skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
shit of course you're right, the article talked explicitly about people not differentiating between the EV browser treatment and the DV browser treatment, so all this iron cladding / gold plating on the domain i'm trying to protect doesn't stop typo squatters doing anything.
What does the code have access to other than the blockchain? Can it access the internet? The node's computer?
...passwords that might be reused for the email addresses, and paypal, and...

A web app might not touch real money, but a leak can still have real money consequences for the users.
The "attractive" qualifier gives the whole comment a bad smell. Physical abuse is physical abuse and it tells you more about the abuser than the abused.
If you live for the weekend!
I've got an Android phone and unfortunately no, it's just video, there's no still.

I sorely miss the real Live Photos I had on iOS for the same reasons as you. There are camera apps on Android that do it (like Camera MX) but the UX isn't really comparable and you can't use Motion Stills on stuff taken outside the app.
My boss and I talk about this phenomenon a lot. Normal distributions have lots of nice properties, and lots of tools that can do lots of fancy things, and infer lots of nice "facts" from them.

So there is a huge bias among researchers to assume them to make their treatment of the data easier.
Nothing wrong with what your are doing if it works for you, but I wouldn't describe your workflow as trivial, and I wouldn't call using Password complicated. The value to me of 1Password is: Go to Website, Right click 1Password, enter password, logged in. No copy paste, no switching windows, no launching emacs, no searching through a list. Even the added friction of 1Password took a few starts and stops to get through. For people like me, your solution would quickly devolve into reusing a common password.

The 1Password workflow on iOS is more similar to what you describe because there is no browser integration, and I strongly dislike the experience. I often will abort doing things on mobile so I don't have to bother app switching and copy pasting.
Agreed, and the massive hacks and losses will continue as long as smart contracts are written in Solidity.
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Are these remarks of Steve (not a person I know, but I wouldn't expect to...) public somewhere?
1. is an issue with external validity (i.e. does the findings generalize to other groups). But the comparison being made in the study is within a given group with similar socioeconomic status (all Harvard males). Assuming that they only vary in the quality of their personal relationships, any difference in happiness because of this could, assuming it is causal, be interpreted as a generalizable effect of relationship quality.
Well, so far I don't get paid as an artist. But artists definitely get paid. It's probably about as hard as getting paid as a startup founder.
> ... included the AlphaBay admin's personal email address in the message header. That email address was "pimp_alex_91@hotmail.com

Yep that'll do it. To save you the click there was no clever technology used to pop this site, just a personal email belonging to a service friendly to law enforcement.
> Sanction them, tie them up in investigations and fines [...] Aggressively pursue his financial dealings

What's the mechanism you propose to ensure these tools are only used against snake oil salesmen? Would you hand that metaphorically loaded gun to our current president?
$3K per Day in Your Spare Time Copying and Pasting
They are not that important in cryptography. They are important for particular types of cryptography.

Cryptography often involves finding algebraic structures that have certain properties, that can be used to implement a particular security property. For example, only someone who knows a particular value, can perform operations on these other values.

Many algebraic structures include prime numbers as special members. Other algebraic structures do not. Yet other algebraic structures don't even have "number" as members, but something else.

An algebraic structure is roughly, a collection of abstract objects (numbers, vectors over numbers, etc) and operations (add, multiply, etc) that follow a particular set of associated laws. You can make up your own, but throughout the centuries, mathematicians, scientists and engineers, have discovered that certain structures are very useful for various tasks. e.g. groups, rings, fields, etc etc.

So, why primes show up so often in cryptography is not due to them specifically being "primes", but due to them having special properties within many common algebraic structures. Other things show up in many parts of mathematics as well, like pi, e, i, etc etc etc. There is nothing particularly special about primes in cryptography in general. For example AES does not directly use prime numbers (apart from the number 2).
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Ask HN: Could state of the art AI summarize online forums?
I've found that there is a ton of useful information that is pretty much only available deep in online forums. A few examples are in-depth audio/video product information in AVS Forum, car information in various make/model specific forums, etc.

A big barrier to getting at this information is the amount of time it takes to keep up with it all, especially when the information is buried in threads that can be hundreds (or thousands) of pages long, and where people frequently ask (and answer) the same questions over and over. Frequently these threads have a handful of authorities that frequently provide valuable information, and lots of other people coming and going requesting and consuming tidbits of info.

There has to be a better way to curate and/or organize this information.

Is AI in such a state that it could be useful in this area? Does anyone know of any existing projects?

I would love to be able to point a program at a thread (or an entire forum) and have it pull out and categorize all of the useful info.
AirBnB couldn't convince Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures to invest in two attempts and despite PG pleading with him.

Most of their early success was in NYC yet that didn't stop
Sequoia from funding them. Now Wilson keeps a box of their "Cap'n McCains" cereal in the board room to remind him.
Isn't it likely that a number of recipients did not delete that particular message? Also that a number of them sold drugs by mail order, not uncommonly a short lived profession?
Living to work vs working to live. In your scenario I can see how you've dedicated 8 years of your life to your employer. Would we really value "time" in this case? 8 years is a lot of time living to work, getting all these perks not spending any money at all. Not investing in real estate, etc. I feel like you're living the entrepreneur life while being a full time employee at Google.

It's a great backup plan to invest in real estate, build a family and enjoy traveling once in a while. I don't want to wake up at 50y old single with a large bank account. Cash isn't worth anything today.
Did I miss it after all the build-up, or is the conclusion actually "we must ask ourselves how to monetize truth" unanswered?
that's really weird. I'm not an astronomer so I thought "hmmm, what's the first thing I can think of in astronomy."

Well, how about the magnitude of stars. So, is the magnitude of stars normally distributed? I googled "distribution magnitude of stars" and got images (by clicking on images tab) that seem pretty normally distributed to me. Aren't they?
So it seems like most Android manufacturers are independently adding their own aggressive power savings mode which kills apps - and prevents any background tasks or notifications - just about as soon as they're out of the foreground. And users have no idea this is the case when they buy the phone.

Seems like Google should just create a better power management system - or one that selectively lets through notifications without firing up the whole app - rather than have the manufacturers bungle this up.
I think I found a new dream job.
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Woah, so looks like we disagree completely.

Why don't you like the docs? I love how it has a great introduction guide[1] that really dives deep into the hows and whys, but also has a full API guide when you just gotta know one specific thing [2].

[1](https://vuejs.org)

[2](https://vuejs.org/v2/api/)
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I know, and I am very excited for those languages to exist and be usable, and thereby have been tracking a couple such efforts; until then, this is about as useful as pointing out that website development is theoretically possible using a computer. The person did not state that it would always be the case that smart contracts are hard: only that right now, on Ethereum, they are hard, and the comment even used "gotten to the point where" (indicating this is a temporary state) and specifically blamed the "tools", which is all absolutely true and is born out not just in theory but in practice; it doesn't even disagree with your own statements that other different tools would be better. Why are you so defensive about this commentary?
We see Pareto distribution in nature and society a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution#Applicatio...
I've lied to pesky sales reps and telemarketers and told them that I've been diagnosed with terminal cancer and have six months to live. That ends the conversation pretty quickly and they never call back.
But the variance needs to be bounded. With power laws is is often unbounded. The trick that many get trapped in is that short samples of power laws typically look regular. Estimates of variance will always be finite on finite sample size. Nassim Taleb goes into more detail on this.
Sure, but in theory I can change passwords and maintain separate credentials for my banking-related needs.

Short of auditing the Solidity contract code myself, there's nothing I can do to protect myself from the hacks themselves because the very mechanism by which money is transferred is riddled with bugs.

This is mostly just semantics anyway - I'm just trying to establish that writing money-transfer software in a poorly designed language is, one way or another, worse than writing a web app in one.
I thought the same thing. Private industry made slavery. It took the state to put an end to those abuses.

And the state is also trying to put an end to wage slavery abuses.

But most rebublicans appear to be ok with getting paid nothing and working slave hours.

So I'm happy to let them elect conservatives that cut labor laws, and lower minimum wage.

A nice cheap unregulated labor force in the heartland America will lower my cost of goods and shipping on the coast.

Republicans are like a voluntary slave force for the liberal coasts.
>they inadvertently affected a part of the brain that is responsible for 'self-control, judgement' and he ended up becoming a child porn addict, which got him arrested and convicted

This really highlights the absurdity of a justice system centered around "punishing bad people" rather than "helping sick people". I suppose the surgeons were charged as accessories?

Perhaps, rather than a "justice" system, we need a "social health" system. There are many injustices that lead to crime. Focusing only on the criminal is unjust.
"But why don't you want this credit card anymore?"
Pointless, hosts don't do KYC so you can just lie to them and be whoever you please.
Great question. This really has to come top down and starts with the CEO. If the CEO urges the team to focus on the right metrics and asks questions on weekly reports then over time this will be in the DNA of the entire organization. Else it is really hard to get the organization to adopt these metrics
The reason VCs say no 'without saying no' is because they would like to keep the door open in case you and your crazy idea - against all odds - succeed and need a follow on investment a while from now.

The reason they say no to begin with is because you are not pitching in a vacuum, you are pitching together with another 1,000 or so companies in a year, 900 of those will get 'no' right off the bat, 100 will get a meeting (or two) dedicated to reviewing their proposition in more detail, 10 of those will enter due diligence (at substantial risk to the VC in case the deal does not go through) and maybe 8 out of those 10 will get funded.

The amount of time wasted on worthless pitches by people that don't stand a chance of getting funded is very large, and no amount of feeling that you are entitled to funding is going to get you funded unless you manage to convince the other side of the table that you are one of those 10, which means you need to look better than the other 990. Good luck!
Great, legalize drugs and that all goes away.
Don't worry, if you pray hard the free market will take care of you.
Your point is sort of sideways to mine: yes, I happened to pick tools and idioms (a text editor with GPG integration) that aren't avaialable to typical consumers. Yet the solution is trivial: I open a file and edit it!

Why can't the existing solutions in the market retain that triviality when translating to the consumer? Why must we be inflicted with bad crypto, cloudification, pervasive over-integration, lack of just-edit-the-text extensibility, etc...?
> Indifference is the purest form of inclusiveness.

No, it's not. Inclusiveness is active, indifference is passive.

They may be compatible when the status quo is already ideal, but not otherwise.

> IMHO employers should not be asking people their gender, age, race, sexual preference even if the information is voluntary because ultimately they should not care what the answers are. Employers should only care that everyone gets a fair and equal opportunity to progress within the company and enjoys a safe and inclusive work environment.

Not gathering information which can be analyzed to identify potential problems with that that may be non-obvious is incompatible with being meaningfully concerned with it.
First reaction: "What? They can't do that!"

Second reaction: "Wait, I never use the homepage anyway (but search via address bar etc)..."
Yes. We plan to! There are so many nuances with B2B that we felt it deserved a separate post. Having said that products like Slack (though B2B) is a lot similar to how a consumer app would scale. So it really depends on the type of product you are building
This sounds like a terrible idea to me.

- The original design stood for more than a decade because it is impossible to dislike. Tacking on more stuff to the homepage can only cause people to dislike it for one reason or another.

- When I want to perform a focused task with a clear intent --- "search the internet" --- why on earth would it make sense to have distractions in such a place? Is it the right place to hear about the latest sports news? I don't think so. It sucks that such a badly motivated design decision is coming to pass.
I wonder how many on the left are going to read this and think this is an attack on Trump when in fact its more likely an attack on the left or both sides. Refering to Russiagate as a "red scare" does not sound like an endorsement of that mentality. However, confirmation bias (as the author points out) is going to make those on the left believe its a vindication of their world view anyway, when in fact its the imaginary charicatures of both sides thats the enemy.
"Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation.”
Hey, a fast409a.io developer here. We think 409As are a waste of early founders time and money. The law is broken and does nothing to prevent tax abuses. All it does is distract early founders from working on their startup. However, for as long as the law exists there should be a painless way to get it out of the way.
First sentence on Wikipedia: "In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object..."
Leap motion is so much more natural than any hand held controller its crazy! Using it gets rid of all of my motion sickness.
just to think one of the big breakthru ideas on how to use a 64k home computer was recipe indexing.
I'm surprised the author does not mention prediction markets.

Those encourage people to honestly search truth without over-optimism and politeness. They only work for the part of truth that can be eventually verified and objectively confirmed/disproved but it's a start.
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It was actually only 5.5 years, the remaining 2.5 I've been working on a startup (or 10). I agree that time is more important than money.

And for those 5.5 years, there wasn't anything more exciting than working at Google. Once there was, I left and did it instead. I wasn't living to work, I considered my work and my life to be part of the same inseparable whole.

(There's also a point here about not letting other peoples' definitions of what's exciting or worthwhile influence you. I'm sure there are many people who will say "How sad that the most exciting thing in your life is working for a gigantic megacorp!" That's fine - they aren't living my life. I actually thought that the scale of the computing power and complexity of algorithms available to me was fascinating, and I joined them because I wanted to peek under the hood and contribute to what they were doing, not because I needed money.)

[Edit: your comment was edited slightly after I replied, not sure if this makes any sense anymore. But responding to your edited version: if cash isn't worth anything and you don't want to wake up with a large bank account, then what's the problem? You aren't going to wake up with a large bank account when you're 50, which means that you're living exactly the life you want to live.]
Recommendation for poki, make it easier to reach your website from your blog.

When I go to blog.poki.com, if I like what I read I typically delete "blog." to checkout what "poki.com" is about -- which should be the purpose of blogging. In this case it doesn't work, and I had to manually type "www.".
Google has denied that it is making the described changes to it's desktop homepage, but indicated that it plans to do something similar to what is described on its mobile page sometime in the future, but as yet doesn't have a firm idea of the design.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
I have an anecdote of this from literally yesterday(and it's personal enough to be a throwaway).

Status from my 20s to early 30s: at home, occasional small gigs, not much steady work or career prospects. I got badgered with "we worry about you" or "maybe you should get a second job" all the time.

Status as of yesterday when I reported that I had successfully speculated several hundred thousand dollars through multi-year cryptocurrency trades: Wow, that's great, you should diversify your wealth and marry someone now. The dinner table conversation was relaxed for once.

Which is still them imposing a narrative on me, but it's one I feel a lot more able to negotiate than the money question, where any plan or project I announced was simply met with further doubt, dismay or disinterest. They didn't want to engage with the prospects or pay attention to anything but results and it was leaving me constantly gloomy and self-doubting and frustrated with them.

And I don't think it's exactly that the money itself is making me happy, since I'm pretty spartan in my lifestyle - I'll go out for coffee drinks most days and that's my biggest and most common indulgence, but I don't spend on big luxuries or travel more than once every year or two. It's the side effect of the story changing to "I'm not totally dependent anymore, I'm free to do what I want right now" and subsequently changing their outlook.
also, no need to write test cases again if they can prove or disprove two queries.
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You can totally reimplement a model that the browser supports natively, but you close off basically every affordance that a page-based approach provides unless you commit to reimplementing things like (among others) accessibility support for screen readers or reader views, usability with nonstandard clients, and interoperability with the client's environment (I guarantee that your custom progress bar doesn't have the same semantics as the loading spinner on my browser tab). Most of these things come effectively for free with regular pages, so I don't see what benefit doing extra work to reduce your product's flexibility has if a page-based model already suits your content in the first place.
No, not strictly for the health benefits. Do them for their own sake, and they can bring you great joy. Do them without attention to their essential meaning, and you will be living falsely. This will not make you happy or healthy.
In that case, that makes total sense.
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This is a good question, and it's one I've wondered about. There's nothing stopping you from designing and deploying a blockchain similar to Ethereum that does allow access to those things.

The problem is trust. It's helpful to remember that all the participants in an Ethereum network are adversarial. It doesn't matter how many bad actors there are as long as >50% of participants agree on the outcome. (This is a simplified explanation -- the real system is transitioning to proof of stake rather than proof of work.)

If you allow solidity to access the internet or the system compilers, you can't guarantee determinism anymore. For example, if you increment a counter by the result of accessing https://some-value.com (which returns a JSON value), you could program it to return a different result for everyone who accesses it. None of the nodes would agree what the true value of the counter should be. It'd also result in a central point of failure.

These same problems exist if you let Solidity access the system software. You could program it to give different results, so no one would agree.

The innovation of Solidity is that it's a set of operations where no matter what you do, the majority of nodes will converge to the same answer.
Yes, in India, shops don't close in the middle of the day. But business is very slow during those few hours.
>I'm curious how you would construct a switch that couldnt be bypassed by the police once they have full access to the servers.

Make the killswitch physical, an attempt to open a server physically destroys it.

This appears to work for carding rings that operate in the clear
> For example a private key contains values p and q that are the prime factors of the public modulus N. If you multiply them and compare them to N you can be sure that you have a legitimate private key.

But make sure than neither p nor q is 1.
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Phoenix is not even in the same conversation as Spanish cities when it comes to walking. Madrid, Barcelona and others you walk everywhere to do anything.
Depends on whether the radius errors are generated from a separate process than the mass errors. (1) Get a glob of molten metal, mass determined by how much metal is there, some error there; (2) shape it into a ball, and suppose the radius is mainly determined by air that gets trapped, then some nearly independent error there.
You mean like this one?

http://www.astro.yale.edu/astrom/spmcat/histov.html

Not really. Plus keep in mind magnitude is a logarithmic measure. Things get skewed when you take logarithms. Also if you look for example at star sizes:

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys440/lectures/size/diam_hist...

(from http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys440/lectures/size/size.html).

The distribution is certainly not gaussian, and very much likely heavy tail.