skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, so letting an economy go into free-fall recession is good for people?

Once self-driving cars hit, the switch will be immediate and massive. I would predict 10% to 90% penetration in probably less than 12 months--the limitation will simply be building the cars fast enough. That's a lot of people suddenly with no income.

Protecting people against that disruption for 50 years? Probably a bad idea. Protecting people for 5 years? Maybe a good idea.

An efficient market is a ruthless market. And people are its victims.
> Google were in early

That's an understatement, they've co-invented it, it was called Project Gnubby at the time. As part of their BeyondCorp project they needed better 2FA and Gnubby was standardized under the FIDO Alliance. Their U2F user study[1] is interesting.

> But since then?

http://www.dongleauth.info/ has a list but yes, adoption has been slow. The W3C Web Authentication spec[2] (which is the successor to the FIDO work) will hopefully see better adoption, and it'll work with existing U2F tokens. Microsoft for example has skipped FIDO 1.0 and committed to the W3C spec instead[3].

1: http://fc16.ifca.ai/preproceedings/25_Lang.pdf
2: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/
3: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
MFC, ATL, and the .NET stuff with the exception of XAML all use win32 controls under the hood. XAML still uses user32 albeit not the control toolkit. Because everything shares the same common core things work together better than on Linux.
Enforcement seems very resource intensive and complex.
Automating or crowd sourcing would be a good idea
Yep. In a bubble, you are.
"enrollment-weighted premiums in the individual health insurance market increased by 24.4 percent beyond what they would have had they simply followed trends"

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fall201...
You need to replace coreaudio with pulseaudio, try this instead:

cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tpulseaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8
Changing "Verizon" with "Verizon Wireless" doesn't change the argument:

> If I'm paying Netflix and paying Verizon Wireless for 40+ Mbps wouldn't this impact us? Shouldn't I be able to watch four shows at once if I pay my bill on time?
Court documents detail 12k of Monero and an unknown amount from Cazes' personal wallet.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/982821/downlo...
Notational, a notes app built with Vue.js. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409760) 61 days ago

Response was great: lots of sign ups and feedback, but I haven't had time to do anything. Started a new job and moved cities. Everything is open-sourced if anyone wants to take a crack: https://github.com/tmm/notational
Using a wordlist with aircrack-ng seems to only try the literal passwords in the dictionary. If you use naive-hashcat, a series of dictionary, rule, combination, and brute-force attacks will be used. I recommend reading up on the hashcat wiki (https://hashcat.net/wiki/) to learn how to conduct your own custom hashing attacks.
Shameless plug, but one of my old college friends sells gift cards at scale: https://support.priceyak.com/hc/en-us/articles/203465699-Buy...

If you're in the Amazon world I'm sure you know of them, but if not I'd be happy to put you in touch (contact info in profile)
Bitcoin hasn't been fast or cheap for a very long time, whereas many 'traditional payment methods' let people send money instantly for free.
You're not considering that these people are living month-to-month so they don't have 5K lying around and that the time between jobs when they are moving is time they're not getting paid. That means that you need >5K, otherwise you just erased all your savings to move to a place with a lower job prospects.
Yahoo7 CTO Paul Russell on the media giant's stack overhaul
Creating a private transaction uses up a lot of computation and memory resources.

No mining pool, exchange or high throughput business is going to send secure transactions.

Although, maybe they could charge extra for it.
Years ago when I worked for this type of company we moved our prod game servers to Indian reserves in Canada. That was very costly, later moved to Costa Rica.
Docker is doing pretty well. It was a HN-only launch.
I've never understood the purpose of Bitcoin mixers. The use-case seems to be half-assed money laundering. You're concealing the source of money[1], without bothering to invent a plausible alternate source. It's at best like a petty criminal who "launders" his money by simply claiming to have found it.

[1]-Poorly at that -- do we really think the people who catch launderers of actual money will be stymied by the transaction log of your average tumbler? It makes way more sense to launder money by renting BTC mining hardware and electricity from someone who doesn't care where the money came from, taking a loss but effectively trading your "tainted" BTC for brand-new BTC.
I've spent a lot of time posting in a tech help group for the last 4 years or so. I'm one of the more prolific posters there. I know that when I leave, a few people will wonder "where did khed1 go? for a bit. Then it won't matter.

I worked at my current employer for 7 years, then was laid off 2 days before my son was born. I spent a few months of my severance package as paternity leave, then started looking again. I took a position back at the same employer, but in a different group. 2 months later, 2/3 of the office was laid off. The work doesn't care about you. The company doesn't care about you. It's a job. Do the work. Keep up with new developments; you'll need the knowledge when you need to find a new job.
> Here's why that's stupid: a nation is not build so simply. There are places where having firefighters would not be economically viable. Does that mean that the people in those areas don't deserve firefighters?

When on Earth did I say anything like that? First of all I was implying opting out of the taxes for whatever community, not paying for fire fighters directly. Also, it's worth pointing out that in many rural communities (and more prominently, the area between them) paying for fire fighting service is not uncommon precisely because it's not viable for the communities in the nearby area to cover them as well without being compensated.

But besides all of that:

> Libertarianism is a nice idea, but it needs to be balanced out with some compassion. You pay into something that you might never use, because someone else might need it, and they do the same for you elsewhere.

I completely agree, this is what I was attempting to get at.
Well he doesn't slam Elon Musk on AI but gives a more reasonable point of view, but I'm glad other high profile tech CEO's are calling out Musk's fear mongering about AI.
It's a nasty analogy, since they are not the same class of event.
BBC seems pretty off, with their "Syrian migrant dies in German blast" headline, referring to the suicide bomber at a music festival. Reuters got in on the fun, too "Syrian man denied asylum killed in German blast".
I agree with you. I've started watching more CNBC rather than traditional news. They have a pretty good balance of political views filled with a good amount of tech.
I'm likely completely missing the point but how is this concept of imagination different from looking ahead in a search tree? Isn't exploring a search tree like in Chess or Go exploring future possibilities and their consequences before you decide on what to do next?
I'm arguing that FB isn't the right place to solve it.

But in practical terms -- this is basically saying it will never be solved at all.
Second this, Monero essentially has coin mixing built into the protocol. It's not convoluted and its use case is very clear.
The declarations make no sense: "Bitcoin is not anonymous, so I'll shut down the service I was running to help people overcome this non-anonymity, which I created for this exact goal."

Where is the new information? Every reason he is giving was already there and already clear at the beginning.
Technically using iodine to tunnel via DNS on captive portals is also illegal (I think .. although I'm not sure if anyone has been prosecuted for this .. IANAL)
Looks interesting, but your iOS app hasn't been updated in over a year. That's a red flag for me.
Let's take Hacker News as a case-study. The open registration system without email verification or any sort of verification allows users to comment and act without retribution or fear of being called out. While I support strong security and encryption, generally being anonymous on the internet promotes negative behavior.

Anonymity on the internet causes people to act inappropriately, troll, comment offensively, conduct fraud and illegal activities.

Interesting, because I think your example is even more effective as a counter-example to your point. As you noted, Hacker News is pretty anonymous, and without verification. Yet, compare the comments here, with Facebook comments on pretty much any news site. Or maybe any other site with Facebook comments. There is no comparison -- Hacker News, with all its anonymity, is much more civil, collegiate, and productive.

The lack of intelligent, earnest discourse online is much more complex than anonymity or the lack of it.
They might as well ban warp drive and fusion generation while they're at it. People who can't master the complexity of the flush toilet are not likely to be in danger of creating driverless cars anytime soon.
I also tried to ask "how much?" on my last doctor's visit. I was looking for a ballpark estimate, not an exact figure. The person at the desk refused to give me one, citing that insurance plans make that too difficult. I insisted that since I was covered by a major insurer that she must surely deal with regularly given their customer base, and that their office was in-network for my plan, she must have some idea, but again, she refused, saying she didn't know.

It's ridiculous, and it should be illegal. At the time, my reason for visiting was a condition that required treatment, so not going to the doctors really wasn't an option. But the inability to even begin to determine what I'm going to pay is ridiculous.

(I did this after a prior visit to a different doctor stiff'd me something like $3k for the use of what amounts to glorified camera. A camera whose photos I never obtained, despite asking for them — to which the doctor replied "we've never had anyone ever ask for that" — i.e., for their medical records. I could understand that medical-grade cameras might not be cheap, but at $3k per use, my gut says money is raining from the sky.)
That certainty breaks the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and while impractical, I think you could be charged separately for cracking each router. That said, interesting idea. If I were to do it, I wouldn't crack the passwords on the router itself, but rather attach 3G hardware to the router to "phone home" captured handshakes and run your cracking on GPUs in the cloud, sending results back to the router.
Code complete is a classic.

Clean code will teach you how writing 3 line functions is a best practice. It's an overhyped, overrated book which is more damaging than helpful and one of the very few I couldn't stand to read until the end due to the authors' dogmatic views.
good mixers do that. They give you coins that are completely unrelated to yours
I bought it when you first posted.
I smell a divorce brewing between the Mikkelson couple.
Reminds me of the now-defunct design feedback site ocean.ink: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ocean
FWIW I would use Bitcoin mixers in the interest of privacy on a regular basis. People vastly overestimate the "anonymity" of bitcoin; it is, in fact, riskier than other transmission methods because the transaction is irrevocably and publicly logged on the blockchain forever.

It would probably not be hard for an interested party to piece together a good deal of an individual's transaction history given a couple of known btc addresses, especially if they don't follow the practice of generating a new address for every transaction (e.g., they, or one of their transaction partners, is a site that says "Send btc to this address to donate/buy/whatever").

And that's without law enforcement powers. Imagine what would happen if the fuzz link an address a few levels up the chain to a drug transaction. How long can bitcoin remain "dirty" and subject to confiscation as proceeds from illegal conduct? I don't really want to be a test case for that.

When I use a credit card, I know that my bank and the vendor have those records, but I also know that a random person is very unlikely to be able to get to them. In that sense, bitcoin is much less private than your ordinary centralized transaction methods; at least in that case, you have some idea who is able to review your records.

Thus, it is a good idea to "mix" coins, IMO. Third-party mixers are useful because the blockchain also contains metadata about each transaction, including the IP address of the node that relayed the tx, timestamps, etc. and it takes a lot of manual effort to get enough steps away that it's not obviously just sending money back and forth to yourself (less some network tx fees each time). It's hard to self-mix well.
The article I linked to includes links to peer-reviewed research by the Kaiser Family Foundation. They look at the actuarial value (how much of your health costs the plan actually covers) to compare apples-to-apples. If you care about these subjects, I really encourage you to dive in and learn about them, rather than throwing out unsubstantiated anecdotes.
I live in the Belle Haven neighborhood. And I love it. Go jogging frequently, always feel safe, diverse neighborhood...
Who is going to be the perfectly moral individual or organization who will be able to fairly distinguish between that which is moral but illegal and that which is immoral and illegal? The answer of course is that no such entity exists nor will exist. And you cannot stop the latter entirely without also halting the former, and halting the former is arguably worse (but that's debatable, especially if your opening argument is "Let's take mass child slave trafficking.")
It's not money laundering, it's vanishing with the traces of to where went that amount of money someone could be tracking.

That kind of service is not needed if you're dealing with cash.

Money laundering, if you need that, is a different step that must be taken after the "mix".
Completely unrelated, in that they've never passed through the mixer? Then, what does the mixer do with the coins you've sent to it?
> The possibility of honest discourse without fear of repercussion. It has single handedly changed the world.

Of course there is evidence and particular pockets of great good, but internet trolling, bullying, acting inappropriately, fraud, and scamming people greatly outweighs the good. Can't movements as important and big as Egypt still occur without anonymity? After all, a lot of the people tweeted and used Facebook with their real names and information.
There is a difference between rational discourse and outright harassment.

For example, is the Anshe Chung penis swam incident [1] acceptable?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshe_Chung#Target_of_griefing
I am literally throwing up. Everything is breaking down in new and exciting ways.

Based on what this article says, it is suprising that MORE violent attacks don't happen in this country.
Angular 2 components – must read
Paraphrasing previous comment - I get the "see cryptos are too insecure / it's a pyramid / it's a bubble / ICOs are scams / etc" arguments.

But holy shit turning a world currency into the wild west - for better or worse - is going to be disruptive, period.

I can only imagine the debacles that we have to look forward to, and I say that in full support of and as a long term believer in both blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
No to Rainmaker, but very much aligned with 'car company in Fight Club'.
Ask HN: What's a lightweight web pkg for photos for family to view?
PS I'm using apache on a Debian web server
Exactly. Anonymity doesn't promote negative behavior, it promotes honesty.
The problem isn't abuse on the billing side per se. The problem is that insurance is about risk management. In laymen's terms, it amounts to taking a bet. When you insist that private insurers cover people with pre-existing, incurable, chronic conditions, there is no "bet" to take there. It is all downside for the insurer. It amounts to charity. This fact then seriously distorts the business model, driving up costs for everyone in a big way. It has to be covered somehow.

We need a single payer system because, at the societal level, it makes sense for government to make sure people get their healthcare needs met for the same reason it makes sense for government to provide police and fire protection. But forcing all Americans to get private health insurance makes no sense and indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of what the insurance industry does.

Direct Primary Care, single payer and wellness programs all have a good track record of genuinely getting people healthier while bringing down costs. Obamacare cannot do any of those things and just runs expenses up.

Source/qualifications: Among other things, I worked in insurance for over five years. I have a certificate from a technical college in life and health insurance, paid for by my former employer.
Historically, society ends up poorer when doing things sub-optimally, and if society does it long enough, it also becomes obsolete and non-competitive, ensuring that society stays behind for longer than simply allowing the tech changes to evolve as they can.

So if your goal is temporary employment gains for long term poverty, this is a good way to start.
Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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I don't see how these bitcoin laundering services worked. Since it costs money to use a bitcoin tumbler, it's slow, and there's a non-zero chance that the operator will simply steal your money, there is very little reason to use a coin tumbler unless you're trying to hide the proceeds of crime.

In which case, you are just mixing your coins with other criminals, as there's going to be very little 'clean' money going into the mix. So your coins that were 'tainted' by buying weed online are now possibly associated with arms dealing, fraud, child porn or any number of serious crimes. Doesn't seem like a great benefit.
Not only can you do this, but the major services won't even let you set up U2F without a backup factor.

The best current Google auth stack, by the way, is:

1. U2F

2. Phone-based authenticator app (TOTP)

3. Password-manager password

4. Printed codes

5. DISABLE SMS. (Google forces you to enroll in SMS to turn on 2FA; you can simply delete your phone number after enrolling everything else).
Because automated weaving makes clothes a lot cheaper.

Put another way, when workers become more efficient -- one factory worker able to control many weaving machines, or a relatively small group of programmers able to control many cars -- people's standard of living increases.

Maybe you're willing to pay more for clothes, or transportation, or any one thing. But paying more for all of the things that have gotten cheaper due to increases in efficiency since time X is tantamount to going back to the standard of living of time X.
Given the infrastructure in India, this is probably a wise decision.
Yes, I've used PY.

For volume gift cards, it's all about the discount. There's no way I would buy gc at no discount and have to pay cash, as PY offers last I checked.
Check out SkipTheDrive.com as well.
People keep saying that the inevitable Amazon price raise will happen.

Amazon has been around for 20 years "monopolizing" every market that it enters. And those doomsday price raises have yet to materialize.
This seems like a person looking for fame and validation. Arrested for such a minor crime why admit to major crimes. The fact that the specific charge is withdrawn tells me the facts may not backup his claim.
As to that, Design Patterns did not influence my coding style very much. By contrast Code Complete was the first book that I read about how to structure code, and I've gained more from it on multiple rereads. I consider it a much better book.

But then again I'm hardly enthusiastic about OO. See http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=318257 for more on my perspective.
>There is no real financial incentive for a bad actor to find a software bug that is capable of crashing an airliner.

Not heard of plane hijacking?

ETH engineers are totally incentivised to write the most perfect code possible. With a world of people wanting disintermediation, the rewards for getting and keeping it right and safe are incredible. Partly because the penalties are too.

The compensation for running and maintaining good secure contracts is exactly the incentive needed. You should try and understand the workflow before blindly critiquing it. CD is not a real feature of blockchain technology, and neither should it be. Does NASA run CD on satellite software? Can you run CD on a plane in mid flight?

It is exactly the same thing as flight and space software. You get one chance to get it right. You get paid for doing good work - by the network.

I've never ever heard an ethereum developer complain about the cents they have to pay to deploy a contract, after having extensively tested it on the testnet for free.
Simplest Inverse Kinematics Algorithm. Most Stable. (Pseudo-Code Included)
Snackis – Post-modern communication
Now traffic has increased at least 6 times
Rules like the first amendment?
It's always the wild west when a technology or medium is new, isn't it? The same could be said of the web in the nineties or facebook/mobile apps a decade ago.
There will emerge a "CryptoCurrency+ruleOfLaw" that will succeed in the evolutionary race.
That step is needed if you're dealing with paper assets like wire transfers and real estate. It is considered money laundering in those cases, and they catch people doing that with some regularity.
>Shouldn't imagination and planning be observed spontaneously as emergent properties of a sufficiently complex neural network?

Why would you think that? We have no theoretical knowledge of how human "consciousness" emerges, and obviously no experimental data either.

>Conversely, if we have to explicitly account for these properties and come up with specific designs to emulate them, how do we know that we are on the right track to beyond human levels of cognition, and not just building "one-trick networks"?

We don't know how far the path leads, but the capabilities of the past 5-ish years progress are leaps and bounds beyond what anything else can do, and this is part of the work of pushing further down that path.
It's a little bit of both, honestly. They have definitely taken a strong political position as of late, which has resulted in instances where they've ignored legitimate sources that agreed with the rumor they are trying to dispel, and allowed sources suffering from "citogenesis"-like qualities because it agreed with their views. I look forward to a future snopes-like site which is completely impartial, but unfortunately impartiality is very difficult to exhibit when the subject matter is frequently very subjective.
That's what's broken in politics.
You know, don't take this wrong, but I worry about the conclusion 'that there's not a lot of remote work available'. Rather, you seemingly got some initial interviews, so there must be jobs available. Instead, it just seems like you weren't a good fit for them.

Seriously, keep applying for work. You'll eventually get a break, particularly if you're getting initial interviews just off the strength of an application.
This would be a great feature for me too. I'm looking for conferences I can apply to speak at, and it's often kind of difficult to extract basic info like this from event sites.

It would also be good to see similar info for conferences that have exhibitor booths.
Anyone tried Apple's Airport drivers and Linux on VirtualBox?