skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the focus on explicit services for Bitcoin mixing. I made a comment on a different post a while ago and I'll paste it below:

You're implying that mixers and tumblers are ONLY dedicated malicious services.

What you're forgetting is that hot wallets used on popular bitcoin services also serve as tumblers. The distinction between a "malicious tumbler" and a service's hot wallet is just the dedicated use.

For example, if a bitcoin shopping site had a wallet you deposited coins into, you'll be recording that you have <number> of coins and they will show that. Your coins will be mixed with their hot wallet and who knows how long they keep them in there.

If you wait a few days and withdraw, chances are that most (if any) are NOT your original coins.

Not to mention, if you blacklisted these coins, then users who receive these coins wouldn't be able to legitimately use them.

TL;DR: Tumbling services are just dedicated to tumbling bitcoins. Most semi-large bitcoin services with hot wallets inadvertently tumble their user's bitcoins.
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Lately, they've been adding them to mall parking structures as well as at hotels and some national parks.

It's coming along, but not the best.

Personally, I'd like to spoke and hub it with an eBike for the last mile to make my footprint even smaller than with just my Leaf and solar panels.

Basically, I want a safe place to park an ebike overnight (or a scooter, or what have you), near light rail. Then take the ebike the last few miles and back from work.
These stories have me at 'WTF USA'. Like seriously, how does the US society think this is ok? Can anyone explain this to me?

Is it a 'won't happen to me' sentiment? Preferring the freedom of literally landing on the streets with one accident since you're presumably fully in charge? I do not understand, though there must be an understandable reason.
Grellas is a startup-friendly attorney. I'm not sure if he know about patents. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas
It's really harmful to the cause of privacy when people equate enablement of privacy with criminality, as you're doing.
This is completely ignorant on two fronts. First, the neither POTS nor cable was "financed by Uncle Sam." Second, new headend equipment isn't free, and DOCSIS upgrades have gone hand-in-hand with node splits and pushing fiber deeper into the HFC network.
Zerocash and Dash are terrible (technically) for security/privacy.

Use Monero! Best privacy and not backed by a US company like Zcash.

In the alphabay raid, US law enforcement wasn't even able to determine how much Monero the site had: https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/888150675946782720
Your plan was already going up before the ACA was proposed, even if you were in medium or large group markets. (My firm offered health insurance to employees in California, New York, and Illinois from ~2006-2012.) Family health insurance on the group market was something like 1100-1200 pre-ACA.

If you're paying for your own insurance, you're in the individual market, which is significantly more expensive, and what you're seeing is, in part, the market absorbing the cost of guaranteed issue, something we decisively did not have before the ACA, when health insurers could lock people out of coverage on suspicion of a medical condition, and later rescind care. Pre-ACA and post-ACA insurance is for that reason also not an apples-apples comparison.
I think you misunderstood mine: it's unlike the case of "virus" in the sense that it acquired a general meaning and then was retrofitted with a technical one to co-opt feelings for political goals.

It would be like if people had used "virus" as a generic without it ever having a technical definition (by analogy to infections), then Congress proposed to ban encryption to stop "viruses", because hey, lots of viruses use encryption.

Pointing out that co-opting from the informal "infectious software" to "software that uses encryption" is a meaningful point.

I think you're correct that the usage of virus for unwanted software is fine; I think you're wrong about the evolution of language there matching what happened with "assault weapon". Specifically, one change is going from the technical to the generic, while the other is going from the generic to technical.
The effective bandwidth of that network even on some unobtanium 50 GB plan is <1 Mbps and that's before we get into latency and packet loss discussions.

Nice distraction, but no cigar.
A fellow HN user, gil_vegliach[2], wrote up a very good summary[1] of the Toptal 3% filtering process - it seems fairly rigorous, consisting of multiple rounds with a week long project (doesn't mention if this is paid or not). Basically, it sounds like a "full" tech interview.

[1] http://gilvegliach.it/?id=14

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gil_vegliach
I read it slightly differently.

He said "I was convinced of a right to privacy" and "I was wrong". This is someone who has either seen (or perhaps been shown) the sort of thing that is enabled when you give criminals a way to exchange value anonymously. And found that he did not want to be the agent enabling that sort of thing.

If an officer came to you and said, "Here is a photo of a 12 year old girl who was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave. The payments were all in bitcoin and we would have caught the criminals involved if they had not used your service to hide their transactions." I have a tremendous amount of respect for anyone who would look at that situation and decide to turn off their service and forego any more profit to keep from being a part of that pipeline.
I'd say FOMO has been the primary technique used since the dawn of advertising. Not unique to Facebook or Google, although perhaps more prominent.
Avdi is a phenomenal teacher in my opinion and doesn't get the airtime he deserves. If you use ruby in any capacity, I highly recommend subscribing to his Ruby Tapas.
I have two sites.

I submitted RemoteBase 400 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890991

For the first time, someone paid for something I made from scratch. I wrote about what I learned from this launch: https://sung.io/lessons-from-successfully-launching-remoteba.... I have since gotten a job, and the site sort of stopped making money. But I am still iterating on it.

Also submitted Dnote 100 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031649

I pitched it to a live audience shortly after: https://sung.io/pitching-dnote. I never got around making an actual sale.
If we only had capitalism and no legislation, the invisible hand would've made slaves of all of us for the few rich.
> You may use Dash or Zerocoin if you want to buy some weed. Not Bitcoin.

Sounds like when TrueCrypt shut down and they recommended Microsoft's BitLocker.
Agreed -- it would be very difficult politically, not that that matters in terms of which policies we should advocate.

The drug lobbyists, for example, absolutely love Medicare. They prefer the government with its friendly politicians and bureaucrats "negotiate" the prices of drugs that the government subsidizes, rather than allow price discovery in a market system.
I recently had to use Paint again and noticed the newer versions got rid of the "right click on this color to set the background color" mechanic. Sure it's not very discoverable, but that was a great power feature that I didn't even appreciate until it was gone.
How a Hacker Fired a Locked Smart Gun [video]
Why is Zcash terrible for privacy?
Hey. The about us page has been updated. Also if you create and account and go to your account page there is more info about the company and how everything works.
Playing devil's advocate, all this fear and anxiety (as @coldtea properly states) is an engine of the economic machine of the western world.

What I'd argue is that is all twisted for idiotic reasons. For example, it would be good to have fear of death used to push society towards things like cures for cancers. And anxiety used to push ourselves to reach our potential instead of seeking validation in superficial things expressed in Instagram pictures.

But we humans like the quick fix and the advertising lobby delivers. We have 50% of the blame here. Same with the unhealthy foods and drinks we take all the time.

To improve our behaviour we need incentives like most animals.
'Pretty much' guarantees.

I switched to Macs back in 2007. I work in IT, have always been careful to install anti virus software on Windows machines and showed my family how to avoid click bait and dangerous downloads. Even so I frequently used to have to clean malware off my old Windows machines. We do have one windows laptop on Windows 7 which is lightly used and most recently it got infected with a Firefox toolbar extension thing a few years ago that took a week to get rid of completely.

I have never once since 2007 had to deal with a single piece of malware on any of our Macs. I know it exists, Handbrake downloads got infected a while back, but the difference is night and day. In my experience Mac OS is dramatically safer than even a fully up to date Windows machine with top tier virus protection software installed.

Maybe that's changed with recent versions of Windows. Cool. Actually the only thing that drives me potty about Macs is the keychain getting corrupted, drives me potty.
I agree. I'm not trying to make that equivalence, but that sentiment is so prevalent that it has to factor into your risk assessment as a developer. If you are in this situation and are confident nothing is going to happen to you, you haven't been paying enough attention.
Go for Clean Code!
In your opinion, is setting up a RADIUS server and using WPA2-Enterprise worth it for a consumer? I'm pretty paranoid, and also think it could be an insightful experience to tinker around with networking tools.

Any advice for what constitutes a strong or weak password in this context?
Submitted GlassWire https://www.glasswire.com for Windows 1064 days ago. Now we have a new Android app! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glasswire....
Bay Area has natural choke points because of bridges and terrain. Because of this you can still have fairly efficient setup with some driving and park'n'rides at the hubs.

This is a lot harder to do with LA sprawl.
Rapper's Doppelgänger is exact  must see
Ugh that's... disconcerting to say the least.
While true, the fact remains that privacy and criminality go hand in hand in this context. And i'd say it's more dangerous for people to censor the truth (that 99% of his users were criminals) for fear of how it may be wrongly construed.
This is not this essay's first time[1] making it to this front of hacker news. And I am glad for it, because Petrified Forrest essay is great, and Lapham's whole issue[2] on fear is fantastic.

Unfortunately two pieces I found most relevant for HN crowd from this issue so far aren't available on Lapham's Quarterly website. They are a moralistic Japanese 17th century account of an entrepreneur in "All the goodness gone from tea"[3] and Joseph Heller's bit on "Corporate Welfare" in "Something Happened"[4]. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14589087

[2] http://laphamsquarterly.org/fear

[3] https://books.google.com/books?id=ux89AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA93&ots=...

[4] https://books.google.com/books?id=b2AiWB98p5sC&lpg=PT14&ots=...
Thanks for the clarification. I agree that the decision made by the operator will likely to prove to be a wise one from a self-perservation pov.
I think it's quite ridiculous that any author can get away with the obscure clairvoyant claim that people are really irrational and desire to be fearful——it's a claim contrary to primitive animal and human psychology alike. The motivation to go buy products associated with fear has nothing to do with fear itself even when you explicitly define fear as an uncomfortable uncertainty.

The reason to want to know fear, why fearful subjects are even discussed, is the quite natural rational thirst for information about uncertainty. Thus, you would expect them to purchase services that provide information about and that mitigate uncertainty. Much of the financial economy is purposed as a mitigation to uncertainty, because uncertainty causes an inherent inefficient allocation in resources in order to prepare for the uncertain event. If there is uncertainty, the rational agent is forced to prepare for it with capital (be it financial or physical). This causes there to be an unused buffer of resources that cannot be allocated to more pressing utilizations. Instead, the rational agent is obliged to maintain a buffer, and even incur more transactional costs in maintaining that very buffer. Uncertainty is expensive, and the rational agent thus seeks to understand all disturbances to mitigate the cost of uncertainty.

tl;dr The author is actually engaging in the cheap literary trope where the general population lacks rationality and the author is the exception for pointing it out.
> The Parity multisig contract is very complex and I wouldn't and didn't trust any funds with it. I hope that the newly deployed fixed multisigs are bug-free but how would you know?

Yeah...any ideas why they didn't go with a language that had an easier route for formal verification? It seems like an ideal application and the contract specifications seem like they would be fairly straightforward to prove (compared to what you'd see in most journal papers for instance). I'm guessing the designers just weren't aware of theorem provers but I'm puzzled why they didn't go with a language with strong static typing where private access and immutability are the defaults plus avoiding anything to do with the mechanism they have for picking default handling functions when a message isn't understood. Great experiment to watch though!
I feel that it is improper for you to make such an unsubstantiated claim.

You can state an /opinion/, such as: "I believe the majority of that site's users were probably criminals."
What advantage does Stow give me over my current solution? I've always got git and make installed (but I'm not averse to adding something else).
Ehhh... this case I think it's fair to suggest that a mixer could be used for criminality, and that might be too much of an risk for an operator. The OP is not equating the too, just pointing out that one of the two is enough to add significant risk.
Joy is fleeting, fear is forever.

Manufacturing joy is easy, yes. Tie a counter to a semi-random process that's semi-controlled by a human and they experience joy when the counter goes up. The so called slot machine. THis is how HackerNews karma, Facebook notifications, your email inbox, and other addictive activities are designed.

You experience momentary joy.

But fear, fear is forever. How many fears have you been dragging on since childhood that never seem to go away no matter how irrational they are? Could've been from a single event like watching a scary movie about a clown, or a case of near-drowning, or ... well there's a lot of common phobias. The list can go on forever.

You always need to make a new slot machine. You rarely need to make a new fear.
It's a technology issue. The VPN blocking is done at a different layer than the content. It doesn't know what you're watching, so it can't allow VPN for some content and not others.
How British Empire’s dirty secrets went up in smoke in the colonies
That's like saying the "effective speed" of a 777 is 45 mph because that's the maximum average speed over a month accounting for refueling and servicing. Or that the "effective battery life" of a MacBook Pro is 70 minutes because that's how long you can run it at full tilt. It completely ignores the typical customer use case.
I have only one cable running into my house: Comcast.
San Francisco, California.
And the React community is that much better for having Max as a speaker and developer :)
I am also on Win8 (some of the time) and those are the reasons.

What is the processor support issue?
Are we safe from no one trying to sell us to companies?

I guess everything that's remotely network capable these days should be kept off the internet until it proves that it needs to - how do you ensure that it's not sending extra data back home without manually intercepting and inspecting all it's network traffic when it does connect?
That's the luxury version. For a lot of people it's fear of going under.
I'm pretty amused that you guys think I'm advancing a pro-Trump position here. The reason he's doing this is clearly because he's a vindictive authoritarian that wants to suppress the free press. There's no way he cares at all about anti-trust law.

The point I'm trying to get across is that the independence of the free press is threatened by concentration of power. Trump should not even be able to attack the Washington Post in this indirect fashion. In this case, he's probably doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Let The Post be independent of enormous corporate interests and reduce its attack surface.

Also, I might have to watch A Few Good Men tonight. Thanks for the reminder.

"DON'T YOU KNOW THE PRESIDENT LIES?!"
"SON. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH."
I pay lower taxes than I did in America, and I get better, faster treatment for less money.

America isn't special.
Yes, it is not as crazy as it sounds for most users.

Media outlets like to publish horror stories because it attracts eyeballs.

Yes they can happen and there are bad actors in the system. But most ER patients either don't pay a dime because they don't have a dime, or their insurance picks up the tab subject to deductible. "In Network" rules specifically don't apply in true emergencies under most plans. Of course if you go to the ER for a runny nose, there may be some pushback.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code by Roedy Green.

The best way to write better code is to avoid writing it badly in the first place. But you need to know how to write bad code to write code better than it. Definitely a different way of learning how to write good code, also a good laugh for anyone in industry.
You're right. But the owner himself believes the substantial function of his service has been to support criminality, and that's why he's shutting it down.
Yep, and I've applied for pretty much every remote job from the last HN "who's hiring" post. None of them went past the initial interview. What I took from that is that there's not a lot of remote work available right now in general. I'll look into the two websites you recommended, thanks.
It's run by a US company where its CEO said on Twitter that they think they can make it traceable. Its privacy is optional and wallet balances are public. And it used a trusted setup.
Even if we just stay on the subject we're talking about here it's easy to rebut this notion that the Democrats don't fight the Republicans.

A lot of people forget that the GOP does not, as a political party, believe in universal coverage. Moving the country closer to universal coverage is not a GOP political objective. What is a GOP objective is minimizing federal interference and involvement with business. Health care is something like 15-20% of the entire economy, so the GOP's stated objectives run directly counter to universal coverage.

And yet, repeated efforts to eliminate the ACA have all retained policies built around universal coverage, including a massive federal expenditure in Medicaid (block granted or otherwise) and an extremely intrusive regulatory requirement for guaranteed issue insurance, something that only Ted Cruz has tried to push back on.

If that's not a win for the Democrats it's hard to imagine what plausible outcome would be. Nothing that involves 15-20% of the American economy will be simple, or will happen in one legislative session.
Oh man, that ship has sailed!
Awww, thanks Mark
Well you can move just without your support system and build one. Plenty of people do that.
I believe that zoning is a proper matter for local governments. If it's not a local matter, it seems that governmental zoning has to either not exist or become a state or federal matter. I sure don't want the feds zoning my city, nor do I want the state doing it. I also don't want to live in a world of no zoning.

It's a pain that I'd have to appear before the zoning board to get a variance for a larger garage on my property, but the alternatives are far worse, I think, and I like the idea that fellow city residents are the ones deciding our zoning and variance process.

What concretely do you propose to effect a fix for the problem that you see?
This is ludicrous! I have insurance, & still this will completely drain me financially. I'm at the point where I almost think it would be easier to declare bankruptcy and start over!

I worked in insurance for over five years. Not this kind of insurance, but it was a kind of health insurance.

a) Get a letter of "medical necessity" drafted by your primary care physician.

b) Call the insurance company and ask about the policies concerning emergency treatment. Don't accuse them of anything. They get cussed out all the time and it will not help you. Be nice and start from the assumption that there must be some mistake.

c) If you make no progress with that, have a lawyer send the insurance company a letter requesting a copy of your records. This sometimes makes them look very carefully at the bill and sometimes is enough to get you whatever benefits you are legally due. Which may not be your wildest dreams of avarice, but may stave off your desire to declare bankruptcy.

If you do have a lawyer request your medical records, expect the insurance company to come back with a form letter stating they need a third party auth. Yes, a lawyer will need a third party authorization to get your medical records, but I wouldn't bother supplying them with one at the start. Just make the request without it and supply it if you really need to. If you get your bill paid because a lawyer wrote them, your lawyer doesn't really need your records. The initial inquiry sometimes gets the claim looked over more thoroughly. I am basically recommending this as a scare tactic.

There are actually a lot of errors made in paying complex medical bills at insurance companies for the simple reason that the claims processor may not see an 8 day hospital stay all that often and may have about 10 minutes in which to look your bill over and decide what is payable before moving on. I had to process 60 claims a day to keep my job. This meant I had minutes to decide what the benefits were and people who were very fast were actively rewarded for it. I often cleaned up their messes and, no, this did not get me promoted or anything, even though it sometimes kept the company out of court because the people were threatening to lawyer up.

Best.
Let's be reasonable and word it as "A sizable portion of the service was supporting criminality."
Google Wifi does this.
This all boils down to you trying hard not to say anything so you don't have to confront the hard numbers I gave you. You keep saying 'you don't understand' but that rings pretty hollow when you can't give any evidence that anything I've said is wrong.
I find IF helpful to regulate calories. Basically I skip breakfast, eat a light lunch around 1, and a large protein/veg heavy dinner. This is effective if I stick to it (and I generally have for quite some time now). You can't do IF, eat crap, and expect results. You still need a disciplined diet. For me I found I basically need to severely restrict carbs. I will overeat carbs but not protein/less starchy veg. Try eating a BigMac's calories in spinach. It isn't going to happen.

As other people have mentioned, a lot of the claims made about IF aren't entirely backed by the research. Most experiments are with mice and usually use a more severe form of fasting that what is advocated. It's just another way to do caloric restriction which may work better than the previous 'best practice' of 'many small meals'.
Last I knew, OpenWorm was making good progress on the nervous system simulations, though. IIRC they’ve demonstrated swimming, retracting when bumping into walls, and food-seeking.
Why do you thank facebook and google for this?