skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it depends on how paranoid you want to get. The hassle of me totally replacing a phone is not commensurate with the likelihood of the government bugging my phone - unless they're bugging all phones, at which point they're more likely to do so with OTA software updates, or another way to access it without requiring me to pass a border.
Maybe its something from western movies then?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7260838...
Can't really see any reason to legally mix so I'm guessing especially in large quantities. I would imagine if your pulling money out of an exchange and your money touched a mixer you're probably going to have to answer some questions.
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Is this not by design?
He sounds twice exceptional -- gifted, but with some sort of learning disability or handicap of some sort.

Twice exceptional people often appear to be "average" but find an "average" or normal life enormously frustrating. Because of having some sort of handicap, it can take a lot to get them going. Once they get going, they often outperform others. Life is vastly better for them when they can create their own niche because they simply do not fit in to normal societal expectations very well, try though they might.

No insult intended. I fit that profile, as do both my sons.

So, perhaps a good summary is if you are bright, but having trouble finding your niche, then starting your own company is a means to create your own niche. This is exactly what I have always told my oldest son. From an early age, it was clear to me he would not make a good employee. But that doesn't mean he won't eventually be successful. He just needs to grow his own.
Having purchased two in the past couple of months, if you select the rush option (18 euros I think), you get it in 3-5 days (to US - other side of ocean probably faster) as opposed to getting it next month sometime due to demand.
If I'm not too indiscreet, mind if I ask how much did the whole treatment cost?
True But I would like to show you an interesting counterexample which requires changing the rules slightly. If we toss a coin and keep tossing until one of the below sequences turn up then which sequence is more likely?

HHHHHH THHHHH

Answer: THHHHH. Only 1/(2^6) of the time it will be HHHHHH. The only way to get HHHHHH will be if the first 6 flips are heads. If you don't flip a head you must have got a tail which means THHHHH will always appear before HHHHHH.
Author advises business person not to make others the butt of a joke, then makes fun of all business persons for not being funny and not understanding what a good metaphor is.
Why can't take they make a car like this for the European market? Not everybody wants to spend +20k € on a car. Somehow I feel this would probably cost +10k in Europe so what gives?
All of them were using an up-to-date copy of Firefox previously with ad and tracker blocking configured with exceptions for their financial sites and with Flash configured to automatically update via Windows service as well.
That account is labeled MultisigExploit-WhiteHat so may be an attempt to protect funds. Looks like a lot of ICOs may have used this multisig contract.
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Those release notes are intended for their developer audience, not the general end user base. Parent was pointing out that the actual release notes Apple shows you on the device you're about to upgrade did not mention APFS.
Yes they could, but that would (usually) assume that I'm being targeted specifically by law enforcement. They could also access my data this way, but yet they choose to inspect my phone physically, on entry.

What I'm more worried about is my data being accessed as part of yet another mass surveillance program. I'm not saying that is not already possible with other means, but I would certainly not want to make their job easier.
The bummer about this to me is that the c99 guys took it upon themselves to extend IEEE semantics to complex numbers. To do that, you have to decide on a representation for infinity in complex numbers (there's really only one mathematically). They choose isinf(re(x)) || isinf(im(x)), so among other things, Inf + Nan*i is considered infinite...ok. And then they tried to make things consistent between real and complex numbers with this (made up) notion of complex infinity.

The result being that there's edge cases they have to back up and 'fix' to be consistent. However, they could have just decided that complex arithmetic semantics follow naturally from floating point and whatever results ensue. So in the end this was all self-inflicted.
Well said. I agree with you. Those exact reasons are why entrepreneurship appeals to me.
If they found a way around it, Microsoft would patch it out, certainly. But I doubt it.
Random question I've always had issues resolving: if the Gambler's Fallacy is real, how can you detect loaded dice?
This is something I've always wondered, why are even the cheapest cars (in the Western world) so expensive? Isn't it possible to make a new car under ~ $10,000?
You've listed the main side effects of the treatment: pain, fever, and delirium.

About 20-30 minutes after receiving a dose of IL-2 by infusion, my body would undergo violent bed-shaking rigors for 10-20 minutes. I had the worst chills I've ever had, followed by breaking out in a hot sweat when it had passed. This was very unpleasant.

After each successive dose, the effects would worsen.

Essentially, the doctors were trying to take my body to the brink of experiencing a cytokine storm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm) to jump-start my immune system.

This was a pretty miserable part of the treatment, but (in the end) obviously worth it.
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>NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast

Yet won't turn on their cameras for White House briefings. Why would I care about a coward's product?
I'm still perplexed that Apple doesn't offer over the air updates, especially for security updates. 137 MB shouldn't be that big a deal on a normal 4G connection.
This is nothing but a pitch by YCombinator to get rubes to work for pitiful amounts of money and likely fail, so that YCombinator can capture the vast profits from the few that succeed. It's YCombinator's business model.
Is oldgeekjobs.com already dead?
At some point we have to stop using "the wife" as an excuse. I can't tell you how many times a friend has used "the wife" as an excuse for...

not starting a project, not finishing a project, not learning something new, not starting a lifestyle business, not investing, not changing their career, not leaving a sucky job

It's not the wife, it's you.
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I never had an official mentor, but plenty of people helped and nudged me in the right direction and answered questions. You can find most of them on the internets.

It all boils down to this: Make things. Add "Pay For Thing" button. Tell people.

I started with following Ramit Sethi's emails for a few years (he's great to drive home the point that yes you do deserve to get paid), then Brennan Dunn's emails and content (he's great for "you totes can make shitloads"), then Nathan Barry's book Authority which is great for "Here are concrete steps to start making bank", and I went to Dunn's DYFConf which is like a baby MicroConf (to which I want to, but haven't, go), oh and of course I listened to all mp3s of all past talks from MicroConf. Patio11's writings helped a lot as well. I used Bryan Harris stuff for ideas on growing an audience, and Kai Davis is great for being a cheerleader and giving good ideas on positioning and writing.

Somehow I got invited to the Slack group where many of these micropreneur/microconf celebrities hang out and that's been superb as well. A lot of inspiration and great ideas.

Oh and I used Ken Wallace's MastermindJam to join a mastermind of likeminded peers. That helps with keeping you accountable and actually shipping stuff.

I also used Amy Hoy's 30x500, but I bought that too late (or too early, hard to say) and it didn't help super much. I should revisit.

Oh and levelsio's twitter stream is just a huge bundle of inspiration.
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I don't know if you can meaningfully talk about "market" when such a small number of players control the physical layer.
A wonderful machine, I can imagine the sound of it two rooms away.

So now as an engineer and semi-pro backgammon player, the ultimate dice were ones that had the divots drill out and replaced with a different colored plastic. This way the uneven weight of the dice was not a factor. Just wondering...
Thank you. But when you say 'export it and bail', what do you mean? Is it exportable in a way I can fire it into something else? Is there a definition of 'exportable'?
It does play a major role, in fact I think not everyone figured this thing out yet, some not even taking into account countries as risky availability zones. But the storage space overhead for redundancy is at worst 2x, which could eventually be reduced by a lot.
Since this was conducted under a research trial by the US government, the treatment did not cost me (or my health insurance) a penny.

I am told that the treatment and follow-ups cost the research program budget at least a million dollars per patient.
Why wouldn't MS complain? If MS can be good for anything, helping keep Google in check ranks #1 on my list.
Sounds ripe for abuse. I'm sure it's suuuper easy to get those assets back after beating a conviction, too.
They just fixed it on their article. It is "more than".
> It is not an anonymous publication!

So who wrote this? You say it's "based on a paper" written by known authors, but did they write this publication? Why not put their names not on it? Or did a representative write it, as you suggest? We don't know. It's anonymous.

> The blog's "journal" name is misleading

The usage seems similar to that of "Bell Labs Technical Journal" or "Lincoln Laboratory Journal."
153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
One of the reasons why the Renault Kwid is $4000 is because, well, it uses cheap materials, and with that comes a very bad safety rating. This is enabled by India's nearly non-existent car safety regulations. Everything has a "price".
That delivery ceremony is amazing. Are the salaries so low in India that the car dealers can afford to have such a ceremony for every new car delivery?
Yes, IT sec is sort of a rabbit hole. There is always another attack vector right under. If its not software, then its firmware, if its not firmware then its the chip..etc.
Normally, you would consider where the biggest risk is and set up your security accordingly. Unfortunately, with such an intrusive, state-level actor, you have to assume the worst.
I personally care about them, I saw about a 30% increase in conversion rate once added (vs a standard Let's Encrypt DV cert). The cert paid for itself in literally less than a couple days.
Person in question wasn't exactly financially secure...I think he had about a grand or two in the bank, if that.

I think what commenters here are trying to drive home is that people have different "set points" about what acceptable risk tolerance is, and that we build up these ideas in our head of "I could never do X or live through X". But then if X happens, and we are experiencing it in the moment, suddenly the human brain has a way of adapting, most of the time. The important thing becomes that we are still alive, and we can still make choices, and then all the other strictures we set for ourself fall away.

Now, does that mean I suddenly want to go homeless, or have a grand in net assets, or live in a house where they didn't bother to finish all the walls, or try to build a startup while my kid is in the NICU? No. But by putting these options on the table, instead of making them no-go zones, you can consider them rationally and evaluate the likely probability of them happening, and then deal with them if & when they come up.
This feels like a natural extension of stories, where previously it was a sequence of short videos shot by your friends, now it's a sequence of slightly longer videos shot by a professional news organization. So in the short term I'm sure it will draw in more eyeballs to watch more ads, but long term it seems like it does nothing to bridge the gap between the traditional "social" functions of Snapchat with the news content delivery aspect; they almost feel like two separate apps.

As for the show itself, it's ok. It's a really quick flyover of the daily headlines; reminded me a lot of a radio news headline briefing you might hear on NPR or similar, just with video added. I think it's unfair to hate on it because it's "too short, too high-level, too vapid, etc.". Of course it's not hard-hitting original in-depth journalism but it's a convenient way to get the headlines quickly, on-demand, anywhere, without waiting for a dedicated TV or radio program. Especially in these days of heightened political interest, it's hard to argue that it's better for someone to remain completely ignorant of U.S. and world affairs rather than consume news in a format that may not be the most detailed or the most interesting to you personally.

Side rant: I can't help but feel personally offended whenever I read an article or comment that assumes I have a "low attention span" just because I'm a Snapchatting millennial. The variety of social backgrounds encompassed by the term "millennial" is so broad that blanket insults like "low attention span" border on outright ageism.
I thought trials are free. This is prevent "snake oil salesmen" from trying to sell cures that are not.
This bug is specifically in the Parity multisig wallet.

The bug is that the initWallet function (which includes setting the owner of the wallet) could be called by anyone, at any time, not just by the creator at initialisation time. Yes, really.

The attacker is searching for Parity multisig wallets, setting himself as the owner, and withdrawing all of the money.
> If you can find out what random numbers are coming up, you win.

So an adversary can breach the system and read the upcoming results but they can't mutate the results? That seems like an unlikely scenario.

Also the security implications of this are that some jerk cheats at a board game. Hardly something to lose sleep over.
No way. £250K for a new Ph.D. with zero experience in industry? Even a low latency whiz kid with deep Linux kernel optimisation will just about maybe make £250K in a very good year.
I switched to Chrome around that time too, for many of the same reasons (mainly performance and stability).

I've since switched back because Chrome is a terrible memory hog and I can have tons of tabs open on Firefox with no impact on performance (as long as I don't actually load them), and I don't have problems with crashing the way I used to.
Oh, I hadn't followed it that closely then.
The point of all this automated contract enforcement is so that you don't have to trust the counterparty to abide by the terms.

If you trust the counterparty enough to allow the entity to change the terms of the contract, why use Ethereum?
Ask HN: npm.com's package quality ranking seems unreliable
Npm.com has some radio buttons on the top left that purport to let you sort package listings by Popularity, Quality, and Maintenance

But it seems the Quality ranking does not really work.

For example, search for the term "decimal" and sort by quality [1]. The first package listed is decimal [2]. This seems suspicious; there are only 77 downloads for this library in the last day, whereas other similar libraries have thousands of downloads. Now you might say that popularity is not necessarily a good measure of quality, but in the read-me for this package, I see this (under the header "Can I help":

_Of course you can, I suck at math, and this implementation is very naive. If you are a math Guru and you see something wrong or a way to simplify things you can send in a pull request._

So how exactly does np determine the quality of packages?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=decimal&page=1&ranking=optimal
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/decimal
I swear YC admits more dumb shit each batch.
Could facebook change the license at any time for future versions? I guess at least they couldn't do that retroactively for previous versions since those are already "released".
Actually I'm not sure hydrogen is worse, because it's normally found in diatomic form. What's bigger, a single helium atom or a pair of conjoined hydrogen atoms with their own nuclei?

Hydrogen will leak through porous metals like palladium, but as you say, helium will leak through almost everything.
Emissions and safety standards play a huge role, I'd imagine.

It's $3-5k to replace airbags after an accident, for example. The Kwid lacks them entirely.
Safety requirements. Here's a crash test between a 2015 Nissan Tsuru, the least expensive sedan sold by Nissan in Mexico, and a 2016 Nissan Versa, the least expensive sedan sold by Nissan in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85OysZ_4lp0
Yeah, I mean it will only get worse. And it is highly annoying, since I have no interest in using Chrome.
Surely, but at a profit ? Probably not. It would hurt them more I guess.
Agreed, this is super annoying. You can install dozens of 99MB apps over 4G every day but nooo you can't have your broadpwn fix on the move. Except if you happen to have two devices with 4G, then you can wifi-hotspot-tether one to the other and vice versa for the update just fine.
Chrome was the first app I saw that found the technical way around to force taskbar pinning. Microsoft, sadly, didn't patch that out.
Seems easy to mitigate with a tweak to the network connection order: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10985599
Safety regulations.
This is depressing.

I normally shrug off security vulnerabilities in iOS. But so many in such a minor release?

I know it's not a valid extrapolation ... but if there are so many being fixed just today, that means there are hundreds if not thousands of still undiscovered ones remaining.

And Android is probably even worse.

To repeat myself: this is depressing.
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>is +73 positive enough?

No, because that indicates the post didn't resonate with the user base there. Front page the_donald posts usually start at 5000 points and up. That tells me that the sentiment isn't really shared all that much. On much smaller communities with much lower average scores, this would be more significant.

On top of that, unless you install a third party addon or disable CSS (most users will not), you can't downvote posts there. That means the average user can't react to posts they dislike beyond reporting it if it breaks the rules.

On top of that, many the_donald users will chain-upvote everything on /new/ without even looking at it in an attempt to counter botting. I can't give you a link here, as this came up in a discord conversation.

I certainly hope you don't think these concrete problems are "an excuse". The score of a post is the only signal you have to determine what the community at large thinks about it.

Judging a community of 460K (with 13K online during off peak hours like right now) using a nine-day old post with a minuscule score isn't terribly honest. Your example post, if anything, is a counter example to the point you were trying to make.
Not everybody has unlimited data plans.

4G can certainly handle 137 MB in speed, but that doesn't mean users want to use their data plan for updates.
Because I can. Also, bootstrap if at all possible. Independence can't be valued enough.
Europe doesn't permit deathtraps to be sold. This car lacks airbags, and I'd imagine a variety of other safety features to boot.
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Anyone who wanted to record routinely would disable the light.
It might not be your kind of thing, but a lot of people get value out of Snapchat. There's no reason to shove your nose at it like you are doing here.
Not if they can reasonably be an array. I believe that the integer keys of an object are usually stored in an array in V8 unless they grow really large, or something.
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reminds me of a very interesting demonstration from martin gardner. draw a 6x6 grid, and write a random digit in each cell, proceeding row by row. now count the number of pairs of consecutive (x, x) going horizontally versus vertically; you will almost always get doubled numbers in the columns because that's how random numbers work, but almost never in the rows, because when people are trying to generate "random" numbers by hand they avoid runs or other patterns.
Once I realized how toxic some companies NDAs are (1), I ask for them once I get an offer letter. Given the severity of their terms, it would be highly harmful to sign an offer letter without seeing all of the employment terms and conditions up front.

1: One small company that threw one of these at me three months into my employment nearly caused me to quit. Its NDA forbade me from working for 1 year for any employer that engaged in any metrics-related work - I will let you savor the broad toxicity of that statement. I objected strenuously and was able to get an adjustment to the terms.
> By the way, if you ever rsync between macOS and Linux...

Syncthing handles this with automatic normalization: https://docs.syncthing.net/advanced/folder-autonormalize.htm...
Store the entropy on a hardened (RPi/BeagleBone based) NAS and make sure it's only used once by deleting it securely before it's been sent, sending it from memory?

You could also analyze the quality of the randomness and then compensate by XOR'ing or a more advanced sampling technique?
That's odd. Coinbase was part of the New York Agreement[0], which are the group supporting the UAHF.

Both this email and the blog post make it sound as if Coinbase support the Core side, i.e. the UASF.

Can someone explain what I'm missing?

[0] https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-conse...
Has it ever been shown that dice not made as you describe are non-random?
If the divots are a different color plastic then they have a different weight than the rest of the die as they contain different amounts of carbon black, camel white etc.
Parity multisig wallet exploit hits Swarm City funds
A modern car takes about 4 years and a team of about a few hundred engineers to design and bring it mass market. That would be a contributing factor to the price.
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The psychological effect of people not "believing" true randomness is the same.
You can get the Hyundai i10 for under 10k?
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Put a 2017 Nissan Versa against a 2017 Harley Davidson. They're both allowed on the road.

I've wondered if less safe vehicles (lighter, cheaper, smaller) could be made and required NOT to be on high speed roadways (above 45mph, freeways, etc.), or just have the US admit their regs are too strenuous.
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If the decentralised network is popular and stable and clients happen to be next to you and they happen to have parts of your files, then yes. It could be fast and reliable.

On the other hand, you could spend some money and guarantee it instead: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/
Since my 10AM EST blog post comment has not been approved . I'll paste it here:

"...the “falling off the cliff” is just the snowball effect of bad management and decisions made many years ago. Its to late now to stop the bleeding as-is. The solution is right there, although obvious, its probably to much for Mozilla to undertake at this point."
It's ironic that Leary and Liddy would later wind up touring the lecture circuit together.[1]

There's a video of them debating here: [2] starting at the 15 minute mark, with Leary giving his version of Liddy's raid on Millbrook.

[1] - http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Abx4Vi-68
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