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My bet on the reason for creating this: new Macs have no USB-A port, and there are no USB-C U2F tokens that fit flush in the port.

Github isn't too cheap to buy the token. The token they want to buy simply doesn't exist.
>Maybe there is a serious novel idea, but I've missed it.

I don't know if learned models are novel, but they certainly aren't vanilla MPC. (In my quick scan of them, only second paper mentions learning models)
I certainly don't look forward to auditing a Solidity contract with the complexity of the federal tax code.
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I wonder if that software that does room mapping with wifi signals (with 4cm resolution last I heard) would find safes because of their density. Seems likely.
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1. Does the code work?

2. Can I make a change, and be reasonably sure it will continue working?
> 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.

How does deliberately mixing your coins with the proceeds of illegal conduct help that situation at all? I don't think the government will consider mixing to be a magical crime eraser. Mixers will be the test case.
I use "keepa" for inline price graphs on amazon pages. Camel is also great, just like having the graphs appear within each amazon page.

https://keepa.com/#!addon
Call the whambulance for this communist.
I buy almost everything online, comparing prices between Walmart and Amazon. Walmart almost always has the better prices
Have you read the article? It's rather interesting.
That's trade, or commerce, in general. It is definitely not restricted to capitalism, which concerns who has the capital and who does the labor.
That's interesting, I had the complete opposite reaction to clean code. As a person that recommends this book, with full heart, to every developer, I'd like to hear any details you could spare re: why you believe it's damaging? Maybe you can provide some examples of well-written codebases and why you believe they're such? And maybe you could comment on why you feel Clean Code's principles harm readability with some examples?

I find it painful working with codebases that don't use most of the principles re:

- Write code like good stories: Code should read like a story, methodically descending the call graph method by method; each working at one level of abstraction.

For example, why is string manipulation littered all over this function that's supposed to be dealing with consolidating reports? Ugh. I like when one function stays at one level of abstraction

- Factor out conditions into descriptive methods: I shouldn't have to sit and read through 5 logical operators, some arithmetic, and method calls in 1 'if' conditional, to understand why we're doing all this.

Once again, this goes back to having your code read like a story. Factor it out into a descriptive function, so that I can understand at a glance and deep dive if necessary.

- Comments are a failure: This applies 99.99% of the time. It's almost comical when someone leaves behind a comment that could be eliminated by factoring something out into a descriptive method call instead.

There's a lot of other great stuff in Clean Code that I'm forgetting off the top of my head. (It's been awhile since I last looked over it.)

I've come across very few code bases that are a literal pleasure to read. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll is one of the cleanest codebases that comes to mind immediately. And on the other side of the coin, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes is one of the dirtiest.

If anyone wants more details/expansion, let me know and I'll reloop. (On my phone right now.)
Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

This helped me break my analysis paralysis when it came to figuring out how to organize my code.
On the other hand, if they had removed the limit, (a) there would have been an even bigger Republican backlash against "Obamacare" (if that's possible), and (b) the precedent would have emboldened Republicans to suspend the filibuster for their priorities as well. Result? In 2017, the Senate would have more motivation to repeal Obamacare and fewer limitations: they wouldn't have to shoehorn the repeal bill into the reconciliation process to avoid the filibuster, as they're currently trying, which (among other effects) limits the provisions they can include. And so they'd probably have passed their bill, and the public option would have died in 2017, just a few years after its creation.

I suppose that voters could have hypothetically had a positive reaction to the public option once actually set up, and rewarded Democrats for it in subsequent elections. But I doubt it. Although Medicare already exists, the public option would represent a significant expansion which would probably come with serious growing pains - plenty of material for Republicans to make horror stories out of. Probably fewer actual cases of huge premiums (which are already not that common), but it's not like statistics have ever been much barrier to politicians and their preconceived narratives. I guess the GOP wouldn't have been able to weaken the law through a constitutional challenge, as they did with Medicaid expansion - after all, the public option can't be unconstitutional unless Medicare is. But the Supreme Court is highly political, and I wouldn't be surprised if the law ended up being weakened some other way by a 5-4 majority...

But politically, Republicans would have a stronger alternative to offer: ACA without the public option. Y'know, the thing they currently portray as the root of all evil; I think they'd have ended up seeing it as a good conservative compromise, that preserved universal coverage availability without requiring the government to be involved directly. Arch-conservatives might not like that outcome (then again, they might) - but they'd likely accept it as an intermediate step, that still accomplished the substantive change of repealing a huge government program (the public option). It would be much easier to get consensus on than the repeal-in-name-only bills they're tossing around in the real world.

I suppose I'm getting way too speculative; the last two paragraphs aren't even directly related to the nuclear option, although they're meant to question the upside of Democrats hypothetically having deployed it. There would've been serious downsides, not just in health care; it's quite possible the 60 vote rule would end up being killed entirely rather than only for 'special' bills, so Republicans in the current Congress would've been able to pass a wide variety of their priorities, and repeal a wide variety of Democrats'. (For all I know you might support the Republicans on their other priorities, but the Democrats whose votes we're talking about certainly didn't.)
Honest feedback: those "one day" sites are not impressive, and they will not enable you to win decent contracts. I get what you said, but if you really do have 5+ years experience it confused me why you, someone who want to win clients for freelancing, have not spent any real time, even if a couple weeks, building something impressive for your portfolio. Or building something impressive x 5 given the time frame here.

I have a sweet portfolio site, mostly full of personal projects, that's made it quite easy to land remote gigs. My advice: put your 80-20 focus there.
I may be mistaken (and I'm sure someone will point out if I am) but I think most hardware U2F tokens require you to physically press something on the token to validate that it should pass over your keys.

The soft U2F solution presented here still prompts you, but it is easier to imagine the software being modified/owned on a compromised machine than then hardware token being hacked in such a way as to hand over the keys without a physical press.
First thing to answer is this material success is this something you really want or is it something that society "induced" into you.

There are many ways to make yourself feel better, but the most effective actually is to understand "Why I am doing this?".

Jesus or a puppy can alleviate the symptoms for some time but if you are living somebody else's idea of a good life it's just kicking the can down the road. It's treating the symptoms.

It is not an easy task to align yourself with you ( as crazy as it might sound :)), but this is the only way to feel right.

And is not an easy thing to do in the materialistic society which we live in. Where stuff and possessions are supposed to make you feel fulfilled . They never will, so try new things that are not about money or owning things but rather about experiences. The more out of the ordinary experiences you get the easier it is to answer this question "How do I become happier?"
Although your larger point may be right you're incorrect about the Yeti microphones. They are usually $129.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Silver/...

I bought one on sale for $100 last summer, and according to CamelCamelCamel, it was a good deal at the time.
If you look at revenue and profit analysis from Amazon, it's clear that they are still customer focused. It's just that advertisers are now a bigger customer than the "real" customers. Amazon makes more money off of sponsored listings than selling the item sponsored. Kinda crazy.
Well done! this is one of the best "Show HN" posts I've seen. Solving a simple & actual problem, and not needing to specify what language or framework you used as justification for it. I really wish more posts were like this.

I wish I could click a keyword in a conference list and then see more conferences with that keyword.

Also, the top date menu is confusing for me. I actually thought for a while the 18 was for Day of month, not year. But at least year makes more sense than some ranges that would end mid-month.

I tinkered and came up with two alternatives (I like the bottom one more) http://i.imgur.com/P0sz1aA.png

Keep up the great work!
> it's screamed at me, dripping in panic: "Trump DID A THING!!!" "Cops Shoot a Guy AGAIN WHY DID THEY DO THAT?!!"

No joke.

Someone a while back asked here, where are all the leftist conspiracy theories?

We know the right wing ones - the contrails, lizard people, Obama is a secret Muslim etc. How come the left doesn't have any? And my idea was that in a bubble environment where all the news is filtered through narrow ideological framework, the party that lost the election, is forced to come up with conspiracy theories to explain their loss. So they all watched Fox News, read Alex Jones or whatever news channel and well America is pure and good, they are the good guys but those evil Lizards from Outer Space came messed everything up at the last minute.

Then I predicted then that we will have just as vibrant and colorful leftist conspiracy theories after the election, and we kinda do.

The Russians in the bushes hacking elections, is one such thing. This is a massive PR campaign, it was very well done at first. And it makes the Tea Party look like a joke. It's got people in Congress on it. Journalists talking about it night and day. Though lately I think it's finally running out of steam.

Or the other was the "dossier" - Trump hired hookers to pee on the bed where Obama slept. And of course it's called a "dossier" because that makes it look official and important.

Impeaching Trump. If you happen to read /r/politics, which I do sometimes, you'd get the impression that in just a few days Trump will finally be impeached. I think they have an idea of impeachment that's more like someone walks into his office and tells him he's fired and then escorts him outside. I remember getting excited watching the Comey's testimony in Congress. Someone on /r/politics convinced that "Thursday he is going down, finally!" so Thursday came and nothing really happened. Comey said Trump was mean to him. Which is unfortunate, but that was about it.

He had 2 scoops of ice-cream. He shook Macron's hand for too long. He made secret coded gestures toward Putin during their G20 summit dinner. It just doesn't end.

These conspiracy theories and "news" are an important narrative because they explain why the election was lost. We have all been in a bubble, watching the main news channels, saw the poll results, explained as "Trump has only a 5% chance of winning" by the "experts" and "analysts" and so on. Then all of the sudden he did win and wah! instead of Lizard people it has to be the Russians or whatever.

As for what news sources to look, it's really hard to find any. You might try a something like Al Jazeera, although they are biased when it comes to Middle East, especially Qatar. Usually if a country or news channel doesn't have a stake in the game, they might as well report something more fairly. But yeah I haven't really found anything reliable. Things like CNN, NBC, Washington Post, NYT have turned into what Fox used to be pretty much.
There are pretty good Remote Job sources these days, try them. There are quite a bit of contract works too, which you can start off with. Also, do not forget to walk into your area's agencies, they usually work with freelancers/contractors.

- https://www.workingnomads.co/jobs

- https://remoteworkhub.com/remote-jobs/

- https://www.crossover.com/

- https://remote.com/

- https://weworkremotely.com/

- https://getbetterluck.com/ (one of our own internal tool)
Where are the liberal insane Sean Hannitys or O'reilly's? Not on NPR. Can I trust NPR will blindly support Democrats? No, they're friendly but still critical.

NPR is a news station that leans left - and you're right, most people that seek the truth also lean left for some reason.

But the left has nothing like "Fox News". There are no liberal infotainment channels that spread propaganda so blindly and unashamedly as Fox News.

Drawing parallels between any news station and "Fox News" is an insult.
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I do this, or at least I like to think I do. For example, I am firmly in favor of socialized medicine, but I understand why many people are against it (both the "they don't understand how it actually works in other countries" camp, and the "they understand it and just don't think it's a good idea" camp). I'm firmly in favor of stricter gun control (although I think the Democrats should ditch it, as it's hurting them and it's way down on the list of priorities) but I understand why people oppose it.

I was basically raised Republican, spent some time as a libertarian, and gradually came around to a Democrat-leaning independent viewpoint. I understand why someone would have voted for Mitt Romney. I understand why someone would have voted for John McCain. I seriously considered voting for John McCain, and the main reason I didn't was his choice of VP.

But Trump eludes me. The man is basically what you get when the worst kind of used car salesman is born into money. I cannot understand how anyone can look at him and say, yes, that man should be leading this country. Not because he disagrees with what I, a Democrat-leaning independent believe, but because he clearly has no actual beliefs, principles, or policies of his own, and for nearly every position he has ever espoused, he has also espoused the opposite, sometimes within the same sentence.

I can understand why a person would believe that we should have less gun control. I can't understand why that person would then vote for Donald Trump, who said that the police should search people on the street and confiscate their guns.
That was a reply to
"Generics don't solve immutability"
which was a reply to a post that did not contain the word
"immutable"
but does contain the word
"generic"

James' comment you quote was responding to your comment, which he parsed generically as "Generics don't solve T", with a comment of the form, "Generics make it possible to implement a generic T."

I'm confident you can read, but I'm not so sure about your reading comprehension and critical thinking.
The universe will end before we can decide on 2.7 or 3.
I remember these, definitely had it's unique features about them at the time.
> We're talking about public 'VPN Services'

You can use most (any?) dedicated server or VPS service as a VPN. I personally just create a SSH tunnel to my server in order to browse any site. You do not need to rent any shady "VPN Service".

> for circumventing region locking, ISP throttling

Circumventing either of these is a fine act.

> and piracy

If they wanted to "pirate" they would not have used Netflix.
I agree. Besides (PO)MDPs, the control people also get into neural networks whenever they come in vogue.

This thesis from 2000 was the first hit for "reinforcement learning control theory" from google: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~anderson/res/rl/matt-diss.pdf

BTW, people in related fields may work on similar things but don't always publish at the same venue -- labels matter. For example, ICRA and RSS are some of the top robotics venues and people trying to sell themselves as roboticists will prefer to publish there.

EDIT: In the second paper, they learn the model only from the images, not from the game state, which is neat. That should be highlighted more than the one sentence it was given.
In a control theory context, we're likely talking about inferring a small handful of parameters where the relationships between them are well known. In this paper they're inferring the entire dynamics of an environment from thousands of raw pixel values. This is not something that admits a tractable exact optimization
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Let's have a look...

> and a private key akin to the signature

Nope, a private key is not akin to a signature. It's akin to a... key? Or perhaps a special pen / wax-seal that you use for signing? I don't think there is an exact analogy?

> To carry out transactions, those codes are passed between bitcoin wallets

Lol, nope. Private keys are not passed around. Neither the public keys (assuming they mean 'addresses' here), which are actually hashes of the public key.
Second this for most of my small and large purchases. Diabetes test strips and a kent bicycle were both the best price including walmart free shipping.

(Throwaway because I don't support Dang's tyranny against postings that run counter to his forced narrative.)
Thanks for the reply, Dan. Certainly no problem with it so far. Just curious.
> ...you're in the individual market...

Is the actuarial and outcomes data corpus of the health insurance industry so bad that it makes actuarial sense to segment the markets to individual, medium group, large group, etc.? I've always wondered what the explanation is for so many cohorts.

Are state insurance regulations preventing medical insurance providers using more sophisticated risk modeling to create larger pools, or co-marketing with life insurance companies that gather pretty detailed data on individuals before underwriting?
Well the issue is that there are no penalties. Only free money for lawyers and nothing for the people who got their PII stolen.

Dropping the DB means there's no more PII to leak, makes a pretty good financial penalty for the company and doesn't make millions for useless lawyers. That sounds like an acceptable solution by my standards.
The Japanese -> Korean example is quite unfortunate as it is one of the big exceptions to the rule you put forth.
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> ...the left in general couldn't understand why anyone would vote for this obvious shyster

If it seems like I'm singling out NPR, I didn't mean to. All left wing outlets messed up or this wouldn't be an issue. I'm saying the audience should do a better job of understanding the people who voted for Trump. And the left-leaning media has to produce many, many pieces aimed in that direction.

Why would Fox News produce pieces to explain to cosmopolitan types why Obama policies failed to improve poverty in Tennessee or El Paso? Or why Iowans without employer-provided healthcare feel like collateral damage in the battle for socialized medicine?
Honestly I find that Vega, the visualisation grammar, is much more interesting. Finally we might have a standard for describing charts!
Do you read enough books to have an informed opinion on that?
I totally disagree with your numbers. $800 is a lot for rent. We're assuming we're going somewhere cheap. Even that $500 is high if you're moving to the middle of the country. You can find a 2 or 3 bedroom rental at $500 in even "bigger" cities like Oklahoma City or Albuquerque. That's a huge upgrade from a garage. Utilities are going to be nowhere near that. You're also inflating numbers. Like where does this 2 months of food come from? Where are you getting the second month? Who does this? It is first and last (which is your security deposit). Utils are going to be <$100/mo, including basic internet.

So for 5 people, on the cheap (because come on, they are living in a garage, we're just looking for an upgrade, not middle class status on arrival). So let's do an even more refined analysis from what I did before.

Uhaul = 2-3k with fuel (we aren't doing the 10 days Uhaul estimated. NYC to SF is 44hrs driving). You tow your car, but I'm guessing they don't have one, let alone two. $5/person/meal for lunch and dinner (breakfast at motel or you skip). That's $150 for 3 days (we're on the road ALL day). Motel at $40/night (two nights). You also have a uhaul... (you can trade off driving through the night too...) First and last month is $900 (we're doing 2bd 1ba in not the greatest neighborhood but not out in the boonies. The kids have a room). Utils are $150 for turning on and first month. You buy a cheap cell phone or a prepaid, $100 for two phones (you and wife). You probably already have this, but hey I'm adding a little wiggle room. Nothing about this is glamarous, but that's not what I'm trying to illustrate here. This comes to $3,380-$4,380. Clearly we can do even cheaper. These numbers probably seem low to you because you've never had to do this or never lived in these places.

5k would give you wiggle room, and honestly we're not concerned about that. We're looking bare minimum. Most people don't even have $500 in their savings, so unfortunately we're not going to presume that our imaginary family of 5 does. We can definitely argue over this number but I'll say CAN is in the range 5k+-1k for a good portion of the country.

So CAN we move a family of 5 across the country? Yes. Is it going to be easy? No. Is it going to be comfortable? No. Are you going to live in the greatest area? No. Are you going to have an easier time saving money once you move? Yes (on the condition that you did your research. Even a "pay decrease" can be a "raise"). Is it going to be better than a family of 5 in a garage? Hell yeah.
>it's impossible to distinguish whether the comment represents a belief held in good faith, commercial spam, a prank, etc

This is wrong. First thing anonymity should teach you is critical thinking. At least it should. After that, issues you are talking about are not really issues anymore.
Post ACA I'm able to get my wife insured (congenital heart issue fixed forever at 14, still used to deny her coverage at 27), and my premiums dropped. We're rather firmly middle class, pretty sure I didn't qualify for any health subsidies, I think student loan deduction and mortgage were it.

So there's a face for you, 32 year old, healthy, middle class, white woman who likes cats, rides horses, and has a pet bearded dragon who she talks to in a baby voice can get regular cancer screenings because of ACA.
Sometimes you see songs at the top of charts which doesn't make any sense as to why they should be there. This makes all the sense