skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you connected the first two points, you'd realize the whole "Living Wage" hate by Ayn Rand acolytes who say stuff like "How do you know people on minimum wage aren't already overpaid?" means that the inflation adjusted number doesn't mean shit.

The CPI is corrupt. The 4% unemployment rate is contingent on fudging the numbers so the Eligible Workforce is at 39 year lows, comparable to the early 1980s. None of this math adds up, and you've only just poked at a few things with a stick.

Not once did you offer an alternative or a better idea. Show me what you have in mind that can get people back to work. Explain to me how the wealth gap in the United States can be solved with your philosophical outlook, and I'll be really interested to see what you come up with.

I'm not saying I have confidence in your ability to actually answer this challenge, but I'm not above waiting to watch logic flounder.
"This article was originally published on The Conversation."

So why isn't the link to the original?
White blood cells are clearly altruistic. To the extent a species or even an ecosystem functions like an organism, there is an evolutionary advantage to evolving altruism. To quote Spock, "where the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, or the one."
What would legislation look like for DDoS on an ISP level?

You make DDoS mitigation sound easy, but most of what I would call successful attacks are from traffic that looks real at the ISP level and are relatively low bandwidth. Attackers achieve success through locking some aspect of their victims architecture.

Most websites are not prepared for large fluctuations relative to their normal traffic, which look like a drop in the bucket when you are at an ISP level. I don't blame websites for this because mitigation at this level can be expensive.

I think legislation for something like this would be a mess, because it's not simple and it has a technical solution.
Straight question for the uninformed (me):

Could you (or anyone else) elaborate on MIT vs Apache V2 and patent protection?
I've been a happy paying sub of Stratechery since October 2015, and would be glad to discover that subs have 'almost surely grown exponentially since [November 2014].' Just wondering what your basis for that assertion is? Looking at (admittedly poor) proxies like Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and estimate domain visits from various sources I don't see any sort of exponential growth...though to be fair the sources I am looking at go back to mid-2015. Again, poor proxies and would be happy to know Ben is doing this well.
Really useful to hear, thanks! I know psychology was gaining a lot of headway with NN models in the 90s, but had little sense for what was going on in industry.
>using all that the neighborhood offers etc.

Great general comment but this specific point is one I try to make to people I know that are in the insanely stressful, desperate search for buying a house.

In LA, there are plenty of neighborhoods on the way up or already there with houses at minimum of $600-700k. I hear all the typical rhetoric from these folks of "why waste all my money on rent, when I can get equity, etc." and I try to point out that yes, you're "building equity" for 30 years but you should also be ready for the reality that in 10-15 years (or sooner) the shit could hit the fan. When looking at a house, instead of purely as investment vehicle, maybe approach it as "If the house doesn't grow in value, or even sinks a little bit, would I still be happy to call this place and my neighborhood my home?"

Because I think that gets lost and none of the reality tv shows help. You're taking out a 30-year mortgage and hopefully you get 30 years good use out of the house and much more. Will it be enough to raise kids, relax, enjoy neighborhood stuff, what have you?

So much is about the money/investment side of it that I think lots of folks lose sight of the idea of a "home".
They'd have to be, he has staff and everything!

I've been subscribed to many of his newsletters for years. They are very valuable and well curated, and going through the previous editions is a good way to catch up on a few months of trends and things.
Apple announces support for HEVC in iOS 11 and High Sierra
> But if we’re going so far as to bypass Chrome’s CSS engine, maybe we should try to bypass the DOM entirely.

Seems like Atom will eventually just be a native app.
Because it's not really the Yellow Peril of Chinese speculators responsible for the housing crunch, but urbanization and real actual immigration.
My site https://officesnapshots.com has a weekly newsletter which is basically an email update of the previous week's new content. It is profitable, though just an extension of the advertising options on the rest of the site.

I have a sign up form at the bottom of my site and use double opt-in to make sure people really want to subscribe. I also periodically trim the list down by removing people who don't open or click anything. I figure 1000 subscribers and a 50% open rate is better than 5000 and a 10% open rate as the list is more highly engaged. Plus on MailChimp you're wasting $$ sending to people who don't engage.
One can construct SNARKs from succinct MIPs, but these are again very different from deIPs. Sure, both SNARKs and deIPs involve highly efficient verifiers, and there is some overlap between the techniques used for succinct MIPs and deIPs, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Furthermore, MIP based SNARKs are way too inefficient, and definitely not the ones used in Zerocash.

There are no constructions of SNARKs from deIPs, nor vice versa. In particular, one cannot construct laconic IPs at all for NP like languages.

P.S.: I'm Alessandro's student ;-)
The attack surface could be greatly reduced by putting a lot of code in ROMs (Read Only Memory) where it won't survive a reboot.
Once again, real life imitates the Silicon Valley show...
That's great.

I spent a lot of my early 20s working then quitting to travel to other countries. I've been bitten a little in my later twenties, now early-30s having tried to "settle" down but ending up trying out a lot of different careers. Now about 3-4 years into an "IT" career but working to leveraging that into either contract and/or remote work in the future. Plus trying to keep creative outside of it.

fingers crossed
There's a lot of companies in that space, but yes, Gitlab is aiming to be the total package when it comes to development. "Idea, Issue, Plan, Code, Commit, Test, Review, Staging, Production, Feedback". Deployment is a part of that. I don't know much about Spinnaker, but it seems to have more features than Gitlab at the moment, although Gitlab adds features at a decent pace (release on the 22nd of every month).
Because I am blinder than a bat. I have emailed your comment to the mods, along with a link to the offending submission and a link to the original source. Perhaps they can correct it. (It is far too late for me to correct it.)
If it's got a 180 degree field of view and it's 3d video, I don't think it's much of a stretch
Rio Rancho is now a functioning suburb, but it was originally a scam as well, along with Paradise hills and another i don't recall. Rio Rancho is, amusingly, what they're selling in Glengarry Glen Ross[1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/synopsis
So we are investing dollars in NSA so they make tools that bring us damage? I think there should be a limit on how long they can keep their "secrets". Snowden already showed that information can go outside, so any information will be leaked at some time. The society has much more to win when the software defects are repaired instead of used for hacking.

I think that all these NSA problems show bad management. They should be reorganized, or maybe even abandoned. They cost more than they deliver, and even costed us our privacy. Probably they are still breaking US and international laws on that. Breaking up NSA can allow the FBI and (open) security companies to take over the cybersecurity.

I suspect that we will soon have leaks of CIA tools too. But thanks to wikileaks companies can prepare for these future problems.

We can go deeper into who got these tools and who is using them. Some may even argue that the CIA leaked the NSA tools to weaken the NSA. Or worse, that some in the NSA want to create cyber chaos to push for more control over the internet in the future.

The article mentions the popular political scapegoats, and as usual this is just speculation. To solve NSA's problem we have to request very concrete evidence, otherwise we are just being played with.

Article: > The Shadow Brokers resurfaced last month, promising a fresh load of N.S.A. attack tools, even offering to supply them for monthly paying subscribers — like a wine-of-the-month club for cyberweapon enthusiasts.

This shows how we are being played with. The NSA could already have published the security details of all leaked tools, so we could all have protected our computer systems. We could have prevented Wannacry.
“I don’t pursue every attacker, just the ones that piss me off,”

Why paint a target on your back saying things like this?
Dictate, a Microsoft Garage project
How does it provide any more value than https://news.ycombinator.com/best
My Emacs Org-mode setup already has larger font (and taller lines) for headings, so this isn't too crazy. Not everything in a text editor is code; some of it is text.
I don't understand how the design community continues to support Hoefler. Without a clear explanation that his actions weren't simple, bald dishonesty and greed.
Trump Sued for Allegedly Violating Presidential Records Act
> By Mr. Ben-Oni’s estimate, IDT experiences hundreds of attacks a day on its businesses, but perhaps only four each year that give him pause.

There’s not enough time to pursue hundreds of new attackers every day, most of whom are not competent enough to be a serious threat. Presumably a big part of Ben-Oni’s job is to figure out which attackers can safely be ignored and which ones he needs to worry about tracking down.
I can't swear on the quality of the internet since it's been 5 years and I must go back! Certainly Buenos Aires and Santiago have all the creature comforts and culture of a megacity but you'd be missing out by neglecting the rest of the region.

Are you looking to drift around or settle down for 12 months? It depends what you're looking for. I spent 4 months travelling in ARG/CHL/URU. I didn't visit that far south in Argentina; said to be gorgeous but bloody freezing in winter!

First-world comforts? Santiago. Surfing? Pichelemu. Wine? Mendoza. Beer? Valdivia. Coffee and kuchen (German cake)? Puerto Varas. Serenity? Chiloe. Pacific coast? Valparaiso. Mountains? Salta. Homestyle cooking? Jujuy. Metropolis? Buenos Aires. Art scene? Cordoba. Students? Rosario. Small city feel in a capital city? Montevideo. History? Colonia. Casino? Punta del Este. Relax on the beach? La Pedrera.

If I was wanting a suffocating metropolis, Buenos Aires. For a mixture of culture and seaside I'd pick Valparaiso. For a mellow place to chill out and learn Spanish but close enough to a coastal weekend break, I'd pick Montevideo. Otherwise Santiago, Rosario, Cordoba, Mendoza would all be good choices for a longer stay. But it depends on your personality. I met a British man who'd spent 12 months in Salta La Linda - it's a beautiful place but small enough to do most touristy things in a weekend but what grows on you is the indigenous culture, living at altitude while being at the foot of the Andes and various extraordinary adventures by minibus.
Enterprise version of Corona (cross-platform game development tool) is now free
>This is absolutely false.

You are absolutely wrong, but your comment did manage to get mine to -1 point, so thanks for that. You are correct that slots are as random as the RNG within them (which, as it turns out, isn't actually that random [2]), however that does not mean they cannot be beaten. Slots can be beaten in a variety of ways:

1) Any progressive jackpot that gets high enough can skew the game's return to players to above 100%. Believe it or not, digital slot reels can be mapped out and the return extrapolated (example here [1]). On a progressive slot, with this data and the meter rise in hand (which can usually be easily calculated through mere observation), you can calculate the level at which the progressive makes the game positive.

2) Various slot promotions can be beaten. For example, there was a casino team that was tipped off to a promotion where a casino in the midwest was, for 12 hours, offering a double payout any W-2G win (any win over $1200 on a machine). So, they went and played a $100 slot machine, where almost any payout was over $1200 - essentially getting a double payout on every win. They had an enormous advantage with this promotion. These kinds of mathematically challenged promotions are not as rare as you would think.

3) Many slot machines have a "must hit by" feature, where the progressive must hit when it reaches a certain amount. Advantage players wait for these to get to within cents of the payout, locking up machines hours before and playing the minimum amount very slowly, so that they are in a position to win them.

4) Some casinos give loss rebates to some players that can turn almost any game positive, especially when combined with techniques that I won't mention here. This isn't necessarily limited to ultra high-rollers either - I am familiar with a few casinos where significant loss rebates start at losses of just $1,000.

There are more.

So you are absolutely wrong that there are not advantage slot players. There are teams of them that work in Vegas and other jurisdictions.

[1] https://wizardofodds.com/games/slots/hot-roll/

[2] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-sl...
Build mechanical computers powered by marbles to solve logic puzzles
Thanks for the comment and musing regarding the topic, I appreciate feeling some common thinking. Really, it's kind of lonely sometimes, even when it seems like people agree - do they really?

That's why I'm kind of laughing nobody seemed to come out and directly ask:

>Okay, how are you going to pay for it?

I have an answer, one that would be Boo'd to oblivion. A progressive Estate Tax bracket system of 0-30-85% according to full-worth structures (Trusts, Offshore, wtf-ever-we-gonna-find-that-money) because that'll level out the wealth gap right soon and fund plenty of public works projects.

The kind of maintenance that is needed because those in the top 0.01% can afford to teach their kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. That's what they say to poor people all the time, and they didn't grow up with billionaire parents. The pendulum must swing back.
Put the car's firmware in ROM. Power cycle the electronics, and the malware is gone.
Anecdotes from growing up in the rural US. In high school:

- We went through three math teachers one year because they could find less stressful, better-paying work as accountants.

- My AP Stats teacher had to work weekends at Best Buy.
I had a similar, if less malicious, story from my past.

At a prior home, I had Comcast, and my internet suddenly went out one day. Tech comes out, confirms it's not something inside, pops outside onto the pole behind the house and it comes back.

A few days later, it suddenly goes completely out again. Call, get another tech out, he goes up on the pole, comes back and says "yeah, there's not enough plugs up there so the last few techs have presumably just been unplugging someone and plugging whoever complained in", and then we get some time spent to remedy this situation. [1]

I spent a bit of time wondering how many people might have had spontaneous outages before this tech who actually tried to address the issue came out, as I knew quite a few people on my block had Comcast (aside from the xfinitywifi, you could tell because they'd all come outside almost immediately if they were at home and a persistent outage happened).

[1] - I have no idea what the equivalent terms or appearance for a coax patch panel would be, my apologies for any mangling.
I thought the article pretty clearly framed the problem they try to solve as "benefits of connectivity for places and situations that don't have direct or regular connectivity to the internet (and thus no reliable access to centralized services)".
> I figure 1000 subscribers and a 50% open rate is better than 5000 and a 10% open rate as the list is more highly engaged

Totally makes sense. Do you "silently remove" the people who don't open or click anything, or do you send them a notification that they were removed before removing them?
It's the tail end of the PM peak here, and I'm getting 420 mbps to my web host, about 450 to Azure (on a 500/500). I think it's growing pains from Verizon's gigabit rollout, because when I was at 300/300, I consistently got over the rated speed.
You can disable management via the WAN port and/or wi-fi if you put OpenWRT on them.
how long before they abandon this also?
CSS gives a lot of power; I'd say too much for a code editor.

It would be great to have a small high-performance subset. The subset needs not have low expression power, though.
This happened to me with BrightHouse (now Charter) - they cut my line thinking it was a neighbor. They told me its customary because if they disconnect a paying customer they will call in. I went 5 days without internet because the tech's availability and my work schedule didn't match up until the weekend. I was credited for 5 days. I was NOT amused, but I hope there is some regulation in the future.
You can't design a cryptocurrency with stable value. At least not without a central monetary authority anyway. A key selling point of cryptocurrency is that it (theoretically) exists outside of the influence of a central authority. But this very feature is the thing that will prevent it from ever having a stable value.

Because there's a limited amount of it, it's deflationary in nature. If a currency becomes deflationary, then it's not going to be a currency for very long. People will hoard it instead of using it in their everyday transactions.

Cryptocurrency gets most of its value from speculation. In the case of Bitcoin, at least, that speculation is spurred by some people's belief that it has importance as a potential future currency. It doesn't matter that they're wrong. Their beliefs are still enough to boost the price of the speculative asset. Then you have this cycle where its price will crash every so often. If Bitcoin's price ever stabilizes, it will be because most people have given up on it as a currency.

Once the hype dies down, the question is whether it can do what gold did and become a valuable asset with a relatively steady price. Will there be fringe Bitcoin bugs like there are gold bugs who create enough demand for it to keep the price from going to zero? I guess we'll see.

At its core, Bitcoin is gold. And if you want an answer to why we'll never be using Bitcoin as our currency, ask yourself why gold is never again going to be our currency. It's the same answer. Without a central authority, you can't keep the price stable.

Now we could certainly construct a credit structure on top of Bitcoin. So instead of trading Bitcoin directly, we trade IOUs for Bitcoin. That's what we did with the gold standard. If they're "just as good" as Bitcoin, then it effectively increases the circulation of Bitcoin-denominated assets and can help keep prices stable.

You'd of course need some kind of trusted authority to tweak various macroeconomic variables to ensure that the value of Bitcoin (or Bitcoin IOUs) remains stable. But it's possible at least for a while. You just have to give up one of the core principles of cryptocurrency.

Eventually you're going to have so much money circulating and so little actual Bitcoin to back it up that the system is going to become too brittle and you'll have to leave the Bitcoin standard.

Hey look. You just bootstrapped another fiat currency.

Bitcoin is gold. It can be manipulated by governments just as much as gold can. And it has just as much potential to be a real currency as gold does. For a long time there, we were lucky and we were mining new gold at roughly the rate required to keep prices stable. No such luck with the cryptocurrencies. And even if you manage to hit on the right rate of currency minting today, the future looks different.
I hope it's not just a rumor! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656397
The buck stops at the CEO. I get why the culture can get out of control and different people have different reactions to the environment created and no one person is responsible for the creation of culture but the CEO is the one who is responsible for course correction and making sure shit doesn't get out of hand. That's the failure.

The two other specific failures that also are hard to defend:

1) Rape report from the case in India - TK should have fired the exec for the violation of privacy and disrespect to the victim. The fact that he saw the report and didn't do much about it is a failure.

2) Otto mess - not going to assume he knew or did not know but it's a failure of judgement to drive that acquisition without properly making sure he didn't expose the company to such a high degree of legal risk.

At the end of the day, his reputation for risk and brashness cuts both ways. I lean towards believing he's someone who will do what it takes to win and I respect that. If you get caught though, be prepared to suffer the consequences if you cut a few corners getting there.

* BTW this shit isn't unique to Uber - anytime $BBBs are on the line, people will do things they might normally not do.
Maybe I'm old, but didn't it used to be customary to include some text actually describing the product on a product introduction website? Like so many other such sites, this has a signup link and a flashy-yet-uninformative video. It might as well be advertising Jabberwocky.

I mean, it looks like they're adding stereo video to youtube (didn't it already have that?) that you can view on your Cardboard or Daydream headset (couldn't you already?) so... it's a rebranding of that? The only 'new' thing is that they're partnering with a couple of hardware companies to make stereo cameras exactly like someone (Samsung?) was selling five years ago.

(Edit: Except that the example VR180 youtube video seem to have been shot at 5-10fps for some reason - is that just me or is this part of the charm?)

/old-man-shouts-at-cloud
No, it was an ensemble of Collaborative filtering using Matrix Factorization (using SVD) and a RBM.
As a simple answer, perhaps stop having signup forms!
Depends on the aspect ratio of the video, really. /rimshot
I was shocked too (I would have guessed closer to 1-2k), so I searched around.

In early 2015 he said he just passed 2,000 paying subscribers. [1]

In an interview from February this year he didn't say anything specific about customer numbers but he did say, "Certainly I work hard, but the amount of work I’m doing today is the exact same amount of work I was doing three years ago. The only difference is my income is 100 times higher. And it’s because that $10 scales, and it scales very, very well." [2]

Of course, who knows what he was making three years ago (he was a "Growth Engineer" at Automattic then according to his LinkedIn profile, fwiw), or whether he meant "100 times" literally or just figuratively for "a lot".

But it doesn't seem unreasonable that he might have well over 10k paying subscribers.

For what it's worth, I'm a paying subscriber. I always enjoy reading his daily updates on my commute in the morning.

[1] - https://stratechery.com/2015/bloggings-bright-future
[2] - https://pakwired.com/story-of-ben-thompsons-publishing-empir...
Like it or not, pretty much all enterprises run on Windows software. Not just desktop, either. Active directory and Exchange are pretty much the standard for all enterprises.

And non-techies in these places couldn't live without Office. I once got an email with an attached Word document that contained an embedded Excel spreadsheet with exactly two cells -- an IP address and a hostname -- for a DNS entry I needed to update.