skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is Mozilla going to keep this viable? Since they're using S3, it likely costs them roughly $.08/GB moved between users in bandwidth costs plus whatever fraction of a month the file is left there of the $.025 GB/month storage costs.
Um, where were they supposed to land if 28L had lights off and an 'X' marker indicating runway closure?
And where did they land afterwards?
TBH the approach Muzmatch seems to be based on seems rather interesting.

-: Completely privacy (nickname and pictures hidden), particularly from family. (Family shame)

-: GPS validation, selfie verification etc. (Anti-catfishing)

-: Walis, or guardians in on the chat. (Family approval)

-: Rewards for good behaviour. (Anti abuse & dick pic behaviour)

It's impressive, culturally, but as a father of a 13 year old girl, some of these features appeal. Yes I am protective because I've seen how bad men can be on dating sites. However I recognise I have no right to impose myself on her privacy. Yes, educate her about the darker side of online dating. Yes, be that friend that does not judge and is there to support her. BUT no, do not control her. That is simply wrong. I love the fact my daughter has an independent spirit and does, rightly, stand up to me when she feels she is right and feels comfortable talking to me about pretty much anything (or her mum ;) ). Most importantly we trust her and give her the privacy she cherishes.

The thing is these dating apps are for 18+ year olds and that is when this logically fails for me. What right do I have to control an adult in such a way?

As an aside, about being a father. When my daughter was born I spoke to my neighbour who had two 18 & 19 year old girls. I asked him how it all works. His answer was "You have them until they are 14, and then you are there to pick up the pieces."

The other night I took a taxi home and started talking to the driver. He mentioned his 13 year old daughter was only allowed a basic phone and 1 hour of Facebook, observed, every night, just in case. I was surprised. I just regularly ensure my daughter knows about the various dangers and that she can always talk to us. I've seen this too many times though. Parents blocking porn web sites, then me hopping onto their computer and showing them porn on twitter.

Anyway getting back onto Muzmatch. I suspect it is a good cultural match, where the idea that women/men cannot be trusted and must be controlled, but still providing the ability for women/men to hide their identity from their own family and friends to prevent that control.
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To briefly expand on this (good) comment:

In cryptography, the output of an algorithm is far less important than how that output was generated (with very precise specificity). Crypto code requires far more heavy lifting in the "how" of the output than other software does. This is not intuitive, because ordinarily there are several ways to do things and you can compare on output, and it's probably fine to develop something in a functional but unorthodox way (minus performance consequences, maybe).

As the parent comment here mentions, there are extremely bad consequences to subtle mistakes in how the algorithm and its implementation arrives at the output, even if the output is correct.

If Alice sends Bob an encrypted message and the custom crypto provides an incorrect output, Bob can't decrypt the message. But if Alice sends Bob an encrypted message with the correct output generated in an unsafe way, there are many ways by which the secret key could theoretically be recovered, which is far worse than Bob not being able to read the message in the first place.
Hedge funds lose more than half a billion on wrong-way bet against Tesla
Immigrants, particularly undocumented ones, contribute more to our economy than they receive as handouts.
Well here's a suggestion: A recession manifests to a kid as a traumatic event - mom and lose their jobs, the family has to downsize, you get pulled out of private school. Big, bad things. But after that, it's done; kids are adaptable, they get on with the day-to-day. You're not wallowing in existential dread at 14 in any real way about your own future; maybe it's college or the military or an apprenticeship or whatever, but it's The Future. It'll be fine. Adolescents are horrible at consequence extrapolation: it's why they're famously risk hungry and blasé about doing stuff grownups would be terrified of. Why they never think they'll be the ones who die or get pregnant or fail.

Smartphones though... If you buy the thesis of this article, they're a continuing source of shifting stressors: social media addiction, constant engagement, physical isolation, cyberbullying and exclusion. Those pervasive, chronic pressures would get to you after a while.
You could run S3-compatible systems such as Minio or Ceph.
> Well, the problem is that this means exchanges need to actually implement support for every chain

No, read my comment again, carefully. If they are providing IOUs for BTC, that means there is no private key associated with the debt. If say for instance they owe a user 10 BTC, they could give them any 10 BTC. if a new chain pops up, it doesn't matter, because the contract is explicitly an IOU for 10 BTC, not BCH or BCC.

the problem arises when the exchange implies they are holding "your coins" for you like a safe deposit box, which means there's a private key associated with the coins, and thus that key would work with any chain splits, including BCH/BCC.

just curious, do you understand how blockchains work? i.e. private keys and the transaction protocol? if you weren't familiar with it, then that would explain why you are having a hard time understanding my comment.
Why are people so sure of this, especially given the recent plummet in oil prices? Car sales are at all time highs. Why do people assume that there's going to be a mass exodus to Tesla and EV's in the next few years?
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You read a well reasoned article and have first hand experience but frankly these are just two data points. You lack the data to justify the effort for a facepalm ;-)

Imho. a lot of these unbounded data projects are the result not just of cargo cult but satisfying a deeper need i.e. management avoiding decision making. It is much easier to go for broad data collection than making a directional decision, building a targeted model and making real world changes that lead to meaningful fact finding. Dreaming of data oceans is less risky than navigating a puddle but the latter moves you actually forward.
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I see.

I had no idea and he didn't link to it and the explanation there is much longer and clearer than the one line remark about Japanese boss "sourcing the bride" in the comment was. People are taking the comment to mean some medieval style arranged forced marriage.
If I were you I'd also consider learning a musical instrument, like guitar or piano, something you can get a good sound out of quickly. Violin is great, but it takes a good 3-6 months to stop sounding like garbage, which takes a lot of willpower to get through.

It's a pretty deep rabbit hole, that's as rewarding as the effort you put in. You can just play pop music covers and that's perfectly fine, or you can go full-tilt into theory and compose your own music.

Good luck!
> This article exploits it, and commensurate skepticism is warranted.

Sure, but empirical evidence tells me that my children are much happier after having played outside with their friends for an hour than they are after watching videos on YouTube. I can't just ignore that.
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This was an idea which sounded great on paper, but was doomed from the beginning. As mentioned in the post, most users lack the confidence to contribute to something called "Documentation," even though the idea seemed closer to "Examples of Documented Features."

It's always sad to see an idea with such potential fail (not that the experience lacked value), but I think they made a good choice pulling the plug.
Muay thai. Terrific shape. Never back down (from sparring). Nicer sparring compared to box,kickbox. Too many positives to write on mobile.
This maybe your Indian bias showing where communal issues are a little more fiery. Religion based dating/relationship sites are fairly common in America and a lucrative business [1][2]. Not sure why we should suddenly start getting worried just when Muslims build their own as well. Seems like a sound investment from YC's POV.

[1] https://www.christianmingle.com/

[2] https://www.jdate.com/en-us

P.S: I am also Indian.
Someone needs to come up with a law for internet laws that become overused to the point where they're more of an impediment to discussion than the thing they're about.
Blogspam would be a more accurate term.
why do you assume YC is liberal as in freedom of speech?

I've only see clear indication that they are liberal as in less government control.
HC + some specific audio podcasts.
shameless plug, here is my article about ES5 array methods that looks at them in depth : https://medium.com/@sAbakumoff/a-deeper-dive-into-javascript...
This is open source and encrypts your files so that Mozilla can't read them.
Regardless of what you think about the meme, it is an accurate description of the situation. If you feel uneducated workers are taking jobs Americans DO want, then by definition its not a job Americans don't want.

Its why I specifically mentioned the bill not actually decreasing immigration. Under this logic the last thing you'd want is to shift the immigrants to take the even better jobs. Most people that believe there isn't a shortage of uneducated workers don't believe educated workers are in short-supply either.
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I had to re-read your post again to understand what you are getting at. It is not about what BTC shorts agreed upon rather what does Bitfinex agreement say about people shorting BTC on their platform. As jackgavigan pointed out - 2010 Global Master Securities Lending Agreement is clear on what the obligations should ideally be.

So did Bitfinex create an agreement along those lines for their short sellers? This requires looking into their T&C.
A wild guess is they did not and never included a condition about such situations. That means asking BTC shorts to cover BTC cash had no legal legs at all. The best they could do is to pay the long BTC holders and exempt shorts.

You can bet they must have learned their lesson after this fiasco and updated their terms accordingly.
This is the best commentary on a real-life social engineering hack I've seen. Whats really interesting is how he was able to be undetected mostly, because services like linkedin only had an optional requirement for forcing all devices to re-login when a password was changed, and that the hacked individual wasn't using 2FA on her email.
I don't think it's a computing problem as much as it is a UI problem.

We can send the shit out of some files... if you know what you're doing (browsers retrieve tons of files all the time, for example).

It's difficult creating a service that is accessible to people who barely understand what a file is in the first place.
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A better approach in 2017 is something like File Pizza: https://file.pizza/

This uses WebRTC to transfer files peer-to-peer.
I honestly believe even many Germans don't know that, because I really never heard anybody saying something like this before. So thanks a lot, I certainly try to honor it now that I know it.
I assume he has little money. Are you assuming he is compromised in some way and getting paid for it? OR do you think that Wikileaks itself is making a lot of money?
Who needs passionate sex when I have my lovely python?
Why do you say that? When's the last big American antitrust action you can remember?
Refer to Yoga Vashishta:

The idea that we might be living in someone else's dream or meditation was expressed in there. And the worlds are all dreams stacked within dreams. [0] [1]

Also Jung, that we might be living in someone's else's meditation and when the meditator wakes up all is gone.

"I had dreamed once before of the problem of the self and the ego. In that earlier dream I was on a hiking trip. I was walking along a little road through a hilly landscape; the sun was shining and I had awide view in all directions. Then I came to a small wayside chapel. The door was ajar, and I went in. To my surprise there was no image of the Virgin on the altar, and no crucifix either, but only a wonderful flower arrangement. But then I saw that on the floor in front of the altar, facing me, sat a yogi in lotus posture, in deep meditation. When I looked at him more closely, I realized that he had my face. I started in profound fright, and awoke with the thought: "Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." I knew that when he awakened, I would no longer be" [2]

An interesting take on the Yoga Vasishtha and the Philosophy of the film Inception.[3] Note: I do not have any affiliation with the organization or teachings etc., It's just a random link I googled, but thought can give a quick summary of the book without having to read through the whole book.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Vasistha

[1] http://www.venkatesaya.com/241_vasistha01_months_tags/index....

[2] Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl G Jung

[3] http://www.that-first.com/show/article/yoga_vasishtha_and_th...

Edit: Wikipedia link
Sorry, I think you're going to need to (1) clarify exactly what it is you're claiming and (2) back that up with a source that isn't simply a news outlet reporting things secondhand.

Regarding (1): are you trying to say that recent bee losses are related to pesticides and not mites? We might not disagree. The eradication of feral honey bees occurred decades ago. Neonicotinoids were introduced more recently. Clearly there are some feral honey bee colonies today (after all: American beekeepers keep reintroducing new honey bees). If you want to tell me that pesticides are a greater threat to those colonies than the Varroa mites that wiped out all the 90s-vintage honeybees, I'm not going to dispute that.
> I think the word "curate" is interesting here, as in, pick for emphasis. I think maybe a mistake that SO makes is to close or remove topics, rather than "deemphasize" them.

Questions should also "age" and become deemphasized with time, especially for more popular topics. SO is getting old, with a lot of out-of-date stuff, and relying on manually closing topic to maintain quality isn't going to help with that. If stuff aged out, it would push the more recent stuff to the top. It would also increase engagement since there'd be space to answer the old questions in new ways without it being futile.

That's not to say the old answers are bad (people have to work on legacy stacks after all), but you should only find that stuff if you want it.
Can you post a link to the paper? If not, just the title would be helpful. Thanks!
If there was no salt in the database, it looks Tumblr used a secret "pepper" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography))? Why wouldn't they include a salt as well? Or did the database dump just not have the salt column?
"why not cooperate and make it easier for everyone?"
Because the law in Germany EXPLICTLY forbids this - Bundesdatenschutzgesetz is the name of the law.

Which means bitcoin.de doesn't care about following the law in the first place.

Not a surprise for a company trying to make money off of a pyramid scheme currency.
So I was confused by this article, and did a little bit of research. Specifically, I was confused how cutting 50k applications could cut our immigration rate in half. We're a country with a population of 330 million people, 50k shouldn't cause a dent.

It turns out, that the legal immigration rate into the US hovers around 1-2 million people a year.

The Illegal immigration rate hovers around 10 million people a year.

Over the course of the 1990s, ~10 million people immigrated legally, and 100 million illegally.

So my immediate reaction is that this bill is Trump half-assing again. Dealing with illegal immigration is a difficult issue. But dealing with legal immigration, is far, far easier. After all, these are the law abiding people. So to me, this looks like, just like the Muslim ban, Trump going after something that looks like easy points to put on the board, regardless of policy.

Illegal immigration is much harder to deal with. There are so many people here already, that you're stuck with either the status quo, deportation, or mass amnesty, none of which are great options. On top of that, the Democratic party likes to turn a blind eye to the issue, as the demographic trends this enables works in their favor long term. Similarly, there is strong economic lobbying pressure, usually to the Republican party, by businesses not to crack down on illegal immigration, by businesses who exploit these people as workers without any rights or protection. Historically, while Republican presidencies have been willing to deport people found with illegal immigration status, they genuinely undermine or completely stop enforcement against businesses that hire illegal immigrants, which in turn results in higher illegal immigration during Republican presidencies. Credit due where credit is due, I've seen a few articles mention that that isn't the case for Trump's administration, but I haven't found anything conclusive yet.

So, I welcome with someone with more knowledge than a few google searches, but this seems like a bullshit bill that hurts good people, to give Trump an "easy win".
Thunderbird has/had this as well, you could even select a few providers, like Box and that Ubuntu cloud which is now deprecated. Probably a decent solution, but still needs a 3rd party server, which you didn't with the p2p im solutions.
"There is a 'spiritual' aspect to sex that
I have not experienced much but that is because
it seemed laborious and counter-intuitive."

Just wanted to say this sentence made me smile :)
It is only for commercial purposes, so a consumer buying and importing the tea for purpose of consumption is fine and doesn't need to work with the FDA.
While slightly enjoyable (for the first few paragraphs) I couldn't finish reading it. The author is trying _way_ too hard to be funny.

I suppose it is written to another audience, perhaps the people that use tumblr find this funnier.
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Yeah I definitely agree with this concern. Rather than an alarm it could be part of the landing checklist. The person not flying would say, "Check approach on <whatever runway cleared>", the person flying would check the display and respond "Confirm approach on <whatever>".
I was a big proponent of the "ban the box" movement, but this article in The Atlantic has given me pause. tl;dr "when employers cannot access an applicant’s criminal history, they instead discriminate more broadly against demographic groups that are more likely to have a criminal record."

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/consequ...
But this isn't unknowable. The prices for pollination are basically public, as are the prices for precursors of bee colonies. If beekeeping is getting untenably expensive, that should be reflected in both those prices. Why isn't it?
I'd never call either one easy. But running fiber to one cell tower sounds a lot easier than running fiber to each of the thousand buildings that tower would cover.
"JDate for Muslims" is the most accurate, but I guess most TC readers won't recognize that historic item.
No, it's not :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957306
My daily content discovery routine is a slowly mounting sense of horror.
Oh, thank you!
Then it should be easy to enumerate the issues, and offer some ideas for solutions. As someone who follows this issue quite closely, I've seen neither.

This entire thread illustrates the confusion – and that there is absolutely no consensus that even an issue exists in the first place.
How about this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4203918/

(mindfulness being a form of meditation)
Upvoted.

Another relevant data point: Empathy dropped by 40% among college student between 2000-2010.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/born-love/201005/shocke...
I can't see it working, dating sites aren't for people who get married quickly. They, as every site, need users stick for years, or LTV will be too low and not cover the UAC. So, it should be casual dating as in: 7000 contacts and 200 met in person over 12 years (me on mamba.ru). Users like me are definitely very profitable. Users who see 100 profiles, chat with 20, and get married and leave, aren't.
Basically what your argument appears to boil down to is: if white people oppress black people for 2 centuries, leaving them in a state of enduring poverty, it is unfair to correct that in any way, because any such correction would be race-based and thus "racist".
And what about the multitudes of children that are not outside playing because of being online? In the community where I live, there are very few kids outside. All my son has ever wanted to do is play online, multiplayer games. The idea of roaming the streets on a bike and playing in a park... that is completely foreign to him.
Does anybody remember IRC's DCC send?
"If you're not paying then you are the product" being another prime example that seems to have been done to death here on HN.
Anyone who can write code can write a crypto library.

The trick is to have a second person helping you, who has all your mathematics notes, a copy of your source code, physical access to your hardware, and the ability to run your program inside a debugger. You don't even get to know whether they put cream in their coffee.

If you can keep a secret from them, you're doing okay. So then you rent a smarter person to do the same thing to make sure all the tricks and shortcuts have been attempted.

If someone manages to break it in the wild after that, you're still doing about as well as some of the highest-paid professionals in the industry.

Defense is difficult.
Write a crypto library and blog about how great it is.

Apply the tools that other people used to find bugs in it and repeat blogging about how great it is.

...

In the end you get a library that is slower and smaller (because you left out the optimized code, duh). It's still not as small as the smallest.

Is this easier to audit? Dubious but it doesn't matter because if people hadn't wanted the extra speed they wouldn't have added the optimized code anyway.

Plus, that code is already audited and rolled out and works! Who cares about auditing another library that provides nothing new?

The only non obviously-garbage argument here is usability which I am too lazy to look at because it is too fuzzy to refute anyway.

By all means, write your own crypto but DON'T USE IT! And of course don't tell other people to use it either.
Sounds more like a "vicious circle" than "circular reasoning".