I focused on the right-leaning newspapers because they are in the majority in both numbers and circulation figures in the UK and their influence in shaping public discourse is much greater.

The central point of the article is that, regardless of whether you read a right-leaning or left-leaning newspaper, you can't rely on a single source for your news. Doubly-so during an election campaign.

(Note: the companion site dissuading people from voting Conservative deliberately avoids links to the Independent, Guardian and Mirror precisely because it would be seen as confirmation bias.)
"Get the latest Flash player to view this content"

/sigh
Whats to prevent me from finding 'almost all' zeros by trying enough (say 10 000 000) versions of enc(v) - enc(v).

That, combined with comparison based on integer division and underflow would still make decryption quite easy.
D-Day’s hero: Andrew Higgins..cursed a lot and built the boats that won WWII
There are a lot of people follow the "holding money is generally not a good idea" life plan and then become unable or unwilling to work. Sure would be nice to have some savings at that point.
If it's done in a way which causes no greater load on the servers than a human doing the same job, and especially if it's only for personal use, then I for one feel entirely comfortable about it. And I would give pretty short shrift to any robots.txt rules favouring Google alone, which are clearly morally unreasonable and in my non-professional opinion legally questionable too.
> That then means actual performance doesn't matter to many fans

of course performance matters, but you missed my point: a large amount of fans completely ignore statistical performance. This is most evident with Giants fans in particular this season who absolutely despise Hunter Strickland and say he should be kicked from the team when he's been pitching at least league average, if not better, and has been the best relief pitcher on the team. Not to mention they call him a "home run vending machine" when he's only given up 4 in the past 1.5 seasons.
I have great name for this start-up, Minority Report...or maybe just boring old Palentir.
You are right, it doesn't work on the site IDE. Looks like the google module has not been installed in their environment?
Just keep in mind they are a company like any other at the end of the day. They look at bottom line, revenue and how to keep shareholders happy.

HR Managers can outsmart each other day and night on how to make it more funny, bubbly, friendly, etc to you by pulling off more and more crazy ideas to make you feel like we're one big family, but when shareholders decide to cut corners, don't be surprised that your key-card and password doesn't work, and you are greeted by a large-sized man in dark suit you never met before who will gladly escort you and your cartoon box of your office belongings outside. Oh and don't email HR questions like "What happened, I thought we are one big family, so you told me", because for legal reasons you will not get any response at all!

Source: own experience :)
because it would have been a lot easier to omit the entire paragraph.
Expiring vs. Long-Term Knowledge
Wagner's law
I watched it without Flash Player O.o
I'd tend to disagree. Both are for browsing.

If I see something on Pinterest I'm interested in, then I'll go to Amazon to see if it's offered there, and if not, I'll head over to Google to see if I can get it cheaper. I'm not going to buy directly from Pinterest unless it's a link directly to Amazon.
In celebration of D-Day.

“By September 1943, 12,964 of the American Navy’s 14,072 vessels had been designed by Higgins Industries..."

“You’re the only man I’ve ever met,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt told him, “who has done all the talking.”

See also:
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/man-who-won-war-us

His motto was “The Hell I Can’t,” and he always far exceeded expectations.
I use Blendle which shows me excerpts of articles from Wall Street Journal, The Econmist, NY Times, etc., etc. and for a small fee I can read any article with no advertisement. I really like the service and I like pay-as-you-go things on the web so I can support stuff I find interesting.
however, people are actually losing money in the stock market (Not everyone will buy s&p 500 and hold for many years).
You can backup the volume via snapshots.
This opens up quite a few interesting ideas in the real world gaming arena. I know it's been possible with Android, but cross platform real world treasure hunt games are something I've thought a lot about, and this could make it easier than having to do GPS bounding or use BLE.
Reddit addresses this specifically in their TOS and prohibits it. They mention a licensing program.

https://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement/

Doesn't really matter how we all feel about it. If you hit their radar, they'll go after you. Can be expensive, whether you're in the right or not.

You're more likely to hit their radar if you're trying to make money. I suspect you're using affiliate links, right?
I had that at my university too - only 3 non-related individuals could live in one dwelling. We had 6 in one house since the upstairs was setup as a separate unit with a door on the staircase that was always open haha.
> I mean, Los Alomos is at about 7500 feet, 2 beers and you are knackered.

Oh FFS. When you're visiting, sure. But not after you've lived here a few weeks and your body has built more red blood cells. That's why cyclists come here to train -- it's legal blood doping.