skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't asking for advice. And you are ignoring large parts of my point, such as the fact that there are fewer full time jobs and more gig work. Some people simply will have no real choice here, your insistence to the contrary not withstanding.
See also this story if you want to make sure you don't really want to go diving in a subterranean cave: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300
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No. I don't have home gym. But, my gym is nearly empty during my workout times (6 am mornings). But, I wouldn't care and use mic even in crowded gym if its more convenient. :P
I'm quite surprised at the detail that the rescuers attempted to drill into the cave from above in order to provide supplies .. is anyone familiar with the depth of the cave pocket? This seems like a surprising choice to make given the logistics - but I guess a safer one, in the end .. assuming one has a drill system available and the depth is not too great.
Well it depends on what you consider being interesting: finding work that let you use latest javascript framework or architecting micro services? Easy. Finding work that will let you spend years and years perfecting the way how to make query engine of specialised embedded database run faster? (my old job) Less likely.

It depends on your ambitions, lot of people would be happy to work on regular apps for rest of their professional life, some not. People just have to think about it as coming back into that "hardcore" sector is not easy after years of writing crud apps.
> They want complete 100% control over all of their time. Which would be really nice, but c'mon now.

I think you may be under-valuing how much some people like to be in control of what they put their time towards. These are the people who hate taking a class because its a requirement for a degree, or doing an entry level job that they have no interest in simply to pay the bills.

Work is a large part of life. But not working for someone isn't about 'controlling your fortune' so much as it is controlling what you get to put your effort towards for a large portion of your life. Having to work for someone else will lead to less freedom of choice than working for yourself. Or at least, that's the eventual goal.

It's quite rational.
Wouldn't littering cover it?
Why would anyone do that?!
I love their products, especially Just Mayo. This is not a good sign.
> Legal: No. These are copyrighted works after all.

I don't believe that is so clear cut. I think getting a ebook printed can be considered "format-shifting", which while somewhat gray area, leans towards the legal side.

I'm not sure if these books come with some additional licensing constraints that would trample fair-use format shifting, but based simply on copyright getting them printed might not be illegal.

IANAL etc.
By design, miners control Bitcoin. Before Ethereum, miners were fine with Bitcoin core because they were still making tons of profits, and blocks weren't full. They were almost all following core and that's why core has a lot of power.

Now that Bitcoin hit a scaling ceiling and a competitor who can scale way beyond Bitcoin is rapidely taking the lead, they finally realize why Core/Blockstream strategy is bad for them, and bad for Bitcoin. Hence they came up with setwit2x, wich is a weak attempt to get ride of Blockstream (because its segwit first, then 2Mb blocks, then... not much), but a strong signal that something is changing.
If you print double sided on a large laser printer, you can print in black and white for about 3 cents per sheet (two pages á ~1 cent, one sheet of paper for about 1 cent). That runs you 6 dollars. A for binding you can use thermal binding for about 50 cents per piece.

So by pure material cost it can be done for 7 dollars (less if you have volume). But of course only if you have access to the equipment, nobody is selling it that cheap.
Philips Lighting and Ericsson launch connected street light with built-in 4G/LTE
As I understand it, the majority of the hashing power. The trick is that hashing power alone can not dictate the network, else the users disappear and all that hashing power becomes worthless. So we have cryptografically reproduced a problem of governance present since the dawn of time.
Many vendors (including Amazon & Walmart) indirectly accept bitcoin via gift cards (Gyft, cardcash.com, etc).
I really don't think there is much of a difference anymore. I remember meeting people online and hanging out with them (talking, working on projects together, playing games, etc) and it honestly didn't feel any different than meeting someone in person and doing the same thing despite the fact that I have never seen some of these people in person.

I find it especially difficult to differentiate a meaningful distinction between the two when my interactions with people go from in person to online or vice versa. We just do the same stuff we did normally, albeit maybe those things occur in different settings such as at a computer instead of face to face at a restaurant or wherever.
Show HN: tttfi – Middleware for IFTTT
I'd say on the contrary, the problem with experts is that they are so expensive to train and so rare. It is easier to collect data, train the AI and then equip doctors all over the world with it than to have thousands of experts in that particular field.

A doctor that treats patients all day long doesn't have time to keep up with the research and state of the art. A researcher that is on the cutting edge of medicine doesn't have time to treat the patients. We need to equip doctors with AIs to keep them up to date with the best practices.
I sincerely would like to know what you think the alternatives are?
A decentralized Bitcoin exchange
I dunno. I jumped from school to the military, then out of the military into the workforce. I've had spiritual adventures and travel adventures.

I am somebody who knows what I want and why I want it. And I've found that the best path to getting those things is usually the one you're already on, you just have to make slight course corrections.
Experts Recover AES256 Encryption Key from a PC's Electromagnetic Emissions
Yeah, I read them.

These are alternate explanations your original post hadn't explicitly ruled out - are your claims not open to interrogation?

> they dismissed someone's experience

I believe I already stated this, but they seem to dismiss your conclusion, not your experience. Your experience is taking the supplement, then soon after experiencing no allergies. This is not contested.

These quotes are mostly reasonable since you had at that point omitted the fact of the period of time you had been suffering from hay-fever before trying the supplement. That fact still doesn't rule out these explanations, however, because of survivor bias - which I've also commented on.

> The snake-oil has done nothing

Even if we accept the supplements as the cause, The proposed mechanism is still not certain.

If the mechanism were such that any placebo, nutritional supplement, or change in diet would have had the same effect, I would still consider the product to be snake-oil.
Full disclosure: I worked at HC for almost 2 years. Yes.
If you want Vulkan on macOS, it exists [0].

[0]https://moltengl.com
This sounds cool. Two questions:

1. Without giving away secrets, how do you find such clients?

2. You must have some great stories. Would you care to share any?
The “Eleven Dimensional” Brain? Topology of Neural Networks
Raspberry Pi with OpenVPN
Netflix adds 5.2M New Customers
Quite true. Some groups will have problems without a few of the aids, though, so it is definitely not a requirement but a nice to have.
Show HN: Let's Encrypt/SSL Dashboard with automatic server discovery
Please don't violate the guidelines by posting uncivilly like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Where do I report ethics violation at a YC startup?
I have a report of a YC startup that done the following:

* Dismissed a summer intern with no pay and no recommendation (to save money). Intern stayed with us 2.5 months. Salary was promised upon good performance. Intern was dismissed at the end of internship, told off he is no good. I have the experience to tell, kid was actually fine and it simply was a 'frugal' money saving move.

* Hired H1Bs from India with no prior announcement in the office. This was not following legal immigration procedures. Had effect of changing cultural dynamics with no warning (became 100% Indian).

* Announced new stock grant to early employees as a reward (with 1 year cliff). In reality, diluted early employee stock 50% without any notification. At a later time (months) some employees accidentally learned that new stock issue had barely covered dilution. Employees who left lost money because of that dilution/cliff effect (on the order of 100k).

This had happened quite some time back, and wouldn't affect outcome of the startup and YC investment (company was acquired, years passed).

Where do I report it? Where other employees should report similar issues with YC startups? Would a report like this be of any use to YC? Will it kick out a founder from alumni network?
> Wonder when (if) they'll hit one-in-three bytes.

I guess if Netflix ever switched from AWS to Google Cloud Platform...
That measure of control extends about as far as it did for the default bit torrent client. Negligible.
Try this security checklist: https://github.com/FallibleInc/security-guide-for-developers...
Honestly 25-50% of it is HN links, depending on the day. Tech blogs, nytimes, washpo, atlantic, new yorker. I detest reading on public transit so having the random one-off blog post read to be is a big help.
The author said in a Twitter conversation today that he is aware that this phrase is ignoring something essential - namely, that we have systems with memory and attention. That is something different than simple X to y mappings. With memory you can do general computation, recursivity, graphs, anything. They work well on some problems such as translation, but still need to become much better in order to match general purpose programming. But at least we're past the X->y phase.
I'll bite.

1. What kinds of things have you built in C (or other languages you know). Is any of it posted in a public repo?
2. Do you have any experience with web development? Do you want it?
3. What sort of experience, if any, do you have with testing?
4. If you're based outside the U.S. there may be some grey area but FYI as of a few years ago I'm pretty sure it's no longer possible to work for free for a U.S. company (you can "donate" your skills to non-profits, though). You'll most likely have to be paid minimum wage.
Don't know if you check these 5 days later, but you never reverted this change.
I don't want wires in my view. In my apartment the installation for alarm is built-in, so I already have the UTP cable inside the wall.
Also the lamp I want to turn on is on the other side of the room.
Is that not what you were implying?:

> They constantly get dismissed

> If you have something like ... or other stuff a lot of people including medical professionals will accuse you of lying and pretending
Just because those decisions doesn't align with YOUR reasoning doesn't make them irrationals.
Great, now there's another collection of books which I'll want to read which I'll feel bad about missing the deal for, then kick myself for never actually reading them in-depth.

I think I've bought 50 books from Humble Bundle (spending about $1/book), but I've only cracked open a few of them.

Also thank you dsacco for the recommendations!
how can't you validate a block if that is trivial, even with the changes? honest question. does the proposal screw things up that much that you need to do a trillion hashes to validate instead of one?
Well, until Overwatch...
Because supporting Mac still requires effort on the part of the game developer. Like, you still need a Mac to test against and QA people to do the testing. The market can still be too small to justify that expense, even if the engine support is good.
For those, like me, who needed a good primer on SNARKs, this reference they linked is great https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-kno...
I am a huge proponent of self-hosting, but there's other considerations when it comes to doing something like cloud - namely, CAPEX vs OPEX (Capital Expense vs. Operating Expense).

Having your own equipment is a CAPEX and investors don't like to see those on a balance sheet at all due to various accounting reasons. Mostly its seen as a burden. Cloud is an OPEX and investors seem to prefer renting to owning.

Personally I don't understand why spending 3x more is more attractive to investors, but often the technical reason being right is superseded by the business logic.
Not by now, but I can share it, I'm going to check if I have to change something to make it public.
Ever since that paper was linked to on Ars everyone thinks ASLR is done for. ASLR was always vulnerable to cache timing attacks. ASLR can not protect you in the case that you can arbitrarily compute on the target machine - this is not new, this has never been the goal of ASLR. That paper was not the first to demonstrate this.

If you can not arbitrarily compute on the target machine ASLR is still completely useful. This is the case for tons of vulnerabilities, like basically anything that isn't a web browser with JS execution privileges.
I guess my approach is boring then. I replaced most of the switches with z-wave switches, added a Vera controller, added an echo dot and now it all can be managed using a browser or a phone or voice(this turned out to be greater than i expected). It's all UL certified and wired to local code so my insurer should be happy.
They enjoy it.
Overview of Content Accounting (Netflix) [pdf]
It would be interesting to see more advice about coarse-grained timing correlations (but I appreciate the thought that's already gone into this).
Huh. "Electronic Gold" isn't too bad as an analogy.
> because $1 = $1 like forever

No. $1 during the gold standard was different than $1 after we left it. Now, our central bank (the "Federal Reserve") aims to inflate our currency at +2%, every year. After 80 years (roughly a US lifetime), $1 at birth is worth $0.20 at death. And central banks can't always keep monetary policy under control.[1]

We just hit $20 trillion in US federal debt. It's set to continue to grow as baby boomers continue retiring. Congress has no spine to make large cuts in spending (for defense, discretionary, or entitlement programs). There are a handful of very large states in the same condition. The debt will continue to grow reasonably fast while the GDP of our economy has lagged.

$1 USD may say "$1" on the front forever, but the purchasing power of a dollar isn't likely to stay as strong as some other currencies. It's worth even less if large, important international transactions (like for oil/gas/weapons) are done less and less with the US dollar (@see "Bretton Woods" and "petrodollar").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
People initially subscribe for lots of reasons but long term subscribers may see the value proposition as this: More expensive in cash cost, less expensive in opportunity cost.
If you can show me that bitpay processes around the same amount as dark markets, I will re-assess my position...

As for anonymity and fungibility: I believe tumbling services are good enough today, which is why buying on a dark market works. However, it is not perfect and this is why projects like Monero, ZCash, MimbleWimble, TumbleBit and Xim are important.
Micro front-ends
Fantastic, glad to have more reading to prep for defcon!
What point are you making? That article cites a paper in Nature, and there are a number of response papers calling for more study. I'm not following the irony.
99% of Netflix bytes are largely served from Netflix's own CDN + a cadre of third party CDNs. The bytes to/from AWS isn't trivial by itself but relatively negligible compared to video traffic.
> The blocks would happen farther apart, but it would also mean that the remaining miners would have much higher change of actually finding a block, since there would be less competition.

That's not true. The chance of finding a block is the same for every hash given a certain difficulty, regardless of competition. So a miner with a certain amount of hashing power will always have the same chance of finding a block until the difficulty changes.
Because you can take those minor changes deploy to a smaller group where a decentralized exchange is required. For example an ad buying network. Or you can make your own coin and market it.

It's the same as forking facebook's website code if they allowed that. You have a product you can use but without the scale of people and data it would give you a similiar level of value.
Some good moments throughout, and 'How to search for aliens'is my favorite of the group. The comparison POV's between her and her mom and between the claustrophobic vigil and the vastness of space worked well for me. She projects more than I prefer with lines like, '. . .Four point five billion years / since genesis and the sky still hovers / like a veil between us and space, / wanting to be lifted before the unintelligible . . .' But, that's a matter of preference. And, with the 4.5 B years, she brings in another fun comparison - the shortness of human relative to the big-picture timeline - without being explicit or trite. Thanks for sharing!
I found that in a few seconds too. Did you not read the six different sentences saying that they're being sold individually?
> The whole point is to cryptographically be able to prove
> ownership of something to the network.

Ownership is not the same thing as possession. Using a blockchain for bonds is analogous to bearer bonds, or even just plain cash. There's a reason why both bearer bonds and large denomination currency bills are no longer issued.

> Given that bitcoins, litecoins and ether aren't magically
> disappearing out of people's wallets

They do magically disappear. Both traditional fraudsters (e.g. Mt. Gox.) and criminal hackers take bitcoins all the time. The blockchain doesn't care, of course.

Expect in the next couple of years movies to start featuring Bitcoin heists. I'm sure the scripts are already being passed around at the studios.
- Jaipur (set collection)

- Love Letter (any flavor; draw a card and play one)

- Condottiere (bidding/bluffing game to take over italy)

- Citadels (drafting)

- Masquerade (hidden-ish roles; better at two than Coup is)

- Portal of Heroes (scales well up to 5)

- Star Realms (deck-building)

- Splendor (similar to Jaipur but chips rather than cards)

- Codenames: Duet
Through bad antivirus code that inadvertently runs your code in a sandbox. There have been multiple vulnerabilities like this recently.
This criticism doesn't make a ton of sense from a practical development standpoint in modern times, people continue to rehash the same OpenGL vs DX argument from the 90s and apply it to Metal vs Vulkan. Now, almost everyone that isn't an engine author or a large AAA game developer is using a game engine (Unity, Unreal, Game Maker, etc) and the few developers that don't are building graphically simple games where OpenGL is completely sufficient or have technical ability to port to a few different APIs without issues.

There are a couple of games with Vulkan renderers that don't support Metal that I can see this being an issue in (Doom being a good example), but id is still a AAA studio that could have someone write a Metal backend if Mac made sense to them (same way they have DX12 and gnm backends for ps4 and xbox one).

Another thing is people often assume the only cost involved in porting a game to a new platform is graphics API, which is strange, but makes sense if your exposure to graphics programming is NeHe tutorials or something. All modern engines use thin wrappers over the system graphics API and low level code that directly calls OpenGL, DX, Vulkan, Metal, etc is a very small percentage of total code. Rants about graphics API being the main bottleneck to game portability annoy me a little bit also because they ignore portability challenges that are not graphics related, and even graphics portability challenges that are not directly related to API. It's naive to think if everyone just supported Vulkan all games could be instantly compiled to every platform or even that low level graphics API calls are the hardest thing to port. I agree that metal makes things a little harder by introducing a new shading language, but cross compiling to other shader languages from hlsl or glsl is standard and mostly a solved problem by now. If you're a small developer that doesn't or can't write a thin low level graphics wrapper for your game there are good opensource libraries that will do this for you (bgfx, oryol).
Does the "making things" thing ever get you down?

Getting intimate and sensitive with a dead dead medium, dead stuff that you try to arrange into something pretty.

Obsession as lifestyle, deforming your soul.

Pandering to moneyed children to pay your bills.

I have some experience with this and I gotta say it gets me down. Do you relate?
Why couldn't it be?

Hellmann’s alone accounted for $401.2 million in sales
last year, according to Businessweek — nearly a third of
the total $1.3 billion mayo market here.

http://nypost.com/2011/09/17/hellmanns-mayonnaise-americas-b...
> This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone.

Off topic, but here is a viable contender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMHjDqHL_Y

There are videos of higher towers, but I believe that this video is the most thoroughly annotated one.
And dogs don't understand our irrational desire to not eat kitty litter.

It's a matter of taste
This is a good article. I would just add that attending to an emotion and explaining to someone what you are feeling and why often results in a spontaneous process that produces positive changes such as lessening of intensity and change in perspective. This is much of how psychotherapy works, or for that matter just talking things over with a friend.

A good book on attending to feelings is Focusing, by Eugene Gendlin.
Netflix’s subscribers are surging as it blows away Wall Street’s expectations
Of course you can do it that way also. I developed an app for working with Fibaro system last year, it works with z-wave. Also is possible to buy a z-wave module for raspberry pi, but then you have to buy z-wave devices. My approach is cheaper, and also help me to learn.
> If you have shared memory between GPU and CPU the copy latency is reduced by orders of magnitude - you're only waiting on the values to be populated in GPU's caches.

Shared memory by itself will not have a significant performance impact here (although it simplifies the data movement substantially). For a scalar-vector multiplication, you are strongly memory bound, and so you still have to wait for all the memory to be retrieved over the bus. You are correct if both CPU and GPU are behind the same bus (such as if the GPU is on the same die), but modern GPUs support shared virtual memory even for non-integrated GPUs.
Founder's dilemma: Rich or King?
Mine came with the house. I can take a look and find brand and model number. There appear to be a number of them on the market, though.

On the Lowes.com site they have a specification checkbox for "high/low temperature setting" or something similar on each model's details but it doesn't seem searchable there. I don't see such a feature designation at HomeDepot.com as of right now. Amazon's are mixed depending on the seller and model it seems.

I know Nest lets you set separate heating and cooling points if you do the manual programming instead of letting it autolearn. https://nest.com/support/article/What-is-Heat-Cool-mode EcoBee and Hive I'm sure have similar features.

Having separate heating and cooling setpoints only seems natural for something that automatically switches between heating and cooling.