skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Additionally, actually acquiring cryptocurrency requires a bank account in good standing and a ton of invasive KYC paperwork which will raise suspicions and alienate "street buyers".

This is false. You can acquire cryptocurrency just as easily as you can acquire cash: sell things for it, exchange currency with friends, exchange currency with people you find on LocalBitcoins, steal it, run a business taking payment in it, ...
Have you ever thought of helping them out?

I mean if (1) what you say is true, (2) you have the know-how and ability to navigate such structures, and (3) you can build a team that closes these deals, then I'm positive Twilio would spend a small fortune to hire you.

Why not explore that route?
If people are getting crack from it, does it matter what type of market it is? People are saying this is where the drug trade might migrate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828864

I think it's scary that (a) these markets are here to stay, and (b) anyone with a computer and the most basic technology skills will be able to get any hard drug they can imagine delivered right to their doorstep.

Again, there's nothing to be done, really. That's just the way the world is now. But it's unfortunate.
Bash on Windows is like using a flightstick in a car. It sure works, but they weren't built for each other. Eshell is just Emacs, and Emacs doesn't make much of a difference between OSes.

The point is, Emacs comes with a lot of tools that would normally be executables called by the shell (unavailable on Windows) and deals with paths in a consistent way.

Besides, this was before git came with git bash on Windows.
And there are those in the West who starve. Who better provides for the poor?

>And USSR's role was the same as North Korea today
The US is not currently producing a huge amount of propaganda in a culture war against North Korea. There is no scare of North-Korean-sympathisers infiltrating American society, or its government. The West is not fighting any proxy wars with the Koreans, nor are they engaging in international competitions equivalent to the space race. There is no "North Korean sphere" - North Korea has no cultural or political influence over a broad group of nations around the world. North Korea does not constitute some kind of "fourth world".

There is no comparison.
Interesting. This alternative algorithm is very reminiscent of conversion to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal .
An added bonus is that once the software is written, it can continue to work without the involvement of OB1, even if they run out of money and disappear, and even if they turn rogue and start trying to extract fees from every transaction.

It's an open source, decentralised, peer-to-peer system. As long as the peers want to keep using it, they can keep using it.
I did not insist anything about "doing traditional enterprise sales."

I said that when a company successfully crosses the chasm, it has established a leading positition in a mainstream market.

What that mainstream market is or the channels the company uses to win it is entirely dependent on its products and the landscape of products it either must displace (in an exiting market) or pre-empt (in a new market).

For example, Facebook crossed the chasm after it opened up beyond .edu and pushed MySpace into complete irrelevance.

Salesforce, when it closed a huge deal with Merrill Lynch (I think), made "the cloud" safe for everyone.

And as a counterpoint, Snap has not crossed the chasm, despite a $25b IPO.

And arguably, neither has Twitter, despite over $2bn in revenue and being public for years.
And here I am with a Vizio 40" 4k[1] that I got for less than $500. It's not perfect, and the refresh rate is only 60Hz for 4k (which is the same as this Dell offering), but it's served me well for the last six months at a fraction of the cost and with more pixels.

1: http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vizio/d-series-4k-2016
Deployment of cell sites at events like stadiums for sporting events and outdoor music festivals is pretty common for years and years. Unless you're a hermit you almost have certainly seen a COW at one point or another. Cf Wikipedia mobile cell sites, especially COW.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829043
There is more to find on that repo
> Can we find a way to help law enforcement police at the very least the really, really bad stuff?

Law enforcement was designed to protect people (or their property) from the actions of other people, not themselves.

Law enforcement is fundamentally incapable of protecting people from themselves. That is why the "war on drugs" has been so ineffective.

The most effective method to stop the drug (opioid, etc.) epidemic is treatment and education, not law enforcement.
Thats not the AR tho, the true AR aspect is tying it up with the real world.
There are even bitcoin ATMs that make it trivial.
Ideally it is, but it is more complex to implement, and complexity can create loopholes that undermine it. There's more opportunity for graft in how the credits are distributed.
Interesting. What is it's delivery method?

I can't quite google if it's something that exploits a hole or something that needs explicit user action.
The answer is yes but it's no longer a just post and hope it catches on fire situation. Like any online business you have to have a marketing plan along with it. There are just too many apps available and unless you have a way to let people know how good it is you are not going to get any sales.

Suggestion, if you are the programmer find a marketing partner and you'll do great.

I hate to use this as an example but look at the kim kardashian app. It make lots of money yet there's nothing really special other that the marketing power she brings along to the app. Do you think she programmed it or even that she had the initial idea? The reality is that some smart programing firm offered her some cash plus a big chunk of the apps revenue in exchange for the marketing. Brilliant!
>Tools don't keep projects on track. Communication skills and project management skills keep projects on track.

Great comment.

Good methods are more important than tools, to keep projects on track. As in, methods of doing things, not OOP methods.

Tools, while they can be useful (though no panacea), are secondary, and also, some tools bind you into fixed ways of doing things, which may be a hindrance at times.
I think it's because many people here have money in cryptocurrencies...
China has had some bad experiences with foreign religions. Back in the 1800's some guy who failed his civil servant exam started going around telling people that he was Jesus Christ's younger brother. Next thing you know, he has his own kingdom, starts a war, and tens of millions are dead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

The high-estimate of total dead from the Taiping Rebellion exceeds World War 2. Crazy
I agree. It's none of anyone's business what I make.
I remember Google Cloud was doing a ton of press about how Niantic was using their platform for Pokemon Go. I wonder if that will backfire for them now.
just a few non-academic but tech remarks:

1. when you limit the number of requests by just dropping them there is still a huge chance to get a lot of troubles: each HTTP request from the browser now can lead to dozens of additional requests, ajax/push etc.
if some of them would be dropped - the user might get a broken page which sometimes even worse than just "try to reload" one. so there should be some smart balancing / smart rules for the packets dropping

2. from my experience there are two situations when the web app gets overloaded: excessive cpu usage, excessive ram usage (when we talk about databases it's disk as well but it's a different story)

excessive cpu usage have its own scheduler/queue which usually works pretty well and doesn't have any side affects when you just rebalance/scale the system.
assuming that your web app responds in 200ms and the cpu is having 300% of usage it's just going to be 600ms for you in a worst case scenario.

excessive ram usage is much worse as you can't easily "oversell" it - either you have swap and the system will start writing to the disk either some of your processes will get killed by out-of-memory killer (and most likely it's going to be something that's necessary to keep the app working).
accessing the disk instead of memory is very time consuming (10-100x if you have good ssd, thousands of x if you have regular hdd). even if you stop the traffic - your system processes might still use swap memory (it takes time for linux to move them out of swap memory), so you probably won't be able to access the system for a long time (20-30 minutes more for instance).
this means you should be very picky at what you set by the threshold for the limit - it couldn't be just some average value, it should be the limit of the thing that brings you most troubles when overloaded.
Of course they don't - and that's fine. All throughout our evolution we would of had children and elders who would have had limited productivity. Now with automation, how many less people do we actually require to work? It will be very few - it will definitely be more people than the minimum required.
Firstly, there are absolutely no illegal drugs currently being sold on OpenBazaar. It's almost exclusively novelty items at the moment.

Secondly, if Alice wants to sell crack, and Bob wants to buy it, I don't see why you or I or anybody else has the right to stand in the middle and say that's not allowed.

I accept that you think it's not good for Alice and Bob to be able to transact however they like, but you must accept that lots of people do not agree.
yep. Power law distributions / rich get richer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

This discussion, yesterday, on normal distributions, also has some very good insights..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14816130
Don't companies like Glassdoor solve this problem? You don't need to know everyone's salary as long as you know the average, median and maximum in a specific corporation in a geographical area.

I don't see how making everyone's salary public will help more than knowing the average/median etc.
I can relate. Open up a page like this [0] in a maximized window on a very wide screen and try to read. I ended up writing a Chrome Extension [1] to narrow/center such pages.

[0]: https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/patterns.html

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/center-pages/ooebg...
Elliott Prechter predicts bear market for Bitcoin and Altcoins
Not to mention all 2017 Macs are also 10-bits-per-channel, as well as P3, so they have “wide” color and “deep” color.
You can do this with some cards/tags with rooted Android phone(some tweaks are needed in the NFC subsystem) with certain NFC chipsets. It needs to be card with broken crypto (Mifare) so you can obtain the password and then copy complete card's content. The door reader shouldn't rely on the card's UID (unique serial number) as this can't be spoofed, the chipsets doesn't allow this.

I don't waste time with closed systems, so I can't comment directly on iOS capabilities, but I would guess, that it's going to be almost impossible to make it working in such locked down iOS world.
The probable downsides of widespread nuclear fuel deployment is concerning. How is confidence so high that such destructive materials can be safely used at massive scale?
Elon realizes this, hence his warnings about AI - how we deal with it is build a better bot that counteracts EvilBot 1.0.
> unionisation was defeated

Did I miss something?

Granted, the most powerful and corrupt unions are public sector unions, where salaries are more or less publicly known. Just look at how many police have been indicted for murdering innocent people.

So the balance is clearly necessary -- there is no such thing as a collectivist utopia.
<insert language> fanatics != good coders
Sure. It suggests a way to reframe how I think about stress. Not as something harmful to be minimized, but as something that I should intentionally cultivate through activities that are a progression of just-manageable challenges in my chosen endeavor. With each challenge immediately followed by a period of rest that's designed and experienced with just as much intention.
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/s...
Being bad at negotiation is one case.

But there are others: being black, female, old...

Imagine that you are a 50 year old developer applying at some software company. You know that you don't have a lot of opportunities (this comes up frequently on HN), so you'll underbid yourself.

And a company which would be happy to hire you, and would be happy to pay you your actual value, will still accept your underbid, because they also know that you don't have many alternatives.
I have never considered the failure of the war on drugs from this perspective, thanks for sharing that.
>how often do they quote verses and present a religious arguments that millions are sympathetic to?

Millions of Americans are sympathetic to the idea of a war with Islam being necessary to usher in Armageddon, and of current US policy being a way to bring this about. George W. Bush even called the War on Terror a "new Crusade," explicitly evoking the mythology of war between Christianity and Islam, a mythology which exists in both religions, although in a context in which each religion believes it will win.

The philosophies of modern, Apocalyptic conservative Christianity and radical Islam are more alike than different.

>your dialectic of equivalency that you engage in legitimizes religiosity and by proxy religious violence, and delegitimizes secularism as well as non-religiosity and atheism

How does it legitimize religiosity and violence to point out that both Christianity and Islam have a violent fringe?
No particular exploit, it just encrypt the sdcard. All the source code is available on the github repo.
TX fees are paid to miners.

Currency conversions are probably done using ShapeShift https://shapeshift.io/
Ask HN: How would you like to be managed?
Bypass device guard (DG) on Windows 10 S and execute arbitrary code
nah just skip the NFC/RFID stuff and go straight to actual research projects http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/implants/

I think wireless power induction should be one of the minimum requirements.

Also this is another related community: https://groups.google.com/group/diybio
"This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history."

I'm curious; in the context of the ice front, when does recorded history begin?

Are we talking, 10s, 100s, or 1000s of years?
I am Spartacus!
Here's the way I do it... I setup a Gmail account that I only use to "save" links. Anytime I encounter an article that looks interesting and want to save, I just tap the browser menu, tap "Share" and share it to that email account. Works great and no more hassles with bookmarks and open tabs.
I can't speak for this website in particular but I wouldn't call "Bitcoin Cash" not mainstream. It is a direct answer of the large portion of Bitcoin users and miners who have been clamoring for larger blocks. Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin ABC, and UAHF, all the same thing, have been discussed for the past several weeks in cryto forums.
Question: What do people find appealing about Ready Player One? I'm a child of the eighties yet I had trouble getting through the first few chapters so I stopped. Something I rarely do since I find it hard to stop reading a book once I start. What am I missing?
It's a pretty grey area. I'm not sure they did either, but my guess is that they want to find out for sure by approaching the court system. Would definitely be an interesting conversation with their lawyer.
That sounds like a massive scam, in it's pumping stage.
Apple is still using panels by Dell, as far as I know. So that 5K Dell display is the same panel that is used in their iMac range.
Has anyone attempted a modification (electronic or pneumatic) that lets you hear your own heartbeat 24/7? That might be useful for monitoring and controlling your health and emotional state.
> You can go there and download complete books, many of which would be extremely expensive to buy otherwise.

As much as I hate to say something nice about one of the big publishers, Springer even has a nice little filip: if you already have the eBook, you can buy a physical copy for very cheap ($25, I think). I've never tried this, so I don't know if having access through your university counts.

> Most of the time you have to download chapters separately, but I did write a little script that would authenticate with Shibboleth, pull the whole book and combine the PDFs. There was no DRM either, just a watermark with your IP or university details to discourage sharing.

Be careful with this, though; Cambridge, for example, bans you for a while if you download too many files. (Obviously "too many" isn't rigorously defined, but I hit it while downloading two many-chapter books.) I can imagine triggering a more aggressive ban if they think you look like a robot downloader.
CCL is a great organization. I joined after the election because I was really upset and could either mope or get involved with something important to me. I like the fact that CCL has a non-partisan or bi-partisan proposal and that it sincerely works both sides of the aisle. Our country has societal problems and it's got political problems. CCL is trying to address them both.
To not be.
I was thinking about the 'systems integrator partner' strategy before I even got to the end, without knowing that 'systems integrator' was what that was called.

After getting to the end, I realized a very common path would be to start with the 'systems integrator partner' strategy, then realize, hey, these guys took the risk and proved it could be done, but now they're taking a huge slice of our potential revenue -- let's build our own products, end our partnerships, and screw the partners who got us here. Sometimes it "works", sometimes it doesn't.
It's a "feature" because it relies on a local cache. So it means that the attacker must be using your own unlocked computer (which contains the cache) to bypass 2FA through this "race"; and in that case it might as well install a key-logger instead or worse. The worse it can be said is that it is very confusing and breaks the usual pattern of what "logging off" means, but users should be taught to lock their computer, not log off stuff hoping not to leave nothing behind.
> Frankly, if implantable magnets and NFC/RFID chips are the full extent of the contributions of the biohacking community, then the community completely lacks imagination and creativity.

Don't let the grinders get in the way of progress :-) There are many at-home genetic engineering folks that don't proselytize implants every n seconds: https://groups.google.com/group/diybio

The downside to this other community is that the general public has an overbearing fascination with bioluminescence (sigh): http://www.the-odin.com/gene-engineering-kits/
Short of web of trust, which has other issues, how else would you propose to bootstrap?
It's special. Just because people overload it with spurious claims doesn't alter its mathematical elegance. And seeing as how it falls out naturally from geometric figures like pentagons and pentagrams, people are likely to stay interested in it for as long as humans have 5 fingers.
This is really, really hard to do properly.

I'm native in two languages, neither of them my first. By this I mean native-accented speech, and able to do a degree in these language. The only way it was possible was that I went to school in one language and lived in a society that spoke another. So school was teaching me English, meaning I learned all of math/science/history through high school with English vocabulary.

But I was only able to learn the local language because I kept local friends and my cousins spoke it with me. And I read the papers and watched the TV, as well as socialising with people who showed up at my parents' restaurant.

So now as an adult there are only two languages in which I could do a degree. What happened to my other languages? It's like I'm tourist when I speak the old with my parents. Oddly enough there are two of those, as they were also a minority where they grew up. I can ask them for various kinds of food, but I can barely explain to them what I do for a living. I can read a paper in French or German too, and get along ok, but nothing too deep.

The absolute most that I know of (personally) is to be able to do a degree in three languages, a few friends of mine who'd lived in two countries while learning English. Even so they were identifiably non native accented.

I still tend to think most multilingual people are slightly deficient in one of their languages. If you expand "language" to mean "culture", even more so. You just aren't going to know all the minor celebrities of multiple language zones. For instance I met a young guy in Switzerland who'd been taught Danish by his dad. He spoke with a native accent, but wobbled when it came to common language and cultural idioms. Like an English aristocrat who'd apologise in perfect RP at not knowing what happens at the Ascot, or what wrapping your head around something means. Being Swiss, he spoke Danish, English, French, German, and Spanish. I'm guessing with that level of skill: high in all, but wobbly when you dig a little.
No one is arguing that Alice and Bob should be prevented from engaging in good ol' American trade.

We're arguing that when drugs are ubiquitous -- as easy to access as pushing a button -- you'll spawn far more addicts than would have otherwise been created.

When an addict's life is destroyed by these horrific tools of pleasure we've created, are they going to take solace in the fact that they were able to use technology to enable their habit?

People become addicts for many reasons. One of the main ways is by being at a party among friends. No one expects to be addicted to this stuff, so they try a bit.

In the old days, they had one option: Get more from their friend, which may not work forever. In modern times, they can get as much as they want from the darknet markets. Bitcoin ATMs make it trivial, too. You don't even need to be vetted by Coinbase.

It's not just theoretical. People have witnessed the markets causing this.
That sounds like a modern, self-inflicted version of the tell tale heart.
The native-English-speaking world is doomed to never have the motivation for this bilingual stuff.
I meant when moving an application window from one screen to another. I saw some issues that didn’t exist when I worked only on the MBP screen, but when I connected my 27” external display, they were suddenly issues noticeable when dragging windows.
This isn't like inheritance because there are already generics in Go; in all the built-in collections and channels. By releasing the very first version the designers admitted that generics are necessary.
What is the current state of such book libraries (in the sense of, "these are some that are alive")? I can never keep track of which among LibGen, BookFi, etc., are still alive, which are alive but not loading, which are the same under different names, and so on.
>"very few journalist in the U.S. or Europe"
Even if it were true, how does he know that's intimidation and not realization that the criticism of Israel is upside down and backwards?

The territories are land assigned to Israel by the UN which were grabbed by Jordan -- there never was a country/nation called Palestine. Israel recovered them in a defensive war. It's prefectly legal and "occupation" is an anti-semite distortion by those who want Jews neither in their countries, nor in their own.

Some ignorant self-hating Jews, conveniently moralize from afar, exposing their cluelesness of history to pretend that they're "good jews", unlike Israelis who are fighting another Holocaust.
Supporting young programmers in getting their first job
I did exactly this, upgraded from 24-inch 1920x1200 to 27-inch 2560x1440. The aspect ratio change hasn't bothered me, precisely because of the increase in space. Much easier to have two files side-by-side now, for example.