skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the rhetoric has shifted now that the administration was changed, but the last time I checked, the labor participation rate was largely attributable to:

* Retiring baby boomers

* Married women not needing to work

* Young, work-eligible adults are in college, not employed

* Robust-enough welfare that work is optional

Aside from the latter, I don't know that any of the above are cause for concern.
I worked on some prototypes years ago on android that handled a payment from a contactless bank card on your phone.

So in the payments space:

- phone as a payment terminal

- peer to peer payments

I'm sure there's more than that but they're the low hanging fruit
What's wrong with .NET? Even if you don't like programming with it you'd get a native application.
Last night I watched the 'Total Recall' remake with he kids. I couldn't help making connections between the film and the way technological policing is progressing. I keep noticing that in dystopian sci-fi films there are far too many parallels with the UK. I should stop watching sci-fi and finish some coding...
Sometimes I think Ev Williams stumbled from success to success without hard work. Maybe I'm just bitter that he is doing the same thing (publishing text on the Internet) over and over again and gets hundreds of millions in funding. Maybe I just don't understand Silicon Valley.

If Ev wants to solve the problem of high quality content being drowned by low quality content, why does he work on a text publishing website? Why not work on the next Patreon? It is absolutely clear that people want to support their Internet darlings but simply cannot most of the time because there is no infrastructure for direct payments / subscriptions. Patreon is the only big general purpose subscription service where it is easy for content creators to get started.
El Capitan is granite, and perhaps even more importantly, it's very heavily climbed so for the most part anything that can break will have already been broken off by someone else.
The article talks about a postmark from Augusta, GA. Presumably, she mailed the printed document.
That was the only way to add apps on iPhone OS 1.0, yes. Maybe they already had the App Store in mind and intended that as a stopgap, maybe the App Store was a reaction to jailbreaks and unofficial app development…
What if you could make a difference?
From the notes on the Reddit thread:

•On Track to deliver the first production model 3 next month. Then configuration would go live.

•Kept configuration simple.

•Got overconfident with the Model X. Should have released it over a few versions.

•Model 3 configuration: What color and what size of wheels. Not going with dual motor since it doubles the problem of things going wrong. Early next year for dual motor config.

•Long wait if you haven't put down a deposit. Probably 2019 if you put down a deposit today before you get your car.
Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental health
I can't find the video I want right now, but this has some nice visuals. Check out this climber planking around 0:39.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igYhX5xyprw
- Mueller's is a criminal investigation. If he doesn't believe he can prove a criminal case, the public will never hear about it. Even if, for example, he had enough to prove that some specific Russian hacker changed the records of enough voting machines to change the outcome of the election: If that guy subsequently died, he wouldn't have a criminal case and the case would be dropped without further commentary.

- It's really not the government's job to decide what the public has an interest in knowing. The system is, for the most part, set up as "default public", and that's how it should be.

- The fact that information (may) come out eventually doesn't help if it requires action now. I believe it's quite obvious that the public debate about these hacks is happening now, and that this is information that is central to that debate. Let's say nothing happens to prevent future hacking, and we learn about this incident in three or five years: I have no trouble imagining FOX commentators dismissing it as "We had this fight in 2017, and now the democrats want to talk about it again?"
It also works great on my computer (Mac without Flash installed) and I'm on Firefox 54.0.
Its not only more pure its much faster, if the numbers I found were right by free-soloing el cap Alex Honnold beat his previous speed climing record by 16h (20 to 4h). I'm guessing if removing a helmet increased the speed by 5x many daredevil race car drivers might consider it, its not exactly a safe hobby to start with.

source: http://www.yosemitebigwall.com/speed-climbing
To clarify, I literally don't understand what point
chrisoverzero was trying to make. Could someone please explain instead of downvoting?
Thanks a lot for your feedback!

The protocol we've deployed in our Betanet is not final. The Betanet is just about getting early community feedback and testing in the wild. There will be lots of breaking changes.

We will not use NIST curves in our mainnet for the reasons you mentioned. We are working on an implementation of ed25519 in WebAssembly.

We will not use sha256 as in our mainnet. We are already working on a WebAssembly implementation of a memory hard POW.

We want to bring blockchain technology to the masses. So in the long run we are explicitly targeting users who are not yet familiar with cryptocurrencies.
Following from that we will put a lot of effort in creating user interfaces that take users by the hand and explain important aspects like "How to keep your private key secure".
Are you a victim, neutralizer, or transformer of constraints?
At least didn't ask for NPAPI to be turned on
There is some quid pro quo with allowing Google to scrape though. You get traffic in return.

This is changing, though, with Google's slow but steady movement of organic search results down the fold.
Being neoliberal doesn't really mean you believe in leftist policy. The most effective neoliberals are "centrist" and rely as much on "strong defense" and "economy uber allies" posturing as neoconservatives.

Take a look at Macron in France - he sure stepped right up to a hardline of "strength over liberties" after the London attacks.

I equate neoliberal with corporatist.
> Neoliberalism got bit by this harder than most because it actually did "take over the world"

No, it got bit by it because the real-world thing now called "neoliberalism" (since about the 1980s) has no connection whatsoever to the politico-economic theory called "neoliberalism"; the latter was an 1930s path between classical unconstrained capitalism and socialism, the former is just a new name applied to the internationalization of unconstrained capitalism.
Because I own a phone and not a transit pass reader?
There's a lot to operating a physical establishment that machines can't do without reducing the experience. Something as simple as cleaning the tables will not be automated. You need people to provide service in a restaurant, which is why automats generally never take on.

And we already have a model of what it will look like, laundromats. That's what people are aiming for, the patron doing a lot of the work with maybe one person to oversee and provide special services like dry cleaning. I don't think that would be an improvement in food service.
My university kept the pure math courses for "honors" students; I'm still outraged by this to this day. It's very misleading and as someone who didn't do great in the "regular" (i.e. rote repetition/memorization calculus and linear algebra courses), it kept me out until a prof in one of these classes introduced me to real math. At that point it was a much steeper learning curve to switch to the "honors" route but I'm glad I did it.
Oh, I agree. I guess I'm saying that if you want to live that life, that's great, go shrink your amygdala. However, if you haven't chosen that, then a smaller amygdala may not help you live a better life.
Is there a way to upload a list of ip addresses instead of having to paste, remove focus, re-focus over and over? I use cloud9 IDE and just for 1 region there are 90 possible IPs that they could be using to ssh into my DO box.
Users blocked by the president on Twitter sue based on First Amendment
Regardless of what year, actually. So you're reminded of your friend's birthday every year, not just this one.

[Edit:] What the... Nope, sorry, seems you're right and I'm wrong -- weekly it is. [/Edit]
Conversation, half technical and half to figure out what the person would be like to work with. For example, tell me about the most interesting/difficult/satisfying problem was that you've worked on. Or, tell me what happens when you point your browser at a web site, in as much detail as you can muster. What are your go-to tools to solve problems
I differ on the first claim, though agree it's possible to read it that way, and accept that you have. I see this more as "a need was seen and the initiative was taken" argument, perhaps poorly articulated.

The following arguments you make, here, are actually pretty good. The one you you'd lead with was poor, as I've already addressed.

I'd especially like to emphasise your point on the failure of good intentions. That's highly salient, and something that should probably be kept generally in mind with tech startups -- many of which seem to sprout like mushrooms from the dark and ... fecund substrata of Silicon Valley and YC ... and yet fall short of their respective putative aiming points.

(That The Intercept can trace its roots to start-up culture may also be relevant here, through Omidyar.)

The interesting (and troubling) part of this story is that it involves four members of the staff, working together, none of whom is named "Glen Greenwald", and presumably with the technical support of Micah Lee. And yet we've still seen what we've seen.

Definitely room for improvement.

But it's still a bit rich to pin the fault on Greenwald specifically, and pre-Intercept Greenwald especially.
> You would have to go ever each site scraped and read their terms of service / agreements.

Someone putting up a bunch of words doesn't bind you to a contract with respect to scraping or anything else. (At most they can give up a right. They can put something in the public domain, for example, by giving up their copyright.)

To give some extreme examples: What if the site says you owe them a million dollars if you even look at the site? What if someone put a sign on their lawn that says anyone stepping on the grass can be legally shot? Are you OK with those just because they said so?
I am a mediocre climber (after about 5.10c, I start thinking, "Greg, this is fucking insane."), but I used to be quite heavily involved with the Alpine Club of Canada and have read many incident reports about climbing deaths. One thing sticks out as being common enough to warrant mention. It is insane how often deaths happen when highly experienced climbers get out of their routine and make tiny little mistakes. When you are working on a difficult enough problem, a tiny mistake is most often fatal (unless you are using ropes).

With climbs like El Cap, a tiny mistake could be something as simple as letting momentum carry you a few degrees too far, losing your focus for an instant, or even losing strength. Climbing is a cross between chess, long distance running and gymnastics and to free solo something like El Cap, you need to be world class at all of those...simultaneously.

Several years ago, when I had a total of three hours of climbing experience (one hour in a classroom and two hours on an indoor wall), I made a mistake ice climbing that could have been fatal if I had not been properly roped in. I was incredibly inexperienced, got incredibly scared and started gripping onto my tools for dear life. I was so scared that I put all of my strength into my grip. My forearms spasmed and I lost my grip. I was an ugly climber, so my belay partner had given me a little too much slack, so I fell about six or seven feet, thus leaving a very experienced climber's very expensive tools in an ice wall several feet above me. Rather than get lowered and try to recover his tools the proper way, I decided to use crampons and my gloved hands to climb the ice like I would climb a rock. It was an incredibly sunny day, so the waterfall was a little wet and that was likely the most miserable seven feet that I have ever climbed.

In retrospect, it's a funny story about a noob getting scared and I had to buy several rounds of beer when we got back to civilization. But, that's an example of losing focus and doing something incredibly foolish that could have had tragic consequences.
No? He looks gangly to me.

gangly, adj., \ˈgaŋ-glē\ : long and thin [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gangly
Are there any known forensic marking methods used by monochrome laser printers?
Quite correct. Spoken English abhors glottal stops, and written English reflects that. Still, it is not as consistent as one might wish in the written record, humans being about 85% logical and 15% irrational and language reflecting that, &c.
I found an application for a theorem that was originally proved by the authors because for its interesting geometrical meaning. One of the authors who I talked to really liked my application.

So in my impression pure mathematician might not be motivated by applications, but if other people find cool applications, they typically love it.
I've owned one share of Tesla for a few years. I'm not a US citizen. I've never received any notice about voting in shareholders assembly. It's not a huge concern for me (if it was I would complain to my broker) as it's just one share after all, but is this normal?
In my understanding it adds to the mental challenge aspect of rock climbing. Think of it as adding difficulty rather than introducing risk. Therefore it could be argued it does enhance the achievement.
NAT is pure evil. It adds huge complexity to anything wanting to do any kind of end-to-end or peer-to-peer connectivity, and it does not scale at carrier sizes very well. Even for regular client-server stuff it introduces performance and stability problems when you try to do it for millions of clients. Don't even get me started on the complexity it adds on the devops front. Layers and layers of cruft go away when everything can have an actual address.

It's a nasty hack to keep the net running until we can sunset IPv4. That's it.

64-bit IP would have been fine. If I were asked to extend IPv4 that's what I would do. I've ranted about the annoyance of 128-bit address lengths, but it's not a show stopper and it's something that could be fixed at the UI level and with better DNS management systems.

There are cool things about 128-bit addresses like SLAAC and cryptographically meaningful addressing.

We have IPv6. It works. It's getting deployed. There's absolutely nothing to be gained and a lot to be lost by bikeshedding about why 64-bit would have been veryveryslightly better. It's like arguing in 2017 about how PCs would be 0.5% faster if we were using the DEC Alpha instruction set instead of x86_64 or what the world would be like if Apple had stuck with PPC.

Just deploy IPv6. Please.
Ask HN: Coinbase alternatives?
I have an account that I opened in 2013, with several BTC transactions per year. I am carrying a decent BTC balance there. My linked bank account has been the same. I tried to buy 2 ETC. The transaction got declined by Coinbase and my account got limited with no explanation: buys are restricted. Support chat is a chatbot, an attempt to email support is unanswered.

I think that with their initial success, they decided to play by Google AdSense playbook: treat honest customers statistically, but not individually. The problem with this approach that unlike AdSense it will be harder to build an monopoly here: it's a good time to start a competitor, focused on decent customer service, like Amazon.
Could be the other thing too: if the minimum wage is high enough to be a living wage it encourages teens that they too might be independent sooner rather than later. That path to independence can certainly be quite motivating and that "there was more than enough money for me" feeling can part of the thrill.
Really lovely. I signed up and will use this as soon as there is an ability to import Google/email contacts.
> It's not your responsibility to correct statistical misapprehensions they might have about the incidence of black crime or police use of force unless you are asked, there are plenty of people doing that already.

Whose responsibility is it? If someone is debating an issue I would hope they are familiar with and understand the underlying statistics relevant to their claims. If they claim conclusion X based on statistics Y but omit (intentionally or out of ignorance) that conclusion P is also plausible based on statistics Q, it is the responsibility of anyone aware of statistics Q to inform those claiming conclusion X that X isn't the only plausible conclusion one can arrive at because statistics Q exists that suggests conclusion P.

Are you seriously suggesting that someone aware of a different dataset that supports a different conclusion only bring attention to that dataset if those claiming the original conclusion are interested? That's preposterous.

https://byrslf.co/the-null-hypothesis-loves-you-and-wants-yo...
I'd like to see more data that counteracts the data I keep seeing:

1. Baby boomers are not retiring at the levels previously expected, and they're not retiring (and slowing down promotions for juniors).

2. Marriage rates are lower than ever. Single parent households are becoming a new norm.

3. Too many college graduates have experienced low salaries or poor job prospects compared to expectations (and now they're defaulting on their loans!)

4. Welfare/transfers are not enough and mostly go to those already in jobs, subsidizing the low wages. (The Walmart class, etc.)

Now we have political instability and that's not a cause for concern?
>... or being a Freemason would get you further than any degree in this circle.

That's rather disturbing. This is why storing everything on everyone is a terrible idea. Insiders with loyalties that may lie with a particular Old Boys' club, with access to the most intimate details of people's lives.

Strict rules with regard to access control are meaningless if the people abusing the system are either sufficiently high-level or are able to use side channels.
Ask HN: How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?
I'm having trouble working this out, because I have to earn money to pay for car insurance and such, but software companies are not willing to hire people my age for good reason. My resume is also limited because I have only built applications for a few businesses who I had previous connections with. I'm looking for advice for how to start freelancing, because that seems to be the most viable way, without a large resume to start.
It's quite a bit more than a frontend, but I agree it isn't as complex as the JS engine itself. For comparison, this is the JSC wasm implementation:
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/master/Source/JavaScri...
It would be great if you could add city as a form field and allow searching by city. I'd love to pay for this/contribute as well. I was just about to build something similar (but less pretty)
I notice that the PCG paper, while seemingly drafted in 2015 or earlier, still has not appeared in ACM TOMS. I thought the jokey/insider-y style is kind of fun, but VERY different from the usual voice of the journal. I wonder what the cause of the delay is?
Wouldn't it be better to have one tree containing compound keys rather than subtrees? Often trees have a lot of overhead so a tree of trees could be rather inefficient. It would also be hard to balance.
I dont even know what meta-trolling is. The only definition I could find is this, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=metatroll I cant see how this applies, there is nothing in the rules about meta-trolling so I am only guessing at what you mean.

I also disagree with you and as you can see from the rest of the comments on this particular post also agree with me that Palmer Luckey was miss treated, I dont see how having an unpopular opinion (is it really unpopular?) is flamebait, it isnt even off topic, one could make the argument that this new venture luckey is involved in is a biproduct of exactly the kind of ostracisation he was subjected too.

As for asking for clarification of your accusation that I have "trolled" in the past, I am actually genuinely interested in which comment you are referring too, So I can avoid making the same mistake. If you think that is meta trolling, I guess I cant convince you otherwise.
I built a simple CRUD app for a previous (small) employer. Nothing special technology-wise, but a good concept, sound business model, and backed up with a couple of full-time staff creating content for it. Line one of the T&Cs was "no scraping". Business model was based on sales to individual users but we were prepared to do analysis in aggregate if asked.

A scraper company, funded by magic money (Knight Foundation grants) and $1m of VC, convinced a (UK) Government department to pay them to scrape our site for some analysis the department wanted. They'd never contacted us, never asked for permission, never asked if we could supply the data. Our company was bumping along at this point and having to lay people off. Income from a nice lucrative Government contract would have kept a couple more people in work.

The scraper company's FAQ was, in my view, full-on unethical:

> "we check the robots.txt file. If the site permits robots in general to scrape their site (NOT just GoogleBot!), then we will do so. We will make no effort to look for other terms and conditions as well."

You will ostentatiously "make no effort to look" for T&Cs in case they prohibit the significant contract you're about to sign with the Government? Whoa.

So how I feel about web scraping is simple: "don't be evil". If you're diverting income or traffic from the original site, don't do it. If you're genuinely adding value, go for it, but be open, be prepared to work with the original site, and be prepared to accede to their wishes.
Judge him by his actions.
Patent troll tries to keep Google case in TX because of web services
US, Canada, most of Western Europe, India?
> Being neoliberal doesn't really mean you believe in leftist policy.

Neoliberalism is a right-wing (but not far-right) position.

> The most effective neoliberals are "centrist" and rely as much on "strong defense" and "economy uber allies" posturing as neoconservatives.

Neoconservatism is essentially the policy of using (specifically US) military force and related means to establish and secure a neoliberal international regime. The names might make you think that neoliberalism and neoconservatism are opposed, but that is not at all the case.

> I equate neoliberal with corporatist.

Pro-corporate capitalist would be accurate. Corporatism is a whole different thing.
I'm from the Midwest originally and I've found SoCal to be friendly and outgoing, moreso than most places. As an example, you'll have 50+ year olds on skateboards or surfing, playing volleyball, mingling with younger crowds at bars or restaurants, etc.

In the Midwest - they don't do a whole lot, stick to their own neighborhood, and there's lots of ageism.

In SoCal - people are generally nice but aren't in-your-business-neighborly-friendly like the Midwest or South but I prefer that. Also, it's rare to even hear a car honk because people are so much more laid back.