skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think the desire to mitigate uncertainty explains it. The reason is simple: fear is about overplaying and exaggerating the risks and uncertainty.

Fear of terrorist attacks is a great example. If you live in the US, that means that over the past 15 years you have been more likely to be killed by a lightning strike than a foreign terrorist attack. Yet a lot of people shit their pants with regards to, say, Islamic terrorism.
That's question to the music authors. They probably decided to sell the licensing rights to an "evil" media company.

Here I stand on "right to burn" author's side. They can do whatever they want with their music, like putting a trillion dollar price on it, or selling it to an evil publisher. It's authors's nonprescribable right. If you don't like it -- feel free to write your own music.

That game makers should have probably make a modification to the game to replace original music with something else.
There's only so much you can put in a blog or lecture series. Most college courses don't even cover a whole book (in STEM subjects).
But Amazon is definitely not doing anything sketchy with that always-connected camera and microphone sitting in your living room.
> Don't have resume in order yet.

In another comment you said:

> I've applied for pretty much every remote job from the last HN "who's hiring" post.

You've been applying without a resume? Maybe that's what the problem is....
What other pooled wallet service doesn't keep records on purpose or has no need to? Gambling?
If you're curious, the non-partisan KFF has pretty comprehensive data on how average premiums for single and family coveraged have changed from 1999-2016. The increase is pretty darn linear: http://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2016-section-one-cost...
... and this underplays the effect, because the plans being sold under the ACA have a higher cost basis for insurers than pre-ACA plans do. You can easily observe this for yourself if you're in a major insurance market by calling up an insurer and asking for prices on non-ACA-compliant plans, which are still sold.
Surprised to see http://2ality.com/ missing. First place I go for every new JavaScript lang feature/proposal.
The trusted setup only requires that you trust that at least one of the participants in the setup ritual was honest and destroyed their key. If they all lied and kept their key, they can't compromise privacy either. They can only create new coins and devalue others' coins.

The wallet balances are not public if you use the private option. You're right that privacy is optional, and that is not good. But those who do use the private option do indeed get good privacy.

As for the CEO's statement, I haven't seen it. I also don't think one should be basing their decision on whether to trust a cryptocurrency's privacy claims on what their CEO says. It should be based on audits of the source code.
Oh also I've made http://affluentconfidante.com/ in Clojure and http://editfight.com/ in Node.js using WebSockets and vanilla JS, each in the span of about a day, within the past 2 weeks. Unfortunately that, plus the iOS apps I posted about in my submissions, are about the full extent of my public resume. I've done a lot of private work that I'm not at liberty to talk about, and all I have to show for that are skills. But skills don't speak as loudly as finished public products.
> Windows 10 is much better but unfortunately not everyone is on that OS yet.

Implying Windows 8.1 has security problems... what are they?
No, I've sent my resume to them in private. I don't have a public resume available. That's the hardest part for me. I don't have anything I can publicly show off.
Or has false content? Basecamp clearly has an office, has been in Chicago since they started. Pretty sure the others have offices too.
Is there an example of a "popular bitcoin service" where you can have an account, deposit and withdraw coins and not have any record kept of the relationship between those deposits and withdrawals? If the point of a mixer is to obscure the connection between two bitcoin addresses, using a service that records that connection seems like a poor plan.
They meant the book Design Patterns https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...
Please, Microsoft, don't remove the Paint program.
Please expand upon this comment if you have the time. I've read some opinions that are opposite to what you just stated but I am all ears to hear more to the contrary.
Most captive portal routers don't block DNS (because they use iptables rules to handle authentication). That's why you can use iodine to proxy TCP-over-DNS on such APs. So if you just had an open access point, unless you provided no DNS servers except over VPN, people would still be able to use your AP.
I'm having trouble understanding this...

Could you help me think of an example where this type of privacy is useful, for non criminal reasons?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835256
> the former spy agency hacker who now develops free security tools

Nice try, NSA.
Until everyone has perfectly identical IQs, attractiveness, charisma, strength, agility and luck, some things will be perceived as economically unjust.

In other words, it will always be this way. Life is a competition for resources and genetic legacy, there are always going to be winners and losers.

>wealthy may ignore social problems

Yes, that's one of the best parts of being wealthy. Being able to enjoy life without constantly worrying about other people's problems.

>And it's likely a significant drag on American GDP.

Doubtful. Silicon Valley is pretty segregated and does pretty damn well GDP-wise.

>it is an abuse of the a local government's police power to make it illegal to build apartment buildings.

Zoning laws are police abuse? That's one I haven't heard before. You'd want no government intervention then? Can we build miles and miles of structures like the Oakland Ghost Ship in your fantasy society?
Wow, in New Zealand on a similar public system it's quite different. Having had chronic pain myself I've been through this.

- Book a GP appointment. Generally get in the same day (costs $20-$80 depending on your GP. I have private insurance that pays up to $38)
- GP orders blood tests, these are free. Clinic is on-demand, just show up. Wait times are around 30 minutes. Also prescribes ibuprofen ($5 for 100 tablets) and paracetamol (non-subsidised. $10 for 100 tablets).
- GP will assess you and refer to a public or private specialist depending on your preference. In my case a public rheumatologist would have taken around a month to see, so I chose private. This cost $180 for the consultation and $120 for follow-up (insurance paid 80%).
- Specialist refers more tests. For me this was an MRI. Public wait times were around 3 months because the machine needed replacement and they'd only pay for serious cases to go to the private clinic. I went private, this cost $1400 (insurance paid 80%).
- Specialist orders more blood tests, still free.

And they still didn't find anything conclusive.

Personally I'd like GP visits to be free. They can be for people under a certain income level with the right GP. The public system also needs more funding, but in NZ we spend less per capita on socialised healthcare than the US, and the US has to add private insurance on top of that.
Yet, tens of millions do.
They do normally if they are skilled "consultant" type gigs. In recent years though, using contractors instead of FTEs has been popular as a trick to get cheap labor - it's largely one of the foundations of the so-called "gig economy". As an example, this is most likely one reason why Uber spends such large amounts of money fighting any attempt to re-classify their drivers as FTEs in several different countries.

Many countries have some kind of legal framework that tries to prevent exploitation of unskilled employees by classifying them as self-employed contractors instead. Claiming your employees are contractors is sometimes abused as a way to avoid a bunch of expensive things employees might have a statutory entitlement to, like sick pay, holiday allowances etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/28/uber-uk-t...
I'm slowly trimming away the means I acquire news, because it's all becoming so editorialized. Twitter is bombarded with bots and flamewars, reddit is a lost cause, and news.google.com is mainly driven by larger syndications that have mastered the "Big Headlines Sell" strategy.

That leaves HN and my little local papers, Mountain View Voice and its ilk. Great for local stories and tech news, but I feel like I'm missing out on what's going on in the world. Every time I dip my feet in global news, it's screamed at me, dripping in panic: "Trump DID A THING!!!" "Cops Shoot a Guy AGAIN WHY DID THEY DO THAT?!!"

Are there any good general global news sources that don't try to manipulate my emotions as I read them? Paid or free.
Wireless does have some features of a natural monopoly. In order to compete with Verizon Wireless, you need access to a finite amount of wireless spectrum. The FCC auctions off exclusive access to the wireless spectrum, so you can't just start competing with Verizon on the same spectrum.

This is pretty similar to how you can't just freely add your own fiber to a utility pole, or freely build your own utility poles.
A single buyer negotiating with multiple sellers can force prices down to cost. Whether it actually does so is a public choice problem.
Zuckerberg Slams Elon Musk on Superintelligent AI
Facebook recently supported it too.

Here's the problem. These are the 2nd factor solutions off the top of my head.

1. Yubikey
2. Duo
3. TOTP/Google Auth
4. SMS
5. Fido U2F
6. JavaCard
7. RSA SecurID
8. Perfect Paper Passwords.

Sure U2F is technically better, but many of those are 'good enough' and make people lots of money.
Its a complex thing to talk about it, because corruption is common currency in Argentina. The top union leaders (teachers, truckers) have virtually unlimited resources. They live in houses and mansions that cost millions of dollars, but they reported income is well below that.

They also enjoy special constitutional protections, that makes them almost as hard to arrest as a politician. Their kids are house representatives. They take pictures with the president and campaign with them.

They are part of the ruling class. The lower more ideologically "pure" unions constantly denounce how rich they are by selling out their own workers.

They manage the medical insurance fund for all employees in their unions, which is a billion dollar fund: several times it was found they cleared out the funds as well as replaced meds and all that (a few lesser union leaders got convicted of this).

Argentina is a special place, and one could argue that corruption is a problem at all institutions. But the unions are one more corrupt institution, that can easily start selling out their own, the same way a politican would or a business man could sell out his employees.

For me, calling for unions to solve economic problems is like bringing a bear to solve the bee problem.
Marketing 101... tell people what you do and how it can help them.
You have to get people to buy into using 2fa. SMS and cell phones were good for that. They are not secure and are being abused now (SS7 attacks) and one day won't be used for 2fa at all, but the platform was a good start and certainly better than nothing at all. Hopefully, OATH (HOTP and TOTP) and FIDO will take over where SMS leaves off.

And the real danger of cell phones and SMS is account recovery processes that SMS a recovery code to your cell. That's way more concerning than 2fa via SMS IMO.
Then email me. The link is above :)
If the pricing was transparent you could factor in the potential costs when deciding where to live.
You can't even sell gift certificates on the Internet without having built a business that will probably have criminals as a plurality constituency. The idea that a Bitcoin mixer was most used for legitimate purposes is pretty hard to swallow.

As a positive claim, rather than a normative one, it has to be possible to observe that services like this have their great practical impact on criminals. Making such a positive claim can't "hurt the cause of privacy". If the cause of privacy wants to be taken seriously, it will need to grow up and stop demanding that people accept false sets of facts.
Yes, and it's bad enough that pic as shorthand sounds identical.

But I'll look forward to hearing about people sending a dick pic in pik format. ^_^
Did you accidentally type "stop running over them"? Because if people started running over them, that would be an actual solution.
>It's really harmful to the cause of privacy when people equate enablement of privacy with criminality, as you're doing.

It is criminality in this case. It's called money laundering. Like it or not, it has been illegal since money has existed for very good reasons.

The point of Cryptocurrency is not to enable anonymous money laundering by criminals. It is in fact the exact opposite: to shine light on the entire system, as the OP stated.
Yes, however I'm not sure this would be shared in any format right now.
What does the boonies mean? I drive 30 miles away from work and it takes me over 1 hour, sometimes up to 2 hours when something horrible has happened.

The newest generation, like the Bolt, gets 230 miles. Are you saying you are driving over 100 miles in each direction a day?
I don't feel there's much difference between e.g. the Coq way where types are used to bake specifications + proofs into the program and the Isabelle way where you write a program with less complex types and prove properties about the program after the fact.

General mathematical proofs? If you mean paper proofs they wouldn't be considered formal as they don't go down to the axiom level.
Maybe it was run by an intelligence agency/law enforcement?
The narrative didn't seem all that conservative to me -- it attacks conservatives at least as much as liberals, and concludes that the election of DJT is the present culmination of the trend.

I do take issue with pulling trigger warnings in here (though, in fairness, that was a minor part in the article), just because it's re-enforcing a very negative trend.

Trigger is a term of art in psychology, related to post-traumatic stress disorder. It specifically refers to a stimulus triggering a fight-or-flight response in a situation where it would not be called for in someone without PTSD. We should be giving this clinical issue the respect it deserves, and not conflating it with the things we are more abstractly afraid of.
For people who value full control and self hosting, Raneto looks like a good starting point to build from.

After having had to build knowledge bases in each company I worked in or go through the pain of implementing something bloated like Zendesk, I built a SaaS version of what I really wanted: the simplest knowledge base out there that stays out of your way.

https://HelpSite.io/

Don't have Markdown support (yet) but we have a generous Free tier including custom domain (CNAME) support.
Non-private transactions leak your entire transaction graph to the world. There are a plethora of reasons, many of them rooted in avoiding becoming a victim of crime, one would prefer their transactions be private.
I actually write quite a lot more than what I self submit.

That's your response? Seriously? A somewhat-veiled threat of additional inappropriate spamming?
That guy weirds me out. Says things like

>Most of our political leaders are not engineers or scientists and do not listen to engineers or scientists. Today a letter from Einstein would get lost in the White House mail room

but then supports a candidate that denies climate change and replaces scientists in government positions with company stooges. Never understood Thiel.
This is unconscionable, frankly, I'm appalled that someone could display such a cavalier attitude towards "tragic" stories. Nobody is disputing your stated goal, let us agree on that point.

First of all, "feeling cheated" is inaccurate. In an economic environment where everyone has UBI and there is no minimum wage/SSI/SSDI/etc, depriving someone of UBI makes them unable to provide for themselves unless they are skilled and/or lucky. It's common to find a low paying job fresh out of college. Let's say you get a $30k salaried job. With UBI, that might be a $10k salaried job with $20k UBI. Take away UBI and now you're trying to afford housing in a market where the most financially destitute earn twice what you make.

Second of all, immigration is a big part of what makes this country great and what sense does it make to pay immigrants less merely because they're immigrants? If they can do the same job, they should get the same pay, not just for moral but also for economic reasons.

You can fix the system but if you start from the assumption that there is a simple solution (18 year minimum) for a complex problem, you will be consistently disappointed.
Again, OP is claiming that the property of 'smallness' is a causative factor to increased life expectancy. This is a way more dubious claim than calories being a causative factor.

For example, birds are the opposite: larger birds generally live longer than smaller birds.

Actually, the more I think about it, it's the same with lizards. And primates and most mammals. And pretty much every species besides a small subset of domestic canines that have undergone artificial selection in the past millennia.
First time I am seeing Slate (https://github.com/lord/slate) a static documentation theme. Really beautiful, seems like they "borrowed" some ideas from Stripe.
The market pays some contractors more than full-time employees, but no regulation forces it to, and there are classes of contractors that make less, especially when taxes and benefits are accounted for, than FTEs.
Show HN: Ask the Caterpillar: A natural language bot to access info about drugs
Zcash is backed by a US company, and required a trusted setup w/ pre-mine ("founders reward").
Getting deeper into this is a waste of both of our times, but for the record, the reason I felt it was a personal attack was challenging my "diction" seems to challenge my very ability to string together words. I took it as being told "you talk like a dumb dumb and therefore your argument holds no weight."

If that's not what you meant, well, that's fine, maybe I'm being over sensitive, but that is how your words were received.
Ask Weev, while being a troll... Apparently he gets to go to jail for using numbers at the end of a url... ICC ID... So you try one number than another, then disclose it, and yeah... Go to prison. Welcome to America.
Don't watch cable news, your life will be better. If you're not already convinced that most cable news is editorialized for political gain, then surely you're convinced that is unhealthy to rubberneck at every problem in the world.
Roombas do not (currently) remember your home's layout between cleaning sessions.

I have a top-end Roomba bought last year. Every time it runs, it starts by finding a wall and then carefully learning the spacial layout of my home. It then efficiently cleans the entire area, not going over any spot more than once if it can avoid it. Then it goes back to it's home and forgets everything in learned forever.

You can sell the layout to my home to anyone you like Roomba, just for god's sake, have your damn robot remember that layout between cleaning sessions.
I sometimes use a python REPL instead of a calculator. Python has `bin()` for binary representations. Plus imaginary numbers are built in. For more complicated stuff I reach for Wolfram alpha.
I've done that trip (from Denver) after I couldn't bear the thought of another flight on the US air system. It was amazing. Definitely something to think about in winter.
Since always, which calls into question the validity of the leftist lens. But hey, no point arguing that to a crowd who actively hates middle America.
Evaluating different outcomes far ahead may be very computational intensive. One thing that AlphaGO shows is that a simple approach with Monte Carlo tree search can drastically cut down the search space. The "imagine" part could be just guided random walk ahead in planning, with something like Monte Carlo tree search.
My wife and I had a mid-pregnancy scare last year (all is fine). We spent a week as petrified maybe-first-time parents waiting for our turn to get some genetic tests done. I kept returning to the thought about how we had to wait a week, but that people in less fortunate countries might end up facing a massive financial decision. I felt a mix of national pride, relief, and terrible anger for my friends who are forced to intermingle medicine and money.
If you're also needing help with funding CoinStarter can help too. https://coinstarter.com?ref=dt3ndxx3j
Terrorism is a real threat to interests abroad and test on the ability of the US to mitigate small risks. If they can't mitigate small risks how would they be able to mitigate a large risk? Every single human created disturbance (i.e. war) begins with a small group of people cascading into a larger force, with governments it happens with leaders, but it's greatly more unpredictable when it is propagated by an unknown people–especially when that group is in a region which produces 81.5% of the worlds oil supply. You would be quite irrational to not be interested in the domestic and foreign affairs of your own government. Even more irrational to say it's not a problem.
Here's what I think is the classic illustration from Peter Norvig in 1996:

http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf
> it has been illegal since money has existed for very good reasons.

Neither of these claims are true.

"Money laundering" as it is understood today only emerged in the 1980s during the war on drugs.

It's a crime because it's easier to prove and prosecute than any actual crime that might be facilitated by anonymizing money, like tax evasion. I'm not sure if that's a good reason, although it is a practical one. It's kind of like making encryption illegal because people might use it to break copyright law. The use of encryption isn't the actual crime, but it's easier to prosecute.
I wanted to do that in my home, but good luck getting IoT devices to connect which may be a good thing..)

You'd probably have to set up a separate network for those devices (again, technically a good thing) which can be a source of some friction.

It used to be only good routers had a guest network option, but now even $20 TP-Links can use Radius for the main network and WPA2 for the guest network; though I'm not sure you can do something like whitelist by MAC on only the guest network.
To have worked in Gambling, it is heavily regulated.

To be allowed to operate in X country, we had to specifically store a replica of customers accounts in their jurisdiction, so that all servers and data could be seized by the local law enforcement should the need arise.

The stories goes that these requirements raised after some shady gambling companies left with all their customer funds.
Or you could just use a traditional payment method that doesn't, by default, leak your entire transaction graph to the world.
Don't believe I was being disingenuous. Read the comment to which I was responding.

I honestly don't care if "content providers" want to block VPNs, as I mentioned in my comment. I much more strongly object to this notion that there's something somehow wrong with users using things like this. The attitude of suspicion directed at anyone who values privacy, wants to learn how things work, or even does somewhat dodgy things sometimes is what I object to. That creates sheep, not citizens, and discourages engagement and learning.

It is up to businesses that depend on artificial scarcity (really, any business, but the legacy copyright industry is being discussed here) to make their businesses work; it isn't my responsibility to make my behavior fit their business model. And if they can't, well, they deserve to die.
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