skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this.

I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishing returns.

For news, I now just peruse the FT, Guardian and Atlantic (+HN via http://hckrnews.com/ using the 'top 50%' setting) a couple of times a day, and Politico Magazine once per week. This covers a decent section of the political spectrum and if there's anything important going on I'll find it amongst those sources. I probably read half a dozen full articles each day.

For non-immediate information, I browse A&L Daily, and I have print subscriptions to the following:
The Atlantic, Harper's, Sky & Telescope, American Scientist, Foreign Affairs, Philosophy Now, and The Philosophers' Magazine.

Additionally, I listen to a selection of podcasts when I'm in the car. These cover international relations and news analysis, history, philosophy and comedy.

That just about covers it; since I hit 40 and had a son my priorities changed, as did my outlook on life. Other than my family, I'm spending much more of my time on real hobbies and interests (in my case a bit of astronomy and photography, occasional writing, some cooking, and a lot of cycling and serious reading (books)), and less on time-wasting activities (social networks, web forums, television and video games).

It's amazing how much extra time you can find if you cut useless things out of your life.
They could buy Monero or some other anonymous cryptocurrency.
Giant Boeing flight path on flightradar
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Just didn't meet the right people at the right time.
Rubbish confirmation bias.

Your experience does not represent a trend
Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors
I hear this argument a lot. Just because something is inflammatory, doesn't mean it isn't true [1]. It also doesn't mean discussing it will cause it to happen again. It also doesn't mean that we can't also look into the causes and concerns of said people and the vote.

Improving education allows people to develop skills for a changing job market, as well as recognise that some promises [2] were suspect from the start. My opinion is that these were two contributing factors to vote result.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38762034

[2] https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.indy100.com/article/7-brexi...
>I think the actual difference is in average IQ and other desirable traits like industriousness. Immigrants tend to be at the higher end while refugees tend to be at the lower end.

Why would people fleeing war zones be on average less industrious or less intelligent? That doesn't make any sense.
> me short selling ... are among technological "improvements"

that's why, to protect the pensions and savings of its citizens from a catastrophic collapse in equity markets a couple of years ago, the chinese government decided to ban short selling. up and up and up, baby!

i think the government should go one step further, and prevent anyone from selling stock lower than the price they paid for it. guaranteed profit for everyone!
Interesting. I have only worked in C a little bit, but I have seen the `const int foo(const int * x)` idiom a few times now.

So there is a formal sense of "ownership" of memory in rust? And right now it's based on the lexical scope in which the memory was allocated?
Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers?
This is a great idea and I hope it does well.

From an economic standpoint, why IS it a problem? The lack of sense of safety could come with a discount that eventually evens out. I.E. a felon gets an offer with 30% discount, and after a year or so that he proves as normal as any other get his wages back. Not feasible with minimum wage jobs, and one could think this is really unfair, but its better than a straight no.
>> Twitter on the train
>> Internal chatroom & microblog platform once in the office
>> HN in a permatab in Chrome thorughout the day on a 10min refresh
Maybe that person looked you up on LinkedIn.
Then you will be asked to cooperate and reveal the identity of the thief. If you don't, then yes you are in "potential" trouble.
Traditional web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, asp.net, apache wicket, jsf, Django and so on that generate HTML on the server.

Over longer term: proprietary mobile app development platforms (windows phone, apple ios, android).

All replaced by client side JavaScript.
Many apps are loaded with lots of A/B test, increasing the binary size .. because A/B testing
Both AppJailLauncher and AppJailLauncher-rs have a good overview of how to use them in their source code!
But C is just some address the thief used. You see, you can create a million of them a minute for free, and then move the stolen and clean money between them in a randomized way, making it indistinguishable from real transactions. All you see on the blockchain is money moving between addresses.

Exchanges do know the identities of a small fraction of all addresses, that's true. But if someone wants to remain anonymous, and has a relatively small amount (in relation to exchange's liquidity), it becomes trivial to hide the money.

Something like MtGox amounts are much much more complicated to clean in their entirety, that I agree with.
It's not paranoia if they install a camera in plain view that will record your image to a secret remote server.
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> The v1.0.0 was published the day a bug was fixed and yet the first sentence of this post is "Monocypher is ready for production".

You have to consider the nature of the bug, as well as the fix. The bug was an Undefined Behaviour that had no effect on the binaries I could generate. The fix was 10 characters. Running the automated test suite took longer than fixing the bug.

If there were reasons to delay 1.0, this bug was not it.

> I believe that further fragmenting the crypto ecosystem with a new library and little commercial support to properly back it and pay for security audits is risky.

I agree fragmentation is a problem. I just couldn't satisfy myself with existing alternatives. As for support, I designed Monocypher specifically to need very little of it. Ideally, the only notable changes from now on will be about the manual and the test suite.
It has nothing to "reset" or having to think about helping the 99%. Silicon Valley isn't a charity and the VC crowd nor anyone else in silicon valley care about society or doing good. It's all about money. The FED has been raising interest rates and has signaled they will continue to do so going forward for many years to come.

The smart/connected VC and the smart money are now cashing out to front run the recession. Soon the second-most connected will pull out and so on and so forth. And when the FED signals a low interest rate environment, the smartest/most connected will be the first to jump back in.

The US has been on an epic economic boom since 2009 and the economy has been drowning in cheap money for almost 10 years.

It worries me how so many people have an idealized fantasy about silicon valley, tech gurus and the industry itself. The tech industry is all about greed just like wall street, oil industry, clean energy industry, etc.

Elon Musk is just as greedy as Goldman Sachs CEO.

If silicon valley could make more money with juice machine for the top 1%, they'll keep investing in it even if it means 99% is starving. Musk, Page, Zuckerburg, etc aren't saints no more than wall street big wigs are saints. They all just want money. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Where do you convert the BTC to Monero? Most exchanges require id and stuff.
This dad builds virtual hospitals to help sick kids fight cancer
Does this maybe change depending on jurisdiction?
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Is this ethererum-only?
I admit I am as well :D
I don't think the server part is necessary. Regardless of where you run it, it relies on ldapjs to talk LDAP to Active Directory.
Im not a lawyer, but I assume the laws behind this look pretty much the same in every western country.

I assume that if you want to search/seize somebodies property then you have get a warrant made out the the legal owner of the property. (Obviously you don't have to get a warrant if the owner voluntarily hands out the data...) In your example DO is the legal owner of the server your VPS runs on. I can't see why DO would be required to tell you about it.

I don't know how the owners of data centers play into this. I guess if you have somebody else's property in your possession and the cops have a warrant then you have to hand it to them.

Keep in mind that the actual data on the VPS may be protected by all sorts of privacy laws if, e.g., you run a mail server on it.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the location of the server and the jurisdiction the legal owner is under also play a large role. Also don't forget which jurisdiction you're under. Nobody cares that you've rented a server from a russian company located on the dark side of the moon. In this case they'll probably make the warrant out to you rather than the legal owner. And you'll have to comply.
I remember using Java based client Azureus and the memory usage was huge. Overnight it would leak to about 1Gb. Later uTorrent appeared and it used 2mb... Forever

I guess nothing to do with this but was triggered by two combined words: Torrent and Java
Why does this motherfucker touch the contrast of the text in my browser???? :D
>First of all, it's not really traceable.

Or use BTC mixers.
RSS, email subscriptions (mailing lists), and content aggregators for specific topics like HN or www.freepo.st

I used to read reddit years ago, but nowadays it's just too much noise and bad content (even the slower subreddits).
> what alternatives are replacing it

Node.js, and front end JS frameworks.
It's interesting that Frama-C was mentioned. I have been playing with it the last few months and would love to hear exactly how it was used. I've read through a lot of the documentation but haven't found many examples of it being used
> Of course, you can also do it wrong, but it is with little work possible to do it correctly.

GCHQ loves people who think this.

Have a look at some of the game console cryptography. These are companies with strong financial incentive to get it right. They're large well funded multinational organisations. They still get it wrong.
ok, call it something else. I meant to say, save away the current ref to 'this'.
Simple(r) explanation; this is whatever is "left" of the function call (i.e - obj.method() => this === obj inside the called method), unless you've used .bind/call/apply which explicitly sets what this should be via an argument.

If you're doing a direct function call like myFunc() there is nothing "left" of the function call. But you might think of it as actually doing window.myFunc(), which again explains why this === window. In strict mode this behavior has been "fixed" so that this === undefined.

It's all about how a function is called.
for anyone who wants to run that themselves:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int main(){

uint8_t start = -1;
printf("%x\n", start); // prints 0xff
uint64_t result = start << 24;
printf("%llx\n", result); // should print 00000000ff000000, but will print ffffffffff000000
result = (uint64_t)start << 24;
printf("%llx\n", result); // prints 00000000ff000000
return 0;
}
No, you can't. Bitcoins are fungible. There's no way to mark stolen coins.

That's why I asked - where is the stolen money, is it in X or in Y or in both?

The best we can do to reduce crime is to convince most of the exchanges not to take the stolen coins (or take them, but give them back to the real owners). But there are so many of them, and many of them are anonymous, I don't see how we can do that.
Hospitals pay a couple dollars for IV saline.

In fact, manufacturers are required to report such prices annually to the federal government, which bases Medicare payments on the average national price plus 6 percent. The limit for one liter of normal saline (a little more than a quart) went to $1.07 this year from 46 cents in 2010, an increase manufacturers linked to the cost of raw materials, fuel and transportation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-s...

(which implies that manufacturers aren't the primary beneficiaries of the price that the hospitals charge)
I often wish they had implemented a ‘tangent’ mechanism that would have allowed folks to have an interesting conversation in a bit of an off topic manner about the question. It could be represented by an a link and not interfer with the main answer.
Daily:

- Messenger

- Email

- Hacker News

- Reddit

Weekly:

- YouTube

- Pocket

- Chrome tabs
Physical dollars each have a unique serial number - aren't these sometimes used to track criminals as they spend stolen funds? Or is that just a Hollywood exaggeration?
Fair point. However, being well-informed is seen to be important in being able to make a decision in other areas of life (legal system, medical treatment).

I agree though that there are cultural differences of opinion on this.
That one, yes :)

Their whole analysis is based on this claim: "claiming they could be able to breach the system, change votes and vote totals, and erase any evidence of their actions if they could install malware on the election servers."

That is true for all server based software.

Procedures have been set up to mitigate this risk. All software, servers and anything else running in the network is audited before, during and after the election. The whole process is public and anyone can become an observer, just like with paper ballots. There really are many eyeballs making sure the election servers are running the software they are supposed to.

AFAIK everything else they pointed out was purely procedural and the guidelines there have been updated. There really weren't any reproducible technical issues and some of the procedural ones are outright misrepresentations.

The full sources for these two are sadly in Estonian, but the main response to that research can be seen here in English: http://www.vvk.ee/uudised/vabariigi-valimiskomisjoni-vastula...

"""
Posted Wi-Fi credentials
— The official video
of the pre-election process reveals credentials for the election
officials’ Wi-Fi network, which are posted on the wall.
"""

The credentials were actually just for a separate public guest network, that has nothing to do with the "election officials network" or the network where the voting servers are.

or:
"""
Keystrokes reveal root passwords
— Videos
posted by officials during the election show operators typing,
inadvertently revealing root passwords for election servers.
"""

Although this was recognized as a possible attack vector and the procedures for filming have been updated, the "operator" typing a password was actually one of the observers typing a password in their own computer.

Obviously any hints to compromised processes are taken with 100% seriousness and if needed processes and guidelines are changed to protect the integrity of the system.

Any technical reports are also (publicly) analyzed and if an issue is indeed found, they're fixed. The thing is, "https://estoniaevoting.org" said everything is bad, and the system should not be used, but never published/provided any re-producible test-cases that could be verified.

OSCE has audited all of our elections, they've given some procedural pointers that have been implemented, but OSCE observers have not deemed our elections compromised.

This is their 2011 audit: http://www.osce.org/odihr/77557?download=true, the pointers given to improve our system have been implemented by now.

And here is their 2015 audit: http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/estonia/160131?download=..., which has some new pointers, but again has not deemed the system to be insecure.

We're having another parlamentary election in 2019 and again, the system will be improved for that(more verification methods are being implemented), but so far, all of our elections have been deemed acceptable and work is being done to keep the track record.
yesh! Alright I see the issue. This `int` then gets sign extended to a 64-bit register.
Internet of Things: The Next Big Bang of Technology
As far as I understand recurly charges $100/month on top of other fees. So even if you aren't selling anything, you still pay $100/month, which is quite a lot if you're starting out without any customers yet?
And if you are allowed to do that and want to do it, why not? The purpose of a warrant is to verify that a judge has done due diligence and found the search to be justified, but if you check for yourself and come to the same conclusion, the warrant isn't really necessary.
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If the investigators think that you are withholding data or harboring criminals, they can take the equipment. Bitcoins generally don't have the best reputation and they're a small company, so it's more likely they'll get treated roughly be the law if they don't cooperate.

Probably not because of one user, but when the cases pile up there's a good chance it'll raise questions about the legitimacy of their service.

When you earn your money by running said service, you are likely going to want to avoid that.
I really can't get over how poor I find Snapchat's UI/UX to be, and I don't _think_ it's because I'm old. But I second-guess it.
I'm sure the writers of the constitution didn't imagine how much power the commerce clause would give the federal government.
The Internet has a lot of dead wood and garbage these days.
3rd most unaffordable in the world: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/demographia-i...
How then does Rust avoid the if('thingy') issue? Or, for that matter, a language like C, where presumably a and b would be allocated on the stack. In C would they both hang around until the function returns? Or would I have to copy them into the array anyway, which would be heap-allocated?
The majority attitude of a classroom was ultimately how I tried to behave during highschool.
> Yes, may be this should be the ideal definition of a non immigrant US / Canadian, but most of the time people judge you only by color/race in those area

Really? What's your point? We are talking about the meaning of the word immigrants. Not racism.

> Yes, true for aboriginals

Not according to people like you. We are all immigrants. Right? Natives came from asia so they are immigrants too. Using your definition.

>Yes, they did all those "cool" things by coming from Europe and "Those aren't immigrants." ?

Did I say "cool" things? My point is that it is the opposite of "cool". My point is that there is a difference between immigrating and invading. Invading/colonizing/settling = bad. It is not immigrating.

> I don't have any of those intentions, in fact i dont care about them at all

Really. Your comment just reeks of agenda.

>This is so stupid

Is it? So lets say john was born in ohio and lived his entire life in ohio. He didn't even visit another state. You are claiming he is an immigrant. Right? So where did he immigrate from?
Drats, another new platform. Now I need to worry about the adapter problem, again...
Education has far less to do with being educated than the word might allude to.

Having a university degree is no guarantee against a stupid electorate.
Never thought of this!

Very interesting.
Sure, but women are taught (mostly subconsciously but in some ways explicitly) that their primary value as human beings is in physical attractiveness when young, in their fertility in their 20s, and in their ability to nurture when older.

We teach men that their value is in their accomplishments, which is a) more empowering; b) more under their control; and c) more conducive to independence and pursuit of self-realization (in career or in other aspects of life), positions of power, and yes, powerful and high-paid careers.
What is the skillset they're looking for that would be proven out by having worked remote before?
It's like comparing the Empire State Building gift shop to the Empire State Building.
I'm convinced that Facebook's algorithmic newsfeed is deliberately filled with things they know I'm not interested in because the time it takes me to scroll past them increases "engagement".

EDIT: And creates more ad slots, obviously
No, but you can mark the transactions right? So if I know all the bitcoins in that "bad" wallet, I can follow all transactions from that wallet and see where the coins end up?
Being a expert in Law does not make you an expert in life. Politics is about the life for all of us. Rich and poor, well educated and white trash.
> Encrypt the shit out of it. My servers are in Amsterdam/Paris.

Is this meant to imply that the legal situation is very different in the Netherlands/France, or that you encrypt everything because it's the same as in Germany?
Ask HN: How do you organize your content consumption?
Assuming you have many sources, and that the rate at which you find content is greater than what you can consume daily, how do you go about prioritizing and processing the content you find online?

I've never been able to stick to a structure: browser bookmarks, Google bookmarks, Evernote, articles saved to Pocket, Youtube Watch Later, newsletters, random articles sent over by friends, saved items on Facebook, random .txts with 'links to read', links in todo lists...
I see no issue with cooperating. If they want to see my security footage then let them get a subpoena. If they want to see the IP logs and customer data for a potential money launderer, it's the same bar.
walmart(lines to get in line) vs. Kroger(generally pretty fast) vs. giant eagle(empty walk right up and pay).
Great to hear. I'm still not sold on CL as "my Lisp of choice", so I would be happy to give Pixie a shot.
I believe the article was http://pzemtsov.github.io/2017/07/23/the-slow-currenttimemil... Although I couldn't easily find it in my history or on HN. I had to resort to the Googles.
That's some pretty bad design on the part of the car manufacturer for a car to drive into pedestrians when someone covers an internal camera.

What about when the camera doesn't work due to defects? The card driving into buildings isn't an acceptable result.
> Everything doesn't have to be on Stack Overflow. There are many other sites that are better suited to discussions and fun things than the format for that Stack Overflow took as a Q&A site.

But that's the point: if people are leaving the site to get that discussion and fun stuff elsewhere they're not on the Stack Exchange network, and so they're not answering or tagging or voting or flagging.
Again I feel the need to reiterate that the rule only needs to apply to those it needs explaining to. Ie nobody who is smart enough to roll their library would not do so for a production system without it having undergone rigorous testing first. Sure we might write hobby projects (I've written my own encryption ciphers for fun) but that's very different from actually using said cipher on live and/or business critical systems.

Simply put, the rule is there to remind people that rolling your own crypto libraries is dangerous. It's not meant to be taken literally to the daft extremes that yourself and a few others on here have. It's just meant to stop those lacking common sense from leaving themselves vulnerable.
How do you tag a jellyfish?
Prismatic was awesome at this. I mean really amazing. Nothing I've tried since they shut down has been anywhere near as good. Nuzzel, the News app on ios, flipboard, whatever. None of those had the right combination of new/interesting/important/high quality/etc...
Where does the clean money come from?
And it's pretty trivial to roll your own.
...maybe these are just 'decoys' to make everyone else think "their tools are pathetic"?

maybe they have stuff like james bond watches that can burn stuff with lasers & stuff.
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