skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AnCoRa – personalize and share your internet experience
We all spend a lot of time searching the internet for information to make decisions. Information that we know it is out there, but can’t easily find and when we find it, still can’t make the right decision.
Search engines do not allow us to specify our own selection criteria. Professional reviews are less biased and more reliable, but do not help us make decisions, because they are not adapted to the individual expectations.
We need to be able to:
1. share notes and comments on any page with other people without the constraints imposed by the site builders;
2. filter the content, so one will only see the content left by people with similar expectations;
3. see the pages’ ratings given by others like ourselves.
But internet will not let us do this.
AnCoRa is a Chrome extension that lets anyone do all of these for any internet page, whether looking to buy something, or to verify an information. This way we can speed up, get more reliable information and make better decisions, while avoiding the pages that don’t get us any closer to the answer we were looking for.
In case this appeals to you and you want to change the way you experience internet browsing, give AnCoRa a try.
Here is what NIST has to say about allowing the user to display the password on screen:

> In order to assist the claimant in successfully entering a memorized secret, the verifier SHOULD offer an option to display the secret — rather than a series of dots or asterisks — until it is entered. This allows the claimant to verify their entry if they are in a location where their screen is unlikely to be observed.
I hadn't used Waze in a while but used it twice in the last month. Seems like no one uses it anymore, and it was 2/2 in leading me down a bad, more time consuming path.
Or better yet - build your software as open source that enterprise clients or end-users can run anywhere. Eliminate "the cloud" as a single point of failure.
Although not strictly a Raspberry Pi project, I have a couple C.H.I.P. boards[1] scattered throughout my apartment collecting temperature and humidity readings (using a HIH8120 sensor[2]) and feeding it to my Raspberry Pi which runs InfluxDB and Chronograf[3] to store and display a simple dashboard. The end result looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/cIrhSUq.png

[1]: https://getchip.com/

[2]: https://sensing.honeywell.com/HIH8120-021-001S-humidity-sens...

[3]: https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/chronograf/
>You get in early enough, and you'll pretty much be always be up on your investment

These sorts of statements explain a lot. You hear the same thing in every bull market, as investors conflate luck or the point in the cycle with investment acumen.

I'm not making any judgement on the usefulness or future of the blockchain et al, but this ico craze has a lot of similarities with the penny stock market, where many investors are simply relying on the greater fool to make them rich. Ultimately someone is always left holding the bag, and it is very often one without value.

The issuers and promoters always make out well. Many of the activities in the current ico market would be quite illegal if they were done in regulated markets.
Me and My brother made a strobe light based on a Nature paper to attempt to treat my Uncle for Alzheimers.

See http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v540/n7632/full/nature2...
Would you like to give me ideas on promoting halfchess.com?
In addition to the hiring of an experienced CFO, mentioned already, in the run-up to an IPO you may see:

- A cleanup of administrative processes such as HR. Standardisation of leave, expenses, release of a overly-detailed employee handbook, change of employment contracts. Exec HR contingency plans, documented reporting lines. Beyond HR, compliance may also be given more attention than usual.

- Removal of minor shareholders, cleaning up equity structure, if it was not done exceptionally well from the beginning.

- A PR push with a common focussed narrative on the companies aims & growth. Following this, announcements of comparatively minor things that support it. Lots of quotes from key management. However, as you draw closer to d-day there will be a quiet period where no information will be released as part of the process.

- Some key execs removing themselves from day to day ops while its ongoing. Guarded language during announcements as mentioned previously, especially in the final stages.

There are presumably more indicators based on the companies performance, investors and the market in general, but I think it would be guesswork without being in the loop on their corporate strategy.
Do you know for sure that this is related to btc-e ? It's the most likely suspect (it is currently 'down for maintenance' and it was started in 2011, the same year mentioned in the AP story), but I can't find any concrete evidence of who the owners of btc-e actually were.

The site has always hidden its origins, and the only information I could find was that the founders' names are supposedly Aleksey and Alexander, based on https://www.coindesk.com/btc-e-recent-issues-caused-surge-us...
Any pictures, write up, Github? This sounds awesome!

I also remember reading awhile back about the huge market for upkeeping these things once Sony abandoned it. Perhaps you're onto a business!
I built a voice-activated light switch using Pi. Demo and schematics here: http://arunpn.com/projects/voice-activated-light-switch/ After that project, I have slowly added more functionality to it like controlling music, alarms, etc.
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Perhaps the Boring Company could build bike tunnels for winter commuting.
Ah yes, good old Java. Write once, run everywhere, but only on the exact same version of Java.
> Imagine telling someone that they need "white-only" time

Boys and girls (at least the majority of them) behave and socialize visibly differently, and can benefit from it. Races do not have the same sorts of inherent distinct needs, and if they do it's typically more granular than "white" or "black"; more likely you want time with the Italian side of your family, or the Somali side, or with your girlfriend's Panjabi roots.

Why do you think so many women occasion a "girls' night out", or men "hang out with the guys"?

Boys and girls have a lot more significant physiological and sociological differences than whites and blacks. Whereas, for example, the noticeable differences between a Japanese woman and a Mestizo woman come down to things like whether the earwax is likely dry or oily, or the probable size of teeth or lips. These sorts of things have basically no relevance or importance to social relationships.

Drawing meaningful distinction between the cohort characteristics of boys and girls is not sexist. I have no interest in determining the rights or freedoms of either group based on these characteristics. I would merely suggest that people in either cohort are likely to have needs that differ more than within each cohort. A hen and a rooster are both chickens, but they are meaningfully distinct as well.
If you quotin Drake in the first few paragraphs, I'm done.
I highly recommend that you try out a language with good support for option/maybe types: Haskell and Rust are good options here. Very often, your error handling through a chain of operations will be to use a slightly different operator (say '?.' Instead of '.') and any errors will be automatically propagated to the end of that section of code where you can handle them all in one place.

Alternatively, give Erlang or Elixir a shot: their primary mode of error handling is "don't, let it crash", which is possible due to the relatively unique process model.
No mention of how to authenticate on mobile? I don't think a guidance on how to authenticate for the Modern Era is complete without having a mobile solution
Use Home Assistant to integrate anything in your house. Make voice assistants respond to your commands. Write advanced automations to help make your life easier.

Use our Hass.io OS build to setup Google Assistant easily on your Pi. Need a USB microphone and speakers connected to the Pi and you'll get the full Google Assistant experience.

https://home-assistant.io

(disclaimer: I'm the founder)
The problem with the "shareholder value only" model is its focus on generating short-term returns vs. creating long-term value. How is this sustainable?

I don't think we should abandon shareholder profit completely (after all, companies do need to make money in order to stay in business). However, I do think the philosophy needs to be balanced with other aims like investment in employees, giving back to the community, environmental stewardship, and thinking about the long-term future of the company.

Importantly, these things shouldn't be after-thoughts - they should be cornerstones of the corporate philosophy.
I stopped using Waze as soon as they disabled the ability to set Location Tracking to "Only when using".

There's no reason it should be all or nothing.
I didn't do any actual hard work. I just used rtl-amr, which was super-easy to grab, compile, and use.

http://bemasher.net/rtlamr/

http://bemasher.net/rtlamr/signal.html has information on how it works, but you don't need to do/know anything about the protocol to get it to work.
Edit: I mistakenly read "OS-level threads" again where s/he said "application level threads" in the quote.

> For others, application level threads don't achieve the parallelism requires to efficiently use the hardware available.

You've got this backwards: OS-level threads execute in parallel (or, rather, may be executed in parallel), while green threads spawned within the same OS-level thread execute sequentially on a single processor core (but in no predetermined order).
I do think of many use cases for private blockchains, I simply did not presume to know what you meant before asking.

- One case would be when a corporation wants to have 2500 TPS with finality in 3 seconds using the current ethereum software, unchanged. (scalability)

- One case would be when a large-enough-corporation needs to share master data and reference data of business critical assets through different subsidiaries and third parties. (privacy)

- Remember intranets? Sometimes decision makers simply want a watered down version of a great thing. (stability, control)

If you care to include commercial DLT products, then the use cases will be different again.
I was referring two your second paragraph but had missed your reference to the OP, which makes it obvious what you are trying to say.
Currently I am building a mobile GPS beacon which a drone can follow. The goal is to create a small follow-me box without the need for a smartphone.
Assuming

1. Your profits come directly from your users

2. A password crack can result in them losing a significant amount of money, and

3. This happens often enough that it offsets the userbase losses of 2FA

If your user accounts are important enough to let them lose a large amount of money, your users are probably demanding better security from you already. The real blocker to 2FA are services which rely on being convenient, and make money off their users being users e.g. social media.
Quite possibly. I didn't think at all outside of my "jesus these schools are giving kids ipads now? When I were a lad the school had 2 PCs for the entire building" bubble.

For reference I was also talking from within a UK only bubble too.
That's incorrect. The UK government did a study of this, which can be found here:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100408125722/htt...

The study is deeply biased, doesn't try to hide it and quite clearly tries to tell politicians what they want to hear. Nonetheless it has a lot of useful data and states two things of interest in this thread:

1 - the false reporting rate is stated as being about 10% in the UK.

2 - all police interviewed for the the study believed that figure was far too low.

With respect to point (1) - once again this is a very, very generous definition of "false". For instance it doesn't include cases where someone reports a rape on behalf of the alleged victim and the alleged victim later states that no rape in fact took place. This is clearly a false accusation and it'd be just as distressing to the accused, but isn't counted as false.

The inconsistency between the figures the study reports and the perception of police themselves is noted and discussed in the study:

"Even if all those designated false by the police were accepted (a figure of approximately ten per cent), this is still much lower than the rate perceived by police officers interviewed in this study"

Example quotes from working police officers:

"I do deal with a lot of allegations that don’t go anywhere, because it transpires that
it’s not quite a rape, certainly with juveniles ... we spend a lot of time dealing with allegations of rape that really aren’t rape, that take a lot of time up. I would say a good half that come through are not genuine ones."

A different officer:

"We have a lot of allegations that are then retracted, we have a lot of allegations that
it comes out in the wash one way or another that it was consensual."

And a different one:

"Well, honestly, it’s because most of them are not telling the truth ... I mean I have dealt with
hundreds and hundreds of rapes in the last few years, and I can honestly probably count on both hands the ones that I believe are truly genuine."

There are no quotes or interviews with police officers who believe the 10% figure is accurate or think it's too high.
The photobooth application was written in Python and I was able to get picasawebsync (https://github.com/leocrawford/picasawebsync) working. Even though the documentation says it's probably no longer working, I can verify that it was working for me as of September 2016 which is after the Picasa deprecation. I had to edit the source a little so that I could call it from my app instead of the command line.

Another challenge was that I couldn't find a good application to display the Google photos album. Nothing I found would display any new photos added to the album after the slideshow had begun while also displaying everything in a continuous loop. I ended up writing a second small Python app also using picasawebsync to periodically sync the photos to a second Raspberry Pi which was hooked up to a projector and display them looped in a random order.
They mention you can use their DNS, if you pay them. Or, you could just use Cloudflare's free DNS.

Plenty of benefits of using Cloudflare in front of Netlify -- such as full caching the static site on our edge so it doesn't even need to go back to Netlify's (Cloudfront) edge. Same goes for SSL termination at our edge, and the other performance features we can add on top of your Netlify site.

There's no reason not to use both -- at the free plan if you'd like.

Not sure I'm actually following the point of this article -- submitted by an account that is 18 minutes old.

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare.
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I'm not sure I understand your exercise. What do you mean by "Python's quoting documentation", and what do you mean by "editing" it?
We've built a whole business on top of the Raspberry Pi. The company/project is called Screenly[1], which is a digital signage solution for the Raspberry Pi and we have over 10,000 devices running it. We really gained a lot of momentum early on with our open source version[2].

[1] https://www.screenly.io

[2] https://github.com/Screenly/screenly-ose
Emulation (RetroPie), VPN (PiVPN), DNS (PiHole) and IP Camera (MotionEye OS)
I very rarely take Waze's advice about alternate routes after being burned a few times, and I have learned to expect that it's ETA prediction will always be optimistic by about 15-20 minutes in my case. I mostly use it to pick between a few well-known ways to/from work and to get more traffic data than Google Maps will show.

The most infuriating thing about Waze is when you hit traffic that it already knew about but only then does it add 5-10 minutes in delay time.
Interesting... But what do you do with this data?
I never had a fall on black ice with a mountain bike but I did have a spectacular and very painful fall on ice using a lightweight "racing" style bike years ago that made me very wary.
Anyway, the pure theory approach leads to a general conclusion/assumption that markets are the same. The market for labour, barbie dolls, whatever.

Proof needed. Have you ever read Hayek or Friedman you're talking about ?
> If a business intentionally develops a userbase of addicts, they are choosing customers who will live shorter lives than others.

That assumes that all addictions are deadly and that the company would mind.

A company is not interested in a customer's life span but the span of time they are their customer. if someone dies with 30 after having been a "loyal" customer for 20 years, that's better for them than if they die with 90 but are a customer for 5 years.

> They'll need to get more people addicted over time in order to maintain the biz or grow it. As their impact on customers rises, so does their visibility.

Not really if the incentive is strong enough that everyone does it. As seems to be the case with the internet.

> At some point, the public will become aware of the effects and push back, making it harder to cultivate new addicts.

That's an assumption. Like the previous point, that won't happen if it's considered "normal".

> The company will likely have to start covertly converting addicts to keep up the game, adopting addiction patterns at an organizational level.

Yes. So what?

> Governments will have to step in before their tax bases are affected.

I don't see any evidence of that happening.

Anyway, what are the sources for that theory?
"...there is no GPS tracking ability to it. It is really the same thing as the chip that is in your credit card."

I had an RFID credit card years ago, but that turned out to be really insecure[1], and the issuer discontinued the program.

The contact-based chips in modern cards are not the same. At all.

I wonder what would happen if some miscreant super-glued a few dozen RFID chips to the reader, or to a location close to the reader?

[1] http://hackaday.com/2013/11/03/rfid-reader-snoops-cards-from...
A couple years ago my co-worker and I each built the $22 IKEA standing desk from iamnotaprogrammer.com[1]. We also each got a nice standing mat and stool (about $100 each), and I got a monitor mount (about $50).

It's been excellent. I'd say I spend about half my time standing and half sitting on the stool. For me, rather than losing focus when I'm standing, sometimes I'll just pace around my office a bit, which I've found helps me think a lot, and obviously helps keep the blood flowing and the muscles loose.

[1] http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
Maybe, but it seems like a bad idea to invest in Python 2 (which is teaching is ended of life) just to get parallelism when there are other programming languages that have great concurrency stories and a bright future. That said, if PyPy3 ditches the GIL, let me know!
wth happened with that, in the original proposal it was 96 bits of zero, then that was deprecated, and then they added :ffff:0:0 with the same functionality
There hasn't been a security audit yet. Nanobox is still pretty new. We released publicly in February.
This looks great! I run after-school coding lessons for Australian kids aged 8-12, teaching them to code Minecraft mods using scratch-like code blocks (if you're interested, its https://codemakers.com.au).

I've been looking for a solution for teaching the more advanced students who want to start using a 'real' language. I was initially looking at using Scriptcraft, but TeachCraft looks like another great option!
What are these "hits"?

Why not have a CDN serve static pages? Or better yet, an app on a mobile phone?

Then the hits are just APIs.
You know what happens to many bike lanes in winter around here (Germany)? The snow from the road gets heaped on them... It's usual for people to ride on the road then.
Pure HTML Calculator (no JavaScript and No CSS Tricks)
Thankfully Apple has disabled the ability to do that in iOS 11 - all apps have to have the “only when using” option. Hopefully google will follow suit with Android soon.
To all who answered: Thank you very, very much!!!
The business of course wants it for as little as possible, but pricing individual skills can be tricky unless they've done something with it you're specifically looking for. In that case, you know they can do what you want. It's difficult to know if "6 months of Hadoop XP" means more than tutorials and basic usage and if they'll be able to solve your business's problems.

10 years of experience vs. 1 year 10 times is still an issue and should affect the price of an employee, but it can be difficult to asses.
Done as in not wanting to read the rest? How come?
This is really cool! I've been thinking about a similar idea lately and this seems like a great way of doing it. Do you by chance have any material on how you got the honeywell sensor working with the C.H.I.P. board? (This would be my first electronics project)
There was, again, actual action. There is still actual action. It didn't, and still doesn't, get anywhere. In fact, it developed quite directly into the idea of the "ugly feminist", a stereotype that exists to this day. Funny that.

Fact of the matter is, if you employ women who don't wear makeup, your clients and customers will think less of your business. You'll lose money and some positivity associated with your brand. Your managers will think less of your female workers - so will their coworkers, no matter the official policy. This isn't the sort of thing that gets changed by a line in a policy document - this is the sort of thing that needs widespread social change.
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But why FreeBSD over Linux? Honestly it all seems like a waste of time. Linux is already the dominant free OS. Maybe it would be better to put resources into improving Linux (like Microsoft and Google do) instead? You can advocate for it all you want but the idea that FreeBSD is going to ever become as relevant as something like Linux is extremely unrealistic.

Not to mention Linux has a much better license for end-users in that it makes some effort to guarantee the code stays free, and that corporations can't close and modify the code and redistribute it for profit.

I feel like "advocating for FreeBSD" really does more harm to the open source ecosystem than good.
Yes, the takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa darkmarkets, the bitmixer.io shutdown, the arrest of this guy and the BTC-e exchange 'down for maintenance' are all related, I would guess.

The person arrested is allegedly named Alexander Vinnik, according to
https://thebitcoinnews.com/alexander-vinnik-admin-btc-e-arre... - but no idea where they got that name from.
Waze allows users to submit alerts (speed traps, and the like).
The key issue is how niche, rare and unreplaceable the skill is.

If your skill is MS-Office then you're not niche and you're easy to replace.

If your skill is Maya, Autocad or Oracle then you are a little harder to replace and you can see more stable jobs.
I have been searching for something like this and this looks amazing! Looking forward to trying this out.

As others said, I'd feel more comfortable with an open codebase.
When they ask you for a first car you should answer, for example, "yellow" or "miskatonic university". When they ask for favorite music band you answer "ford". Choose random words or even random strings. Nothing related to the question itself. Just write them down. Most password managers allow you to add a notes. Of course only when you can't avoid "secret" questions... At least no one will be able to profile you and guess the answers.